Investment

For most of 2024 and 2025, the "safe" money in Pakistan poured into gold. Then came 2026's reality check. After peaking at an all-time high of Rs572,862 per tola on…

The KSE-100 has done what few indices in the world have managed this cycle: it has printed record after record, brushing the 190,000 mark in 2026 after an all-time high…

A rare alignment: record inflows meet cheaper filer taxes For overseas Pakistanis weighing a plot purchase in the Rawalpindi–Islamabad twin cities, two independent trends have lined up in the final…

For most of this year, the property conversation in Rawalpindi and Islamabad was built on one assumption: rates had peaked, cuts were coming, and patient buyers could afford to wait.…

For years, Pakistani plot investors carried a quiet drag on their returns: Section 7E treated undeveloped land as if it earned income, producing an effective charge of roughly 1% of…

The 2026 Turn: A Recovery Built on Buyers, Not Speculators Pakistan's property market has spent two hard years absorbing the shock of record borrowing costs. The State Bank of Pakistan…

Gold has done it again. On the latest trading day, the price of gold in Pakistan jumped Rs3,900 to a fresh all-time high of Rs469,136 per tola, with 10-gram gold…

Two numbers released in autumn 2025 tell a story every Pakistani investor should read carefully. In September 2025, net foreign direct investment (FDI) into Pakistan fell to just $185.6 million,…

The number caught almost everyone off guard. In August 2026, Pakistan's Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation jumped to 11.1% year-on-year (the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported 11.15%), up sharply from…