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Parliamentary websites in Pakistan: FAFEN for standardisation of info, accessibility features

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) said that parliamentary websites in Pakistan have evolved into...

Published 22 Jan, 2025 06:06am

Editorials

RTI flouted with impunity

EDITORIAL: In deference to Article 19-A of the Constitution that guarantees every citizen the right to information...

Published 13 Jan, 2025 03:06am

Many ministries, divisions not fully complying with categorical requirements: FAFEN

ISLAMABAD: Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) highlighted on Tuesday that a majority of federal ministries and...

Updated 08 Jan, 2025 09:18am

Pakistan

Nov 16, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024: ETs decide 51 petitions: Fafen

ISLAMABAD: The election tribunals (ETs) have decided 51 petitions between November 16, 2024, and December 31, 2024,...

Published 03 Jan, 2025 05:54am

Pakistan

JI criticises report of FAFEN on 2024 general elections

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami has criticized the recent report by the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on the 2024...

Published 26 Dec, 2024 07:53am

Editorials

Women in elections

EDITORIAL: It’s heartening to note that the share of female voters in the total polled votes in 2024 saw a “marked...

Published 19 Dec, 2024 05:57am

Editorials

Low voter turnout

EDITORIAL: It is reasonable to assume that more and more people in this country are keen to exercise their right to...

Updated 12 Dec, 2024 08:04am

Pakistan

Voters, candidates in electoral processes: FAFEN calls to enhance participation of women

ISLAMABAD: The Parliament, political parties, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), and civil society must join...

Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:33am

Pakistan

42.3m individuals added to electoral rolls since GE-2013: FAFEN

ISLAMABAD: Over the past decade, Pakistan has experienced a substantial increase in the number of registered voters,...

Updated 09 Dec, 2024 09:23am

Editorials

‘Holistic reforms’ in governance

EDITORIAL: It’s interesting that two separate civil society organisations have asked the government to hold...

Updated 20 Oct, 2024 06:19am

Pakistan

FAFEN issues report on performance of election tribunals

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has observed that the election tribunals have failed to ...

Published 12 Oct, 2024 07:42am

Editorials

Controversial electoral exercise

EDITORIAL: While the April 21 by-elections in 22 national and provincial assemblies constituencies once again are a...

Updated 29 Apr, 2024 05:23am

Pakistan

By-polls: FAFEN says nearly 36pc voters cast their votes

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has observed that overall results of the by-elections on April...

Updated 25 Apr, 2024 12:09am

Pakistan

Legally-challenged constituencies: FAFEN urges ECP to ‘audit’ election results

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Sunday proposed a three-stage methodology for the audit of...

Published 19 Feb, 2024 05:24am

Pakistan

Elections 2024: voter turnout at 47.6%, 60.6mn people exercised right to vote on Feb 8, says FAFEN

Unlike 2018 elections, none of the National or Provincial Assemblies’ constituencies recorded female turnout less than 10% of total polled votes

Published 14 Feb, 2024 09:51pm

Editorials

A controversial exercise

EDITORIAL: The inadequacies of our perennially under fire electoral system have once again become a topic of much...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

135 nationwide constituencies: ECP urged to take notice of ‘non-compliance by ROs’

ISLAMABAD: Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), Monday, urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take...

Published 13 Feb, 2024 05:59am

Pakistan

Around 60m voters went to the polls on Feb 8: FAFEN

ISLAMABAD: Approximately 60 million voters went to the polls in Pakistan on February 8, 2024, to elect their...

Published 11 Feb, 2024 05:35am

Pakistan

General elections: Political parties nominate 275 women contestants: FAFEN

ISLAMABAD: Political parties have nominated 275 women candidates to contest the upcoming general elections on...

Published 07 Feb, 2024 05:30am

ECP’s preliminary delimitation: Fafen raises issue with population variation

ISLAMABAD: Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Saturday revealed that as many as 180 constituencies of...

Updated 01 Oct, 2023 09:27am

Mystery shrouds fate of CCP bill

ISLAMABAD: The fate of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill 2022 remains shrouded in mystery as the Free...

Updated 02 Sep, 2023 09:43am

Pakistan

FAFEN underscores need for ‘electoral fairness’ thru delimitation exercise

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Sunday called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan ...

