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Rails over Roads-Why Trains are Better

Reading Time: 4 minutes Railways. Most of us are very familiar with the deterioration of Pakistan’s Railway system. Trains are not exactly the preferred mode of travel for the majority of our country’s people, preferring road and air over slow trains. However, there is an aspect of the Railway system…

BySaad RashidNovember 10, 20220Comments

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The Plight of Freelancers in Pakistan

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pakistan is among the top five countries in the world when it comes to freelancing and generated a significant calculated amount of $0.5 billion entirely from freelancing. Pakistan is ranked as the 4th most popular country for freelancing in the Online Labor Index published in 2017…

ByKhudeeja AsifOctober 27, 20220Comments

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The Growth of the Gaming Industry during the Pandemic

Reading Time: 5 minutes The video gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In the US alone, the video gaming sector is an approximately $200 billion industry and is expected to reach around $270 billion by 2025. In a recent study, it was found that out…

BySeirut JavedOctober 5, 20220Comments

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Growing Informal Sector of Pakistan’s Economy

Reading Time: 4 minutes The informal sector of the Pakistani economy, largely invisible on the official plane, is responsible for 35% of the country’s GDP. According to the Labour Force Survey 2020-2021, 70% of non-agricultural employment is based in the informal sector, and 76.2% of it is in rural regions.…

BySeirut JavedSeptember 19, 20220Comments

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College Loans: Are they viable in Pakistan?

Reading Time: 4 minutes The sad reality of service jobs being seen as lesser than for most of the middle-class alongside a lot of problems associated with finding remote-work, most Pakistanis are thus left to those two kinds of models of trying to get a higher education. Most Universities in Pakistan…

ByKhudeeja AsifSeptember 13, 20220Comments

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How Can Pakistan’s Government Promote Small Scale Businesses?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Around 90% of Pakistan’s enterprises are small-scale businesses, employing 80 % of non-agricultural human resources and contributing almost 40 % to the country’s GDP. According to SMEDA’s annual report, there were approximately two million SMEs in Pakistan in 2013, employing fifteen million people, excluding sole proprietors…

ByFatima AsifAugust 30, 20220Comments

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Lamentable Lack of Indigenous Car Brands in Pakistan

Reading Time: 4 minutes Until 2017, the only three companies that dominated the market, and were the only reliable options for the Pakistani population, were none other than Suzuki, Toyota and Honda. This is because companies had captured Pakistan’s automotive market and dug their roots deep into the country. It…

ByKashmala KhalidAugust 26, 20220Comments

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Pakistani Street Vendors: Pillars of the Economy

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pakistan is rapidly becoming a country that leaves little to no room for the poor. The public has a negative perception of street vendors, local authorities make their lives insufferable, and urban planning does not include them. As Dr. Sania Nishtar, former Special Assistant to the…

BySeirut JavedAugust 17, 20220Comments

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The Mera Pakistan Mera Ghar Scheme: Why has the Government Withdrawn Its Support?

Reading Time: 4 minutes The government of Pakistan envisioned improving the accessibility of reliable housing and promoting the construction sector in hopes of generating economic activities. One way to achieve their vision was to gradually increase the construction of housing units in the coming years. Fortunately, the government was successful…

ByKhudeeja AsifJuly 29, 20220Comments

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The Hajj “Lottery”: What does it mean?

Reading Time: 4 minutes How many quotas are allowed to each country is largely dependent on their Muslim population but the Saudi Government and the various countries allotted these quotas are constantly under a barrage of allegations of being corrupt or mismanaging these quotas.

BySaad RashidJuly 6, 20220Comments

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