Friday, March 7, 2025

A Historic Flood Crisis

The year 2022 has brought on the worst flood in the history of Pakistan; it is estimated that a loss of 30 billion Dollars...

Bawany, Colony, Hashwani and Crescent Groups

Bawany GroupBorn in 1882 and 1890 respectively at Jetpur, Kathiawar, Ahmad Karim Ebrahim Bawany and Abdul Latif Ibrahim Bawany founded the Bawany dynasty. Migrating...

The Houses of Habibs, Adamjees and Saigols

Esmail Ali who was from Gujarat in Western India began the Khoja Mithabhai Nathoo Trading Company in 1841. Joining the firm in 1891, his...

DPS- Missing moral compass and negligible learning effectiveness

Natural disasters are notorious for two things – one, unleashing an era of human suffering and two, putting the moral compass and learning effectiveness...

The Ghost of Mahbub ul Haq

A Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician Dr Mahbub ul Haq (February 1934 – 16 July 1998) served as the Federal Minister of...

India’s Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia

The arms race between India and Pakistan has always remained a gravitational point of South Asian regional politics. The decades-long multileveled hostility between New...

Special Emphasis on Terrorism (Sept-2022)

Suicide Attacks Four soldiers were killed in a suicide blast at a military convoy in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan District on August...

Family Business in Pakistan

As in most other countries, family business plays an important role in the national economy of Pakistan. About 80% of our economy are created...

Family Businesses Difficult to Sustain

Difficulties are present for all family businesses regardless if they are run by first, second or third generation. Once established the difficulties will get...

Family Business in the Global Economy

The dominance of family firms across the world is now well established: Among the largest publicly traded companies, family firms account for 44% of...