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Shahab Jafry

Opinion

The complicated web we weave

A former Afghan journalist I once ran into in China – one who gave up a comfortable life in the Gulf to return to...

Updated 02 Jan, 2025 08:22am

Opinion

Cui bono?

It didn’t take long for headlines out of Syria to turn, did it? Locals that set fire to Hafez al Assad’s grave...

Published 19 Dec, 2024 06:30am

Opinion

Who won, who lost in Syria?

Who cares about learning a lesson when a really big prize is in sight? So, from the point of view of the US whose...

Updated 12 Dec, 2024 08:08am

Opinion

No surprise in the surprise visit

The only surprise in the IMF team’s surprise visit to Pakistan this week was that it took the trouble to jolt the...

Updated 14 Nov, 2024 07:15am

Opinion

Iran’s daring gambit

Far from making Israel’s northern Galilee region inhabitable again – Netanyahu’s rationale for expanding the...

Published 24 Oct, 2024 07:03am

Opinion

The clock ticks to Israel’s reply

The panic attack in the crude oil market must have lit up Sleepy Joe’s phone with frantic calls from the Treasury as...

Published 10 Oct, 2024 03:15am

Opinion

Bibi gets the war he wanted

I said and I said, even sneaked it into editorials where the editor has the last say, that Iran would most ...

Updated 03 Oct, 2024 07:27am

Opinion

We, ‘those’ people

Now I’m told that this ugly executive-judiciary fight threatens to unravel the sacrosanct “balance between...

Published 26 Sep, 2024 06:48am

Opinion

‘Action is approaching’?

You know you’re following the right journalists, amid all the noise and international media hijack of the Gaza...

Published 19 Sep, 2024 06:37am

Opinion

The wait-and-wait novelty

So, another week has passed and there’s still no update about the fate of the IMF bailout programme – except ...

Published 05 Sep, 2024 06:19am

Opinion

Moody’s says so

If Moody’s says so, then it’s got to be true. Delivering Pakistan a precious feather-in-the-cap upgrade at this...

Updated 29 Aug, 2024 11:00am

Opinion

Poverty trap – ‘terrible thing’ or ...?

You don’t have to be a finance professor at Princeton to understand that Pakistan is indeed “stuck in a poverty...

Published 22 Aug, 2024 06:58am

Opinion

Middle class is in deep recession

What good is a 3.2 percent GDP growth rate next year and inflation dropping below 10 percent in FY25 to someone...

Updated 15 Aug, 2024 06:52am

Opinion

Gods of finance and the ‘great unwind’

Nobody puts it all together quite like Bloomberg columnist John Authers, who described the recent financial market...

Published 08 Aug, 2024 06:22am

Opinion

When did Noah build the Ark?

It’s very normal, and natural, for milestones like the SLA (Staff-Level Agreement) to be followed by a barrage of...

Updated 25 Jul, 2024 07:20am

Opinion

‘Nationwide protests’?

It seems the mainstream press is finally waking up to the social implications of the new tax regime. So far it’s...

Published 11 Jul, 2024 05:51am

Opinion

Year of global shockwaves

We’re only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has produced more high-voltage political shockwaves than any...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 06:28am

Opinion

Wider, uglier war inevitable?

My heart goes out to my Lebanese friends and their families as they get in line to become cannon fodder for the next...

Updated 27 Jun, 2024 07:12am

Opinion

Market lesson in India’s election

How instructive to watch the cold, ruthless logic of the market at play around the Indian election. It turns out ...

Updated 30 May, 2024 06:53am

Opinion

Yes-man democracy

Why all the fuss about dragging Ayub Khan out of his grave just to get at Omar Ayub Khan? The man has every right to...

Updated 23 May, 2024 05:49am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 7	278.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 7	278.50
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 7	158.20
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 7	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 7	1.25
Euro to USD / Jan 7	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 7	5,909.03
India Sensex / Jan 7	77,947.47
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 7	40,058.48
Nasdaq / Jan 7	19,489.68
Hang Seng / Jan 7	19,135.88
FTSE 100 / Jan 7	8,245.28
Dow Jones / Jan 7	42,528.36
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 7	20,340.57

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 7	74.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 7	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 7	236,625
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 7	2,647.82
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 7	68.37
Petrol/Litre / Jan 8	252.66

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Askari Life Assur. / Jan 8 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	6.39 ▲ 0.89 (16.18%)
Pak Gen.Ins. / Jan 8 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Idrees Tex. / Jan 8 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	15.68 ▲ 1.43 (10.04%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Jan 8 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	12.38 ▲ 1.13 (10.04%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 8 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	60.58 ▲ 5.51 (10.01%)
Dawood Lawrencepur / Jan 8 Dawood Lawrencepur Limited(DLL)	296.12 ▲ 26.92 (10.00%)
Engro Holdings Ltd / Jan 8 Engro Holdings Limited(ENGROH)	287.88 ▲ 26.17 (10.00%)
JDW Sugar / Jan 8 JDW Sugar Mills Limited(JDWS)	904.95 ▲ 82.27 (10.00%)
Pakistan Cables / Jan 8 Pakistan Cables Limited(PCAL)	198.34 ▲ 18.03 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
JS Mom. Factor ETF / Jan 8 JS Momentum Factor ETF(JSMFETF)	15.44 ▼ -1.89 (-10.91%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	78.82 ▼ -8.76 (-10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Jan 8 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	178.53 ▼ -19.84 (-10.00%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 8 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	494.02 ▼ -53.77 (-9.82%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jan 8 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.52 ▼ -0.78 (-9.40%)
Sindh Abadgar / Jan 8 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	37.40 ▼ -3.85 (-9.33%)
Shahzad Tex. / Jan 8 Shahzad Textile Mills Limited(SZTM)	27.10 ▼ -2.77 (-9.27%)
TPL Life Insur. / Jan 8 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	50.01 ▼ -4.56 (-8.36%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Jan 8 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	38 ▼ -3.45 (-8.32%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	80,583,371 ▲ 0.01
Cnergyico PK / Jan 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	76,600,722 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	45,707,217 ▲ 0.08
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 8 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	36,987,542 ▲ 0.15
Sui South Gas / Jan 8 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,354,890 ▲ 1.57
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 8 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	27,144,749 ▲ 1.12
Pak Refinery / Jan 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	23,513,012 ▲ 0.58
B.O.Punjab / Jan 8 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	22,768,455 ▲ 0.03
Pak Elektron / Jan 8 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	20,370,180 ▲ 0.80

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