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UK

Pakistan’s remittances surge 37% YoY in March, cross $4bn mark for first time

Experts warn that the momentum may not be sustained

Updated 14 Apr, 2025 02:12pm

Business & Finance

UK pledges £20bn to help firms amid US tariff turmoil

LONDON: The UK pledged £20 billion ($26 billion) on Sunday to help exporters including those affected by US ...

Published 14 Apr, 2025 05:20am

Pakistan

Prof Khurshid passes away in UK

ISLAMABAD: A staunch supporter of Kashmir freedom movement, writer and scholar Professor Khurshid Ahmed passed away...

Published 14 Apr, 2025 05:20am

World

UK passes emergency law to save British Steel

LONDON: The UK passed an emergency law on Saturday to stop the last British factory that can make steel from scratch...

Published 13 Apr, 2025 02:50am

Pakistan

PM arrives in London

KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in London on Friday night from Belarus for a brief two-day visit and...

Published 12 Apr, 2025 05:40am

World

UK will not change online safety law as part of US trade negotiations

LONDON: Britain will not make any changes to its Online Safety Act as part of trade negotiations with the United...

Published 09 Apr, 2025 01:47pm

World

UK finance minister says she will meet US treasury secretary ‘shortly’

LONDON: British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday she would meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...

Updated 08 Apr, 2025 08:15pm

Pakistan

Talal represents Pakistan at ‘Border Security Summit 2025’ in London

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry participated in the Border Security Summit 2025 held in...

Published 03 Apr, 2025 05:23am

Business & Finance

BNP Paribas’s UK Head of Global Banking Ponsonby resigns

LONDON: BNP Paribas’s UK head of global banking Matthew Ponsonby has resigned from his positions, the bank said on...

Published 30 Mar, 2025 07:21am

World

Huge Iron Age hoard sheds fresh light on ancient Britain

LONDON: Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the discovery of one of the UK’s “biggest and most important” Iron...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 07:23am

Business & Finance

UK slashes growth forecast, cuts public spending

LONDON: The UK government halved its 2025 growth forecast on Wednesday as it made billions of pounds of spendings...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 07:01am

World

UK finance minister says govt to cut costs by 15pc

LONDON: UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said Sunday she plans to cut the costs of running government by 15 percent...

Published 24 Mar, 2025 05:33am

World

UK teen who planned school massacre jailed for life

LONDON: A UK teenager who killed three family members and planned to outdo notorious US massacres to become “the...

Published 20 Mar, 2025 05:30am

Pakistan

190m pounds transferred from UK to build varsity condemned

ISLAMABAD: Former senator and president human rights cell of PPP Farhatullah Babar has issued the following ...

Published 18 Mar, 2025 08:18am

World

Starmer to host coalition call as he says Putin ‘not serious about peace’

LONDON: UK premier Keir Starmer will prod fellow leaders Saturday to sign up to a coalition willing to protect any...

Published 15 Mar, 2025 10:34am

World

France, Italy, UK order more air defence missiles

PARIS: Paris, Rome and London said Friday they had ordered new air defence missiles after a shock US policy shift in...

Published 14 Mar, 2025 08:00pm

World

Court upholds jail terms for relatives of murdered UK-Pakistani girl

LONDON: A UK court on Thursday upheld lengthy prison terms handed to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old...

Published 14 Mar, 2025 05:34am

Perspectives

Global AI divide - US and UK refusal to sign Paris AI Declaration

The Global AI Summit in Paris, a gathering of over 50 nations aimed at establishing a global framework for the...

Published 11 Mar, 2025 03:49pm

World

UK to cut energy bills of residents near new pylons

LONDON: The UK announced Monday that households living near new electricity pylons will benefit from reduced energy...

Published 11 Mar, 2025 05:35am

World

UK, France, Italy, Germany hail Arab plan to rebuild for Gaza

BERLIN: Britain, France, Germany and Italy on Saturday backed a proposal by Muslim-majority nations to rebuild Gaza...

Published 09 Mar, 2025 05:17am

World

Sikh separatists heckle Indian FM in London

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday condemned a security breach during its foreign minister’s visit to London when a...

Published 07 Mar, 2025 06:04am

World

Royal Society of top scientists mulls call to oust Musk

LONDON: Britain’s Royal Society will hold a crunch meeting on Monday following calls to expel technology billionaire...

Published 04 Mar, 2025 06:30am

World

‘Coalition of the willing’ to present Ukraine peace plan to US: Starmer

LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday European leaders had agreed to draw up a Ukraine peace...

Published 03 Mar, 2025 07:47am

World

UK pauses most direct aid to Rwanda over DR Congo conflict: govt

LONDON: The UK government said Tuesday that it was suspending most direct bilateral aid to Rwanda over an offensive...

