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Complexities of SOE reforms

EDITORIAL: Poorly performing state-owned enterprises (SOEs), wracked with chronic inefficiencies and ringing up...

Updated 26 Oct, 2024 07:42am

Between FY16 and FY23: fiscal support to SOEs escalates to Rs5.7trn, says SBP

KARACHI: State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Pakistan are posing a significant challenge to the economy, having...

Updated 22 Oct, 2024 04:41pm

CCP grants approval: PSPC acquires 100pc equity stakes in NSPC

ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has approved the acquisition of 100 percent equity shares of...

Updated 08 Oct, 2024 09:27am

Legislation related to privatisation of loss-making SOEs: Minister says govt will need support of Parliament

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb says loss-making state-owned enterprises causing one trillion rupees of 'drag' to the exchequer

Updated 11 Sep, 2024 09:34am

FBR amends Income Tax Rules: SOEs bound to approach ADRCs

ISLAMABAD: The state-owned enterprises have been bound to approach the alternate dispute resolution committees...

Updated 07 Sep, 2024 03:07pm

Business & Finance

Merger, dissolution of 82 SOEs endorsed

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet, on Tuesday, took significant steps towards institutional reforms, focusing on...

Published 28 Aug, 2024 06:22am

Markets

Federal cabinet approves merger, dissolution of 82 SOEs

PM Shehbaz constitutes committee to protect interests of employees to be affected, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting says

Published 27 Aug, 2024 10:05pm

Appointments of CEO, CFO, CIA and CS: MoF conveys to line ministries and SOEs the guidelines

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry has conveyed to all line ministries and federal state-owned enterprises guidelines...

Updated 16 Aug, 2024 03:15pm

CCoSOEs approves NSPC-PSPC re-merger

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises (CCoSOEs) has approved the re-merger of National...

Updated 06 Aug, 2024 09:29am

2024-29 sell-off roadmap presented to Dar

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) meeting held with the Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign...

Updated 03 Aug, 2024 12:17pm

NICL, SLICL, PRCL no longer strategic SOEs?

Cabinet Committee decides companies did not meet criteria of strategic or essential SOEs

Updated 23 Jul, 2024 12:30pm

Editorials

PSM and the wider debate about SOEs

EDITORIAL: The Board of Directors (BoD) of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is either reading too much into recent...

Published 19 Jul, 2024 06:12am

Senate passes SOEs amendment bill

ISLAMABAD: The Senate, Friday, passed with majority vote amidst opposition protest, the State Owned-Enterprises...

Updated 06 Jul, 2024 03:47pm

Categorisation of commercial SOEs: PM irked by delay in submission of summaries

Directs concerned secretaries to personally and proactively oversee the process to ensure submission of requisite recommendations/summaries to Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises

Updated 08 Jun, 2024 05:20pm

Business & Finance

PM unveils plan to sell most SOEs

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will privatise all state-owned enterprises, with the exception of strategic entities, Prime...

Published 15 May, 2024 05:47am

Pakistan

Barring ‘strategic entities’, Pakistan to pursue privatisation of all SOEs: PM Shehbaz

In official statement, premier says govt should not be in business of doing business

Updated 14 May, 2024 09:21pm

Once in every 5 years: Govt would be required to design ‘SOEs policy’

ISLAMABAD: The federal government would be required, at least once in every five years, to prepare and prescribe a...

Updated 01 Dec, 2023 12:41pm

SOEs monitoring under IMF SBA: Finance Division yet to operationalise CMU

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Division has yet to complete the operationalisation of the Central Monitoring Unit (CMU) by...

Updated 26 Aug, 2023 06:28pm

Govt required to keep SOEs under MoF oversight: IMF

KARACHI: The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) representative in Pakistan on Wednesday said that the reform...

Updated 24 Aug, 2023 09:49am

Opinion

Elephant in the room

To understand strategy in a simple manner three questions are quite helpful. When deciding on a course of action ask...

Published 24 Jul, 2023 06:11am

Editorials

SOEs: We need genuine action, not just lip service

EDITORIAL: It is increasingly appears that the federal government has a new priority. As per a Business Recorder...

Published 24 Jul, 2023 06:11am

Opinion

SOEs: privatisation the only solution

Driven by the current ‘four-point must list of IMF’ to qualify for the next tranche of Fund’s lending in...

Published 22 Jul, 2023 06:15am

Opinion

‘Learning From Others’—II

In Pakistan we do not appreciate the fact that we have lived beyond our means’ for far too long at our own peril....

Updated 24 May, 2023 06:49am

Opinion

Shock therapy neoliberal market reform in Pakistan

One can only be shocked to see the lack of understanding by local media, and many of their guests on TV shows...

Updated 28 Apr, 2023 06:28am

MoF prepares draft policy on SOEs

Pakistan has around 200 state-owned enterprises which are engaged in a diverse range of activities

Updated 21 Apr, 2023 02:02pm

Opinion

The challenge of SOEs — II

The SOEs (State-Owned Enterprises) are generally being run at the whim of a chosen few, who are beholden to no ...

Published 16 Feb, 2023 06:08am

Opinion

The challenge of SOEs – I

The state of Pakistan’s economy has been a constant subject of discussion over the past month or so in the print...

Published 15 Feb, 2023 06:27am

Reko Diq now more visible as SOEs sign deals

PPL together with OGDC and Government Holdings (Private) Limited sign deal

Updated 17 Dec, 2022 10:08am

Inter-governmental commercial transactions law: Govt deletes some proposed clauses

ISLAMABAD: The government has deleted some clauses proposed in Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions Act, 2022,...

Updated 08 Aug, 2022 09:39am

Pakistan

Govt’s vision to reform SOEs aimed at improving corporate governance: Miftah

ISLAMABAD: The government’s vision to reform State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) is to improve corporate governance and...

Published 30 Jul, 2022 03:39am

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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