Business
How a distant shipping delay reaches the neighbourhood shop
Global trade can feel abstract until a delayed shipment changes the price, availability, or timing of something people buy every week.
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Pakistan’s next growth story might start with its cities
Better streets, reliable transport, and places to work. The everyday foundations of an economy are closer to home than we think.
Business
The solar conversation needs to move beyond the rooftop
Buying panels is only the beginning. The next questions are about storage, service, and the way we use electricity.
Business
The next test for digital payments is becoming an everyday habit
The next chapter for digital payments is not novelty. It is reliability in the small transactions people make every day.
Business
What a market headline can tell you, and what it leaves out
An index is a useful starting point. Understanding the businesses behind it takes a different set of questions.
Business
The useful AI question for a business is a surprisingly small one
Start with a task that takes too long. Then ask whether a new tool can improve the result without creating more work elsewhere.
Economy
A trillion-dollar Pakistan needs a different state
Arithmetic is possible. The existing economic machinery makes it difficult. Pakistan’s real test is whether it can transform productivity, exports, human capital and governance before 2035. A trillion dollars is an attractive number. It…
Markets
The cement cartel question is back — but the industry has changed
Six years ago, I asked a simple but uncomfortable question: Is the cement cartel back in action? It was August 2020. Pakistan was emerging from the first wave of Covid-19, the government had placed…
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The safer journey to school starts on the street outside
A safe school commute depends on crossings, shade, traffic rules, and the small choices that turn a road into part of a neighbourhood.
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What a local sports ground gives a neighbourhood
The value of a playing field is not limited to the score. It creates routine, belonging, opportunity, and a public place people can share.
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The people saving a city’s memory one box at a time
Photographs, letters, posters, and recordings can disappear quietly. Local archives are making sure the stories attached to them do not.