No way for me to know for certain if the NPLs pertain to the same sponsor, but since you suggested tht default occurred due to legal action & not due to overexposure, pls see: Percentages indicate Advances & NPLs as % of Equity. R-1 is pretty explicit.

Rent-seeking & abuse of influence have become Pak economy's #metoo. Everyone agrees it is prevalent yet balk in disbelief when someone they know is implicated! 🤦

Askari Bank only has a 6% share in total industry's deposits, against 22% share in GoP (public sector) deposits

Doing capex without adequate liquidity for opex is like gifting your unemployed damaad a 4000cc SUV in dowry. The shiny new car is only good for sitting pretty in the garage if you dont have the money to put fuel in it. Thats what the brilliant minds who came up with TERF missed

When rival companies such as Pepsi & Coca Cola have such huge marketing budgets, it's a clear sign that there is little material difference between the products they are selling (sugar + water), so they compete by associating subjective experiences and identities with the product

All this hospitality that we are so proud of is built on gendered labor. It is so messed up that it's (usually) more acceptable/common for female guests to go & help the host women than for the male hosts to get up & enter their own goddam kitchen.

At 2 AM on December 25, 2021, I couldn’t sleep. I called my partner: "I'm quitting my post-doc." "Are you sure?" he asked. I could tell he was surprised - surprised that I would walk away from a career in which I had devoted much of my life. For which I had sacrificed so much.

What a wonderful read this morning, an interview from two Adils close to my heart 😊. Answered by Adil Najam , questioned by Adil Mansoor brecorder.com/news/40282557/…

Brilliant piece by Adil Mansoor "Here’s in fact another view. Rather than worrying about the import bill, let rich countries such as USA subsidize their farmers and export cheap grain to deficit nations such as Pakistan. Let Indonesia and Brazil worry about deforestation

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