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Anjum Ibrahim

Partly Facetious : Performance of PM's technocrats

"I want to give some advice to The Khan."

Published 11 May, 2019 12:00am

Talks with IMF: Specific time-bound structural benchmarks not yet been finalized

Talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission are continuing, and specific time-bound structural benchmarks have not yet been finalized, so stated a number of senior officials from the finance ministry and federal board of revenue. Media report

Published 10 May, 2019 12:00am

Talks with IMF: Specific time-bound structural benchmarks not yet been finalized

Published 10 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : Trump provides comic relief

"William Barr, the US Attorney General, a Trump nominee of course, has been held in contempt of congress."

Published 10 May, 2019 12:00am

Talks with IMF: Specific time-bound structural benchmarks not yet been finalized

Published 10 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious: What constitutes the right market value?

"Sadly, The Khan has not yet learnt how to put the right market value on people."

Published 09 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : Changes in economic team

"How do you view the changes in the economic team?"

Published 08 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious: A degree is a degree...

"Public response to a celebrity varies depending on what the celebrity draws his/her fame from."

Published 07 May, 2019 12:00am

A profound question!

Can the Pakistan authorities negotiate a package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that would provide time to identify, agree and implement major structural reforms - particularly in the several decades long poorly performing tax and power sector

Published 06 May, 2019 12:00am

A profound question!

Published 06 May, 2019 12:00am

The economics of Corruption

Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing the opening ceremony of the second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Beijing on "Shaping a Brighter Future" highlighted five impediments to achieving sustainable development goals including his pet theme: white c

Published 06 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : NRO also means...

"The Khan said he will never ever give an NRO to opposition leaders and he said that in the presence of...."

Published 04 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : PM speaks about inflation

"The Khan was comparing the average inflation rate during the first ten months of the current year with the average of the first year of the Zardari led government and the first year of the Dar led years."

Published 03 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : NS needs to revisit his accountant's performance

"One event in one's life and one is forever remembered for it. That's just not fair."

Published 02 May, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : 'A watched pot never boils'

"A watched pot never boils."

Published 30 Apr, 2019 12:00am

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The changing of the guard at MoF

The criteria used in selecting finance ministers have developed a distinctly partisan flavour in Pakistan. All three major national political parties that have formed a government at the centre during the past eleven years - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI

Published 29 Apr, 2019 12:00am

Partly Facetious : Benazir was never referred to as 'sahiba'

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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