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Citi Pharma intends to construct 200-bed hospital, medical university in Lahore

Citi Pharma Limited (CPHL), a Pakistani pharmaceutical company, will construct a healthcare facility, featuring a...

Published 09 Oct, 2024 03:57pm

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

Business & Finance

LHC’s decision to help boost Pakistan’s pharma sector: brokerage house

The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision to nullify the stayorder against the deregulation of Maximum Retail Prices...

Updated 04 Apr, 2024 07:40pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan’s listed pharma sector sees earnings go down 42% YoY in 2023

Decline attributed to decrease in gross margin, higher finance cost, says brokerage house

Updated 29 Mar, 2024 04:16pm

Business & Finance

Pharma industry told to ensure barcodes printing on packaging

ISLAMABAD: The Policy Board of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) in a bid to curb the manufacturing,...

Published 22 Mar, 2024 04:57am

Business & Finance

Minister asks Pharma industry to focus on exports

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker Federal Minister for National Health Services and Regulations, Dr Nadeem Jan on Friday ...

Published 02 Mar, 2024 04:16am

Business & Finance

Healthcare Expo: Minister seeks govt’s role in promoting pharma industry

LAHORE: The caretaker Punjab Health Minister Prof Dr Javed Akram has expressed optimism that the newly elected...

Published 23 Feb, 2024 06:36am

Pakistan

Pharma Park construction: Health minister says all initiatives handed over to SIFC to cut red tape

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services and Regulations in a bid to avert bureaucratic hurdles in the...

Published 04 Jan, 2024 05:41am

Business & Finance

Pharma sector has potential to fetch foreign exchange for country thru exports: PPMA

LAHORE: The Pakistan pharmaceutical industry has the potential to fetch precious foreign exchange through exports of...

Published 28 Nov, 2023 04:56am

Business & Finance

‘Urgent steps needed to eliminate losses of govt institutions’

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

Published 23 Sep, 2023 05:58am

Business & Finance

Local pharma industry urged to establish own brands

KARACHI: Business leaders mainly from pharmaceutical industry have urged the local pharmaceutical industry to...

Published 13 Aug, 2023 02:55am

Editorials

Pharma exports potential

EDITORIAL: Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar’s vision of raising pharmaceutical exports to $1 billion by 2025 ...

Published 16 Jul, 2023 06:16am

Country aims $1bn pharma exports by 2025, says Qamar

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Commerce Syed Naveed Qamar said Wednesday that Pakistan’s objective is to increase...

Updated 13 Jul, 2023 09:35am

22pc interest rate inimical to business activities: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Wednesday acknowledged that with a 22 percent rate of interest, no business...

Updated 13 Jul, 2023 10:33am

Business & Finance

Drug price adjustment: Pharma industry seeks support of govt

ISLAMABAD: Pharma industry has sought the support of the government for addressing their issues related to price...

Published 15 Mar, 2023 07:05am

Opinion

Steel, pharma sectors hit harder

The issue of letters of credit (LCs) has strongly affected the two sectors in particular: construction (read steel)...

Published 12 Feb, 2023 03:56am

Business & Finance

Raw materials, PKR, inflation: pharma industry urges govt to help resolve issues

LAHORE: In the wake of increase in the prices of raw material, devaluation of Pakistani rupee and unprecedented...

Published 11 Feb, 2023 07:36am

Editorials

Imminent ‘catastrophe’

EDITORIAL: The government is trying to keep a straight face, but it seems pretty helpless as around 40 ...

Published 11 Feb, 2023 05:57am

Business & Finance

Medicine makers call for price hike

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) has asked the government to immediately...

Published 08 Feb, 2023 06:10am

Business & Finance

Pharma industry unilaterally decides to increase prices

ISLAMABAD: The local pharmaceutical industry on Monday expressed serious concerns over the imposition of ‘Super...

Published 07 Feb, 2023 06:07am

Pakistan

Turkish companies keen to assist in health sector

LAHORE: Turkish companies have shown interest to support Pakistan in development of raw material in pharma industry...

