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Turning on tobacco

Are Pakistanis smoking less of tobacco these days? The countryâ€™s leading tobacco player, Pakistan Tobacco Company

Published 10 Apr, 2017 06:05am

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Back to the future: a story of Pakistan's turnaround

Tomorrow in Islamabad, Nadeem Ul-Haq is giving back-to-back lectures on his recently-published book called: "Looking Bac

Updated 24 Jul, 2017 11:15am

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'Our focus is the end user', Country Manager, and GM Dawlance

With over 32 years of rich professional experience, Salih ArslantaÅŸ currently serves as General Manager of Dawlance. He

Published 10 Apr, 2017 05:55am

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Indiaâ€™s unintended digital boost

Contrary to some punditsâ€™ projections, Indiaâ€™s cash crunch ensuing the November 8 â€˜demonetizationâ€™ didnâ€™t quit

Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:44am

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IMFâ€™s cautions

â€œAfter three years of reforms, Pakistan has strengthened its macroeconomic resilience and economic outlook, providing

Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:32am

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Rent seeking needs to go

Rent seeking in Pakistan has its roots to pre-partition. In 1930s when congress decided to undertake land reforms in Ind

Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:31am

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The father is always right

Ten years ago Mr. M – a young entrepreneur from Karachi - joined his decades-old family business after passing his CFA e

Updated 13 May, 2020 04:55pm

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Pakistanâ€™s alarming cost of food exports

A ground-breaking study published recently in the Nature journal has some alarming revelations for Pakistanâ€™s already

Published 06 Apr, 2017 05:41am

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Underreporting of CPEC-related imports

The current account deficit has been widening, with the dual effect of rising capital imports and a long running dec

Updated 07 Apr, 2017 07:22am

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Horticulture exports

Another of our exports that has been taking a beating lately is in horticulture; for the eight months ended FY17, fruit

Published 06 Apr, 2017 05:27am

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Fixing the NFC award

Building up on our yesterdayâ€™s discussion on how to fix the NFC award, the first consultative meeting by PRIME Ins

Published 05 Apr, 2017 05:50am

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SPS & exports: USDAâ€™s training

Last week, the USDA, in partnership with CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International) and Texas A&M Un

Published 05 Apr, 2017 05:47am

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CPI at a 30-month high

The CPI is slowly but surely creeping up â€“ having recorded a 30-month high of 4.94 percent in March 2017. It was a

Published 04 Apr, 2017 05:30am

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NFC Negotiations

By now it is clear that the upcoming budget will be formed on the basis of the 2010 NFC Award. There is also little

Updated 04 Apr, 2017 06:00am

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Women on the board

The number of women on the corporate boards in Pakistan is still negligible; the recent news reports of 21 out of 559 (o

Published 04 Apr, 2017 05:27am

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Dassu: moving ahead

The much needed and long awaited work on Dassu Hydropower Project (DHP) has started with the Chinese Gezhouba Group

Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:13am

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Economy is heating up

Vibes are good and storytelling is positive. SBP's second quarterly report tends to highlight silver linings in the econ

Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:09am

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On crowd-funding in Pakistan

Last Monday, SECP, Pakistanâ€™s corporate regulator, warned public about a crowd-funding website raising funds from the

Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:07am

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Depoliticising census

The census remains a sensitive subject since population is linked to political and economic distribution in various

Published 31 Mar, 2017 06:22am

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What is driving economy?

Numbers don't lie. Look at the GDP graph; in nominal terms, it changed gears in FY02 and the turbo is on since then - It

Published 30 Mar, 2017 05:43am

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What next for Reko Diq?

This year, the mighty and much-desired Reko Diq copper-gold deposits celebrate the silver jubilee of their 1992 discover

Published 30 Mar, 2017 05:39am

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CPEC: Framing the right policy issues

Now that the majority of CPEC early harvest energy and infrastructure projects are well underway, Pakistan needs to thin

Updated 29 Mar, 2017 08:27am

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Tourism: Need for central coordination

Well, cherries have now started to blossom in the picturesque Hunza valley. That will commence domestic tourism season i

Published 29 Mar, 2017 06:16am

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Can Pakistan grow muscle on meat exports?

In recent news, the Brazilian meat industry received a bad cut. A host of Brazilian meat buyers across the world had

Updated 30 Mar, 2017 11:35am

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Rice export blues

Rice exporters seem to be in deep trouble, as the latest PBS numbers spell out disaster; for the eight months ended FY17

Published 29 Mar, 2017 05:43am

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Between the heaven and a tax cut

This year, the industry of philanthropy in Pakistan joins the ranks of those that ask for special concessions in federal

Published 27 Mar, 2017 06:41am

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Cute ideas!

Some ideas are cute, “only to be appreciated from a distance”, as one grey haired bureaucrat smilingly quipped last week

Updated 22 Jul, 2019 07:18am

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Trade troubles continue

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported shows that trade deficit has dangerously widened by 34 percent in

Updated 30 Mar, 2017 12:07pm

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Weak prep work for regional integration

In yesterdayâ€™s op-ed section of this newspaper, Dr Shamshad Akhtar, the former SBP governor and current executive

Updated 22 Mar, 2017 09:17am

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The black box of provincial economies

By next summer Pakistanis will hopefully be heading to the polls to choose their national and provincial political leaders for the ensuing five years.

Updated 26 May, 2017 11:06am

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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