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Three US troops killed in drone attack on base in Jordan

WASHINGTON: Three US service members were killed and dozens wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on US...

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 09:14am

Pakistan

Expulsion of illegal Afghans: Three top US officials set to visit country

ISLAMABAD: Weeks after Pakistan sent a large number of illegal Afghan immigrants back to their crisis-wracked...

Updated 04 Dec, 2023 08:51am

Pakistan

Long wait for freedom: Afghan refugees in limbo in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Abdullah was a well-known public figure in Afghanistan, a journalist and university lecturer respected by...

Updated 30 Nov, 2023 10:09pm

World

Blinken raised Sikh separatist murder with India’s Jaishankar, US official says

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged India to cooperate with a Canadian investigation into...

Published 29 Sep, 2023 10:39am

Business & Finance

Reforms could boost World Bank lending to developing countries

WASHINGTON: Reforming the World Bank’s approach to risk could unlock nearly $190 billion in additional urgently...

Published 27 Sep, 2023 12:02pm

World

Sudan’s rival forces agree to protect civilians but no ceasefire

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s warring factions early on Friday committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian...

Published 12 May, 2023 11:08am

World

Iran, US negotiators to travel to Vienna for nuclear pact talks

DUBAI: Top Iranian and US officials will resume talks in Vienna this week on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact,...

Published 04 Aug, 2022 07:25am

US intel helping Ukraine kill Russian generals: NYT

WASHINGTON: The United States has provided intelligence that has helped Ukrainian forces kill many of the Russian...

Published 06 May, 2022 05:03am

Opinion

Aviation fears grow over Russia fallout from Ukraine crisis

Airlines and the leasing companies that control billions of dollars’ worth of passenger jets are drawing up...

Published 16 Feb, 2022 06:20am

World

US discusses ‘potential’ resettlement with Afghans in UAE

ABU DHABI: US officials in the United Arab Emirates met with Afghans after a protest in Abu Dhabi this week and...

Published 14 Feb, 2022 06:47am

World

Russian forces at 70% of level needed for full Ukraine invasion

WASHINGTON: Russia has in place about 70% of the combat power it believes it would need for a full-scale invasion of...

Published 06 Feb, 2022 11:30am

World

US bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul

WASHINGTON: The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied US landing rights for a charter plane carrying ...

Published 29 Sep, 2021 11:44am

US strikes at IS militants in Kabul as withdrawal nears end

KABUL: A US drone strike on Sunday hit a suicide bomber in a vehicle who was aiming to attack Kabul airport as US...

Published 30 Aug, 2021 05:11am

Technology

US approves licenses for Huawei to buy auto chips

The Biden administration has been reinforcing the hard line on exports to Huawei, denying licenses to sell chips to Huawei for use in or with 5g devices

Published 25 Aug, 2021 10:47am

World

Stranded Afghan refugees yearn for new lives abroad

DUBAI: The Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan forced Hariss to bring forward his escape plan, only to find...

Published 22 Aug, 2021 04:09am

Airlift begins for Afghans who worked for US

WASHINGTON: Some 200 Afghans were set to begin new lives in the United States on Friday as an airlift got under way...

Published 31 Jul, 2021 02:06am

World

US moves to shield secrets in Saudi spy case in Canada

The legal drama exposes the power plays within the secretive royal family

Published 28 Jul, 2021 09:58am

World

US offers rewards to stop foreign ransomware attacks

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday offered $10 million rewards for information on online extortionists abroad...

Published 16 Jul, 2021 04:34am

World

Biden sends unofficial US delegation to Taiwan

Biden has made clear he wishes to cooperate with China on common causes such as climate change.

Published 14 Apr, 2021 10:54am

Five killed in multiple Kabul bomb attacks

KABUL: Three explosions rocked Kabul Saturday morning, killing at least five people and injuring two others,...

Updated 21 Feb, 2021 05:11pm

World

New Mexico official, who founded 'Cowboys for Trump,' arrested in connection with US Capitol riot

Two cousins, Daniel Adams of Texas and Cody Connell of Louisiana.

Published 18 Jan, 2021 12:05pm

World

China sanctions US officials over Hong Kong moves

The financial hub was rocked by pro-democracy protests last year that were largely halted by a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing, drawing criticism over eroding rights from countries including the US.
On Monday, the US said it was freezing any US assets and barring travel to the United States for 14 vice-chairs of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, which spearheaded the tough new law.

Published 10 Dec, 2020 02:33pm

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
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

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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