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Pakistan

Government urged to announce relief package for CNG sector

CNG owners and dealers have urged the federal government and Prime Minister Imran Khan to announce special gas tariff relief package for neglected and corona lockdown-hit CNG sector, what they called the sector is prime source of employment for many peopl

Published 04 May, 2020 12:07am

Pakistan

KP traders demand clearance of containers stuck at Karachi port

Business community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has expressed its grave concern over large number of Afghan transit trade containers being held up at Karachi port on the pretext of passing them through the scanning process and urged the government to make the cl

Published 03 May, 2020 12:05am

Manifold increase in prices of essential food items witnessed

A manifold increase in prices of essential food commodities, including live chicken/meat, gram flour (baisen) vegetable, pulses, fruits, dates, flour, beverages, ghee/cooking oil and others was witnessed in here retail market since advent of Ramazan, said

Published 27 Apr, 2020 02:51am

Pakistan

SCCI chief seeks comprehensive fiscal relief package

President of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Engr Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz has urged the government to announce a comprehensive fiscal relief package for coronavirus-hit small scale industries and traders.

Published 19 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

Government should formulate policy for post-coronavirus situation: Fazl

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday said that the coronavirus pandemic has destroyed the country's economy and called upon the government to formulate a policy for post-coronavirus situation.

Published 14 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

KP businessmen not to pay taxes if govt extends lockdown

Businessmen and traders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said they would open markets on April 15 and warned the government that they would implement a layoff plan if the government extended the ongoing lockdown in the province.

Published 12 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

SCCI seeks three-month waiver on utility bills

President of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz, has appealed to the government to waive electricity and gas bills of industrial and commercial consumers for at least three months.

Published 10 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

SCCI slams crackdown on Quetta arms factory

President of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz, has expressed resentment over crackdown on arms manufacturing factory located in the small industrial estate on Kohat Road and arrest of people.

Published 08 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

Sharp rise witnessed in prices of essential commodities

The prices of essential food commodities, including vegetable, pulses, flour, sugar, fruits, fresh milk etc have risen sharply in local market amid continuous lockdown here in provincial capital, according to survey conducted by Business Recorder h

Published 06 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

Business community concerned at delay in payment of outstanding refunds

Business community has expressed grave concern over undue delay in payment of outstanding refunds on head of export, sales tax and income despite the announcement of Rs100 billion economic relief package by Prime Minister Imran Khan to support industrial

Published 05 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

Labs, clinics & hospitals: PHC orders KPHCC to ensure uniformity in fees

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Healthcare Commission (KPHCC) to fix and bring uniformity in fees of all laboratories, clinics and hospitals.

Published 02 Apr, 2020 12:00am

Markets

Prices of essential items increase substantially

Amid partial lockdown in the provincial capital, the prices of pulses, vegetable, flour, live chicken/meat, eggs, and other grocery items have increased manifold in retail market here, according to survey conducted by Business Recorder on Sunday.

Published 30 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Coronavirus outbreak: CNG owners urge government to announce relief package

Owners and dealers of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) here demanded of the government and Prime Minister Imran Khan to announce special financial relief package as the CNG sector also adversely affected due to outbreak of coronavirus.

Published 29 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

SCCI chief for special monetary package for SMEs

The business community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here on Wednesday hailed the PM financial relief package and demanded to extend same special monetary package for small medium enterprises (SMEs) sector, which also adversely affected in wake of coronavirus pan

Published 26 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Prices of kitchen items skyrocket in retail market

A sharp increase in essential food commodities, items including vegetable, pulses, live chicken/meat, sugar, fruits and others was witnessed in retail market, according to survey conducted by Business Recorder here on Sunday.

Published 23 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

Goods transportation: Traders demand opening of Torkham border

Traders community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here on Wednesday demanded of the government to keep the Torkham border open for transportation of trucks, loaded with perishable and other items so that will avoid huge financial losses to them and unhurt the mutua

Published 19 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

SCCI flays frequent power outages in Peshawar

The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has expressed resentment over excessive electricity loadshedding in the Small Industrial Estate, Kohat Road, Peshawar. The issue was raised during a meeting with a delegation of Small Industrial Estate wh

Published 18 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Prices of essential kitchen items continue to soar

Prices of important kitchen items, including live chicken/meat, vegetable, pulses, sugar, flour, fruits and other have increased manifold in retail market, according to a survey carried out by Business Recorder here on Sunday.

