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UK

Religio-racial hatred in UK

EDITORIAL: Anti-Muslim hate crimes have surged in the UK. In the latest incident brought to the Hertfordshire...

Published 20 Apr, 2025 02:50am

Pakistan

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

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 29	281.08
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 29	280.83
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 29	142.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 29	0.82
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 29	1.34
Euro to USD / Apr 29	1.14
UK LIBOR % / Apr 24	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 28	5,528.75
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 28	35,839.99
Nasdaq / Apr 28	17,366.13
Dow Jones / Apr 28	40,227.59
India Sensex / Apr 29	80,307.05
Hang Seng / Apr 29	21,960.83
FTSE 100 / Apr 29	8,417.19
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 29	22,386.66
France CAC40 / Apr 29	7,578.21

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 28	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 28	297,582
Petrol/Litre / Apr 29	254.63
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 29	61.34
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 29	3,315.07
Diesel/Litre / Apr 29	258.64
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 29	67.50

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Apna Microfin. / Apr 29 Apna Microfinance Bank Limited(AMBL)	10.29 ▲ 0.97 (10.41%)
EMCO Industries / Apr 29 Emco Industries Limited(EMCO)	42.20 ▲ 3.84 (10.01%)
Askari Bank / Apr 29 Askari Bank Limited(AKBL)	37.26 ▲ 3.39 (10.01%)
Punjab Oil / Apr 29 Punjab Oil Mills Limited(POML)	162.43 ▲ 14.77 (10%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Apr 29 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	3,969.39 ▲ 360.85 (10%)
Shakarganj / Apr 29 Shakarganj Limited(SML)	47.94 ▲ 4.36 (10%)
S.S.Oil / Apr 29 S.S.Oil Mills Limited(SSOM)	432.04 ▲ 39.28 (10%)
Jubilee Spinning / Apr 29 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	11.55 ▲ 1.05 (10%)
Sunrays Textile / Apr 29 Sunrays Textile Mills Limited(SUTM)	189.22 ▲ 17.2 (10%)
Faran Sugar / Apr 29 Faran Sugar Mills Limited(FRSM)	47.08 ▲ 4.28 (10%)

Stock	Price
First Capital Equities / Apr 29 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	4 ▼ -0.92 (-18.7%)
Tariq Corp.Pref. / Apr 29 Tariq Corporation Limited-Preference Shares(TCORPCPS)	6.88 ▼ -1 (-12.69%)
LSE Capital / Apr 29 LSE Capital Limited(LSECL)	4.54 ▼ -0.55 (-10.81%)
Olympia Mills / Apr 29 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Apr 29 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	38.40 ▼ -4.25 (-9.96%)
Imperial Limited / Apr 29 Imperial Limited(IML)	15.82 ▼ -1.73 (-9.86%)
Shezan Inter. / Apr 29 Shezan International Limited(SHEZ)	184 ▼ -19.58 (-9.62%)
F.Credit & Inv / Apr 29 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.25 ▼ -0.74 (-9.26%)
Beco Steel Ltd / Apr 29 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	8.24 ▼ -0.82 (-9.05%)
First Fid. Leasing / Apr 29 First Fidelity Leasing Modaraba(FFLM)	1.91 ▼ -0.19 (-9.05%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 29 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,766,867 ▲ 0
At-Tahur Ltd. / Apr 29 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	12,153,125 ▼ -5.57
Maple Leaf Cement / Apr 29 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	10,951,069 ▲ 1.75
Sui North Gas / Apr 29 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited(SNGP)	10,283,177 ▲ 5.63
Sui South Gas / Apr 29 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	9,860,235 ▲ 0.93
Cnergyico PK / Apr 29 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	9,459,160 ▲ 0.19
Kohinoor Spining / Apr 29 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	9,027,177 ▼ -0.12
B.O.Punjab / Apr 29 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	9,005,856 ▲ 0
Big Bird Foods / Apr 29 Big Bird Foods Limited(BBFL)	8,872,660 ▲ 3.92
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 29 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	8,160,320 ▼ -0.01

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