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PRESS RELEASE
1 May 2026: Led by Partners, Zeeshan Tayyeb and Zain Jaffery, Mountain Ventures has published MaVen April 2026, the debut edition under our rebranded Pakistan downstream intelligence publication. MaVen: market-facing analysis, grounded in data, written with conviction.
This edition covers the Hormuz aftermath in full: an estimated US$1 billion in industry windfall gains, the collapse of Hi-Octane as a commercial product, Pakistan's 40-place slide in global price rankings, a pricing formula rewritten mid-crisis, and a deregulation moment that is within reach, if parliament acts.
As we issue this Press Release, the Government has announced a further revision effective 1 May 2026, Gasoil at Rs 399.58/L (+Rs 19.39) and Gasoline at Rs 399.86/L (+Rs 6.51), a reminder that the pricing environment continues to move rapidly.
MaVen is distributed monthly to OMCs, refineries, lenders, regulators, and policymakers across Pakistan's downstream sector.
PRESS RELEASE
Mountain Ventures publishes Special Edition on Pakistan's path to petroleum deregulation
27 April 2026. Mountain Ventures today released its Special Edition: Deregulation, a position paper setting out a sequenced eighteen-month roadmap to deregulate Pakistan's petroleum pricing.
The edition follows the late-April agreement between the Petroleum Division and the country's refineries on a new diesel pricing formula, endorsed by the IMF, and the Petroleum Minister's public statements naming full deregulation as the policy destination.
Developed by Mountain Ventures' Partners, Zeeshan Tayyeb and Zain Jaffery, the paper argues that petrol can be deregulated now while diesel transitions through the new HSD formula as a bridge, mirroring India's 2010–2014 sequencing, which has since survived three changes of government. It sets out the full architecture: a symmetric circuit breaker, an IFEM taper, a measurement reform, a long-term offtake framework, and a legislative path designed to be harder to reverse than to create.
Click here to download the Special Edition