Published 16 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Pakistan

SCCI, Rly agree to reconstitute railway advisory body

The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Pakistan Railways have agreed to reconstitute railways advisory body for prompt resolution of business community issues. A senior official of Pakistan Railways has assured to launch special freight train from Karachi to

Published 13 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Sports

PM opens U-21 Games at Peshawar Sports Complex

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday inaugurated Under-21 Games at the Peshawar Sports Complex, here on Monday.

Published 10 Mar, 2020 12:00am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 24	278.80
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 24	278.60
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 24	155.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 24	1.24
Euro to USD / Jan 24	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 23	6,118.71
Nasdaq / Jan 23	20,053.68
Dow Jones / Jan 23	44,565.07
India Sensex / Jan 24	76,784.63
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 24	39,931.98
Hang Seng / Jan 24	20,060.52
FTSE 100 / Jan 24	8,559.56
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 24	21,482.67

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 23	18,485
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 23	245,799
Petrol/Litre / Jan 24	256.13
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 24	74.61
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 24	2,774.04
Diesel/Litre / Jan 24	260.95

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Escorts Bank / Jan 24 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	6.79 ▲ 1.00 (17.27%)
Khalid Siraj / Jan 24 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.05 ▲ 0.95 (11.73%)
Agritech Limited / Jan 24 Agritech Limited(AGL)	52.46 ▲ 4.77 (10.00%)
Loads Limited / Jan 24 Loads Limited(LOADS)	18.92 ▲ 1.72 (10.00%)
Sardar Chemical / Jan 24 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	35.75 ▲ 3.25 (10.00%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 24 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	33.36 ▲ 3.03 (9.99%)
Shezan Inter. / Jan 24 Shezan International Limited(SHEZ)	148.17 ▲ 13.46 (9.99%)
Saritow Spinning / Jan 24 Saritow Spinning Mills Limited(SSML)	11.13 ▲ 1.01 (9.98%)
Ellcot Spinning / Jan 24 Ellcot Spinning Mills Limited(ELSM)	113.60 ▲ 10.30 (9.97%)

Stock	Price
Mandviwala / Jan 24 Mandviwala Mauser Plastic Industries(MWMP)	19.13 ▼ -2.12 (-9.98%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 24 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	9.84 ▼ -1.09 (-9.97%)
Zahid Jee Textile / Jan 24 Zahidjee Textile Mills Limited(ZAHID)	27.24 ▼ -2.97 (-9.83%)
Crescent Cotton / Jan 24 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	48.50 ▼ -5.02 (-9.38%)
Ashfaq Textile / Jan 24 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	14.15 ▼ -1.35 (-8.71%)
Dawood Lawrencepur / Jan 24 Dawood Lawrencepur Limited(DLL)	302.50 ▼ -19.20 (-5.97%)
Elahi Cot. / Jan 24 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	105 ▼ -6.00 (-5.41%)
Hussain Industries / Jan 24 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	28.01 ▼ -1.41 (-4.79%)
The Thal Ind.Corp. / Jan 24 The Thal Industries Corporation Limited(TICL)	295.01 ▼ -13.99 (-4.53%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 24 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	143,693,542 ▼ -0.10
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 24 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	78,194,783 ▼ -0.01
Sui South Gas / Jan 24 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	57,202,439 ▲ 3.90
Fauji Cement / Jan 24 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	47,170,217 ▼ -0.65
Lotte Chemical / Jan 24 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	35,630,848 ▼ -0.46
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 24 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	32,528,835 ▼ -2.50
The Searle Co. / Jan 24 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	26,563,258 ▲ 5.41
Maple Leaf Cement / Jan 24 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	26,433,374 ▼ -0.94
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 24 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	22,111,604 ▼ -0.06

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