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Cigarette tax myths and realities

A well-orchestrated campaign advocating for reduced cigarette taxes has recently gained momentum, primarily driven ...

Published 2 days ago

Opinion

Poverty may trump low inflation

Inflation has come down dramatically – from 28.3 percent in January 2024 to 1.5 percent in February 2025. The...

Published 2 days ago

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation down 0.35pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the week ended on March 20, 2025 decreased by 0.35 ...

Published 22 Mar, 2025 02:47am

Editorials

LSM still negative

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released the Quantum Indices of Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) which...

Published 20 Mar, 2025 05:57am

Wheat, sugar and rice stocks: ECC directs ministries to submit monthly updates

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has directed Ministry of National Food Security...

Updated 20 Mar, 2025 09:38am

Sugar crisis under close scrutiny: CCP

ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Tuesday disclosed that it is closely monitoring the...

Updated 19 Mar, 2025 03:03pm

Opinion

The Uraan Plan: reality check

The Uraan Plan, although ambitiously faulty, is built on some good bones. It introduces the 5E’s framework –...

Published 18 Mar, 2025 07:32am

Jul-Feb exports up 8.42pc to $22.074bn YoY

Trade deficit in February 2025 recorded at $2.319 billion

Updated 18 Mar, 2025 02:14pm

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation up 0.22pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended March 13, 2025, increased by 0.22per cent...

Published 15 Mar, 2025 05:22am

Opinion

Unravelling cigarette tax revenue mystery

The first half of fiscal year 2025 has painted a perplexing picture of Pakistan’s cigarette industry. The latest...

Published 11 Mar, 2025 06:25am

Business & Finance

February: Country’s manufacturing output has increased further

KARACHI: Pakistan’s manufacturing production increased further in February, as reflected by the HBL Manufacturing...

Published 07 Mar, 2025 05:45am

Editorials

Yes, inflation is falling

EDITORIAL: Consumer Price index (CPI) declined to 1.4 percent in February prompting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as...

Published 06 Mar, 2025 06:42am

PBS conducts first digital census: Around 7.8pc of total population unemployed

ISLAMABAD: Around 7.8 percent (187,359,79 population) of the total population (241,499,431) of the country is...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 09:29am

PM happy over continuous decrease in inflation

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed satisfaction on Monday over the continuous decrease in inflation...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 09:10am

Jul-Feb exports up 8.17pc to $22.022bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s exports increased by 8.17 per cent during the first eight months (July-February) of current...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 09:07am

Business & Finance

Feb CPI inflation clocks in at 1.5pc YoY

ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation clocked in at 1.5 percent on a Year-on-Year (YoY) basis in...

Published 04 Mar, 2025 06:30am

Opinion

Extremely high unemployment rate

The digital Population and Housing Census of 2023 conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 07:04am

Markets

Pakistan’s trade deficit surges 33% YoY to $2.3bn in February 2025

Trade deficit stood at $1.72 billion in February 2024

Updated 03 Mar, 2025 10:55pm

Business & Finance

Jul-Jan exports jump 10.16pc to $19.58bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports witnessed an increase of 10.16 percent during the first seven months (July-January) of...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 03:01am

Opinion

The LSM sector

Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) has been a major recipient of subsidies - utilities (electricity tariff) including...

Published 17 Feb, 2025 03:09am

Editorials

The criticality of data

EDITORIAL: There have been serious challenges to the data compiled by government functionaries by independent...

Published 12 Feb, 2025 06:17am

Pasha says concerned at current unemployment rate

ISLAMABAD: “Poverty rate has risen to 44 percent and inflation is still in double digits.” Dr Hafeez Pasha, former...

Updated 10 Feb, 2025 03:44pm

Markets

0.04pc decline

KARACHI: Rupee depreciated during the previous week as it lost Re0.10 or 0.04% in the inter-bank market. The local...

Published 10 Feb, 2025 05:35am

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation down 0.21pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended February 6, 2025, decreased by 0.21 per cent...

