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Era of dictators could return

EDITORIAL: Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HR), stated during the annual HR...

Published 08 Mar, 2025 02:48am

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Trump says person responsible for attack on US troops in Kabul arrested with Pakistan’s assistance

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the person responsible for killing 13 US service members during...

Updated 05 Mar, 2025 10:46pm

World

Israel seen as likely to attack Iran by midyear, Washington Post reports

U.S. intelligence warns that Israel is likely to launch a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear program by midyear,...

Updated 13 Feb, 2025 08:24pm

World

CIA’s entire staff offered buyouts: report

WASHINGTON: The US Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce on Tuesday, the Wall Street...

Updated 05 Feb, 2025 10:54pm

World

CIA says Covid ‘more likely’ to have leaked from lab

WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying...

Published 27 Jan, 2025 05:50am

World

US Senate confirms Trump nominee Ratcliffe as CIA director

WASHINGTON: A majority of the U.S. Senate on Thursday backed President Donald Trump’s nominee John Ratcliffe, a...

Published 24 Jan, 2025 12:39am

World

Trump CIA pick Ratcliffe to face Senate questions on politicized intelligence

WASHINGTON: The Senate intelligence committee holds a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President-elect Donald...

Published 15 Jan, 2025 05:40pm

Editorials

President Xi’s warning

EDITORIAL: Chinese President Xi has warned the incoming Trump administration that there will be no winners in a ...

Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:25am

Opinion

Reserves increased from two weeks to two months, bravo!

A beaming Finance Minister and former President of the country’s largest bank proudly announced that the foreign...

Updated 20 Nov, 2024 08:32am

Editorials

Israeli terrorism

EDITORIAL: Now that even former CIA director Leon Panetta has labeled Israel’s “pager operation” as “terrorism”,...

Published 29 Sep, 2024 02:46am

World

Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah’s pagers, say sources

The plot, which killed nine people and wounded nearly 3,000 others, appears to have been many months in the making

Updated 18 Sep, 2024 11:43am

World

CIA chief Burns to visit Paris to revive talks on Gaza

WASHINGTON: US intelligence chief Bill Burns is expected to hold talks in Paris with representatives of Israel in a...

Published 24 May, 2024 05:30pm

World

CIA chief headed to Qatar to for 'emergency' meeting on Gaza talks: source

DOHA: CIA director Bill Burns is expected in Doha to meet with Qatar's prime minister for "emergency" discussions on...

Published 05 May, 2024 10:22pm

World

CIA chief expected in Cairo for Gaza hostage talks

WASHINGTON: CIA Director Bill Burns is expected in Cairo for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, which the White...

Published 05 Apr, 2024 10:34pm

World

Israel says Mossad, CIA chiefs met Friday to ‘advance’ hostage release deal

JERUSALEM: Israel said on Saturday its spy chief had met with his US counterpart as part of efforts to secure the...

Published 09 Mar, 2024 10:42pm

World

Israel spy chief travels to Cairo for Gaza talks

JERUSALEM: Israel’s spy chief was headed to Cairo Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian and US counterparts on a Gaza...

Updated 13 Feb, 2024 08:00pm

World

US CIA chief to help broker Gaza hostage deal

WASHINGTON: US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns plans to meet with Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari...

Published 26 Jan, 2024 04:58am

World

CIA chief to meet Israeli, Qatari officials for hostage deal talks

CIA chief Bill Burns will meet Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and the head of Israel’s...

Published 18 Dec, 2023 07:43pm

World

Israeli, US spy chiefs meet Qatari PM to discuss ‘building on’ Gaza truce

DUBAI: The heads of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad met Qatar’s prime minister in Doha...

Published 28 Nov, 2023 06:32pm

World

Mossad, CIA chiefs meet with Qatar PM in Doha over hostage deal

DOHA: A trilateral meeting was held in Doha on Thursday between CIA and Mossad chiefs and the Qatari prime minister...

Published 09 Nov, 2023 06:29pm

World

Ukraine war 'corrosive' for Putin, CIA 'opportunity': spy chief

WASHINGTON: Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a “corrosive” effect on Russian President Vladimir Putin, CIA Director...

Published 02 Jul, 2023 12:15pm

World

CIA's Burns: armed mutiny shows damage Putin has done to Russia

US CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a...

Published 01 Jul, 2023 11:03pm

World

CIA chief made secret trip to Ukraine: US official

WASHINGTON: CIA Director William Burns recently traveled to Ukraine where he met with intelligence counterparts and...

Published 01 Jul, 2023 11:00am

World

Trump took secret docs on nuclear and weapons programs: indictment

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump took secret documents dealing with US nuclear and weapons programs from the White House...