Published 08 Oct, 2022 03:25am

Business & Finance

Availability of essential drugs: DRAP given one week to take emergency measures to help pharma industry survive

Karachi: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) has given a one-week deadline to the DRAP ...

Published 30 Sep, 2022 05:52am

Pakistan

Pfizer ranked as leading company in Asia for Covid-19 response

SINGAPORE: Pfizer has been ranked first in its Covid-19 response, patient centricity, patient safety and bringing...

Published 26 Aug, 2022 05:35am

Business & Finance

Pharma industry urges fairer vaccine access in future

GENEVA: The pharmaceutical industry on Tuesday proposed a system to allow for more equitable access to vaccines and...

Published 20 Jul, 2022 05:48am

Business & Finance

Miftah orders authorities to address pharma industry’s concerns

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail has directed the relevant authorities to undertake...

Published 19 Jul, 2022 08:15am

GST exemption to pharma industry costs FBR over Rs101bn

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has calculated a revenue loss of over Rs101 billion on account of...

Updated 09 Jul, 2022 09:30am

Business & Finance

China to strengthen anti-monopoly efforts in pharma industry

BEIJING: China will toughen law enforcement to curb monopoly practices and unfair competition in the pharmaceutical...

Published 30 Jan, 2022 12:01pm

Business & Finance

Raw materials: Pharma industry seeks withdrawal of 17pc GST

LAHORE: The medicine manufacturers have urged the government to review its decision imposing a 17per cent General...

Published 24 Jan, 2022 06:50am

Determination of prices of 38 new drugs approved by cabinet

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that the federal cabinet...

Updated 24 Nov, 2021 01:06pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 26	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 26	278.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 24	157.14
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 24	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 24	1.04

Stock	Volume
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
S&P 500 / Dec 24	6,040.04
Nasdaq / Dec 24	20,031.13
Hang Seng / Dec 24	20,098.29
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,136.99
Dow Jones / Dec 24	43,297.03
France CAC40 / Dec 24	7,282.69
India Sensex / Dec 26	78,475.29

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 24	70.10
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 24	240,487.70
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 24	2,616.87
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 24	68.78
Petrol/Litre / Dec 26	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 26	17,785

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Capital Equities / Dec 26 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	6.10 ▲ 1.00 (19.61%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 26 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	6.99 ▲ 1.00 (16.69%)
Next Capital / Dec 26 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	9.90 ▲ 1.00 (11.24%)
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	16.45 ▲ 1.50 (10.03%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 26 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	15.81 ▲ 1.44 (10.02%)
Dewan Motors / Dec 26 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	42.21 ▲ 3.84 (10.01%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 26 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	44.96 ▲ 4.09 (10.01%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 26 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	99.06 ▲ 9.01 (10.01%)
Altern Energy / Dec 26 Altern Energy Limited(ALTN)	22.65 ▲ 2.06 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Jauharabad Sug / Dec 26 Jauharabad Sugar Mills Limited(JSML)	23.10 ▼ -2.57 (-10.01%)
Mughal Energy / Dec 26 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	18.45 ▼ -2.05 (-10.00%)
Fateh Ind. / Dec 26 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	120.56 ▼ -13.38 (-9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 26 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	36.01 ▼ -3.99 (-9.98%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 26 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.54 ▼ -1.50 (-9.97%)
Arctic Textile / Dec 26 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	21.60 ▼ -2.37 (-9.89%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Dec 26 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	12.25 ▼ -1.22 (-9.06%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 26 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	24 ▼ -2.33 (-8.85%)
Equity Modaraba / Dec 26 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3 ▼ -0.29 (-8.81%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	127,408,831 ▼ -0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	93,301,142 ▲ 1.50
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	46,900,564 ▲ 6.41
Sui South Gas / Dec 26 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,559,500 ▼ -1.65
Cnergyico PK / Dec 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	33,367,944 ▼ -0.16
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	30,254,338 ▼ -0.19
B.O.Punjab / Dec 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	30,003,113 ▼ -0.11
Hascol Petrol / Dec 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	27,155,152 ▲ 0.87
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 26 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	26,980,436 ▲ 0.09

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