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Sardar Sikander Shaheen

Senate polls: Deadline for nomination filing ends

ISLAMABAD: The deadline for the submissions for the upcoming Senate polls ended Saturday evening after several...

Updated 17 Mar, 2024 09:07am

Pakistan

Senate by-polls: PPP’s Gilani regains own vacant seat by securing 204 votes

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani – who is believed to be the...

Published 15 Mar, 2024 04:14am

Pakistan

By-elections on 23 general seats to be held on April 21: ECP

ISLAMABAD: The poll organisation has announced that it will hold by-elections on 23 seats of the assemblies on April...

Published 14 Mar, 2024 03:00am

Senate by-elections through secret ballot today

ISLAMABAD: Not less than 169 votes on National Assembly’s one seat of Islamabad, 57 votes each on two seats of Sindh...

Updated 14 Mar, 2024 08:46am

Pakistan

Dysfunctional Senate goes to by-polls tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, the dysfunctional Upper House of the Parliament goes to by-elections on ...

Published 13 Mar, 2024 06:32am

Pakistan

Senate polls schedule to be issued on Thursday

ISLAMABAD: With 52 senators having retired following the completion of their term, the electoral organisation,...

Published 12 Mar, 2024 04:28am

Pakistan

Reduced number of 48 Senate seats: Schedule for Senate polls to be issued on Thursday

ISLAMABAD: With 52 senators having retired following the completion of their term, the electoral organisation,...

Published 12 Mar, 2024 04:28am

Pakistan

Z A Bhutto case: Senate says SC’s 1979 verdict must be overturned

ISLAMABAD: The farewell session of the outgoing Senate ended on Friday, in which the House demanded that Supreme...

Published 09 Mar, 2024 04:59am

Pakistan

Achakzai urges ECP to postpone presidential election

ISLAMABAD: A day before the presidential poll, scheduled today (Saturday), Mehmood Khan Achakzai, one of the two...

Published 09 Mar, 2024 04:59am

Pakistan

Proposal being mulled to extend Sanjrani’s tenure

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Secretariat is considering the proposal on having the existing rules of business amended to...

Published 08 Mar, 2024 03:14am

Pakistan

ECP finally uploads Form-45s, related papers

ISLAMABAD: Almost a month after the general elections and around two weeks after the lapse of the legally-stipulated...

Updated 06 Mar, 2024 08:53am

Pakistan

Presidential election: CEC accepts nominations of Zardari, Achakzai

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja has accepted the nominations of Pakistan Peoples Party...

Published 05 Mar, 2024 03:09am

Pakistan

Six private bills, including Anti-Rape (Amendment) Bill 2022, moved by PTI adopted

ISLAMABAD: The outgoing Senate, Monday, passed six private bills, all moved by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

Published 05 Mar, 2024 03:09am

Pakistan

Reserved seats: ECP disallows petition of SIC

ISLAMABAD: Issuing yet another apparently controversial decision that has stirred a fresh controversy - after being...

Published 05 Mar, 2024 03:09am

Pakistan

POs appointed for presidential election

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has appointed the Chief Justices of all but one High Court as...

Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am

Pakistan

Reserved seats: ECP reserves its verdict on SIC’s plea

ISLAMABAD: Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) has contended that the PTI-backed candidates, who joined it after winning the...

Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am

Pakistan

‘PTI’s constitution stipulates most ambitiously complex intra-party election mechanism’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI)’s constitution stipulates the most ambitiously complex intra-party...

Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am

Pakistan

Allocation of reserved seats: PML-N leader supports PTI’s demand

ISLAMABAD: In a rare display of parliamentary solidarity beyond the party lines, a member of the upper house of...

Published 28 Feb, 2024 06:10am

Presidential election schedule to be announced on March 1: ECP yet to decide SIC reserved seats issue

ISLAMABAD: With the matter involving the allocation of several reserved seats in the three Assemblies pending before...

Updated 28 Feb, 2024 09:20am

Pakistan

Senate passes 7 bills including Christian Marriage Bill

ISLAMABAD: The outgoing Senate, Monday, passed seven bills—all private—including the Christian Marriage...

Published 27 Feb, 2024 03:06am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 24	278.53
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 24	278.33
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 24	157.10
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 24	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 24	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 23	5,974.07
Nasdaq / Dec 23	19,764.89
Dow Jones / Dec 23	42,906.95
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
India Sensex / Dec 24	78,616.57
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 24	39,036.85
Hang Seng / Dec 24	20,098.29
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,130.86

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 23	241,087.80
Petrol/Litre / Dec 24	252.10
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 24	69.54
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 24	17,785
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 24	2,618.54
Diesel/Litre / Dec 24	255.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 24 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	5.99 ▲ 1.00 (20.04%)
Next Capital / Dec 24 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	8.90 ▲ 1.00 (12.66%)
Pak Agro Pack. (GEM) / Dec 24 Pak Agro Packaging Limited (GEM)(GEMPAPL)	9 ▲ 1.00 (12.50%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Dec 24 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	16.13 ▲ 1.47 (10.03%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 24 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	14.37 ▲ 1.31 (10.03%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 24 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	15.58 ▲ 1.42 (10.03%)
Mandviwala / Dec 24 Mandviwala Mauser Plastic Industries(MWMP)	16.59 ▲ 1.51 (10.01%)
Blessed Tex. / Dec 24 Blessed Textiles Limited(BTL)	301.77 ▲ 27.43 (10.00%)
Crescent Cotton / Dec 24 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	55 ▲ 5.00 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
S.G.Power / Dec 24 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	10.58 ▼ -1.18 (-10.03%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 24 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	36 ▼ -4.00 (-10.00%)
J.A.Textile / Dec 24 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	33.95 ▼ -3.77 (-9.99%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 24 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	26.16 ▼ -2.90 (-9.98%)
I.C.C. Ind. / Dec 24 ICC Industries Limited(ICCI)	9.85 ▼ -1.07 (-9.80%)
National Silk / Dec 24 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	50.01 ▼ -5.43 (-9.79%)
Gulshan Sp. / Dec 24 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	4.10 ▼ -0.40 (-8.89%)
Crescent Fib. / Dec 24 Crescent Fibres Limited(CFL)	40.16 ▼ -3.81 (-8.66%)
Reliance Ins. / Dec 24 Reliance Insurance Company Limited(RICL)	11.55 ▼ -1.05 (-8.33%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 24 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	126,573,463 ▲ 0.05
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 24 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	66,984,381 ▲ 0.49
Cnergyico PK / Dec 24 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	66,471,663 ▼ -0.27
Pak Elektron / Dec 24 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	38,651,653 ▼ -1.53
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 24 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	36,108,956 ▼ -0.18
Sui South Gas / Dec 24 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,467,532 ▼ -0.50
P.T.C.L. / Dec 24 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	33,030,118 ▼ -1.31
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 24 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	29,441,264 ▲ 3.35
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 24 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	28,106,970 ▼ -0.18

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