The PSX informed the market participants that due to 5.0 percent decline in the KSE-30 Index, the market halt was triggered at 09:37.
All equity and equity based derivative markets remained suspended for 45 minutes and reopened following a 5-minute pre-open session.
The market witnessed the 6th halt when the KSE-100 Index dropped 1,562 points, having traded 8.5 million shares.

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