A friendly tax regime essential for dairy industry’s growth on June 23, 2019Pakistan’s milk sector is quite lop-sided. While it is one of the largest dairy industry in the world, only 5% of industry players pay taxes and provide hygienic milk and milk products, 15% milk is wasted due to inadequate refrigeration facilities and only 80% is left for sales in loose form. Of the 80%, only […]
Writing her future on February 12, 2019My grandmother was an avid reader and loved writing as well. She taught me to read Urdu and encouraged me to adopt reading and writing as a pastime. She asked my father to bring home children’s storybooks in English and Urdu and had an hour-long reading session with me every day. Our reading sessions progressed […]
Secure data anyone? on January 17, 2019Few years ago, while attending a business analytics workshop, I came across a question that how Whatsapp remained an ad-free app? If they don’t give ads, how are they able to make money, a fellow participant asked. The question got all of us thinking as we were enlightened that the app sells consumer data. At […]
Only in Pakistan! on September 30, 2018As per a report issued by the World Bank, in Pakistan spending on education, health and nutrition is only 3 percent of the GDP which is significantly lower than other countries. Moreover, in Pakistan only 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent of the GDP is being spent on health, since the last decade, whereas the standard […]