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Property valuation: Round 2 – Start!

Almost the same time last year, the real estate market was jolted for regulation and oversight for what could be the fir

Updated 13 Jun, 2017 11:48am

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Save for a better future

Pakistan has always been a consumption based economy and it continues to be one; FY17 was no different as consumptio

Published 13 Jun, 2017 05:42am

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Of Saaf Pani and ambitious promises

One of the most basic rights a citizen should have is that of access to pure and clean drinking water. However, while br

Published 13 Jun, 2017 05:40am

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Development: KP leads among laggards

Data show Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has been leading other provinces on development spending. As per federal finance m

Updated 12 Jun, 2017 06:15am

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Non-profits in Budget FY18 – (II)

Following up on last week’s discussion, today’s article looks at the second of the major announcements made in the b

Published 12 Jun, 2017 05:29am

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Sindh: big on infrastructure

Sindh has not been a leader when it comes to development spending. In the eight years between FY09 and FY16, the Sin

Updated 10 Jun, 2017 01:32pm

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SBP: Governor with a spine

The State Bank of Pakistan is one and perhaps the only institution which economists and analysts used to mark as a s

Updated 09 Jun, 2017 04:39am

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Reading dividend taxation

Tax rates on corporate payouts are set to head higher; increase in the dividend tax has been one of the many tax pro

Updated 08 Jun, 2017 11:56am

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Non-profits in Budget FY18 – (I)

Two big measures were announced in the federal budget regarding non-profits (NPOs) in Pakistan. Today’s article look

Published 08 Jun, 2017 03:21am

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Unemployment declining. Or is it?

A few days ago, this column wrote on certain inexplicable numbers in the economic survey, so here are some more nugg

Published 08 Jun, 2017 03:20am

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Punjab: low on social development

The Shahbaz Sharif government presented its tenth-consecutive provincial budget last Saturday. While the outlays are

Published 07 Jun, 2017 02:44am

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Here’s to the inexplicable ones

The misfits; the round pegs in square holes; the ones not fond of rules; the ones who have no respect for common sen

Updated 06 Jun, 2017 10:39am

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Will the fruit ban bear fruits?

The Facebook brigade and Whatsapp evangelists are at it again. This time they are proposing a ban on purchasing frui

Published 05 Jun, 2017 04:42am

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Punjab budget

Punjab government announced a budget close to Rs2 trillion for inhabitants of over hundred million last week. It’s a

Updated 05 Jun, 2017 05:10am

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Inflation at 32-month high

The CPI has surely started to grow more muscle - having recorded a 32-month high of 5.02 percent in May 2017. There

Published 02 Jun, 2017 02:04am

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Inevitable circular debt?

The circular debt menace is back. Dar took the step of clearing the debt right at the onset of joining government an

Updated 02 Jun, 2017 09:26am

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Charter of Economy: follow up on the 14 Points

The Fourteen Points of Charter of Economy, published earlier this week in these columns, invited a host of individu

Updated 01 Jun, 2017 09:09am

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ICT in the budget

So far as optics is concerned, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry figured prominently in the f

Updated 31 May, 2017 10:24am

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Making corporate income tax effective

The first positive step Dar took in his maiden budget speech (FY14) was to reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 per

Updated 31 May, 2017 10:46am

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In charter(ed) waters again

The Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has repeated his call for consensus on economic priorities and agenda, asking for what he

Updated 30 May, 2017 11:36am

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Fiscal optimism

The number-fudging (or at least overstating) game continues in fiscal accounts. The fiscal deficit target for FY17 i

Published 30 May, 2017 06:30am

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The Fourteen Points of Charter of Economy

Call it the “Charter of Economy” or “national consensus on core economic agenda”; the idea to lay down a broad framework

Published 30 May, 2017 06:27am

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Agri financing FY18: Shoot for the moon

Rs1001 billion is the hot number in this budget; it is the surprisingly high PSDP allocation for FY18 and incidental

Published 30 May, 2017 06:22am

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Agriculture (2016-17): the year of sugarcane

While the Finance Ministry is patting itself on the back for the decade-high GDP growth, the ‘up-to-the-mark’ perfor

Published 29 May, 2017 05:13am

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PSDP: big on the highway

Striking is a trillion rupees earmarked for PSDP projects next fiscal. Perhaps more arresting is the fact that highw

Published 29 May, 2017 04:49am

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On divisible pool deductions

It is quintessential of critics to question the credibility of every statistic released by incumbent Pakistani gover

Updated 07 Jun, 2017 02:34am

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Demographics look challenging

Economic survey is here and it is statistics galore. What usually get lost in the ‘economic’ discourse are the demog

Published 26 May, 2017 04:25am

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Economic Survey: Fix it

In June 2015, this column opined that the sin of Economic Survey is not as much a sin of commission but a sin of omi

Updated 26 May, 2017 11:09am

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Trade policy: remove the blinders!

In the last budget, Dar and company announced a number of measures for “export promotion” which among some vague mea

Published 26 May, 2017 04:23am

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Numbers must not lie

The trade deficit as per the SBP is not widening as fast as it is in reality. We spoke about this issue in an earlier: S

Published 25 May, 2017 04:20am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 31	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 31	278.22
USD to Japanese Yen / May 31	157.31
USD to Swiss Franc / May 31	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / May 31	1.27
Euro to USD / May 31	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 31	5277.51
India Sensex / May 31	73961.31
Tokyo Nikkei / May 31	38487.90
Nasdaq / May 31	16735.02
Hang Seng / May 31	18079.61
FTSE 100 / May 31	8275.38
Dow Jones / May 31	38686.32
Germany DAX 30 / May 31	18497.94

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 31	76.99
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 31	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 31	207219
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 31	2327.33
Cotton US¢/pound / May 31	75.11
Petrol/Litre / Jun 1	268.36

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jun 1 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jun 1 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jun 1 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jun 1 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jun 1 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jun 1 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jun 1 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jun 1 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jun 1 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jun 1 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jun 1 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jun 1 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jun 1 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jun 1 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jun 1 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jun 1 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jun 1 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jun 1 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Jun 1 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jun 1 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Jun 1 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jun 1 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Jun 1 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Jun 1 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jun 1 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 1 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jun 1 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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