Cyan Limited (CYAN): The Dawood group's small listed investment company
Formerly Central Insurance from 1960, renamed Cyan in 2011, this small Dawood-group company listed as CYAN now makes equity and private-equity investments.
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Formerly Central Insurance from 1960, renamed Cyan in 2011, this small Dawood-group company listed as CYAN now makes equity and private-equity investments.
Ferozsons Laboratories built its name on hepatitis and HIV medicines, Gilead partnerships and Pakistan's first biotech plant — its story, from 1954 to the PSX.
The Ghani group's listed gases arm separates air into oxygen, nitrogen and argon for hospitals and industry from plants at Kasur, Port Qasim and Hattar.
Hoechst Pakistan made medicines in Karachi for decades as Sanofi before local buyers restored its first name in 2023 — the full story of the PSX drugmaker.
Mitchell's Fruit Farms has made jams, squashes and sauces from its Renala Khurd orchards since 1933 — the story of Pakistan's oldest food brand on the PSX.
Nimir Resins makes the coating resins, polyesters and textile chemicals other factories buy — a Lahore chemicals story of mergers, buyouts and the PSX.
Otsuka Pakistan makes the IV infusions Pakistan's hospitals run on, from a single plant at Hub — the Japanese group's small, focused outpost on the PSX.
Spun out of the Sitara group and incorporated in 2004, SPL makes hydrogen peroxide beside Faisalabad's mills — one plant, one molecule, one customer trade.
Canals, cotton and livestock: how Pakistan's farm sector feeds the nation, employs millions and quietly decides inflation, exports and rural incomes today.
Software houses, freelancers and dollar billing: how Pakistan's IT exports grew from a niche into one of the economy's most promising hard-currency earners.
Ports, power plants and motorways: what the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor actually built, what it changed in the economy and what its second phase promises.
Falling per-capita water, thirsty crops and sinking aquifers: how Pakistan's water crisis quietly taxes farming, industry, health and the public finances.
Import cover, IMF reviews and friendly deposits: what Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves are, where the dollars come from and why the cushion keeps thinning.
Floods, heatwaves and melting glaciers: how climate risk has become a first-order economic variable for Pakistan's farms, cities, budget and balance of payments.
Megacities, katchi abadis and a housing shortfall counted in millions: how Pakistan's urban growth shapes land prices, construction demand and household wealth.
Millions of profiles, dollars by the task: how Pakistan's freelancers became a top global supplier of digital labour — and why so much of it stays invisible.
Rooftop panels and two-way meters: how net metering works in Pakistan, what DISCOs pay for your surplus solar and why the grid's economics are now the argument.
Duties, targets and two-wheelers first: how Pakistan's EV policy tries to electrify transport, what local assembly really means and where the road still runs out.
Copper in Balochistan, coal in Thar, salt at Khewra: what Pakistan digs up, who licenses it, and why the long-promised mining boom keeps being postponed.
Barrick, Balochistan and a buried porphyry: how Reko Diq went from arbitration disaster to Pakistan's biggest mining bet, and what has to happen next.
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