News stories for Muhammad Waqar Rana

A prosperous South Asia

India’s leading contemporary politician-intellectual Shashi Tharoor’s declamation at Oxford (2015) about the ...

Published 29 May, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

Seizing the moment

India and Pakistan jointly make about a one-fifth of the world population. These two countries together are the...

Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

Political arena

The Prime Minister has written a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly to take steps for making electoral...

Published 23 Mar, 2021 04:37am

Opinion

Distrust in politics

Former US President Donald Trump bitterly questioned the fairness of presidential election having lost to Joe Biden....

Published 04 Feb, 2021 04:13am

Opinion

Secret ballot

Controversy over the Senate elections and secret ballot needs to be analyzed in the light of the Constitution and...

Updated 24 Dec, 2020 03:24am

Opinion

G-B's status

Gilgit-Baltistan and adjoining areas called Northern Areas have been given, albeit provisionally, the status of a...

Published 03 Dec, 2020 03:04am

Opinion

Improving Karachi

A WhatsApp group shared a picture of Karachi of 1937. It looks like a European town-immensely neat and clean. An...

Published 02 Oct, 2020 02:30am

Markets

Support on Kashmir

Prime Minister Imran Khan forcefully exposed Indian atrocities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) at the annual...

Published 24 Sep, 2020 02:47am

Opinion

Constitutionalism in Islam

ARTICLE: Islam enjoins upon its followers to integrate their spiritual and mundane life. It founded a political...

Updated 03 Sep, 2020 01:55pm

Opinion

Freedom of speech

ARTICLE: 'If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter,'...

Published 05 Aug, 2020 03:00am

Opinion

SC appointments

ARTICLE: Judiciary, in Pakistan and elsewhere, has become from being the least potent branch to the most potent...

Published 23 Jul, 2020 02:47am

Opinion

Unelected 'ministers'

ARTICLE: One of the objects of a written constitution is to lay down rules for exercise of state power. The ...

Published 23 Jun, 2020 03:12am

Opinion

Hero-worship

ARTICLE: Turkish epic TV serial Dirils Ertugrul, made on the life of a 13th century nomad tribal warrior, has taken...

Published 17 Jun, 2020 02:50am

There has been a steady surge in legal constitutionalism in Pakistan after the restoration of the Judiciary in 2009. By the legal constitutionalism it is meant that legal, political and fundamental rights are secured through a legal process. Whereas, unde

Updated 04 Oct, 2019 05:19am

Fraudulent annexation

Silence of the world over an illegal annexation of Jammu & Kashmir by India on 5 August 2019 and lurking genocide of Kashmiris by the Indian army is utterly shocking. Lofty claims of rule of law, human rights and democracy by India have been rocked to the

Updated 19 Sep, 2019 08:31am

The genesis of Kashmir dispute

Kashmir is more than a territorial dispute; it is a continuation of the ideological duel between Gandhi and Nehru on the one side and Jinnah on the other. Nehru stuck to his story in 'the Discovery of India' with the fascinating cover leafs of Indian nati

Published 03 Sep, 2019 12:00am

Markets

'New' federation - II

Part VI of the Constitution deals with finance, property, contracts and suits. Article 160 deals with the National Finance Commission and the shares Provinces and the Federation in taxes collected, which are mentioned in the said clause. These taxes are t

Published 28 Jul, 2019 12:00am

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'New' federation - I

ZA Bhutto while addressing the Constituent Assembly on 10 April 1973 as its President said: "The point of view that each and every federating unit must be party to the federal constitution applies when the States are sovereign and independent and when the

Published 26 Jul, 2019 12:00am

The right to fair trial

Can a person be convicted for corruption in a fair trial? The answer is in the negative. Can anyone be denied a fair trial and due process? The answer is again in the negative. This is the dilemma the state is faced with.

Published 17 Jul, 2019 12:00am

The Afghan conundrum

Peace in Afghanistan means peace in Asia and trouble (fasad) in Afghanistan means trouble in Asia, said Alama Iqbal. Afghans are a great nation. English, Soviets and Americans, all have tried but terribly failed to subjugate them. If history itself is any

Published 30 Jun, 2019 12:00am

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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