Profile: These LUMS grads want to disrupt the Rs 300/year “toss” sector

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) An exciting new startup founded by LUMS grads is looking...

JS Global Capital’s Faran Rizvi named best equity trader at 14th CFA Excellence Awards

CEO of Insight Securities and veteran trader Zubair Ghulam Hussain received the runner-up award in the equity trade category.

‘It’s not like we’re PIA,’ says Qatar Airways

DOHA – Qatar Airways struck a defiant tone and vowed to continue functioning as an airlines, even as its state owner gets punished by...

Contract for new CAA directive for wrapping passengers in plastic also won by Shahid...

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) A company owned by retired Air Marshall and alleged political...

Pakistan to adopt gold standard in new barter system economy, reveals Dr Farrukh Saleem

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan would adopt gold standard within the next...

Karachi’s Water Tanker mafia unanimously approves country’s first water policy

ISLAMABAD: Lauding the decentralisation of nationwide tankers Karachi’s Water Tanker Mafia has unanimously approved the country’s first ever National Water Policy (NWP) while also...

Four Pakistani startups that have the potential to go big in 2018

Startup culture in Pakistan has grown exponentially in the past few years, but questions still remain about whether startups have what it takes to...

Determined activists to only shop at Khaadi sales to make company realise how it...

  ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI – In a bid to monetarily harm the clothing brand, in the news for the alleged exploitation of its labour force, many local...

Rs 50 mn acquisition offer on 2 Taka external valuation clear sign of suspicious...

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan expressed strong reservations...

PTI asks Cambridge Analytica for data on party’s Facebook followers that are actual human...

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD/LONDON – After Cambridge Analytica was brought into the news...

Dubai based Artificial Intelligence fatwa service’s first fatwa declares direct AI competitor kafir

DUBAI – A week after launching ‘Virtual Ifta’, the world’s first service using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to issue fatwas, the first AI fatwa was...

State Bank to throw trade deficit at Kamran Akmal

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) KARACHI – The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Friday announced...

Global capitalism under threat as Naya Pakistan’s welfare economy up by hundreds of trillions

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) WASHINGTON DC/TEL AVIV/NEW BRUNSWICK/NAYA KARACHI – Global capitalist system is...

Islamabad police fills water guns with hollandaise sauce in anticipation of TLP mob

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD – The Capital Territory Police equipped itself with Summer...

Next huge Daraz sale to offer you a mammoth 90% off on your own...

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – Leading e-commerce company, Daraz, is bringing 18.11, the...

State Bank bans cryptocurrencies, after failing to figure out cryptocurrencies

KARACHI – In a major development, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has banned cryptocurrencies in the country, citing its failure to understand cryptocurrencies. While...

‘Sever and post’ finger option now available for biometric verification: SBP

With the deadline for biometric verification fast approaching and still a number of account holders unable to make the necessary visit to their respective...