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Anjum Ibrahim

Opinion

Budget: inflation must be top priority

Inflation is pushing an ever increasing number below the poverty line (currently estimated at 40 percent comparable...

Updated 10 Jun, 2024 08:13am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Samdhi and Sunak

“Uh Oh!” “You will have to narrow it down. There are too many uh oh situations.” “Take a guess.” “The Deputy Prime...

Published 08 Jun, 2024 07:00am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘The pigeons come home to roost’

“The opinions of the individual supreme court justices during the full court hearing appear to be split.” “But...

Published 07 Jun, 2024 06:24am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘Some poodles are more equal than others…’

“So, what is with the debates between Starmer and Sunak?” “Well, you can’t accuse the British of doing a...

Published 06 Jun, 2024 03:09am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Miftah Ismail is the new Shabbar Zaidi?

“Prime Minister and his band of merry cabinet members are off to China and I think this may be an appropriate time...

Published 05 Jun, 2024 06:41am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘Prosecution’s cases are falling by the wayside’

“So the same o same o.” “Yep, but there is one major change.” “Oh, that a former president of the US has...

Published 04 Jun, 2024 06:28am

Opinion

Budget: govt between a rock and a hard place

Contrary to earlier reports that the budget for next fiscal year will be presented to parliament on the 7June it is...

Published 03 Jun, 2024 06:30am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Black sheep in English means someone who has done something bad…

“What’s the difference between a black goat and a black bumblebee?” “For your information, there are black...

Published 01 Jun, 2024 06:59am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Maneka’s claim

“I hear Greedy for Portfolios Samdhi (GPS) has his heart set on it.” “He ain’t getting the Finance Ministry...

Published 31 May, 2024 06:58am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘She should fire her tailor’

“So tell me why was the notification for a countrywide holiday on 28 May so late in the coming. I mean, it was well...

Updated 30 May, 2024 06:51am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Countrywide tree-plantation is a must

“We are resilient.” “Indeed, with record high temperatures in the country….” “Well, it’s damned if the government...

Published 29 May, 2024 06:05am

Opinion

Budget projections for FY25

There is overwhelming evidence that approval of the budget for next fiscal year, reportedly to be presented to...

Updated 27 May, 2024 06:33am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: We have achieved stability?

“So a grand state owned entity (SOE) sale is on the cards.” “Indeed and this means incoming dollars,...

Published 25 May, 2024 06:33am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘Raoof Hassan has done a Third Wife’

“It’s not as if I don’t have much sympathy for Raoof Hassan after his attack.” “He suffered, I wouldn’t...

Published 24 May, 2024 05:49am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: What actually constitutes defamation?

“So explain the Punjab defamation bill to me.” “An aggrieved person can go to the one-man tribunal, appointed by the...

Updated 23 May, 2024 05:43am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Nawaz Sharif needs companionship

“The Greedy for Portfolios Samdhi (GPS) is in Kazakhstan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ...

Published 22 May, 2024 05:54am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘A non-Muslim can come up with a wise proverb’

“Gautama Buddha is credited with a wise saying, do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate...

Published 21 May, 2024 03:39am

Opinion

Flawed IMF programme design

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) analysis and prescriptions in the second and final review document...

Updated 20 May, 2024 06:19am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The King is alive and will remain alive and…

“So now what?” “Now no amendment to the constitution is possible as the court has suspended the distribution of...

Updated 18 May, 2024 06:16am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Who’s Tom Taraba?

“I heard our GPS called Tom Taraba.” “Remind me who GPS is and who in the world is Tom Taraba?” “GPS is ...

Published 17 May, 2024 05:50am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 20	278.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 20	278.50
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 20	156.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 20	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 20	1.22
Euro to USD / Jan 20	1.03

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 17	5,996.66
Nasdaq / Jan 17	19,630.20
Dow Jones / Jan 17	43,487.83
India Sensex / Jan 20	77,231.09
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 20	38,932.72
Hang Seng / Jan 20	19,990.17
FTSE 100 / Jan 20	8,532.51
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 20	20,903.07

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 17	18,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 17	242,283
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 20	77.94
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 20	2,707.81
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 20	67.60
Petrol/Litre / Jan 21	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Bank Makramah / Jan 20 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	3.61 ▲ 0.91 (33.70%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Jan 20 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	8.60 ▲ 1.00 (13.16%)
Apna Microfin. / Jan 20 Apna Microfinance Bank Limited(AMBL)	10.50 ▲ 0.97 (10.18%)
I.C.C. Ind. / Jan 20 ICC Industries Limited(ICCI)	11.61 ▲ 1.06 (10.05%)
Loads Limited / Jan 20 Loads Limited(LOADS)	17 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
AKD Securities / Jan 20 AKD Securities Limited(AKDSL)	24.93 ▲ 2.27 (10.02%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 20 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	18.24 ▲ 1.66 (10.01%)
Attock Cement / Jan 20 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	254.47 ▲ 23.13 (10.00%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jan 20 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	53.44 ▲ 4.86 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Hussain Industries / Jan 20 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	31.09 ▼ -3.45 (-9.99%)
Faisal Sp. / Jan 20 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	334.01 ▼ -35.89 (-9.70%)
Parmount Sp. / Jan 20 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	4.61 ▼ -0.44 (-8.71%)
Sindh Abadgar / Jan 20 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	38.04 ▼ -3.46 (-8.34%)
MithchellsFruit / Jan 20 Mitchells Fruit Farms Limited(MFFL)	279 ▼ -24.10 (-7.95%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Jan 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	19.26 ▼ -1.62 (-7.76%)
AN Textile Mill / Jan 20 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	11.80 ▼ -0.99 (-7.74%)
Service Textile / Jan 20 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	13.82 ▼ -1.16 (-7.74%)
Masood Textile / Jan 20 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	52.02 ▼ -4.22 (-7.50%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	101,934,297 ▼ -0.01
Lotte Chemical / Jan 20 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	59,408,954 ▲ 1.94
Bank Makramah / Jan 20 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	57,604,421 ▲ 0.91
Hub Power Co. / Jan 20 The Hub Power Company Limited(HUBC)	36,888,747 ▲ 0.70
Hascol Petrol / Jan 20 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	32,496,536 ▲ 0.17
Dewan Motors / Jan 20 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	28,438,701 ▲ 1.02
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 20 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	24,244,731 ▲ 7.71
Maple Leaf Cement / Jan 20 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	19,741,577 ▲ 2.08
The Searle Co. / Jan 20 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	17,062,686 ▲ 4.29

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