u/InjectorTheGood

As expected from trade figures earlier. High energy prices are key factor in renewed growth in imports.

But as expected, no noise and no hyping up by certain tabka that is always worried about other provinces' expenditure. They just more than doubled the cabinet members overnight for purely political gains.

Colgate is finally going to see meaningful growth if they manage to acquire P&G.

This is significantly lower interest rate than deposits we have from foreign countries.

Hopefully government won't fall for the typical FX intervention bs they usually do a before elections this time so that we can finally get out of this boom and bust cycle.

Truly a lost decade. Most of it due to government's unnecessary politically motivated currency market intervention.

Every tehsil and district comes with massive one time cost as well as running overhead costs every year for hiring staff, maintaining headquarters etc. It might make sense in Balochistan because it is huge in size, but Sindh and KPK are doing it unnecessarily.

This is one of the reason Punjab has relatively higher development expenditure as percentage of total expenditure compared to other provinces like KPK (23% vs 18%).

Still at very initial stages. But it is time that big players get into EV two wheelers production.

2225 four-wheelers in single month. They will soon challenge Big 3.

Next up it will be HUBCO with their BYD production. Stock itself won't rise as high as SAZEW because HUBC is way more diversified and has way higher base reference market cap.

It was expected, but still a bad news for country's fragile external trade statistics.

This is nothing and came to the spotlight due to very clear circumstances. Take a look at any of provincial government politician and compare their assets pre-2013 to now. Sher Afzal Marwat and others who have left the party mention extreme rot in award of mineral leases, official postings etc.

Everything but won't address the root cause of this menace. Law and order situation keeps on worsening and he is busy being right hand of terrorists by providing them support in all forums. Yesterday, a tribe had a standoff with terrorists for full day, and police was nowhere to be found.

KPK gets around 130 billion specifically for managing situation arising from WoT. That is enough to raise a full paramilitary force. Federal government also funds FC and has permanently stationed thousands of military personnel dedicated to fighting terrorism. Meanwhile, this guy and his apologist party comes up with something new everyday. Their party leaders provide TTP hujray for living and organizing attacks.

Also, most of these new drone attacks on civilians are committed by TTP because their rudimentary drones aren't very good.

78% qualified candidates belonged to Punjab (268 out of 342) but 164 out of them weren't allocated.

Plot files are big business. "Open file" were often used as an investment vehicle and you could sell them to someone without paying any tax. Then, these files were usually oversold.

New regulations will force people to pay taxes on them and make real estate bit less attractive.

800 million USD a week. 3.2 billion dollars a month. But government doesn't have the money to clear receivables of OGDC and PPL, which are around 800 billion PKR.

If that money were released a few years ago, and they were actually allowed to invest rather than forced to pay dividends, they could start an exploration spree. Maybe even look into developing alternative sources of energy like biogas.

Recently MARI and GCIL have been working on JV to process vent gas at Sachal gas processing complex. It will yield around 50000 tonnes of LNG, that is otherwise wasted in flaring. And it costs only 14 billion. Same can be done at other complexes and that would reduce RLNG import bill by around 8-10%.