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Medicines

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

DRAP issues recall alert for five drug products

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has issued an immediate recall alert for five drug...

Updated 10 Sep, 2024 08:46am

Business & Finance

Personal use of importer’s family: FBR exempts WHT on import of eye drops from France

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has exempted withholding tax on import of the medicines and eye drops...

Published 30 Aug, 2024 07:49am

Business & Finance

Alternative medicines: PCDA seeks withdrawal of 18pc GST immediately

KARACHI: The Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association (PCDA) strongly condemned the imposition of an 18% general...

Published 11 Jul, 2024 07:37am

Pakistan

Pharma, healthcare sectors also reeling amid economic crisis

KARACHI: Pakistan’s economy and its people are facing a health crisis. With an economy burdened by high debt and...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 06:09am

Pakistan

Experts say Pakistan budget massively negative for struggling healthcare sector

KARACHI: Pharmaceutical industry experts have expressed concerns regarding the recent taxation changes in Pakistan,...

Updated 02 Jul, 2024 05:58am

Pakistan

Govt launches crackdown against spurious drugs

ISLAMABAD: The government has started a crackdown on spurious and substandard drugs and has directed healthcare...

Published 15 Jun, 2024 06:57am

Pakistan

Crackdown launched on spurious, substandard medicines in Punjab

LAHORE: The Primary and Secondary Healthcare department, Punjab has launched a crackdown against spurious,...

Published 15 Mar, 2024 04:14am

Business & Finance

Sale of substandard medicines continuously increasing

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, Mian...

Published 07 Feb, 2024 05:30am

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

Pakistan

Seminar held at LCCI ‘Natural’ medicines can help cure various diseases: experts

LAHORE: “The best active lifestyle, food supplements and natural medicines can be helpful in preventing many...

Published 05 Jan, 2024 03:12am

Business & Finance

PPMA urges govt to allow hike in prices of 262 medicines

KARACHI: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) has called upon the interim federal...

Published 12 Dec, 2023 05:28am

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

Business & Finance

Regulate quality of medicines, not prices, top Pharma Bureau official advises govt

Executive Director Pharma Bureau Ayesha Tammy Haque has advised the government to do away with price regulation,...

Published 22 Nov, 2023 08:25pm

Business & Finance

16pc-60pc hike in prices of various drugs witnessed

ISLAMABAD: The prices of various medicines have witnessed an increase of 16 percent to 60 percent in the market,...

Published 22 Nov, 2023 05:48am

World

Uttar Pradesh bans some Halal-certified products

LUCKNOW: Authorities in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh have banned the distribution and sale of...

Published 21 Nov, 2023 06:02am

Pakistan

Zero tolerance against spurious, substandard medicines: Minister

LAHORE: Announcing zero tolerance against spurious and substandard medicines, the caretaker Punjab Minister for...

Published 25 Jul, 2023 06:20am

Markets

Searle partners with China’s Mabwell to sell Denosumab Biosimilars drugs in Pakistan

Searle Company Limited (Searle) has entered into a license agreement with China’s Mabwell Pharmaceuticals, under...

Published 12 Jul, 2023 05:39pm

Editorials

The menace of counterfeit drugs

EDITORIAL: It has been a serious public health threat for decades. A large number of the medicines circulating in...

Published 27 May, 2023 06:09am

Pakistan

Hike in medicines’ prices criticised: PDP assails pharma industry for charging MRP from consumers

KARACHI: Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has said that yet another hike in the price of already...

Published 30 Apr, 2023 05:10am

Editorials

A little-noticed public health threat

EDITORIAL: The statistics about the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) are startlingly worrisome. According to the World...

Updated 29 Mar, 2023 07:11am

Opinion

Scarcity of medicines

The issue of letters of credit (LCs) has enormously added to both price hike and inflationary pressures. It has also...

Published 28 Jan, 2023 06:20am

Business & Finance

Drug manufacturers seek urgent steps for raw material import

KARACHI: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) has earnestly appealed to the government to...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 05:58am

Business & Finance

Pfizer to sell all its drugs in low-income countries at non-profit price

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it will offer its full portfolio of drugs, including off-patent medicines...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 09:57pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan sees shortage of some medicines as LC issue persists

Pharma industry fears situation will worsen due to import restrictions

Updated 12 Jan, 2023 09:49pm

Pakistan

Acute shortage of medicines on the cards

ISLAMABAD: An acute medicine shortage is looming in the country as the pharma industry is facing serious problems in...

Published 12 Jan, 2023 05:51am

Pakistan

Dollar shortage threatens to cause healthcare sector crisis in Pakistan

The ongoing dollar shortage in the country has now taken another threatening turn, as there is a scarcity of...

Updated 07 Jan, 2023 05:58pm

Early closure of markets announced

Markets to close by 8.30pm, wedding halls by 10pm; Punjab rejects plan, KPK is ambivalent
Prices of 20 essential medicines decreased

Updated 04 Jan, 2023 09:40am

Opinion

Healthcare: the healing touch can’t be felt through high-tech gear

Healthcare around the world has changed dramatically over the years. While it has improved in detection of diseases...

Updated 31 Dec, 2022 06:33am

Pakistan

Riyals, medicines seized at Jinnah Airport

KARACHI: The collectorate of Customs, Jinnah Airport has confiscated 112,500 Saudi Riyals and a substantial quantity...

Published 17 Dec, 2022 05:58am

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
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 20	238,940
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 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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