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JS Bank, Al Ansari Exchange launch ‘millionaire campaign’

KARACHI: JS Bank has strengthened its partnership with Al Ansari Exchange, a leading exchange company in the UAE, to...

Published 3 days ago

Pakistan

Property disputes of overseas Pakistanis: Special courts being set up in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Special courts will be established in Islamabad to address property disputes involving overseas...

Published 18 Mar, 2025 08:35am

More facilities sought for overseas Pakistanis

KARACHI: The Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, the President of the Pakistan Businessmen and...

Updated 17 Mar, 2025 08:49am

Repatriation of declared assets: PM proposes incentive scheme for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has proposed an incentive scheme for overseas Pakistanis to repatriate their...

Updated 16 Mar, 2025 01:06pm

Pakistan

Immediate probe sought: Minister takes notice of overseas Pakistanis’ blocked passports

ISLAMABAD: Expressing reservations over alleged blocking of overseas Pakistanis’ passports, Federal Minister for...

Published 10 Mar, 2025 05:22am

Libya boat tragedy: Bodies of 16 Pakistanis will be repatriated today

ISLAMABAD: The bodies of 16 Pakistanis who died in a boat tragedy off the coast of Libya on February 5, will be...

Updated 23 Feb, 2025 09:20am

ECP tells SC bench: Senators opposed e-voting due to security concerns

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has informed the Supreme Court Constitutional Bench that all...

Updated 22 Feb, 2025 08:41am

PM announces green channel restoration

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday announced immediate restoration of the Green Channel – a free...

Updated 05 Feb, 2025 02:36pm

Purchase of plots in new sectors of Islamabad: Overseas Pakistanis demand waiver of WHT/FED

ISLAMABAD: The overseas Pakistanis have demanded a waiver from withholding taxes/Federal Excise Duty (FED) and...

Updated 03 Feb, 2025 08:57am

Pakistan

Senate body told: Prisoner transfer deals with 11 states on the cards

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is finalising prisoner transfer agreements with 11 countries including United Arab Emirates...

Published 30 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Business & Finance

USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, China ‘Overseas Pakistanis, foreigners timely filing complaints with FTO’

ISLAMABAD: The overseas Pakistanis and non-residents in United States of America (USA), Canada, Saudi Arabia, and...

Published 30 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Pakistan

PM’s National Youth Council: Ali Khawaja appointed International Member

ISLAMABAD: Ali Khawaja, a 19-year-old overseas Pakistani, from United Kingdom, has been appointed as an...

Published 29 Jan, 2025 08:14am

Pakistan

‘Post on X account’: IK reiterates remittance boycott demand

ISLAMABAD: The jailed founding chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Sunday reiterated his call...

Published 27 Jan, 2025 06:09am

Editorials

Move to facilitate overseas Pakistanis

EDITORIAL: In a move purported to be for the benefit of overseas Pakistanis, the FBR has announced the launch of an...

Updated 31 Dec, 2024 06:57am

Investments in real estate: Overseas Pakistanis now eligible for exemption from higher tax rates

KARACHI: In a significant move to attract foreign investments in the real estate sector, overseas Pakistanis are now...

Updated 27 Dec, 2024 03:15pm

Resident Pakistanis in UAE, UK: Rental income, capital gain not taxable: ATIR DB

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue (ATIR) has held that under the tax treaties of...

Updated 23 Dec, 2024 09:40am

Aleema says IK may ask expats to halt remittances

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan has said he would call overseas Pakistanis to...

Updated 18 Dec, 2024 02:43pm

FBR imposes new condition on overseas Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has imposed a new condition on overseas Pakistanis to obtain approval...

Updated 02 Dec, 2024 02:18pm

Overseas Pakistanis: Centre, provinces to work together to resolve issues: PM

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the federal and provincial governments would work together to...

Updated 02 Dec, 2024 08:51am

Pakistan

NA body told: ‘Public Grievances Management Policy’ approved to resolve complaints of overseas Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs informed the National Assembly Standing Committee on Parliamentary...

Published 23 Nov, 2024 06:19am

Pakistan

Overseas Pakistanis: OPF distributes cheques among 513 destitute families

ISLAMABAD: Syed Qamar Raza, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF),...

Updated 21 Nov, 2024 08:06am

Business & Finance

$3bn remittances in Oct: highest monthly inflow in FY25 so far

KARACHI: Pakistan received over $3 billion home remittances in October 2024, the highest monthly inflow so far in ...

Published 09 Nov, 2024 06:36am

Pakistan

Overseas Pakistanis: President signs bill for creation of special courts

ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari has signed a bill establishing special courts for property matters...