Published 21 Aug, 2023 06:43am

Pakistan

Women parliamentarians outshine male counterparts: FAFEN report

ISLAMABAD: Women parliamentarians in both houses of the parliament have outshined their male counterparts in...

Published 10 Mar, 2023 03:46am

Pakistan

National, provincial legislative bodies: FAFEN calls for introducing divisional quotas for women seats

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has called for introducing divisional quotas for seats ...

Published 03 Feb, 2023 06:17am

Pakistan

738 cases of human rights violations recorded in 17 months: SHRC

HYDERABAD: As many as 738 cases of human rights violations were reported in Sindh in about 17 months. This was...

Published 25 Jan, 2023 06:25am

Editorials

Voting rights for women

EDITORIAL: “Steps shall be taken to ensure full participation of women in all spheres of national life,”...

Published 03 Nov, 2022 05:50am

Pakistan

FAFEN urges ECP to look into low turnout of women during by-polls

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has exhorted the Election Commission to employ its...

Published 31 Oct, 2022 05:55am

Pakistan

By-elections on 20 Punjab PA seats: FAFEN praises ECP performance but calls for improvements

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), while appreciating the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...

Published 21 Jul, 2022 05:40am

Pakistan

Elections Act, 2017: FAFEN urges parties to take cognizance of inadequacies

ISLAMABAD: While acknowledging improvements in the contents and quality of the preliminary report as compared to the...

Published 18 Jun, 2022 06:00am

Business & Finance

Session held at SCCI: Call for protecting rights of working women, implementation of relevant laws

PESHAWAR: Representatives of a civil society organisation called for protecting the rights of the working women in...

Published 26 May, 2022 05:26am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 21	278.88
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 21	278.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 21	155.54
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 21	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 21	1.23
Euro to USD / Jan 21	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 17	5,996.66
Nasdaq / Jan 17	19,630.20
Dow Jones / Jan 17	43,487.83
India Sensex / Jan 21	76,270.33
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 21	39,027.98
Hang Seng / Jan 21	20,098.89
FTSE 100 / Jan 21	8,529.98
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 21	20,988.55

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 20	18,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 20	242,541
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 21	77.24
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 21	2,724.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 21	68.02
Petrol/Litre / Jan 22	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Jan 21 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9.60 ▲ 1.00 (11.63%)
Equity Modaraba / Jan 21 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.54 ▲ 0.34 (10.62%)
Waves Home Appliances / Jan 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	11.30 ▲ 1.03 (10.03%)
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.98 ▲ 1.00 (10.02%)
Globe Residency / Jan 21 Globe Residency REIT(GRR)	17.36 ▲ 1.58 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 21 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	25.06 ▲ 2.28 (10.01%)
Olympia Mills / Jan 21 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	35.65 ▲ 3.24 (10.00%)
Pak Engineering / Jan 21 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	671.22 ▲ 61.02 (10.00%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 21 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	108.90 ▲ 9.90 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	45.21 ▼ -5.02 (-9.99%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	16.62 ▼ -1.62 (-8.88%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 21 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	64.32 ▼ -6.22 (-8.82%)
S.G.Power / Jan 21 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9 ▼ -0.81 (-8.26%)
Dadabhoy Cement / Jan 21 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	5.10 ▼ -0.43 (-7.78%)
Sanghar Sugar / Jan 21 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	23.05 ▼ -1.94 (-7.76%)
ZIL Limited / Jan 21 ZIL Limited(ZIL)	226.01 ▼ -18.99 (-7.75%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 21 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	526 ▼ -43.96 (-7.71%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 21 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	13 ▼ -1.03 (-7.34%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	111,866,059 ▲ 0.44
Bank Makramah / Jan 21 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	69,297,556 ▲ 0.05
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	64,182,488 ▼ -0.09
Lotte Chemical / Jan 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	59,473,543 ▼ -0.94
Fauji Cement / Jan 21 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	51,882,881 ▲ 0.34
Hascol Petrol / Jan 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	24,273,766 ▼ -0.39
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 21 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	23,353,008 ▼ -1.60
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	22,896,108 ▼ -5.02
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	21,890,802 ▼ -1.62

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