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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 / 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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