Economic Update

Wednesday, May 13 2026

Pakistan’s GDP Rises 3.07% in Q4FY24 with Strong Agriculture

Web Desk October 1, 2024

Pakistan’s GDP witnessed a stable growth of 3.07% in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2023-24, as per estimates […]

Pakistan’s Inflation Drops To The First Single Digit Unit

Web Desk September 5, 2024

The latest inflation figure comes after the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reduced the key policy rate by 100 basis […]

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), […]

Advertising Brands

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 […]

Brands Knowledge Hub

Pakistan’s Brand Loyalty Index Study

April 2, 2026 M. Ruhayl Rehmani

Pakistan has no official Brand Loyalty Index. No YouGov BrandIndex. No Kantar BrandZ Pakistan edition. No nationally published, annually updated instrument that tells marketers which brands are actually winning repeat purchase, emotional attachment, and switching resistance across the country’s 240 million consumers. What exists instead is a fragmented picture assembled from a Nielsen consumer survey […]

Fintech

Fintech Groups Compete To Build Global Platforms For Migrant Finance

March 12, 2026 Web Desk

As remittances approach $1tn annually, digital payment companies are expanding beyond transfers into cross-border financial ecosystems. Global remittances have quietly become one of the largest financial flows in the world. Each year, migrant workers send hundreds of billions of dollars to families and communities across developing economies. According to migration and financial market data, global […]

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