Newspaper - Business & Finance - December 5, 2025

CORPORATE WINDOW: Building an Islamic finance education ecosystem

The future of Shariah-compliant finance will not be shaped in boardrooms alone; it will be built in classrooms and research centres.

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:29am

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Adamjee Insurance’s award

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

The female burden of illiteracy

In 1976, the earliest year for which the World Bank has data, the global average literacy rate for adult females (as...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Rethinking insurance infrastructure

Like electricity, we must treat insurance not as a luxury, but a necessity to be embedded within the national economic fabric

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Data points

Minimum wage gamble

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

A roadmap, not a reprimand

The IMF diagnostic report is neither an audit of the current administration nor a verdict on its performance over the past year.

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 07:26am

Rising assets

Global fund assets are set to reach $200tr by 2030, up from $139tr last year, with private markets poised to account...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Geothermal future

Though geothermal makes up less than 1pc of global energy, the International Energy Agency envisions a $1 1tr global...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Thanksgiving dinner

The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that Thanksgiving dinner will cost an average of $55.18 for a group of...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Amazon’s AI investments

Amazon will invest as much as $50bn to expand its capacity to provide AI and high-performance computing capabilities...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Not just a provincial bank

Often dismissed as a provincial lender, the Bank of Punjab has staged a turnaround, posting record profits and becoming

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

There’s nothing smooth about the NFC

"Under Article 160, the NFC strictly deals with revenue sharing, not expenditure decisions or efficiency."

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:00am

Power couple

With a combined net worth of $9.1bn, Chen Tao and his wife Liu Chunlan, have become one of China’s richest AI...

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:59am

Faulty governance laid bare

IMF’s diagnostic assessment exposes how entrenched elite capture and weak institutions undermine Pakistan’s governance and economic reform efforts.

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:22am

Rupee report: Weekly rupee-dollar parity

Source: FOREX Chart by ZA

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:19am

KSE 100-share index fluctuations

Source: PSX Chart by Mohammad Zeeshan Ali Khan

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:19am

Agriculture: Buying wheat from open market

Wheat millers bypass government godowns for open market grain, which they say is cleaner, healthier, and costs less.

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:36am

The unimpressive picture of SME Financing

The National SME Policy 2021 had set a target of Rs800bn in financing for 700,000 borrowers by FY23; two years past that

Published 01 Dec, 2025 06:19am

Underneath unemployment numbers

If domestic and foreign investment doesn’t flow into agriculture and manufacturing in a big way, how on earth will new jobs be created?

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 07:45am

Potato glut — Pakistan’s export wake-up call

Potato farmers' survival hinges on reopening of Afghan border, since traditional agriculture sector ill-equipped to explore new international markets.

Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:44am

How to hunt a duck curve

Changing the tariff structure could allow an equilibrium price that mimics the actual demand-supply situation rather than one.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:11am

Coddling exchange rate backfires

"It took us 15–20 years to build a competitive interbank market, which we have destroyed by managing the exchange rate."

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:00am

Why illiteracy cannot be used to control farm workers

Given rapid technological advances, Pakistan’s elite must recognise that old coercive forms of control can no longer work

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:33am

Why FDI bypasses Pakistan

Despite immense potential, governance, policy and procedural flaws that are difficult to navigate create barriers for foreign investors.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:42am

A complex investment puzzle

What may look like growth in rupees often translates into stagnation or decline in dollars as MNCs assess markets in dollar terms.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:35am

Agriculture: Another year, another cane crisis

Farmers are disappointed about the delay in the crushing season amid the current lack of a sugarcane price.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:48am

KSE 100-share index fluctuations

Source: PSX Chart by Mohammad Zeeshan Ali Khan

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:33am

Rupee report: Weekly rupee-dollar parity

Source: FOREX Chart by ZA

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:33am

COMPANY NEWS

BusCaro surpasses 20m bookings

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:48am

CORPORATE WINDOW: Encouraging female entrepreneures

The main barrier for women-led businesses, SMEs, and cottage industries isn’t just financing and safety, but a lack of government.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 08:28am

Preserving the essence of NFC

The centre must implement the provisions of the 18th Constitutional Amendment while upgrading the NFC resource distribution.

Updated 24 Nov, 2025 07:31am

Data points

AI’s power workers

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:48am

Weight loss bulls

Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drugs have made it the first pharmaceutical company to hit a $1tr market valuation, ...

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:48am

Fewer students in the US

Universities in the US have suffered one of the sharpest ever declines in foreign enrolments in the face of tough...

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:48am

Ruling with coffee

Starbucks and Dunkin’ still control about 85pc of the US coffee market measured by sales, according to Morgan...

Published 24 Nov, 2025 06:48am