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Kazakhstan votes on whether to build first nuclear plant

ALMATY: Kazakhstan votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, an idea...

Updated 06 Oct, 2024 05:51pm

World

Russian lawmakers back massive military spending increase

MOSCOW: Russian lawmakers backed a record increase in military spending to fund Moscow’s offensive on Ukraine, in ...

Published 27 Oct, 2023 05:16am

World

Putin: Russia expanding economic ties with CIS despite Western sanctions

BISHKEK: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Russia was expanding its economic ties with countries of...

Published 13 Oct, 2023 02:07pm

World

Putin meets former Wagner commander Troshev

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin was on Friday shown meeting one of the most senior former commanders of the...

Published 29 Sep, 2023 10:53am

World

In Russia’s Pacific port, residents await North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

VLADIVOSTOK: In Russia’s Pacific port, residents said the stars may have aligned for a visit by North Korean leader...

Published 11 Sep, 2023 02:47pm

World

Ukraine slams Putin plan to station Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus

KYIV: A top security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russian plans to station...

Published 26 Mar, 2023 02:03pm

World

Putin says Russia ‘not striving’ for return of Soviet Union

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was “not striving” to recreate the Soviet Union as...

Published 30 Sep, 2022 06:59pm

World

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 10:09pm

World

Khomeini invited Gorbachev to embrace Islam in 1989 letter

TEHRAN: Two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev would receive an unusual letter...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 05:50am

Editorials

Gorbachev: ‘reformist’ Soviet leader

EDITORIAL: Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who was loved abroad and loathed at home and is held responsible by President...

Published 01 Sep, 2022 05:50am

World

Putin says Gorbachev had ‘huge impact on world history’

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union...

Published 31 Aug, 2022 03:40pm

World

Defiant Ukraine marks Independence Day six months after invasion

KYIV: Ukrainians mark 31 years since they broke free from the Russia-dominated Soviet Union on Wednesday in what is...

Published 24 Aug, 2022 12:17pm

World

Two pilots killed as Soviet-era fighter jet crashes in India

NEW DELHI: Two pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the...

Published 30 Jul, 2022 03:39am

Opinion

FATF and its impact on country’s economy

Pakistan has gone through so many challenges and adversaries in its relatively short life span of 75 years that it ...

Published 03 Jul, 2022 05:39am

Opinion

Historical and socio-cultural antecedents: Russo-Ukrainian war (2022) — II

During the rule of imperial Russia and under the Soviet Union, Russian was the common language of public life in...

Updated 30 Jun, 2022 06:35am

World

Ukraine and Russia forces entrenched, Putin to mark WWII anniversary

Ukrainian and Russian forces were entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds on Wednesday, a day of commemoration...

Published 22 Jun, 2022 10:21am

Opinion

Historical and socio-cultural antecedents: Russo-Ukrainian war (2022) — I

Russia attacked neighboring Ukraine on 24 February 2022 after prolonged concentration of forces on Ukraine borders....

Published 05 Jun, 2022 05:54am

Markets

Russian gas exports drop 27 percent in January-May: Gazprom

MOSCOW: Russia’s Gazprom said Wednesday its gas exports to countries outside of the former Soviet Union dropped by...

Published 01 Jun, 2022 03:07pm

World

Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine’s first president, dies at 88

KYIV: Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped signed the Soviet Union’s death warrant and then served as the...

Published 11 May, 2022 12:47am

World

Grim search in blown-out Havana hotel, death toll at 26

HAVANA: Cuban rescue workers on Saturday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after a Havana...

Published 08 May, 2022 10:10am

World

Belarus leader who helped dissolve USSR has died: wife

MOSCOW: The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and...

Published 04 May, 2022 01:03pm

World

UK imposes largest ever asset freeze on two Abramovich associates

LONDON: Britain on Thursday sanctioned two close associates of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in response to...

Published 14 Apr, 2022 10:30pm

World

Xi to meet Putin as tensions rise with West

BEIJING: China's President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two...

Updated 04 Feb, 2022 10:56am

World

Britain warns Russia of sanctions on oligarchs if Ukraine is invaded

LONDON/MOSCOW: Britain urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to “step back from the brink” over...

Published 01 Feb, 2022 04:07am

Opinion

World faces prospect of WWIII?

Vladimir Putin is perhaps as strong as the then Soviet leader Josef Stalin was. Putin seeks to restore and expand ...

Updated 29 Jan, 2022 07:19am

Pakistan

Border fencing issue being addressed: Taliban

KARACHI: The Taliban’s Representative in Islamabad Sardar Ahmed Khan Shakeeb addressed a Webinar organized by...

Published 12 Jan, 2022 04:25am

Technology

Russia stages 'successful' third launch of new rocket

MOSCOW: Russia has conducted a third launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket, the first developed after the fall...

Updated 28 Dec, 2021 12:38pm

World

US became ‘arrogant’ after fall of Soviet Union: Gorbachev

MOSCOW: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that Washington grew “arrogant and self-confident”...

Published 25 Dec, 2021 05:02am

Editorials

Putin’s ‘czarist’ mindset

EDITORIAL: As the G-7 group bares its teeth to warn Russia against incursion into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin...

Published 14 Dec, 2021 06:40am

Putin laments collapse of Soviet Union

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of...

Updated 13 Dec, 2021 09:31am

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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