Pakistan's Economy

Budgets, debt, exports, manufacturing — and the people who actually move the numbers.

181 episodes

Aug 19, 2026

The rupee is being held. REITs are the exit.

with Muhammad Ejaz

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Jul 31, 2026

By 2032, 93% of Pakistan's budget will vanish into debt

with Qanit Khalilullah

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Jun 30, 2026

Simon Dixon: the US empire is being wound down by design

with Simon Dixon

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45:55

May 16, 2026

Pakistan's first giga factory bets on a new kind of rider

with Saad Farrukh

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1:40:52

May 14, 2026

Pakistan ran a fiscal surplus on petrol — not policy

with Adeel Azhar

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1:05:26

May 12, 2026

Solar is no longer a novelty in Pakistan — it is a compulsion

with Daniyal Siddiqui

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30:30

May 11, 2026

The Rs. 415 petrol price is not an international problem

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52:36

Apr 22, 2026

The oil price on your screen is not the price Pakistan pays

with Osama

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1:29:40

Apr 15, 2026

Fractional reserve banking is a modern form of riba

with Qanit Khalilullah

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1:19:56

Apr 14, 2026

Pakistan is energy abundant. It just runs a distribution problem.

with Farooq Tirmizi

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1:07:31

Apr 10, 2026

Pakistan finally has leverage. Can it actually use it?

with Ali Khizar

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1:38:12

Apr 9, 2026

Pakistan as a middle power in the new world order

with Faisal Aftab

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53:16

Apr 8, 2026

Pakistan goes crisis to crisis because it keeps printing money

with Yusuf M Farooq

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1:07:30

Apr 7, 2026

Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money

with Abdul Rehman Najam

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51:50

Apr 6, 2026

The dollar at 350 is not the end of the market

with Laeeq Ahmed

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1:01:52

Apr 2, 2026

Pakistan's elite never had to deliver — that's about to change

with Javed Hassan

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1:02:36

Mar 31, 2026

Ninety universities became 270 and the budget never moved

with Dr. Habib Bokhari

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1:48:23

Dec 22, 2025

You can't have 32 logistics players all surviving

with Ehsan Saya

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1:52:51

Ep 497 · Dec 9, 2025

The West Sold Us a Lie Pakistan Is the Real Opportunity | Ft. Asfandyar Waraich | 497 | TBT

