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Opinion

No lessons learnt

Pakistan is a unique country in which the authorities seem incapable of learning from past experience. Here we are...

Updated 11 Mar, 2025 06:07am

Opinion

The Kurd struggle

The Kurds are a people divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. This reflects the fact that...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 07:09am

Opinion

Russia-Ukraine war: origins and endgame

Three years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the advent of Donald Trump into power in the US has upset the...

Published 25 Feb, 2025 06:53am

Opinion

Mad Hatter strikes again…and again

US President Donald Trump, in his inimitable style and thrust, continues to rock the boat globally. Not only has he...

Updated 11 Feb, 2025 06:57am

Opinion

Autocracy on the march

The portents point to an overwhelming march towards autocracy. A country in the throes of unremitting crises in the...

Updated 04 Feb, 2025 07:16am

Opinion

A Mad Hatter’s tea party

Trump 2.0 has come out swinging, enacting a flurry of executive orders along the lines of what he had promised ...

Published 28 Jan, 2025 06:45am

Opinion

Six canals kerfuffle

Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal has been roundly taken to task for his dismissive attitude to Sindh’s objections to the...

Published 14 Jan, 2025 03:12am

Opinion

What ails Kurram?

Kurram Agency has once again been in the news for all the wrong reasons. A series of land dispute/sectarian clashes...

Updated 07 Jan, 2025 07:27am

Opinion

Happy New Year?

This, they say traditionally, is the turn-of-the-year season to be jolly. But even a cursory glance at the...

Updated 31 Dec, 2024 07:06am

Opinion

The road to hell…

The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have finally, after much toing and froing, come to an...

Updated 24 Dec, 2024 07:42am

Opinion

APS and after

For a parent, the loss of a child remains a searing wound that just will not heal. And when a parent is one of many...

Updated 17 Dec, 2024 08:24am

Opinion

Bashar al-Assad’s fall

The fall of Damascus the Syrian capital came on December 8, 2024 as the climax to the fall of city after city to the...

Published 10 Dec, 2024 06:48am

Opinion

Adieu Khaled Ahmed!

My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He...

Published 19 Nov, 2024 07:06am

Opinion

Breathe!

Punjab as a whole, but especially the provincial capital Lahore, is once again in the grip of what has become a...

Published 05 Nov, 2024 03:30am

Opinion

A hollow victory

After much huffing and puffing during the last few days if not weeks, the government has finally managed to get the...

Published 22 Oct, 2024 06:33am

Opinion

State vs. citizens

The twists and turns preceding and accompanying the holding of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement’s (PTM’s) Jirga in...

Updated 15 Oct, 2024 07:11am

Opinion

Battlefield Islamabad

What was proclaimed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders as a peaceful march on Islamabad to demand, among...

Updated 08 Oct, 2024 08:37am

Opinion

Unending conflict

Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah along with 20 of his commanders in a strike in...

Updated 01 Oct, 2024 07:24am

Opinion

Ill-conceived gambit

The government has shot itself in the foot by launching an ill-conceived and hurried attempt to bring in a spate of...

Published 17 Sep, 2024 06:33am

Opinion

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Enforced Disappearances (EDs) have been frequently used as a strategy to spread fear and terror in a society,...

Published 03 Sep, 2024 06:27am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 27	280.28
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 27	280.08
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 27	150.24
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 27	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 27	1.29
Euro to USD / Mar 27	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 26	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 26	5,712.20
Nasdaq / Mar 26	17,899.02
Dow Jones / Mar 26	42,454.79
India Sensex / Mar 27	77,690.67
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 27	37,639.25
Hang Seng / Mar 27	23,671.44
FTSE 100 / Mar 27	8,625.87
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 27	22,502.76
France CAC40 / Mar 27	7,936.52

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 26	17,085
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 26	272,462
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 27	69.75
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 27	3,032.56
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 27	66.15
Petrol/Litre / Mar 28	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 28	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel (R) / Mar 27 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	4.01 ▲ 1 (33.22%)
Parmount Sp. / Mar 27 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	4.10 ▲ 0.59 (16.81%)
Shaheen Ins. / Mar 27 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	7.50 ▲ 0.97 (14.85%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 27 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	15.02 ▲ 1.37 (10.04%)
Diamond Ind. / Mar 27 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	33.83 ▲ 3.08 (10.02%)
Sardar Chemical / Mar 27 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	35.95 ▲ 3.27 (10.01%)
J.K.Spinning / Mar 27 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	69.58 ▲ 6.33 (10.01%)
Data Agro / Mar 27 Data Agro Limited(DAAG)	106.28 ▲ 9.66 (10%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 27 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	121.88 ▲ 11.08 (10%)
Allawasaya Tex / Mar 27 Allawasaya Tex. & Finishing Mills Ltd(AWTX)	1,429.95 ▲ 130 (10%)

Stock	Price
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	11.60 ▼ -98.09 (-89.42%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 27 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	135.93 ▼ -15.1 (-10%)
Khalid Siraj / Mar 27 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	8.03 ▼ -0.87 (-9.78%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Mar 27 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	874.01 ▼ -93.68 (-9.68%)
Saritow Spinning / Mar 27 Saritow Spinning Mills Limited(SSML)	18.90 ▼ -1.75 (-8.47%)
Cordoba Logistics / Mar 27 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	12.61 ▼ -1.15 (-8.36%)
Sally Textile / Mar 27 Sally Textile Mills Limited(SLYT)	11.01 ▼ -0.99 (-8.25%)
Masood Textile / Mar 27 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	49.06 ▼ -4.27 (-8.01%)
Universal Ins. / Mar 27 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	9.57 ▼ -0.73 (-7.09%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Mar 27 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	42 ▼ -3.1 (-6.87%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Mar 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	45,325,056 ▲ 0.31
Pak Elektron / Mar 27 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	29,179,304 ▲ 0.67
P.S.O. / Mar 27 Pakistan State Oil Company Limited(PSO)	26,879,128 ▲ 1.58
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	20,499,919 ▼ -98.09
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	16,191,931 ▼ -0.03
B.O.Punjab / Mar 27 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	16,148,304 ▼ -0.2
Pak Petroleum / Mar 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	15,934,134 ▼ -1.85
Engro Fert. / Mar 27 Engro Fertilizers Limited(EFERT)	14,419,464 ▲ 0.5
Fauji Cement / Mar 27 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	14,194,696 ▲ 0.53
Maple Leaf Cement / Mar 27 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	11,282,647 ▲ 0.09

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