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SDPI holds seminar: Speakers highlight need for robust tobacco tax policy

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar on Monday expressed serious concern that the absence of taxation on smokeless...

Published 19 Nov, 2024 06:34am

Opinion

Tobacco taxes – treaties, tensions, and trends

Pakistan faces a pressing need for a sustainable tobacco taxation policy, particularly as tobacco use imposes severe...

Published 13 Nov, 2024 07:15am

Pakistan

PM’s statement against tobacco consumption lauded

ISLAMABAD: Anti-tobacco and health activists across the country have welcomed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s...

Published 10 Jun, 2024 06:52am

Business & Finance

Raising tobacco taxes: experts say significant progress made

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made significant progress in raising tobacco taxes with new recommendations of the World...

Updated 07 May, 2024 08:02am

Budget 2024-25: SPDC proposes 37pc increase in FED on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: The Social Policy Development Centre (SPDC) has proposed a 37 percent increase in Federal Excise Duty...

Updated 06 May, 2024 09:01am

Pakistan

Illicit cigarette industry: Govt likely to announce support to small shopkeepers

ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to announce support and assistance to small shopkeepers across the country to...

Published 07 Jun, 2023 06:05am

Pakistan

Health activists praise PM for raising FED on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: Health activists highly appreciated Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s fiscal policy stance of raising...

Published 06 May, 2023 06:23am

Pakistan

Over 210,000 smokers die annually due to health issues: report

ISLAMABAD: Over 210,000 people die every year in Pakistan due to smoking-related health issues, according to a...

Published 14 Apr, 2023 05:59am

Pakistan

Call for imposing hefty taxation on tobacco products to curb fatal diseases

ISLAMABAD. Health professionals while stressing the need for imposing hefty taxation on tobacco and tobacco products...

Published 24 Dec, 2022 07:22am

Unmanufactured tobacco: Adjustable FED of Rs390/kg not applicable on farmers: FBR

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Member Inland Revenue (Operations), Malik Amajd Zubair Tiwana, said...

Updated 15 Oct, 2022 09:49am

Business & Finance

Tobacco farmers urge govt to withdraw advance tax

ISLAMABAD: Tobacco farmers on Monday urged the government to withdraw Rs 390 per kilogram advance tax on the tobacco...

Published 23 Aug, 2022 06:48am

Pakistan

Panah congratulated

KARACHI: Health experts, civil society, journalists and various schools of thought congratulate Panah on raising...

Published 20 Jun, 2022 05:51am

Pakistan

Experts praise increase in taxes on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: Health experts have expressed satisfaction over government’s decision to increase taxation on tobacco...

Published 14 Jun, 2022 05:56am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Petrol/Litre / Dec 21	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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