with Asfandyar Waraich

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1:56:46

Dec 4, 2025

Pakistan's delivery riders survive on five-rupee margins

with Umer Munawar

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1:38:30

Oct 17, 2025

How Dipitt got onto shelves in 33 countries

with Syed Zeeshan Haider

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1:42:59

Oct 10, 2025

Pakistan's stock market will double, but the onboarding is broken

with Ali Farid Khwaja

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1:25:23

Oct 3, 2025

Why Pakistan's next unicorn ships from a warehouse, not a website

with Arif Iqbal

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1:53:12

Sep 26, 2025

Why Pakistan's western wear market is the next $5B prize

with Muneeb Zafar

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1:39:29

Sep 24, 2025

Pakistan can add $9.8 billion to agri exports — without leaving home

with Jawwad and Salar

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1:51:07

Sep 22, 2025

Pakistan's electric scooter winner isn't selling to bike owners

with Saad Farrukh

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1:45:45

Jul 28, 2025

Why Pakistan needs an inclusive university, not another elite one

with Jahanzeb Burana

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1:33:08

Jun 25, 2025

What a Croatian chief people officer learned about Pakistani talent

with Ivana Bajamic

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1:37:39

Jun 23, 2025

Punjab's budget is finally spending on people, not just roads

with Marriyum Aurangzeb

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1:40:54

Jun 2, 2025

Why BYD priced its Pakistan launch under the hybrid competition

with Danish Khaliq

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1:13:14

May 23, 2025

Half the price of a Fortuner in Pakistan is tax

with Ali Asghar Jamali

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1:07:36

May 14, 2025

South Asia will spearhead the next era — if it learns to communicate

with Shahyan Shabbir

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1:27:18

Apr 25, 2025

Out of 100 applicants, Ibex hires two — and that is the problem

with Yasir Rafiq

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51:28

Mar 4, 2025

Why BAT won't just stop selling cigarettes

with Johann van der Muilen

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1:47:53

Jan 31, 2025

Why most Pakistani real estate is a dead investment

with Fahad Lone

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1:17:04

Jan 29, 2025

Why brick and mortar will never bank Pakistan's other 100 million

with Irfan Wahab Khan

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1:08:49

Jan 25, 2025

Why Iffi Wala is killing the BPO model for Pakistani talent

with Iffi Wala

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2:34:41

Dec 24, 2024

Islamic banking in Pakistan is mostly a rebrand

with Qanit Khalilullah

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1:59:38

Dec 19, 2024

Faisal Aftab: the 1971 system is over, and Pakistan is mispriced

with Faisal Aftab

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1:25:15

Nov 13, 2024

Pakistan is still stuck in primary school on its economy

with Muhammad Ali Tabba

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1:22:10

Oct 14, 2024

Pakistan's IT exports won't scale on cheap labour anymore

with Ahsan Jamil

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1:16:00

Oct 5, 2024

Pakistan is on a knife edge — and a planned default beats a forced one

with Sanjay Kathuria

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1:51:58

Oct 2, 2024

Pakistan is stuck in cotton while the world has moved on

with Mussadiq Zulqarnain

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1:43:48

Sep 27, 2024

Islamic and conventional banks have the same bottom line

with Dr Humayon Dar

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1:10:04

Sep 18, 2024

Pakistan is sliding into chaos. The only exit is a third republic.

with Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Zubair

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1:20:26

Sep 13, 2024

Islamic banking is an oxymoron, says Harris Irfan

with Harris Irfan

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1:34:56

Sep 11, 2024

Pakistan's problem isn't debt — it's that the inflows have dried up

with Muzammil Aslam

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1:03:18

Sep 6, 2024

Pakistan is selling its crown jewels at throwaway prices

with Ali Khizar

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1:31:28

Aug 30, 2024

We have killed hope: the Nishat CEO on Pakistan's broken engine

with Shahzad Saleem

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57:31

Aug 23, 2024

Islamic economics is the polar opposite of capitalism

with Dr Asad Zaman

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1:13:36

Aug 16, 2024

Pakistan will outgrow its government, not be saved by it

with Farooq Tirmizi

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1:39:52

Aug 5, 2024

Default is a choice: inside Pakistan's $26 billion debt squeeze

with Ahmed Jamal Pirzada

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1:05:52

Jul 8, 2024

Pakistan will outgrow its government, not fix it

with Farooq Tirmizi

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1:23:08

Jun 14, 2024

Default is a choice — and Pakistan keeps choosing to choke instead

with Ahmad Jamal Pirzada

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1:07:29

Apr 19, 2024

Pakistan's exports lose at the shelf, not the field

with Ehtesham Maqbool Elahi

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1:57:05

Jan 5, 2024

Pakistan's IT growth is flatlining — and the policy is making it worse

with Syed Ahmad

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1:52:56

Dec 20, 2023

Pakistan's youth is in a stubborn rage — and that's dangerous

with Nabeel Qadeer

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3:11:37

Dec 6, 2023

Zafar Masud: the life I am living now is a borrowed heaven

with Zafar Masud

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1:25:48

Nov 17, 2023

The $10,000 grant and why women are Pakistan's missing half

with Umar Khan & Iman Urooj

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1:16:51

Nov 15, 2023

Why smart money came into Pakistani startups when everyone left

with Faisal Aftab

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1:34:42

Nov 3, 2023

Why Pakistan built the power and still cannot deliver it

with Naeem Shafique

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1:53:41

Oct 27, 2023

What a metric-pass businessman taught a PhD about education

with Dr. Shahid Qureshi

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1:34:42

Oct 25, 2023

How Tecno built Pakistan's largest phone factory

with Adeel Tahir & Ali Raza

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2:05:02

Oct 20, 2023

How Shaukat Khanum built world-class cancer care from nothing

with Dr Aasim Yusuf

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1:26:42

Oct 13, 2023

Why Pakistan's healthcare crisis is really a pricing problem

with Dr. Muhammad Saleem Khan

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2:29:31

Oct 11, 2023

The electric car policy Pakistan's auto mafia killed

with Malik Amin Aslam

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2:32:08

Oct 4, 2023

Why a Facebook engineer left Seattle to digitise Pakistani fashion

with Arif Iqbal

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1:34:04

Sep 15, 2023

The honest case for leaving Pakistan on your skills

with Adil Ismail

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2:04:25

Sep 13, 2023

The AI scientist who says fundamental science already ended

with Dr. Nasir Ahsan

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1:27:11

Sep 8, 2023

Why solar is the dollar-pegged investment most Pakistanis can buy

with Bilal Naeem

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1:18:13

Sep 1, 2023

What Pakistanis get wrong about saving and investing money

with Wali Khan

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2:11:25

Aug 30, 2023

How Dawlance became a Pakistani engineering story

with Umar Ahsan Khan

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2:04:42

Aug 18, 2023

Pakistan can fix its own fundamentals — the reason it won't

with Junaid Iqbal

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1:58:46

Aug 16, 2023

Why price caps are quietly strangling Pakistan's farms

with Zeeshan Hasib Baig

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2:09:50

Aug 11, 2023

Pakistan doesn't have a water problem. It has a soil problem.

with Taimur Malik

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1:38:27

Ep 354 · Aug 9, 2023

Why cheap data and a small mindset keep Pakistan offline

with Taimur Nawaz

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1:54:09

Jul 26, 2023

Why the dollar isn't going anywhere, and Pakistan isn't defaulting

with Farooq Tirmizi

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1:37:00

Jul 19, 2023

Why Pakistan makes billions of Panadol tablets but can't make the powder

with Farhan M. Haroon

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1:35:07

Jul 12, 2023

The global degree most Pakistani students never consider

with Shanza N. Khan

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1:08:05

Jun 16, 2023

When you look after people, they look after you

with Amir Paracha & Shehzad Roy

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1:19:21

Jun 14, 2023

A bank account doesn't change your life

with Kabeer Naqvi

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1:02:31

Jun 12, 2023

Eighty percent of Pakistan's remittances still move illegally

with Naqqash Hafiz

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Jun 9, 2023

Pakistan's economy has never been this dark

with Asad Umar

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Jun 7, 2023

The self-taught cheese maker feeding Pakistan's restaurants

with Imran Saleh

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Jun 5, 2023

The digital bank built from scratch in nine months

with Noman Azhar

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Jun 2, 2023

Pakistan could be a manufacturing powerhouse by 2050

with Yousuf M. Farooq

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May 29, 2023

The kid who wouldn't have finished tenth grade

with Nadeem Hussain

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May 24, 2023

The tax office that resolves cases in 37 days for free

with Almas Ali Jovindah

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May 19, 2023

Is America a diminishing power?

