Articles by Ammar H Khan
If you took a trip to a livestock market this past Eidul Azha, you could see Pakistan’s cash paradox performing itself live.
On one side, a bank kiosk with a QR code taped to a pole and some digital...
Pakistan counts 7.14 million business establishments in its Economic Census, and only 9.8 per cent of them sit in manufacturing. Wholesale and retail trade accounts for 45.1pc, nearly five times as ma...
The animals arrive before the city wakes.
By three in the morning, a few weeks before Eidul Azha, the livestock markets on the periphery of Karachi are already dense with noise and colour, the restles...
Pakistan’s gas sector has an allocation problem, not a supply problem. The country already produces and imports enough gas to serve the existing network more intelligently.
Pakistan’s energy ladde...
Amjad has been delivering food in Karachi for six years. His bike, a machine so ubiquitous in Pakistan it might as well be a national symbol, burns through five litres of petrol a week. When oil price...
On the morning of March 13, 2026, Ahmed, a delivery rider in Lahore, pulled into a petrol station on Multan Road and watched the attendant reset the pump.
The price had jumped again. Not by five or 10...
More than 90 per cent of Pakistan’s GDP is essentially consumption, which is largely import financed, making any growth solely dependent on the availability of foreign exchange. It is impossible for...
More than 90 per cent of Pakistan’s GDP is essentially consumption, which is largely import financed, making any growth solely dependent on the availability of foreign exchange. It is impossible for...
