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Transparency wanting in INGO policy

For past seven years, the INGO and developmental assistance sector has become a casualty of state’s frustration over the

Published 07 Jan, 2019 06:16am

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Smog, pollution and breakdowns

Power breakdowns are back in the northern parts of the country for the past two days. Most of Punjab and Islamabad are e

Published 04 Jan, 2019 06:39am

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Petroleum sales in 2018

The petroleum product sales by the oil marketing segment, which are also widely referred to as oil sales, lost their vig

Published 04 Jan, 2019 06:30am

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Wanted: sunflower cultivation

Sunflower acreage has declined steadily over the last decade and has become stagnant in recent years. The main reason fo

Published 04 Jan, 2019 06:27am

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Tobaccos: the year ahead

The year 2018 was a turnaround year for the two major tobacco multinationals operating in the formal fold. That’s the ye

Published 04 Jan, 2019 06:26am

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Dealing with taxation ills

The biggest economic problem in Pakistan is persistently high fiscal deficit and within it the narrow tax base and low t

Published 03 Jan, 2019 06:50am

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The second ship-breaking yard

The establishment of a ship breaking yard at Gwadar has been approved by the government. Balochistan already has one of

Published 03 Jan, 2019 06:32am

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Inflation waiting for electricity shock

Consumer inflation measured by CPI for December 2018 clocked in at 6.17 percent. This is lower than market expectations

Published 03 Jan, 2019 06:26am

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Can trade diplomacy really deliver?

Pakistani governments have been trying to boost exports for a long time. Various ‘export packages’ have been experimente

Published 02 Jan, 2019 05:19am

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EU’s palm oil ban in Pakistan’s favour

In December 2015, Denmark, France, UK, Germany, Netherlands, and Norway signed the Amsterdam Declaration declaring thems

Published 02 Jan, 2019 05:09am

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Envoys conference: trade mission reforms

Yesterday’s piece on envoy conference concluded by flagging that no formal mechanism of coordination currently exists be

Published 01 Jan, 2019 06:59am

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Learning the ropes

The year 2018 started with concerns for Pakistan’s political stability. After much ado, the New Year dawns with an eerie

Published 01 Jan, 2019 06:49am

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Envoys conference: a lost opportunity?

Islamabad held a two-day envoys’ conference late last week. The agenda was to deliberate ways and means to grow foreign

Published 31 Dec, 2018 06:15am

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Taxes: third time may not be a charm

With yet another mini budget expected next month amid steeply falling short of revenue collection target - and before th

Published 31 Dec, 2018 06:13am

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Muscle or machine

After experiencing nearly 30 percent growth in sales in FY18, the tractor industry is now invariably prepared for a slow

Updated 28 Dec, 2018 10:48am

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Wooing Chinese private sector

The PTI is in an unenviable position. Of the many things the ruling party has to do to fix the country’s external imbala

Published 27 Dec, 2018 06:40am

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Gender balancing

If global rankings are taken as a gauge, gender inequality can’t get worse than where the latest World Economic Forum’s

Published 27 Dec, 2018 06:33am

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CPEC: 8th JCC

The 8th Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting was held late last week, but sentiments among business and policy comm

Published 26 Dec, 2018 06:41am

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Moving towards soda tax

It has been over three weeks since the federal government announced its intent to impose a ‘sin tax’ on cigarettes and b

Published 26 Dec, 2018 06:36am

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US pullout: more uncertainty

The US President started 2018 with a biting tweet lashing out at Pakistan and is ending the year with a fine New-year pr

Published 26 Dec, 2018 06:35am

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Oilseed cultivation – a win on all sides

China plans to remove import and export tariffs on a range of goods at the start of January next year. For most part, Pa

Published 26 Dec, 2018 06:29am

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5MFY19 – Exports round up

Exports and imports both have stagnated at around 1 percent growth YoY. Though the cooling down of imports has decreased

Published 24 Dec, 2018 05:39am

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The Afghan question

Peace in Afghanistan remains hostage to an on-again, off-again dialogue among more than half a dozen stakeholders. Almos

Published 20 Dec, 2018 05:50am

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Balochistan issues: accept and address

Every time Balochistan expresses concerns over zero or weak progress on the development of CPEC’s western corridor, ther

Published 19 Dec, 2018 06:31am

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A boost for REITs?

The real estate sector has come under the government’s scrutiny, which is trying to formalise the sector with ongoing mo

Published 19 Dec, 2018 06:25am

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PBC & Pakistan

For those who are still unsure, the battle of Islamabad has been won by big corporates. That was the single biggest take

Published 18 Dec, 2018 06:20am

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The non-NFC agenda!

A host of recent media reports say that Balochistan is deeply concerned about its share of CPEC projects. Given the clou

Published 13 Dec, 2018 06:25am

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Trade data: no reason to rejoice

Imports in November 2018 stood at $4.6 billion – fifth consecutive month for imports under $5 billion. That is about the

Published 13 Dec, 2018 06:16am

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Economics of sports

Given the current economic crisis at hand, some out-of-the-box theories have been presented to address the situation. Fr

Published 13 Dec, 2018 06:13am

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Fighting climate risks

Coal power generation is one ‘dirty’ business in this age of rising environmental concerns, and Pakistan is going to get

Published 13 Dec, 2018 06:10am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 17	278.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 17	278.10
USD to Japanese Yen / May 17	155.67
USD to Swiss Franc / May 17	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 17	1.27
Euro to USD / May 17	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 16	5297.10
Nasdaq / May 16	16698.32
Dow Jones / May 16	39869.38
India Sensex / May 17	73946.83
Tokyo Nikkei / May 17	38787.38
Hang Seng / May 17	19525.75
FTSE 100 / May 17	8430.62
Germany DAX 30 / May 17	18692.83

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 17	79.59
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 17	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 17	210048
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 17	2386.18
Cotton US¢/pound / May 17	76.29
Petrol/Litre / May 18	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 18 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 18 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 18 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 18 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 18 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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