with Faisal Aftab

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May 17, 2023

Pakistan's rural network reaches 56 million — and nobody knows

with Shandana Khan & Meena Iqbal

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May 15, 2023

The startup building loyalty tech for restaurants

with Yahya Humayun

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May 8, 2023

Why Islamic economics is neither capitalism nor communism

with Dr. Asad Zaman

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May 5, 2023

Pakistan's exports problem has one easy fix: IT

with Dr. Sohail Naqvi

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May 3, 2023

Pakistan is a sleeping giant — Ammar Yaseen on investing in a crisis

with Ammar Yaseen

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May 1, 2023

The Pakistani who fixed a broken denim factory in Mexico

with A. Rauf Razzak Ganatra

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Apr 28, 2023

The man quietly connecting rural Pakistan to the internet

with Haaris Mahmood Chaudhary

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Apr 17, 2023

Pakistan's universities are producing toilet paper degrees

with Zia Khan

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Apr 14, 2023

Pakistan's politicians aren't incompetent — they're not trying

with Hussain Nadim

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Apr 12, 2023

Why Pakistan's milk problem is really a policy problem

with Qammar Nawaz

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Apr 10, 2023

From a village with no electricity to Silicon Valley CEO

with Amin Sukhera

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Apr 5, 2023

Why Pakistan's tourism problem isn't K2

with Azam Jamil

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Apr 3, 2023

Why Pakistan's justice system isn't ready for the tsunami ahead

with Shayyan Qaiser

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Mar 29, 2023

Pakistan is stuck in history while the world moves on

with Mohammad Zubair Umar

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Mar 27, 2023

The man who gave away an empire and started over

with Chaudhry Junaid Afzaal

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Mar 24, 2023

The logistics startup that solved payments first

with Muhammad Hassan Khan

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Mar 20, 2023

Pakistan's IT exports vs one Tata subsidiary

with Qasim Asad Salam

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Mar 17, 2023

How foodpanda became an innovation lab for delivery hero

with Ibad ur Rehman Ahmed & Syed Maz Hashmi

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Mar 15, 2023

The EU Ambassador who grew up translating for her refugee grandmother

with Dr. Riina Kionka

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Mar 13, 2023

Why Pakistan needs dollars, not remittances

with Laeeq Ahmed

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1:03:22

Ep 309 · Mar 10, 2023

Asad Umar: Pakistan cannot grow without deep reform

with Asad Umar

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Mar 8, 2023

The engineer who built Pakistan's first fiber network

with Wahaj Siraj

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Mar 6, 2023

Why freelancing alone will never make you rich

with Saddam Hasan

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Mar 3, 2023

Pakistan's pension system will collapse in ten years

with Taimur Khan Jhagra

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Mar 1, 2023

Pakistan's real estate is a lottery, not an investment

with Zeeshan Akram Qureshi

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Feb 27, 2023

Why Pakistan keeps choosing real estate over growth

with Gonzalo Varela

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Feb 24, 2023

All roads lead to restructuring

with Javed Hassan

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Feb 22, 2023

Suleman Sharif: 'Pakistan treated wealth creation as a sin'

with Suleman Shehbaz Sharif

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Feb 20, 2023

Muzamil Hasan on going global and Pakistan's reform moment

with Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi

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50:28

Feb 16, 2023

Imran Khan on the cipher, the economy, and refusing to quit

with Imran Khan

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Jan 11, 2023

Pakistan is on the precipice — and holding itself back

with Asif Aziz

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Dec 21, 2022

How inDrive became Pakistan's no.1 ride-hailing app

with Hasan Ali Khureshi, Petrov Afinasé, Sidra Kiran

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Dec 19, 2022

Why Pakistan has less than 1% of merchants digitized

with Fawad Abdul Kader

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Dec 16, 2022

The physicist who came back to build Pakistan's science

with Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar

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Dec 14, 2022

Why Pakistan's economy can't be fixed by the free market

with Dr. Taimur Rahman

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Dec 2, 2022

History doesn't repeat — it rhymes

with Faisal Warraich

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Nov 30, 2022

The VC who came back to fix Pakistan's universities

with Dr. Arshad Ahmad

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1:55:00

Ep 288 · Nov 28, 2022

Abdul Razak Dawood: a Memon village, Columbia, and building DESCON

with Abdul Razak Dawood

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Nov 21, 2022

Pakistan's politics won't change until the economy is fixed

with Moonis Elahi

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Nov 18, 2022

The man who built Pakistan's tourism startup through COVID

with Muhammad Komail Abbas

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Nov 16, 2022

Why Pakistan's fintechs are failing the masses

with Atyab Tahir

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Nov 14, 2022

The industrialist betting on South Punjab's future

with Anees Khawaja

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Nov 11, 2022

Pakistan's first female-founded VC fund on what's broken

with Kalsoom Lakhani and Misbah Naqvi

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Nov 9, 2022

Pakistan's freelancers built this industry themselves

with Mohsin Muzaffar

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Nov 7, 2022

Why skill always comes before money in digital marketing

with Ali Khan Swati

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Nov 4, 2022

The engineer who wrote to Pakistan's president about stents

with Prof. Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali

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Nov 2, 2022

The man trying to fix Pakistan's broken food supply chain

with Rafael Llerena

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Oct 28, 2022

Why Pakistan cricket is stuck in 1992

with Taimoor Ali Khan

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Oct 26, 2022

Why Karachi's housing crisis is a governance problem

with Humza Yaqoob Tabani

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Oct 24, 2022

The American who saw Pakistan before the VCs did

with Brandon Temensky

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Oct 19, 2022

Going from 700 employees to 7,000: Umar Javed's plan

with Umar Javed

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Oct 14, 2022

Food Panda's bet on Pakistan as its biggest market

with Muntaqa Peracha & Waqas Asar

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Oct 12, 2022

The doctor you couldn't find in three days

with Ehsan Imam & Asma Salman Omar

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Oct 10, 2022

Pakistan's tennis players are winning without support

with Muhammad Shoaib & Abdullah Adnan

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Oct 7, 2022

The trucker's son who raised $17.5M to fix freight

with Muhammad Sarmad Farooq

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Oct 5, 2022

The VC who writes the first check in Pakistan

with Shehryar Hydri

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Oct 3, 2022

Pakistan is near the cusp of disaster

with Javed Hassan

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Sep 28, 2022

Pakistan's houses are built to be resold, not to be lived in

with Wahaaj Nauman Qureshi

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Sep 19, 2022

Three bankruptcies before building a million-member community

with Sunny Ali

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Jul 18, 2022

Why Pakistan won't just buy gas from Russia

with Syed Ali Zia Jaffery

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Jul 8, 2022

Pakistan is a carbon gold mine. Here's the plan.

