Ownership and Funding

Readers have a right to know who is behind a news site and who pays for it. This page sets that out, together with the interests we disclose so that you can judge our coverage with them in mind.

Who owns UAE Current

UAE Current (uaecurrent.ae) was founded in November 2026 by Umer Kureshi, who owns the site and is its editor-in-chief. He also founded and runs Pakistan Era (pakera.pk), a news and guides site for Pakistan. UAE Current is not owned by, or affiliated with, any government, government entity, political group or media group.

How we are funded

UAE Current is free to read. It is funded by its owner and by advertising, including display advertising served by third-party networks. We may in future carry sponsored content, which will always be labelled as such and kept apart from our news coverage under the rules on our advertising page.

We do not receive government funding or grants, and no funder, advertiser or sponsor has any say over what we report or how.

Interests we disclose

• Our editor-in-chief is Head of SEO and Marketing at Bestax Chartered Accountants, a firm that provides accounting, tax and business setup services in the UAE and Canada, and Search and Performance Lead at Wide Ripples Digital, a digital marketing agency.
• UAE Current does not write about Bestax or Wide Ripples, their clients or their services, and does not recommend any accounting, tax or business setup provider. Our tax and business coverage reports official rules from the Federal Tax Authority, the Ministry of Finance and the other responsible bodies, and never points readers to a particular firm.
• If any other interest becomes relevant to a story, we will disclose it on that article or leave the story to be covered without that involvement.

Editorial independence

Decisions about what we cover and what we publish are made by the newsroom alone, under our editorial standards. Nobody outside it sees or approves an article before publication.

Contact

Questions about ownership or funding can be sent to info@uaecurrent.ae or through our contact page.