Published 31 Oct, 2024 06:18am

Pakistan

CDA Board key decisions on overseas Pakistanis’ refunds, other issues

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Board, on Tuesday, approved key decisions on overseas...

Updated 30 Oct, 2024 07:33am

Editorials

Rise in home remittances

EDITORIAL: The State Bank of Pakistan website revealed a 39 percent rise in remittance inflows for the first quarter...

Published 14 Oct, 2024 07:00am

Over 3.27m Pakistanis sent abroad in 5 years

ISLAMABAD: More than 3.27 million Pakistanis, which roughly make 1.3 percent of the country’s total population, have...

Updated 07 Sep, 2024 03:14pm

Pakistan

At least 35 Pakistani pilgrims killed, several injured after bus overturns in Iran’s Yazd

At least 35 Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 15 injured in a bus accident in Iranian city of Yazd. The accident...

Updated 21 Aug, 2024 10:31pm

Pakistan

Senate panel for addressing grievances of overseas Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD: Following complaints against problems such as land-grabbing and police corruption in the country by...

Published 14 Aug, 2024 06:40am

Business & Finance

July remittances grow 48pc to $3bn YoY

KARACHI: Workers’ remittances recorded an impressive growth of 48 percent in the first month of this fiscal year...

Updated 10 Aug, 2024 07:35am

Pakistan

FO in contact with US on Pakistani man charged with alleged ties to Iran

Says before giving Pakistan's formal reaction 'we also need to be sure of the antecedents of the individual in question'

Updated 07 Aug, 2024 03:23pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 28	281.85
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 28	279.71
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 28	149.88
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 28	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 28	1.29
Euro to USD / Mar 28	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 27	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 28	5,580.94
India Sensex / Mar 28	77,414.92
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 28	37,120.33
Nasdaq / Mar 28	17,322.99
Hang Seng / Mar 28	23,426.60
FTSE 100 / Mar 28	8,658.85
Dow Jones / Mar 28	41,583.90
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 28	22,461.52
France CAC40 / Mar 28	7,916.08

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 27	275,205
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 28	69.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 28	17,085
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 28	3,117.20
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 28	66.90
Petrol/Litre / Mar 29	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 29	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel (R) / Mar 27 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	4.01 ▲ 1 (33.22%)
Parmount Sp. / Mar 27 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	4.10 ▲ 0.59 (16.81%)
Shaheen Ins. / Mar 27 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	7.50 ▲ 0.97 (14.85%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 27 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	15.02 ▲ 1.37 (10.04%)
Diamond Ind. / Mar 27 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	33.83 ▲ 3.08 (10.02%)
Sardar Chemical / Mar 27 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	35.95 ▲ 3.27 (10.01%)
J.K.Spinning / Mar 27 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	69.58 ▲ 6.33 (10.01%)
Data Agro / Mar 27 Data Agro Limited(DAAG)	106.28 ▲ 9.66 (10%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 27 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	121.88 ▲ 11.08 (10%)
Allawasaya Tex / Mar 27 Allawasaya Tex. & Finishing Mills Ltd(AWTX)	1,429.95 ▲ 130 (10%)

Stock	Price
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	11.60 ▼ -98.09 (-89.42%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 27 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	135.93 ▼ -15.1 (-10%)
Khalid Siraj / Mar 27 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	8.03 ▼ -0.87 (-9.78%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Mar 27 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	874.01 ▼ -93.68 (-9.68%)
Saritow Spinning / Mar 27 Saritow Spinning Mills Limited(SSML)	18.90 ▼ -1.75 (-8.47%)
Cordoba Logistics / Mar 27 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	12.61 ▼ -1.15 (-8.36%)
Sally Textile / Mar 27 Sally Textile Mills Limited(SLYT)	11.01 ▼ -0.99 (-8.25%)
Masood Textile / Mar 27 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	49.06 ▼ -4.27 (-8.01%)
Universal Ins. / Mar 27 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	9.57 ▼ -0.73 (-7.09%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Mar 27 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	42 ▼ -3.1 (-6.87%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Mar 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	45,325,056 ▲ 0.31
Pak Elektron / Mar 27 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	29,179,304 ▲ 0.67
P.S.O. / Mar 27 Pakistan State Oil Company Limited(PSO)	26,879,128 ▲ 1.58
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	20,499,919 ▼ -98.09
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	16,191,931 ▼ -0.03
B.O.Punjab / Mar 27 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	16,148,304 ▼ -0.2
Pak Petroleum / Mar 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	15,934,134 ▼ -1.85
Engro Fert. / Mar 27 Engro Fertilizers Limited(EFERT)	14,419,464 ▲ 0.5
Fauji Cement / Mar 27 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	14,194,696 ▲ 0.53
Maple Leaf Cement / Mar 27 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	11,282,647 ▲ 0.09

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