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Opinion

The 2021 GHI

Some 811 million people suffer from hunger in the world and 41 million live on the brink of famine. Moreover, 47...

Published 20 Aug, 2022 03:41am

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Need for forging new business alliances

Pakistan signed an inter-governmental framework agreement with the government of Denmark for interest-free loans in...

Published 13 Aug, 2022 05:21am

Opinion

Power sector: accountability

Briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Power on the performance of power sector, its financial...

Published 06 Aug, 2022 04:02am

Opinion

PKR slide: SBP must act proactively

In these times of unprecedented economic emergency in the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, ...

Published 30 Jul, 2022 03:39am

Opinion

A reality check on country’s fiscal status

The whole of the past week witnessed massive hammering of rupee (PKR) vis-à-vis the US dollar in the currency...

Published 23 Jul, 2022 04:10am

Opinion

The increasing Indo-Pak disparity

For a couple of early years of Pakistan’s and India’s independence, the disparity in terms of border security,...

Published 16 Jul, 2022 04:20am

Opinion

New IMF precondition

Strengthening of the anti-corruption institutional mechanism is said to be a new International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Published 09 Jul, 2022 03:57am

Opinion

How good is our foreign policy?

Pakistan appears to be losing out on its global outreach. The country’s national foreign policy is somehow not...

Published 02 Jul, 2022 04:10am

Opinion

Challenges beyond IMF

There is a widespread perception that the revival of the stalled IMF programme will help Pakistan move out of its...

Published 25 Jun, 2022 04:42am

Opinion

Blame game, once again

A successor government blaming its predecessor government for all the ills is nothing new. Therefore, Pakistan ...

Published 18 Jun, 2022 06:00am

Opinion

Economy and national security

The fragile state economy of the country is worrisome and has distressed all segments of society and pillars of ...

Published 11 Jun, 2022 06:14am

Opinion

Pessimism grows

The nation started the year 2022 under a euphoria of all good after moving out of the Covid pandemic largely...

Published 04 Jun, 2022 04:18am

Opinion

Criticality of business enabling environment

‘Business by the businessmen alone. There is little room for bureaucracy and politics in it’. This is the basic...

Published 28 May, 2022 05:11am

Opinion

The sands of time are running out

Perplexed and checkmated by coalition partners and in panic to stem the nose dive of the country’s economy over ...

Published 21 May, 2022 04:34am

Opinion

A free-for-all

There is an environment of free-for-all in state politics, economy and governance for the last two months. The ...

Published 14 May, 2022 04:05am

Opinion

A chaotic economy

While the incumbent finance minister Miftah Ismail was still in the air on his way back, having announced successful...

Updated 07 May, 2022 08:48pm

Opinion

They elect to play the blame game

It has become a practice for every incoming government to start its tenure by harping the narrative that “All bad...

Published 30 Apr, 2022 05:53am

Opinion

Paradigm shift

Political gaming that climaxed this month witnessed the ouster of Imran Khan as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the...

Updated 23 Apr, 2022 10:26am

Opinion

Economic challenges for new govt

Successive governments commenced their tenures by endlessly criticising the economic policies and delivery of their...

Updated 16 Apr, 2022 11:11pm

Opinion

A sham democracy?

Democracy by definition is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership and major undertakings of a...

Published 09 Apr, 2022 04:39am

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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