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ECC approves ‘winter package’: Eligible consumers to pay Rs26.07/kWh tariff

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Tuesday approved a three-month winter...

Updated 20 Nov, 2024 09:26am

Pakistan

Power minister says National Transmission and Despatch Company to be restructured

Minister for Power Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari said Saturday that the National Transmission and Despatch Company...

Published 09 Nov, 2024 08:14pm

Markets

PM announces power relief ‘winter package’

ISLAMABAD: At a time when electricity bills had become exorbitant and seemed to have reached a breaking point, Prime...

Published 09 Nov, 2024 06:36am

Pakistan

PM Shehbaz announces three-month power subsidy package for winter season

Premier says household consumers will save up to Rs26 per unit

Updated 08 Nov, 2024 10:18pm

Power sector: Govt commits to IMF about drastic reforms

ISLAMABAD: The government has committed to the International Monetary fund (IMF) to revise terms of Power Purchase...

Updated 12 Oct, 2024 09:59pm

Subsidies to BISP recipients: Ministry seeks PD’s help to get consumers’ data from KE

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety (MPA&SS) has sought Power Division’s support to get...

Updated 12 Oct, 2024 08:59am

Protected consumers to get power subsidy via e-vouchers

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety (MPA&SS) has decided to extend subsidy directly...

Updated 03 Oct, 2024 09:16am

Minimum tax payment: KE’s fuel cost, subsidy recoveries should be treated as turnover: SHC

ISLAMABAD: Sindh High Court (SHC) Monday ruled that the subsidy and fuel cost recovered by Karachi Electric Supply...

Updated 01 Oct, 2024 08:53am

Editorials

Punjab power subsidy

EDITORIAL: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz may have laughed off her Sindh counterpart’s criticism of the...

Published 25 Aug, 2024 03:05am

Centre follows in Punjab’s footsteps: subsidy announced

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has announced a substantial subsidy of Rs50 billion for electricity consumers...

Updated 20 Aug, 2024 09:32am

Pakistan

Power consumers: Punjab govt to give Rs45bn subsidy for 2 months: Nawaz

LAHORE: Announcing that the PML-N-led Punjab government has decided to bring Rs 14 per unit relief in the bills of...

Published 17 Aug, 2024 06:12am

Business & Finance

KATI for releasing pending Rs33bn power subsidy immediately

KARACHI: The Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) has urged the government to immediately release a...

Updated 13 Aug, 2024 08:00am

Govt budgets Rs406bn to stem circular debt growth

ISLAMABAD: The government has budgeted Rs406 billion – in addition to the regular subsidy for electricity bills...

Updated 20 Jul, 2024 02:02pm

Bid to raise subsidy for protected power users: Further cut in FY25 PSDP likely

PM has also removed Additional Secretary Power Division Zafar Abbas, an officer of BS-21 of Secretariat Group, who was dealing with key affairs of the Power Division

Updated 09 Jul, 2024 12:44pm

Pakistan

A whopping 103.7pc raise in power subsidy

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has increased subsidy for power sector by a whopping 103.7 percent – from the...

Published 13 Jun, 2024 03:32am

Power sector: MoF agrees to extend Rs1.094trn subsidy

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry is said to have agreed to extend subsidy of Rs 1.094 trillion for the financial year...

Updated 30 May, 2024 08:39am

‘Inflated’ bills: Intelligence agency comes to the rescue of power consumers?

Agency has prompted caretaker government to intervene and take action to provide immediate relief

Updated 10 Oct, 2023 12:40pm

Shamshad informs Senate body: No ‘fiscal space available’ for subsidies

ISLAMABAD: The members of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance demanded of the government to withdraw seven...

Updated 31 Aug, 2023 09:25am

Business & Finance

Rs7.50 hike in power tariff formally approved

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has formally approved increase of Rs 7.50 per unit ...

Published 26 Jul, 2023 06:17am

CPEC IPPs: Finance Division asks PD to adjust Rs20.726bn as advance payment

Finance Division has once again advised that Power Division may adjust the advance payments to CPEC-IPPs against next five months of FY 2023-24

Updated 08 Jul, 2023 05:15pm

ECC approves Rs80bn subsidy for power sector

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has approved Rs80 billion subsidy for the power...

Updated 22 Jun, 2023 08:54am

Power sector subsidy: Finance shows willingness to allocate Rs450bn

ISLAMABAD: Finance Division has reportedly shown willingness to allocate Rs 450 billion for power sector subsidy in...

Updated 17 May, 2023 09:10am

Rs80bn gas subsidy to five export sectors ends

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has ended the Rs 80-billion subsidy on gas to five export sectors for FY...

Updated 30 Apr, 2023 04:51pm

Withdrawal of export power subsidy: Treasury MPs come down hard on govt

ISLAMABAD: The treasury lawmakers in the National Assembly Thursday came down hard on the government for withdrawing...

Updated 31 Mar, 2023 08:53am

Withdrawal of power subsidy to hurt exports further: FPCCI

Business & Finance

Ishaq Dar says provision of electricity at a subsidised price till June 2023 would cost Rs100 billion to government on account of cost differential

Updated 07 Oct, 2022 09:59am

Markets

Export-oriented sectors: Govt backs out of subsidised power decision

Insiders claim that the decision has been taken to meet the conditions of International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the Fund has not supported additional funding for export-oriented industry

Updated 23 Aug, 2022 09:25am

Subsidized power to export-oriented sectors: PD says it needs Rs77.9bn

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry would be required to provide Rs77.9 billion to the Power Division if it wanted to...

Updated 02 Aug, 2022 09:39am

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
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 10 Grams PKR / Nov 21	238,340
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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