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Medicines

Lack of qualified pharmacists woefully adding to healthcare challenges in Pakistan

KARACHI: Pakistan’s healthcare system is facing a critical challenge: shortage of qualified and practising...

Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:52am

Editorials

Archaic pharma regulations

EDITORIAL: Recent years have seen Pakistan’s pharmaceutical sector struggle to stay afloat as it grapples with...

Published 30 Nov, 2024 06:26am

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

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

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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