Published 08 Feb, 2025 06:30am

Jul-Jan exports up 9.98pc to $19.551bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s exports increased by 9.98 percent during the first seven months (July-January) of current...

Updated 04 Feb, 2025 03:07pm

Markets

Over 9-year low: Inflation in Pakistan clocks in at 2.4% in January 2025

Pakistan’s headline inflation clocked in at 2.4% on a year-on-year basis in January 2025, a reading below that of...

Updated 03 Feb, 2025 10:44pm

Business & Finance

SPI-based inflation down 0.36pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI)-based inflation for the week ended January 30, 2025, decreased by 0.36...

Published 01 Feb, 2025 06:30am

H1 textile group exports up 9.67pc to $9.08bn YoY

ISLAMABAD: The country’s textile group exports increased by 9.67 per cent in first half (July-December) of the...

Updated 21 Jan, 2025 02:34pm

Business & Finance

Weekly SPI inflation down 0.39pc

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended January 16, 2025, decreased by 0.39per cent...

Published 18 Jan, 2025 05:45am

Business & Finance

Prime Minister’s Youth Programme: loan limit for SMEs raised to Rs1.5mn

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday directed authorities to increase the loan amount under the Prime...

Published 16 Jan, 2025 10:42am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate

Stock	Volume

Item	Value

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel Indus.(R) / Mar 25 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	2.01 ▲ 1 (99.01%)
Ruby Textile / Mar 25 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	7.01 ▲ 1 (16.64%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Mar 25 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	8.99 ▲ 1 (12.52%)
Samba Bank / Mar 25 Samba Bank Limited(SBL)	9 ▲ 0.82 (10.02%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 25 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	100.73 ▲ 9.16 (10%)
Adamjee Life Assur. / Mar 25 Adamjee Life Assurance Company Limited(ALIFE)	25.73 ▲ 2.34 (10%)
United Dist. / Mar 25 United Distributors Pakistan Limited(UDPL)	67.29 ▲ 6.12 (10%)
Crescent Fib. / Mar 25 Crescent Fibres Limited(CFL)	45.70 ▲ 4.14 (9.96%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 25 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.19 ▲ 1.19 (9.92%)
Hussain Industries / Mar 25 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	27.30 ▲ 2.43 (9.77%)

Stock	Price
Parmount Sp. / Mar 25 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	3.51 ▼ -0.48 (-12.03%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Mar 25 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	117 ▼ -13 (-10%)
Diamond Ind. / Mar 25 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	27.68 ▼ -3.07 (-9.98%)
Zephyr Textile / Mar 25 Zephyr Textiles Limited(ZTL)	9.50 ▼ -1 (-9.52%)
TPL Life Insur. / Mar 25 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	55.02 ▼ -5.74 (-9.45%)
Shahtaj Textile / Mar 25 Shahtaj Textile Limited(STJT)	65.05 ▼ -6.54 (-9.14%)
Sindh Abadgar / Mar 25 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	55 ▼ -5.43 (-8.99%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 25 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	138 ▼ -13.03 (-8.63%)
Tri-Star Power / Mar 25 Tri-Star Power Limited(TSPL)	7.24 ▼ -0.66 (-8.35%)
Shield Corp. / Mar 25 Shield Corporation Limited(SCL)	253.90 ▼ -22.98 (-8.3%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Elektron / Mar 25 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	28,623,330 ▲ 0.63
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 25 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	22,742,574 ▼ -3.59
Cnergyico PK / Mar 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	19,218,186 ▲ 0.01
Sui South Gas / Mar 25 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	14,168,002 ▲ 0.18
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	11,877,825 ▼ -0.05
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 25 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	11,187,536 ▲ 0.08
Pak Refinery / Mar 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	10,362,407 ▼ -0.12
B.O.Punjab / Mar 25 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	10,164,053 ▼ -0.21
K-Electric Ltd. / Mar 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	10,144,462 ▲ 0
Treet Corp / Mar 25 Treet Corporation Limited(TREET)	8,893,519 ▼ -0.53

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