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Opinion

Emerging challenges to the economy

The budget 2024-25 formulated to qualify for the 25th IMF programme has been passed by the parliament. Now the IMF...

Updated 06 Jul, 2024 06:53am

Opinion

Finally, the salaried class has spoken

In the first of its kind, the salaried segment of the Pakistani society has decided to go public with their...

Updated 29 Jun, 2024 07:09am

Opinion

Pakistan’s quest for BRICS membership

BRICS is an acronym that represents an association of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China,...

Updated 22 Jun, 2024 10:50pm

Opinion

The issue of trust deficit

Amidst protests by the opposition, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb rolled out with relative calm the national...

Updated 15 Jun, 2024 07:20am

Opinion

PM’s China visit: take-home messages

The much-trumpeted high level official visit of prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to China is at its tail end. It is a...

Published 08 Jun, 2024 07:00am

Opinion

Explaining the dearth of investment

The investment potential arising out of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the UAE’s $10 billion investment...

Published 01 Jun, 2024 06:59am

Opinion

‘A normal country does not need IMF programme but...’

Professor Adnan Khan, Chief Economist at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK in a...

Updated 25 May, 2024 07:01am

Opinion

The profundity of economic power

The US has warned of potential sanctions for any country considering business deals with Iran hours after India...

Updated 18 May, 2024 06:13am

Opinion

The power sector - some hard facts

Among many sectors of fiscal drain, the circular debt of the energy sector is one area on the economic landscape of...

Published 11 May, 2024 06:22am

Opinion

Truth and nothing but the truth

Shehbaz Sharif made some honest appraisal of the current governance and economic challenges faced by his government...

Updated 05 May, 2024 01:52pm

Opinion

It’s all about the economy

Karachi, being Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial centre and home to 90 percent of the multinational...

Updated 27 Apr, 2024 05:28am

Opinion

Pakistan on the IMF doorstep again

With Pakistan embroiled in an acute burden of debt, to the extent that 70 percent of its revenue is diverted to pay...

Published 20 Apr, 2024 04:18am

Opinion

‘Education emergency’

‘All hands on deck for education of the poor is the call of the day.’ Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif went to the...

Published 13 Apr, 2024 03:49am

Opinion

From rags to riches

Forbes has published its list of ‘World Billionaires ranking for 2024’. The much touted is the list of 200...

Published 06 Apr, 2024 05:28am

Opinion

What does 24th IMF programme mean?

It has been argued by many political and economic analysts that the 24th IMF programme could usher in a tsunami of...

Published 30 Mar, 2024 04:58am

Opinion

It’s IMF way or the highway?

Announcing the staff-level agreement on the successful completion of the 23rd short-term facility, the IMF...

Published 23 Mar, 2024 05:41am

Opinion

CPEC turnaround: how realistic is goal?

President Xi Jinping of China in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stressed that “China ...

Published 16 Mar, 2024 06:26am

Opinion

Pakistan’s addiction to borrowed money

Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his speech at Ziarat, Balochistan, in 1948 stated that:...

Published 09 Mar, 2024 04:59am

Opinion

Challenging times

With the unfolding of a new chapter in Pakistan’s checkered political history, the much turbulent and fought for...

Updated 02 Mar, 2024 04:37am

Opinion

There’s need to focus on economy

Breaking a two-week impasse following elections, Pakistan’s political power-brokers, after extensive negotiations,...

Published 24 Feb, 2024 06:42am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate

Stock	Volume

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Jan 1	248.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 24 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 24 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 24 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 24 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 24 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 24 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 24 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 24 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 24 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 24 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 24 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 24 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 24 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 24 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 24 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 24 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 24 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 24 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 24 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,135,830 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 24 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	124,131,268 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 24 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	105,013,176 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 24 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	77,697,371 ▲ 0.00
Treet Battery / Nov 24 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	43,783,366 ▲ 0.00
B.O.Punjab / Nov 24 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	36,573,763 ▲ 0.00
Sui South Gas / Nov 24 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	32,719,678 ▲ 0.00
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Nov 24 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	27,969,689 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 24 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	25,874,820 ▲ 0.00

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