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Adverse drug reactions: DRAP implements ‘Industry e-Reporting System’

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has officially announced implementation of Industry...

Published 02 Nov, 2024 07:24am

Pakistan

Navy successfully conducts major anti-narcotics operation

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Navy successfully conducted a major anti-narcotics operation, seizing a large cache of ...

Published 22 Oct, 2024 06:33am

Pakistan

Shipping from Bangkok: Drugs worth approx $14000 recovered from parcel

KARACHI: The Collectorate of Customs, Jinnah Airport, on Thursday recovered a substantial quantity of drugs, worth...

Updated 18 Oct, 2024 07:46am

Pakistan

Medicines: Non-availability, black-marketing cause surge in mental diseases

ISLAMABAD: While expressing serious concerns over increase in mental diseases in the country, leading pharma ...

Published 27 Sep, 2024 06:26am

Pakistan

UAF, ANF hold antinarcotics awareness seminar

FAISALABAD: As many as 2.5 lakh people lose their lives every year due to drug related issues in the country. The...

Published 26 Sep, 2024 09:01am

Business & Finance

Authorities directed to remove seven batches of drugs immediately

ISLAMABAD: In a bid to purge drug market of spurious/falsified drug products the Drug Regulatory Authority of...

Published 11 Sep, 2024 06:31am

Pakistan

Sindh decides to strengthen Excise & Narcotics Control Dept

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to further strengthen the Excise & Narcotics Control Department in...

Published 06 Jul, 2024 06:24am

Pakistan

Int’l Day Against Drug Abuse: Experts for implementing steps to effectively deal with challenge of drug addiction

ISLAMABAD: Health experts Wednesday urged the government to address issue of cigarette smoking and implement robust...

Published 27 Jun, 2024 06:52am

Pakistan

Launch of Phase II of the Maritime Security Project – funded by the U.S. Government

KARACHI: The Government of Pakistan and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched ‘Improved...

Published 14 Jun, 2024 07:29am

Pakistan

Students: Sharjeel says govt plans to conduct random tests for drugs

KARACHI: Minister for Information, Excise, Taxation, Narcotics Control, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam...

Published 07 May, 2024 08:03am

Pakistan

Pakpattan police recover drugs worth Rs2.26m

LAHROE: In a concerted effort to combat drug trafficking and addiction, the Pakpattan Police have undertaken a...

Published 03 May, 2024 06:29am

Business & Finance

Pakistan’s listed pharma sector sees earnings go down 42% YoY in 2023

Decline attributed to decrease in gross margin, higher finance cost, says brokerage house

Updated 29 Mar, 2024 04:16pm

Pakistan

Customs seizes smuggled drugs worth Rs115m

PESHAWAR: Customs authorities on Monday seized a huge cache of smuggled drugs, worth Rs115million, which were said ...

Published 26 Mar, 2024 04:20am

Pakistan

Recall of defective drugs: DRAP seeks input of stakeholders on guidelines

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines...

Published 22 Feb, 2024 06:55am

Hike in prices of 146 essential drugs notified

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Wednesday notified an increase in prices of 146 essential drugs in line with...

Updated 22 Feb, 2024 09:15am

Deregulation of non-essential drugs on the cards

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has decided to deregulate non-essential drugs since their pricing had been warped by...

Updated 16 Feb, 2024 08:35am

Editorials

An unrestrained public health hazard

EDITORIAL: For the last several decades, manufacturing and marketing of fake/substandard drugs have gone on in this...

Published 05 Feb, 2024 06:08am

Business & Finance

Spurious and expensive smuggled drugs replacing legit medicines in Pakistan: PPMA

The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) has on Monday lamented the government’s apathy towards...

Updated 11 Dec, 2023 10:29pm

Business & Finance

App launched for online registration, licensing of drugs

ISLAMABAD: In a major step to revolutionise the drug registration and licensing system, to curb the proliferation of...

Published 07 Dec, 2023 04:35am

Pakistan

Huge quantity of drugs, prohibited injections seized

KARACHI: The Anti Smuggling Organisation (ASO) of the Collectorate of Customs Enforcement Karachi seized substantial...

Published 02 Nov, 2023 03:16am

Pakistan

Bid to smuggle huge amount of drugs, prohibited injections foiled

KARACHI: Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) of Customs Enforcement Karachi on Monday foiled an attempt to smuggle...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Editorials

The bane of counterfeit drugs

EDITORIAL: What has happened in Punjab is beyond shocking. Several diabetes patients seeking treatment for retinal...

Published 28 Sep, 2023 05:33am

Pharmaceutical sector granted major tax relief

ISLAMABAD: The government has provided major tax relief to the pharmaceutical sector by allowing the reduced rate of...

Updated 10 Jul, 2023 08:51am

Pakistan

ANF recovers 58.8 kg of drugs in eight operations

RAWALPINDI: Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in their ongoing operations against drug smugglers managed to recover over...

Published 09 Jul, 2023 02:55am

Pakistan

Drone carrying 6kgs of heroin crashes in Lahore

Police says drone’s size was larger than usual

Updated 07 Jul, 2023 07:19pm

Pakistan

PCG recovers huge quantity of drugs from empty house

KARACHI: The Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG) seized a huge quantity of drugs from an empty house near Balochistan ...

Published 27 Jun, 2023 06:15am

Pharmaceuticals, drugs: Sales tax structure restored

ISLAMABAD: The government restored the sales tax structure on drugs and pharmaceuticals on July 1st, 2022 position...

Updated 10 Jun, 2023 08:50am

Markets

ECC approves fixing maximum price of 49 new drugs

Also gives approval for issuance of government of Pakistan guarantee amounting to Rs9.5bn for the project construction of Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway on build-operate-transfer basis

Published 05 Jun, 2023 08:26pm

Pakistan

Sale and usage of illicit drugs: Bugti, Naqvi discuss strategies

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Narcotics Control Nawabzada Shazain Bugti called on caretaker Chief Minister Punjab...

Published 27 May, 2023 06:09am

Pakistan

Curbing drug trade, usage: Govt’s planned mega fusion centre to follow US pattern

ISLAMABAD: The government is forming a mega fusion center at the pattern of the same facilities developed by the...

Published 09 May, 2023 05:37am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 21	278.03
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 21	277.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 21	154.92
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 21	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 21	1.26
Euro to USD / Nov 21	1.05

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 20	5,917.11
Nasdaq / Nov 20	18,966.14
Dow Jones / Nov 20	43,408.47
India Sensex / Nov 21	77,137.20
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 21	38,026.17
Hang Seng / Nov 21	19,620.49
FTSE 100 / Nov 21	8,069.57
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 21	18,942.65

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 21	248.38
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 21	69.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 21	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 21	238,340
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 21	2,662.71
Diesel/Litre / Nov 21	255.14

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.11 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 21 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	611.40 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 21 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 21 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 21 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	63.60 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 21 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	114.42 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 21 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,048.22 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 21 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 21 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.32 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 21 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	174,389,145 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	63,973,243 ▲ 0.00
Kohinoor Spining / Nov 21 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	62,996,737 ▲ 0.00
Aisha Steel Mill / Nov 21 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	48,137,561 ▲ 0.00
Waves Home Appliances / Nov 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	43,506,391 ▲ 0.00
Lotte Chemical / Nov 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	40,852,960 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Nov 21 Telecard Limited(TELE)	36,937,252 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	31,401,025 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	31,346,592 ▲ 0.00

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