Pakistan, Jan. 14 -- Punjab's digital governance push is beginning to alter the province's administrative and economic landscape. At the centre of this shift is the e-Biz Portal, a unified digital platform intended to streamline business registration, licensing and regulatory approvals. While presented as a facilitation measure, the initiative reflects a broader attempt to recalibrate how the state interacts with businesses under the Punjab government's IT-led reform agenda.

For decades, the cost of doing business was shaped not only by market conditions but also by procedural inefficiencies. Fragmented departmental systems, reliance on physical documentation, and repeated visits to government offices created delays and uncertainty, part...