Published 26 Feb, 2025 12:02am

World

India, UK plan to accelerate talks on proposed trade deal

NEW DELHI: India and the UK have decided to resume talks on a proposed trade agreement, Indian Trade Minister Piyush...

Published 24 Feb, 2025 05:02pm

World

UK urged to help elderly British couple detained by Taliban

LONDON: A British couple in their 70s who ran education programmes in Afghanistan have been detained by the Taliban...

Published 24 Feb, 2025 04:49pm

Pakistan

UK surgeons to perform heart surgeries of children

LAHORE: A delegation of British cardiac surgeons will be visiting the University of Child Health Sciences and the...

Published 21 Feb, 2025 06:49am

Business & Finance

AstraZeneca ditches UK investment over cut in state support

LONDON: AstraZeneca on Friday scrapped plans to invest 450 million pounds ($558.3 million) in its vaccine...

Published 03 Feb, 2025 06:41am

World

UK confirms ‘rare’ human case of bird flu

LONDON: A “rare” human case of bird flu has been detected in England, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA)...

Published 28 Jan, 2025 06:45am

World

Prince Harry settles lawsuit against Murdoch’s UK tabloids

LONDON: Prince Harry dramatically settled Wednesday his long-running lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid...

Published 23 Jan, 2025 06:14am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 18	280.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 18	280.45
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 17	142.33
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 17	0.82
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 17	1.33
Euro to USD / Apr 17	1.14
UK LIBOR % / Apr 17	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 17	5,282.70
India Sensex / Apr 17	78,553.20
Nasdaq / Apr 17	16,286.45
Hang Seng / Apr 17	21,395.14
FTSE 100 / Apr 17	8,275.66
Dow Jones / Apr 17	39,142.23
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 17	21,205.86
France CAC40 / Apr 17	7,285.86
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 18	34,730.28

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 17	64.68
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 17	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 17	300,068
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 17	3,326.85
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 17	67.13
Petrol/Litre / Apr 18	254.63
Diesel/Litre / Apr 18	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Apr 18 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.10 ▲ 0.65 (26.53%)
Oilboy Energy / Apr 18 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	10.91 ▲ 1 (10.09%)
Safe Mix Con.Lt / Apr 18 Safe Mix Concrete Limited(SMCPL)	18.11 ▲ 1.65 (10.02%)
Bunnys Limited / Apr 18 Bunnys Limited(BNL)	26.91 ▲ 2.45 (10.02%)
Nimir Resins / Apr 18 Nimir Resins Limited(NRSL)	46.70 ▲ 4.25 (10.01%)
Bawany Air Products / Apr 18 Bawany Air Products Limited(BAPL)	35.63 ▲ 3.24 (10%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Apr 18 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	24.08 ▲ 2.19 (10%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / Apr 18 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	63.90 ▲ 5.81 (10%)
ECOPACK Ltd / Apr 18 Ecopack Limited(ECOP)	32.79 ▲ 2.98 (10%)
S.S.Oil / Apr 18 S.S.Oil Mills Limited(SSOM)	269.05 ▲ 24.46 (10%)

Stock	Price
Oilboy Energy(R) / Apr 18 Oilboy Energy Limited(R)(OBOYR2)	0.81 ▼ -0.26 (-24.3%)
Shaheen Ins. / Apr 18 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	5.50 ▼ -1.67 (-23.29%)
Century Ins. / Apr 18 Century Insurance Company Limited(CENI)	42.15 ▼ -7.67 (-15.4%)
Gulshan Sp. / Apr 18 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	3.05 ▼ -0.43 (-12.36%)
Escorts Bank / Apr 18 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	6.01 ▼ -0.83 (-12.13%)
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.20 ▼ -0.83 (-10.34%)
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Apr 18 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	12.57 ▼ -1.4 (-10.02%)
Elahi Cot. / Apr 18 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	116.68 ▼ -12.96 (-10%)
Crescent Fib. / Apr 18 Crescent Fibres Limited(CFL)	45.25 ▼ -5 (-9.95%)
Shadab Textile / Apr 18 Shadab Textile Mills Limited(SHDT)	20.53 ▼ -2.12 (-9.36%)

Stock	Volume
Sui South Gas / Apr 18 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	30,824,297 ▲ 1.33
Pak Int.Bulk / Apr 18 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	24,453,930 ▲ 0.26
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	20,214,947 ▲ 0.1
Maple Leaf Cement / Apr 18 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	10,239,839 ▲ 0.84
Pak Elektron / Apr 18 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	8,968,513 ▼ -0.31
Cnergyico PK / Apr 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	7,649,804 ▼ -0.02
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	6,997,491 ▲ 0.01
B.O.Punjab / Apr 18 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	6,352,118 ▼ -0.12
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Apr 18 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	6,184,866 ▲ 1.07
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Apr 18 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	5,909,684 ▲ 0.09

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