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Data card: 27.2 percent of Pakistan's exports go to the EU under a preference now up for renewal, including about 7 billion dollars of textiles a year, while 100 percent of Indian textile lines are now EU duty-free

Pakistan Must Reapply for GSP+ — and the EU-India Deal Has Already Cut What It Is Worth

The EU ambassador has told the Pakistan Textile Council the Commission will step up engagement on GSP+, as the EU-India FTA erodes the preference.
23 Oct
Data card: SECP has refunded subscription money to SE Fruits investors after finding material discrepancies in a prospectus that passed five review checkpoints, citing sections 134 and 136 of the Securities Act

SECP Opens SE Fruits IPO Probe and Confirms Investors Have Been Refunded

SECP has found material discrepancies in the SE Fruits prospectus, refunded subscription money and is determining responsibility.
20 Oct
Data card: SE Fruits raised Rs1.2 billion from investors in September at a strike price of Rs40, the floor of its band, before withdrawing the listing application on 13 October

SE Fruits Pulls Its IPO Application — After Collecting Rs1.2bn From Investors

SE Fruits withdrew its listing application on 13 October, weeks after raising Rs1.2bn through book-building and public subscription.
14 Oct
Data card: the Banking Ombudsman returned Rs1.2 billion to customers in nine months, resolving 29,001 of 33,625 complaints at an average of about Rs41,400 per resolved case

Banking Ombudsman Recovers Rs1.2bn for Customers From 33,625 Complaints

Banks returned Rs1.2bn to customers in the first nine months of 2026, with 29,001 of 33,625 complaints resolved by the Banking Ombudsman.
13 Oct
Data card: Jazz International Holding, a VEON subsidiary, holds 76.33 percent of the insurer, with the acquisition completed on 13 July and the JazzSure name effective from 7 October

TPL Insurance Becomes JazzSure as VEON Adds an Insurer to Jazz and JazzCash

TPL Insurance was renamed JazzSure with effect from 7 October after Jazz International Holding, a VEON subsidiary, took a 76.33pc stake.
9 Oct
Data card: two years passed between Fatima Fertilizer's August 2024 application and the CCP determination of 17 September 2026, by which point Fatima held zero Agritech shares

CCP Clears Fatima Fertilizer Agritech Stake Two Years On — After Fatima Had Already Sold It

CCP has approved Fatima Fertilizer's 2023 and 2024 Agritech share purchases on an ex-post-facto basis, by which point Fatima held no shares at all.
7 Oct
Data card: nine of eleven expressions of interest prequalified for GEPCO privatisation, with a 51 to 100 percent stake on offer, 5.1 million consumers and three Turkish energy firms shortlisted

Nine Bidders Clear GEPCO Privatisation Screen as K-Electric Withdraws

The Privatisation Commission prequalified nine of eleven parties for GEPCO, with three Turkish firms on the shortlist and K-Electric out.
6 Oct
Data card: AkzoNobel sold its Pakistan business for 50 million euros at 14 times EV/EBITDA, with Rs16.2 billion paid by IGI Investments of the Packages Group for 100 percent, proceeds repatriated out of Pakistan, and brand licence terms undisclosed

AkzoNobel Sold Its Pakistan Business for €50 Million. At 14x EBITDA, That Is Not a Retreat.

A completed exit at a full multiple with proceeds repatriated is the best evidence available that the channel out of Pakistan currently works.
1 Oct
Data card: Pakistan is getting its first domestic credit card against an acceptance base of 1.9 million QR-enabled merchants on a different rail from card terminals, in four variants conventional and Islamic, keeping scheme fees onshore, with no interest rate or credit limit published

Pakistan Is Getting Its First Domestic Credit Card. It Is Aimed at Microfinance Borrowers.

A domestic scheme keeps card economics onshore. A revolving line for first-time borrowers is a different instrument from a microfinance loan.
30 Sep
Data card: Millat is launching electric bikes with 700 workshops behind them into a market of 2.14 million two- and three-wheelers a year, with commercial production from October, swappable batteries solving charge time and residual value, and no price published

Millat Is Launching Electric Bikes With 700 Workshops Behind Them. That Is the Whole Point.

Service coverage, not price or range, is what has kept electric two-wheelers marginal in Pakistan. A tractor company arrives with that already solved.
28 Sep
Data card: Car imports rose 36 percent to $81.4 million in July-August with new energy vehicle arrivals equal to as much as 12.9 percent of domestic car sales volume, displacing about Rs1.5 billion of local content a month at an 18-to-1 sales tax gap

Car Imports Rose 36%. The NEV Number the Industry Never Published Is Finally Public.

NEV imports of 1,500-2,000 units a month equal roughly a tenth of domestic car sales. The assemblers' complaint was right, just unevidenced.
24 Sep
Data card: SE Fruits priced at Rs40, the floor, leaving Rs720 million unraised against the Rs64 ceiling or 37.5 percent of the maximum, on a book covered 1.6 times that filled in two hours and raised Rs1.2 billion for 32.01 percent of the company

SE Fruits Priced at Rs40. That Was the Floor.

Two Pakistani IPOs in eight days, both comfortably covered, both priced at or within a rupee of their floors. That is a statement about the market.
23 Sep

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