with Talha Khan & Hassan Anwar

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Jul 6, 2022

Pakistan's first premium pet food brand, made in Karachi

with Rafae Dossal

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Jul 4, 2022

Can 5G save Pakistan's economy?

with Yang Gu, Kashif Junaidi (Pasha), Akram Ali

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Jul 1, 2022

The BNPL startup targeting Pakistan's unbanked majority

with Arif Lakhani

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1:17:06

Jun 27, 2022

Can consuming less tea solve Pakistan's forex crisis?

with Fahad Yousaf

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1:31:46

Jun 24, 2022

Pakistan's fintech gap: one in twenty unbanked people

with M. Mudassar Aqil

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1:13:40

Jun 20, 2022

Pakistan's farms are top 10 in output, bottom 50 in yield

with Muhammed Bukhari

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1:22:10

Jun 17, 2022

Pakistan's first Google Developer Expert on building things

with Saad Hamid

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1:14:27

Jun 15, 2022

Jazz's CEO on why 4G for all beats 5G for a few

with Aamir Ibrahim

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1:07:49

Jun 13, 2022

How Pakistan's socio-economic classes are actually measured

with Kashif Hafeez Siddiqui

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2:28:23

Jun 8, 2022

Why Krave Mart won't lay off anyone for 18 months

with Haziq Ahmed

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1:42:38

May 27, 2022

Who really destroyed Karachi?

with Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman

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1:11:57

May 23, 2022

Pakistan has three to four weeks before it defaults

with Javed Hassan

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1:19:27

May 13, 2022

The man building Pakistan's electric mobility revolution

with Mohammad Hadi

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52:36

Apr 29, 2022

Why Pakistan's BPO industry never scaled like India's

with Salman Wajid Mian

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1:44:42

Apr 25, 2022

Pakistan's cash economy and the fintech fixing it

with Omar Moeen Malik, Omar Aftab, Huzaifa Ahmed

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1:20:32

Apr 15, 2022

Pakistan has no worthy number two to Systems Limited

with Kashif Manzoor

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1:18:40

Apr 4, 2022

PakWheels wasn't revenue positive until 2022

with Suneel Sarfraz Munj

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1:24:25

Feb 21, 2022

The CEO who took a demotion to join Unilever

with Amir R. Paracha

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1:07:35

Jan 19, 2022

Pakistan's IT problem is disconnection, not potential

with Mashroor Hussain

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1:41:37

Jan 3, 2022

Why Pakistan's factories still push, when the world has moved to pull

with Badar Khushnood

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1:48:31

Dec 24, 2021

Pakistan's farmland is a science problem, not a land problem

with Saad Tamman

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58:45

Dec 20, 2021

Pakistan has the largest Muslim diaspora in Silicon Valley

with Arzish Azam

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47:31

Nov 29, 2021

Pakistan saves seven rupees out of a hundred. India saves thirty.

with Mohammad Shoaib

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1:17:13

Nov 19, 2021

The obvious is the hardest thing to discover in Pakistan's economy

with Muzzammil Aslam

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1:09:08

Nov 5, 2021

Pakistan is the largest underserved retail market in the world

with Kamran Shaukat

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54:42

Nov 3, 2021

Pakistan's import duties are, in effect, export taxes

with Gonzalo Varela

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1:23:03

Oct 22, 2021

Why the next world order will be won on economy, not military

with Hamza

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1:19:02

Sep 10, 2021

Pakistan's regulations are built to punish, not to enable

with Ammar Habib Khan

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55:27

Aug 6, 2021

Why Pakistan drew a border around technology

with Hamza Saeed

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57:40

Jul 30, 2021

Why Pakistan's debt cycle quietly blocks you from investing

with Laeeq Ahmad

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52:57

Jul 14, 2021

Why the car scheme was the wrong gift for overseas Pakistanis

with Ariba Shahid

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