Abdullah Niazi

Imtiaz Ahmad returned from his cushy professorship in Philadelphia to a one-room family office importing and selling chemicals to paint companies. Now, he has plans to become Pakistan's largest chemical manufacturer Imtiaz Ahmad was 20-years-old when he f... See more

Headquartered in the UK, the Bestway Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Pakistan. It owns UBL, Bestway Cement, and has recently entered the automobile industry. Why do they keep coming back to Pakistan? There is a revealing oddity in Sir Anwar P... See more

The Rs100 billion economy behind plastic wrappers Launched in 2015, the IPAK Group has overtaken the incumbents of Pakistan’s plastic film sector in terms of capacity, sales, and size. Last year, they exported their $37 million worth of products to 39 cou... See more

Pakistan’s farms need horsepower For an Agrarian economy, it should be a point of grave embarrassment that 43% of our households are food insecure. The only way out is to give our agriculture the tools they need to keep feeding us In August 2024 I had the... See more

June 18, 2026 Can electronic warehouses change how Pakistani farmers sell their crops? The PMEX and the IFC have entered a partnership to strengthen agriculture commodities trading in Pakistan. The first step is formalising and digitising warehouses. June... See more