5 Min Read28th May 2026
Pharma's deregulation dividend has become an export question
Exports up 34%, revenues past PKR 1 trillion, and a stated ambition of $2 billion a year. The constraint now is paperwork, not capacity.
- Pharma
- Regulation
- Exports
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Reporting and analysis from the Al-Ukaz editorial desk on trade policy, sector performance, and the discovery problem underneath them. Every figure is attributed and dated.
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4 Min Read24th April 2026
Texpo closed in Karachi. The ninety days after will decide whether it worked
Textile exports rebounded 22.8% year-on-year in April. The harder question is what happens to the business cards.
- Textile
- Trade Fairs
- Buyers
5 Min Read26th February 2026
A 19% tariff line — and what it actually buys Pakistani exporters
Pakistan sits below India, Bangladesh and Vietnam on the new US tariff schedule. Whether that gap converts into orders depends on something tariffs cannot fix.
- Tariffs
- United States
- Exports
Insights
Longer arguments about why Pakistani capacity does not convert into orders.
7 Min Read17th July 2026
GSP+ is being rewritten — and compliance is moving down to the factory floor
Pakistan uses its EU preferences better than any other beneficiary. The 2027 framework will ask a different question, and it will be asked of suppliers.
- EU Trade
- GSP+
- Compliance
6 Min Read18th June 2026
Sialkot makes the world's instruments. The world cannot name its makers.
One district supplies most of the planet's manual surgical instruments and most of its hand-stitched footballs — almost entirely without attribution.
- Sialkot
- Precision
- Discovery
6 Min Read19th March 2026
Pakistan's export target has a credit problem — and it isn't at the top
SMEs are more than 90% of Pakistan's businesses and take 6–7% of private-sector credit. Banks are not being unkind; they are pricing the absence of information.
- SME
- Finance
- Growth
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