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Pakistan

PM arrives in Sri Lanka on two-day maiden visit

The PM was presented with the Guard of Honour at Bandranaike International Airport Colombo
Imran Khan will hold meetings with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, and will exchange views on key regional and international issues

Updated 23 Feb, 2021 06:27pm

Pakistan

Human error caused countrywide blackout on Jan 9, reveals inquiry committee report

Report states that the fault occurred as some officials did not follow SOPs during maintenance work
Last month, country plunged into darkness after the National Transmission and Despatch Company power system encountered a major breakdown due to the tripping of the Guddu Thermal Power Plant

Published 23 Feb, 2021 01:46pm

Pakistan

PML-N's Pervez Rashid declared ineligible for Senate elections

PML-N leader had challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision to reject his nomination papers for the upcoming Senate election
PTI MPA Zainab Omar had filed an objection against Rashid through her lawyer to the returning officer

Published 23 Feb, 2021 12:04pm

World

Facebook cuts deal with Australia, will restore news pages in the coming days

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook said a compromise had been reached on key aspects of the law, which was fiercely opposed by the tech companies
A global outrage sparked last week after the social media platform blacked out news for its Australian users and inadvertently blocking a series of non-news Facebook pages

Published 23 Feb, 2021 11:02am

Pakistan

Operation Raddul Fassad's two-point strategy aimed to counter terrorism and violent extremism: DG ISPR

Babar says Raddul Fassad rendered the terrorists and extremists completely ineffective and curtailed their freedom of action
Terrorism and extremism can only be uprooted when law enforcement agencies work together with society: DG ISPR

Updated 22 Feb, 2021 04:28pm

Business & Finance

Saudi Arabia plans to set up $10 billion oil refinery in Gwadar by year-end

The proposed mega oil city will be developed on 88,000 acres of land to refine and process petroleum products mainly imported from the Gulf region, for local and regional consumption
Petroleum minister says with setting up of an oil refinery in Gwadar, Saudi Arabia will become an important partner in CPEC

Published 22 Feb, 2021 03:30pm

Pakistan

Nomination papers of PTI's Saifullah Abro rejected

Abro had filed nomination papers on the PTI ticket to contest the Senate election from Sindh on technocrat seat
The PTI leader's nomination papers were approved by the returning officer but challenged in the appellate tribunal of the high court

Published 22 Feb, 2021 01:03pm

Pakistan

Torture marks found on Haleem Sheikh's body during medical check-up

Sheikh claims that he was attacked by goons of gang war as soon he entered the jail cell
On February 16, Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh was taken into custody by police for violating the orders of Election Commission of Pakistan

Published 22 Feb, 2021 12:01pm

Pakistan

Senate nomination: Election Tribunal seeks reply from Vawda

Advocate Qadir Khan Mandokhail filed a petition in the Election Tribunal, challenging returning officer’s decision to approve Vawda’s nomination papers
The Election Tribunal has served notices to the respondents and summoned them for arguments on February 23

Published 22 Feb, 2021 11:36am

World

Pfizer vaccine prevents 98.9% of COVID deaths, says Israel’s Health Ministry

Pfizer's BioNTech vaccine resulted in decline in the rate of COVID-19 infections by 95.8 percent among people who received both shots of the vaccine
The findings are based on data collected from Israelis who had received their second inoculation at least two weeks previously

Published 21 Feb, 2021 03:52pm

Pakistan

Daska by-polls: Maryam claims she has video evidence of presiding officers who refused to sell votes

Maryam says PTI's plan of rigging by-polls failed badly
Chaos in Daska has proven that Imran Khan rigged the 2018 General Elections: PML-N vice president

Published 21 Feb, 2021 02:46pm

Pakistan

Tourist safari train from Golra to Attock Khurd starts chugging

The safari train will take tourists on a sightseeing trip on every Sunday
The initiative would not only help railways earn reasonable income but also fetch foreign reserves for the country
The Safari train consists of one diesel engine, one economy class coach, two steam engines, five bogies of freight and two break vans

Updated 21 Feb, 2021 02:01pm

Pakistan

Industrial sector is showing sustained growth, which is a good sign, says PM

Imran says the cumulative growth from July to December last year is above eight percent
Large scale manufacturing saw another double digit growth of 11.4 percent in December last year as compared to the same month previous year: Premier

Updated 21 Feb, 2021 03:44pm

Pakistan

COVID outbreak: Pakistan reports 38 deaths, 1,329 new infections in 24 hours

With more fatalities, the total death tally due to the deadly disease has reached 12,601
NCOC states that the total number of infections in the country now currently stands at 571,174

