Jawad Hamdani

A Lahore pharmacist skipped years of brand-building by acquiring a Clinix Pharmacy franchise for roughly PKR 3.5 million reaching profitability in just 14 months and later expanding to two more outlets. This guide covers what franchising actually costs in Pakistan, from accessible local pharmacy and courier franchises to major international brands like KFC, plus the exact legal and financial due diligence, including trademark verification, that protects your investment.

A small leather goods manufacturer in Sialkot had a genuine buyer in Germany ready to place an order, but had no idea how to actually get his product legally out of Pakistan. This guide walks through the exact registration sequence every Pakistani small business needs to export physical goods, from NTN and WeBOC to TDAP and Chamber of Commerce membership, plus every document a real shipment requires and the government incentives most small exporters never claim.

A small electronics retailer lost his entire shop inventory in a fire, having assumed insurance was only for large corporations a mistake most Pakistani SME owners quietly make until it’s too late. This guide covers real, SECP-regulated business insurance and Takaful options in Pakistan, from EFU and Adamjee’s fire and liability coverage to Pak-Qatar’s dedicated Takaful model, plus the genuinely interesting legal battle that shaped how Window Takaful works today.

A home-based skincare brand I know spent nearly two years building a genuinely distinctive name and logo, the kind of brand identity work covered in the branding article earlier in this series, before discovering that a competing seller on a different marketplace had started using an almost identical name and a suspiciously similar logo to … Read more