Pakistan’s salaried public servant is doing the same arithmetic every June. How much will the number on the payslip change — and will it actually matter?...
Pakistan is preparing its most consequential federal budget in years — one that must simultaneously satisfy the International Monetary Fund, relieve a battered middle class, and...
Pakistan has now signed 25 arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Twenty-five. The first was in 1958, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Pakistan...
Pakistan’s stock market doesn’t do anything quietly. In January 2026, the KSE-100 Index scaled an all-time high of 189,556 points — a figure that would have...
Islamabad has concluded another round of grueling fiscal negotiations, securing an explicit nod from the International Monetary Fund for a sweeping suite of revenue-mobilization measures slated...
There is a distinct kind of silence that falls over a trading floor when the numbers on the board cease to be merely financial and begin...
A surprise charge tied to the administration of Market Financial Solutions exposed a chain of secondary risk running from a UK bridging lender through Apollo’s Atlas...
A Karachi Bazaar’s Sudden Silence On Monday morning, the air inside Karachi’s Zainab Market – the nerve center of Pakistan’s gold trade – was not buzzing...
In the halls of global venture capital, the narrative around emerging markets has quietly but forcefully shifted. The era of blitzscaling—where growth was prioritized over unit...
How Beijing is quietly rewiring the architecture of global agriculture — succeeding at the edges while remaining hostage to a single, stubborn bean. There is a...