Published 21 Feb, 2021 10:49am

Pakistan

NA-221 by-elections: Miscreants set ablaze polling station in Tharparkar

At least five suspects have been taken into custody for creating law and order situation.
ECP established 318 polling stations for the by-poll and declared 13 of them as sensitive while 95 as highly sensitive

Updated 21 Feb, 2021 12:14pm

Pakistan

Soldier martyred, two terrorists killed in North Waziristan operation

During intense exchange of fire, two terrorists including a terrorist commander Rehmat alias Khalid killed: ISPR
Military's media wing says Khalid was an IED expert and remained involved in different terrorist activities against security forces

Published 21 Feb, 2021 09:15am

Pakistan

Opposition plans to buy PTI lawmakers to get its Senators elected by opposing open ballot: PM

Imran says a market has been set up to buy politicians and rates have been set
During the past years, the opposition parties favoured use of open ballot in the Senate elections but now they are forcing the government on use of secret ballot: Premiere

Published 19 Feb, 2021 05:04pm

Pakistan

Senate polls hearing reference: SC adjourns hearing till February 22

Justice Ahsan says the alliance of political parties does not make any difference on proportional representation, if a party wants to unite, it should do so openly
Raza Rabbani told the court that there is a difference between horse trading and political alliance as political alliance is usually secret

Published 19 Feb, 2021 04:25pm

Pakistan

ATC blocks CNICs of PTM leaders

Both Manzoor Pashteen and Mohsin Dawar were declared fugitives in the case, after their continued non-appearance before the court
PTM chief Manzoor Pashteen and Mohsin Dawar are named in treason case and provoking the masses against the state through their hate speeches

Updated 19 Feb, 2021 03:30pm

Pakistan

Veteran MQM leader Mohammad Anwar passes away in London

Anwar's family said he was diagnosed with cancer four months ago and was being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital
Anwar leaves behind a wife and three daughters

Published 19 Feb, 2021 02:46pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 8	278.78
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 8	278.58
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 8	158.14
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 8	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 8	1.25
Euro to USD / Jan 8	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 7	5,909.03
Nasdaq / Jan 7	19,489.68
FTSE 100 / Jan 7	8,245.28
Dow Jones / Jan 7	42,528.36
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 7	20,340.57
France CAC40 / Jan 7	7,489.35
India Sensex / Jan 8	77,786.54
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 8	40,008.25

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 7	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 7	236,625
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 8	74.85
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 8	2,650.51
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 8	68.44
Petrol/Litre / Jan 9	252.66

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Jan 8 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.21 ▲ 0.32 (11.07%)
JS Bank Ltd / Jan 8 JS Bank Limited(JSBL)	10.41 ▲ 1.00 (10.63%)
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%)
Ahmad Hassan / Jan 8 Ahmad Hassan Textile Mills Limited(AHTM)	59.90 ▲ 5.45 (10.01%)
Asia Ins. / Jan 8 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	14.29 ▲ 1.30 (10.01%)
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%)
JDW Sugar / Jan 8 JDW Sugar Mills Limited(JDWS)	904.95 ▲ 82.27 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
JS Mom. Factor ETF / Jan 8 JS Momentum Factor ETF(JSMFETF)	15.15 ▼ -2.18 (-12.58%)
Parmount Sp. / Jan 8 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	4 ▼ -0.50 (-11.11%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	78.82 ▼ -8.76 (-10.00%)
Faisal Sp. / Jan 8 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	292.37 ▼ -32.48 (-10.00%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jan 8 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	133.71 ▼ -14.86 (-10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Jan 8 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	178.53 ▼ -19.84 (-10.00%)
Suhail Jute / Jan 8 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	156.38 ▼ -17.38 (-10.00%)
Frontier Ceram / Jan 8 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	24.23 ▼ -2.69 (-9.99%)
National Silk / Jan 8 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	49.90 ▼ -5.54 (-9.99%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	520,088,624 ▲ 0.09
Cnergyico PK / Jan 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	76,600,722 ▼ -0.30
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	45,707,217 ▼ -0.21
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 8 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	36,987,542 ▼ -0.41
Sui South Gas / Jan 8 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,354,890 ▲ 2.33
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 8 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	27,144,749 ▼ -2.85
Pak Refinery / Jan 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	24,452,864 ▼ -2.53
B.O.Punjab / Jan 8 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	22,768,455 ▼ -0.23
Pak Elektron / Jan 8 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	20,370,180 ▼ -0.42

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