Published 10 Jun, 2023 12:12am

World

‘CIA chief made secret trip to Beijing last month’

WASHINGTON: CIA Director William Burns made a secret trip to China last month hoping to shore up lines of...

Published 03 Jun, 2023 03:52am

Pakistan

CIA police unearth car theft racket; three arrested

LAHORE: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police Shahdarah arrested a three-member car-snatching gang in Lahore ...

Published 22 Apr, 2023 03:38am

World

US Justice Dept opens probe into secret US documents leak

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice on Saturday said it has begun an investigation into a trove of leaked US...

Published 09 Apr, 2023 10:43am

Opinion

The MbS reset

The Arab press hasn’t buzzed like this since al Qaeda (AQ) hijacked the so-called Arab Spring in Libya and Syria,...

Published 16 Mar, 2023 06:01am

World

US transfers Pakistani Guantanamo Bay detainee to Belize

WASHINGTON: Majid Khan, a Pakistani man who has disclosed how he was tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency...

Published 02 Feb, 2023 11:33pm

World

Pentagon awards $9bn in cloud computing deals to four firms

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon announced Wednesday it has awarded $9 billion in cloud computing contracts to Amazon,...

Published 08 Dec, 2022 11:23am

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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 25	280.52
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 25	280.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 25	150.54
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 25	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 25	1.29
Euro to USD / Mar 25	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 24	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 24	5,767.57
Nasdaq / Mar 24	18,188.59
Dow Jones / Mar 24	42,583.32
India Sensex / Mar 25	78,073.97
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 25	37,780.54
Hang Seng / Mar 25	23,413.58
FTSE 100 / Mar 25	8,684.09
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 25	22,926.46
France CAC40 / Mar 25	8,073.56

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 24	17,085
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 25	69.03
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 25	272,462
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 25	3,017.31
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 25	65.64
Petrol/Litre / Mar 26	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 26	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel Indus.(R) / Mar 25 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	2.01 ▲ 1 (99.01%)
Ruby Textile / Mar 25 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	7.01 ▲ 1 (16.64%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Mar 25 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	8.99 ▲ 1 (12.52%)
Samba Bank / Mar 25 Samba Bank Limited(SBL)	9 ▲ 0.82 (10.02%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 25 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	100.73 ▲ 9.16 (10%)
Adamjee Life Assur. / Mar 25 Adamjee Life Assurance Company Limited(ALIFE)	25.73 ▲ 2.34 (10%)
United Dist. / Mar 25 United Distributors Pakistan Limited(UDPL)	67.29 ▲ 6.12 (10%)
Crescent Fib. / Mar 25 Crescent Fibres Limited(CFL)	45.70 ▲ 4.14 (9.96%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 25 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.19 ▲ 1.19 (9.92%)
Hussain Industries / Mar 25 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	27.30 ▲ 2.43 (9.77%)

Stock	Price
Parmount Sp. / Mar 25 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	3.51 ▼ -0.48 (-12.03%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Mar 25 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	117 ▼ -13 (-10%)
Diamond Ind. / Mar 25 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	27.68 ▼ -3.07 (-9.98%)
Zephyr Textile / Mar 25 Zephyr Textiles Limited(ZTL)	9.50 ▼ -1 (-9.52%)
TPL Life Insur. / Mar 25 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	55.02 ▼ -5.74 (-9.45%)
Shahtaj Textile / Mar 25 Shahtaj Textile Limited(STJT)	65.05 ▼ -6.54 (-9.14%)
Sindh Abadgar / Mar 25 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	55 ▼ -5.43 (-8.99%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 25 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	138 ▼ -13.03 (-8.63%)
Tri-Star Power / Mar 25 Tri-Star Power Limited(TSPL)	7.24 ▼ -0.66 (-8.35%)
Shield Corp. / Mar 25 Shield Corporation Limited(SCL)	253.90 ▼ -22.98 (-8.3%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Elektron / Mar 25 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	28,623,330 ▲ 0.63
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 25 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	22,742,574 ▼ -3.59
Cnergyico PK / Mar 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	19,218,186 ▲ 0.01
Sui South Gas / Mar 25 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	14,168,002 ▲ 0.18
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	11,877,825 ▼ -0.05
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 25 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	11,187,536 ▲ 0.08
Pak Refinery / Mar 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	10,362,407 ▼ -0.12
B.O.Punjab / Mar 25 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	10,164,053 ▼ -0.21
K-Electric Ltd. / Mar 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	10,144,462 ▲ 0
Treet Corp / Mar 25 Treet Corporation Limited(TREET)	8,893,519 ▼ -0.53

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