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Dr Hafeez Sheikh

Mere legislation does not mean reform

EDITORIAL: Yesterday marked the country’s seventy-seventh Independence Day. While the honour to hoist the flag on...

Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:30am

Editorials

Pakistan: into the great economic abyss

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Stock Exchange remains sluggish with brokers citing the delay in the staff-level agreement on...

Published 01 Apr, 2023 06:21am

Editorials

Massive farmer relief package: a non-starter?

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced a 600 billion-rupee relief package for the agriculture sector...

Published 02 Nov, 2022 04:37am

Editorials

The Fund and Pakistan

EDITORIAL: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been extremely rigid in backing off from its extremely harsh...

Published 05 Oct, 2022 05:49am

Opinion

A budget amid economic impasse

The overarching objective of the budget is not pro-poor, an acute political compulsion today with 13.8 percent...

Published 11 Jun, 2022 06:41am

Editorials

PTI govt: legacy and lessons learned

EDITORIAL: Three years and seven months in government is equivalent to 71.1 percent of tenure completion, a time...

Published 05 Apr, 2022 05:38am

Opinion

Lies, damned lies and statistics

Mark Twain wrote, “figures often beguile me particularly when I have the arranging of them myself, in which case...

Published 28 Feb, 2022 06:44am

Pakistan

Hafeez Sheikh, others named in corruption reference?

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has nominated former finance minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh and ...

Published 16 Feb, 2022 06:20am

Editorials

Seeking continued support for exports

EDITORIAL: In an interview to a foreign news agency Razak Dawood, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Commerce, stated...

Updated 12 Jan, 2022 10:22am

Editorials

Economy: rupee slide symptom of infirmity

EDITORIAL: The Pakistani rupee fell from 152 rupees to the dollar in May 2021, the rate used for budget projections,...

Published 11 Jan, 2022 06:33am

Editorials

2021 — year in review

EDITORIAL: 2021 will be remembered as the divisive year — in terms of the yawning political divide that ...

Updated 30 Dec, 2021 09:00am

Opinion

Growth versus stabilization

Dr Hafeez Sheikh, twice dismissed as the country’s finance minister, made a distinction between stabilisation and...

Published 27 Dec, 2021 06:45am

Editorials

Towards sixth review

EDITORIAL: According to media reports, the sixth review talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been...

Published 27 Sep, 2021 05:51am

Editorials

Diversifying external debt sources

EDITORIAL: Earlier this week, the government raised $1 billion from the international bond market in Euro bonds in...

Published 09 Jul, 2021 04:25am

Editorials

Growth and stability

EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin while speaking at a workshop titled “Pakistan’s Economy – Fragility...

Published 06 Jul, 2021 03:48am

Editorials

The 6th IMF review and Pakistan

EDITORIAL: Approval of the sixth mandatory review scheduled for 4 June 2021 was removed from the agenda of the...

Published 15 Jun, 2021 03:30am

Opinion

FY22 budget: a work in progress

The budget 2020-21 is, at best, a work in progress - more so than previous budgets reliant on an over dose of...

Published 14 Jun, 2021 03:39am

Opinion

Is economic thinking changing for the better?

Pakistan is currently on its twenty third International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and faces the most stringent...

Published 07 Jun, 2021 03:34am

Opinion

Exploiting comparative advantages

The federal budget for the year 2021-22 is being framed by Shaukat Tarin during whose earlier tenure as the federal...

Published 02 Jun, 2021 04:29am

Editorials

Growth rate of 4 percent?

EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin during his press conference this Sunday past defended the authenticity of...

Published 26 May, 2021 03:45am

Opinion

Country needs a reality check

Incoming Pakistani administrations are invariably high on optimism in their ability to achieve development that...

Published 24 May, 2021 04:03am

Editorials

A stepwise approach

EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin held meetings with provincial finance ministers, a key requirement...

Published 06 May, 2021 03:49am

Editorials

Tarin has chosen the wisest course

EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin chaired his first national price monitoring committee meeting after taking...

Published 28 Apr, 2021 03:18am

Editorials

Ominous challenges before PM’s team

EDITORIAL: Shaukat Tarin’s appointment as Minister for Finance with additional portfolio of Revenue two weeks ...

Published 20 Apr, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

Whither the economy?

The cabinet approved the medium-term strategy paper this Tuesday past and projected a Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

Published 19 Apr, 2021 03:22am

Editorials

IMF programme just needs a little tweaking

EDITORIAL: International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme is not in a strait jacket, so stated Resident Representative...

Published 19 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Editorials

Rephasing of IMF conditions

EDITORIAL: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), tweeted subsequent to a...

Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

IMF/World Bank reports

The International Monetary Fund’s report titled “Fiscal Monitor: a fair shot” appears to be, at best,...

Published 12 Apr, 2021 03:59am

Editorials

The IMF review

EDITORIAL: The mission leader for the ongoing Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme revealed during a conference...

Published 12 Apr, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

Outlook for inflation

The rate of inflation has risen sharply in the last two months. It had come down to 5.7 percent in January 2021....

Published 06 Apr, 2021 04:23am

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
Petrol/Litre / Dec 21	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585

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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