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Friday, July 10 2026

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Pakistan Opens Door to Crypto, With Both Eyes Open

Business Desk April 15, 2026

For years, Pakistan’s banking system treated crypto like a contagion. That officially changed on April 14, 2026. The State Bank […]

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NTC Collects Rs40B in Anti-Dumping Duties Over 15 Years

NTC Collects Rs40B in Anti-Dumping Duties Over 15 Years

Business Desk March 25, 2025

Pakistan’s National Tariff Commission (NTC) has generated Rs40 billion in anti-dumping duties over the past 15 years, ensuring fair competition […]

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Gul Ahmed Expands with Four New Textile Subsidiaries

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Gul Ahmed Expands with Four New Textile Subsidiaries

Business Desk March 14, 2025

Leading Textile Giant Moves Towards Renewable Energy & Innovation Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited (GATM) has announced the formation of […]

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Meezan Bank Partners with Payoneer for SMB Growth

Meezan Bank Partners with Payoneer for SMB Growth

Business Desk March 7, 2025

Seamless Digital Integration to Empower Pakistan’s Digital Economy Payoneer, a leading financial technology company, has joined forces with Meezan Bank, […]

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UAE Introduces New Business Opportunities Visa for Investors

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UAE Introduces New Business Opportunities Visa for Investors

Business Desk March 4, 2025

New Residency Visas Enhance UAE’s Global Business & Sustainability Goals The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched two distinct visa […]

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Pakistan’s Energy Deals Under Scrutiny By Global Lenders

Business Desk February 24, 2025

Finance Institutions Warn of Investor Confidence Risks A consortium of development finance institutions (DFIs) has urged the Government of Pakistan […]

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Pakistan’s Economy Strengthens with New Reforms - PM

Pakistan’s Economy Strengthens with New Reforms – PM

Business Desk February 20, 2025

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chaired a key meeting of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) on Wednesday, where members expressed […]

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Musk’s $97.4B Offer To Buy OpenAI Gets Unanimous No

Musk’s $97.4B Offer To Buy OpenAI Gets Unanimous No

Business Desk February 17, 2025

In a decisive statement, OpenAI’s board has unanimously rejected an offer led by Elon Musk to acquire the nonprofit entity […]

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Pakistan The New Hotspot For Global Investors

Pakistan The New Hotspot For Global Investors

Business Desk February 14, 2025

Some of the world’s leading asset managers are paying attention to Pakistan’s stock market following an impressive 84% return in […]

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Can Musk's Bold Bid Spark A New AI Era?

Can Musk’s Bold Bid Spark A New AI Era?

Business Desk February 13, 2025

In a bold move shaking up the tech world, a consortium led by Elon Musk has submitted a staggering $97.4 […]

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Brands Business

Petrol, Plugs, and Politics: Pakistan’s EV Crossroads

May 19, 2026 Editorial

Pakistan spends approximately $13 billion annually on petroleum imports. The transport sector alone accounted for 80% of Pakistan’s petroleum consumption in 2024–25. That single statistic renders the EV debate less of an environmental conversation and more of an economic survival question. Yet the path from fossil fuel dependency to electric mobility is where things get […]

Advertising Business

Pakistan’s OOH Market Resilience and It’s Digital Reckoning

May 19, 2026 Danish Ejaz

Out-of-home advertising in Pakistan has quietly become one of the most resilient segments in the country’s advertising economy — surviving a pandemic, absorbing inflation, and posting some of the strongest growth figures in traditional media. The numbers tell a story that the industry largely underreports. The Pandemic Dip and the Rebound Pakistan’s total advertising revenue […]

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Branding During The Time of Conflict

May 8, 2026 Kashif Hafeez

It’s a long historical academic debate about why so many marketing and military terminologies resemble and are inter-changeably used e.g. Brand warfare, goals, targets, objectives, positioning, impact, action, intelligence, strategy, tactical moves, attack strategies (frontal, flank, guerrilla, encirclement & bypass), position strategies (position strategy, contraction strategy, counter-offensive strategy, preemptive defensive strategy, and mobile defensive strategy), […]

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SILENCE In PR Crisis Is Not A Strategy. It’s A Brand Suicide.

April 15, 2026 Editorial

There is an unspoken playbook in Pakistani brand management that everyone follows without writing it down. When a crisis hits – like a labor issue, product failure, social media backlash, or an employee speaking out – the usual reaction is to say nothing. They call legal teams and PR agencies, try to kill the story, […]

Business Fintech

Pakistan Opens Door to Crypto, With Both Eyes Open

April 15, 2026 Business Desk

For years, Pakistan’s banking system treated crypto like a contagion. That officially changed on April 14, 2026. The State Bank of Pakistan issued BPRD Circular Letter No. 10 of 2026 today, effectively replacing the 2018 blanket prohibition on virtual currencies with a structured, compliance-heavy framework that allows banks to work with licensed crypto companies for […]

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Jahan Khwab, Wahan HBL And You Can Actually Believe It

April 7, 2026 Editorial

HBL is Pakistan’s largest bank by almost every metric that matters: assets, branch network, international presence, and retail penetration. What it has historically struggled with is something that balance sheets cannot measure: emotional relevance. For most of its existence, HBL has communicated as a bank communicates products, rates, reach, and reliability. Competent positioning for an […]