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Zia Ul Islam Zuberi

Opinion

Traffic fines

The Sindh government recently announced that it is amending the motor vehicle law which will increase the fines...

Updated 14 Jun, 2025 07:59am

Opinion

Some nightmarish flights

It was a horrible nightmarish experience for passengers on a flight from Karachi to Lahore recently. Passengers were...

Updated 07 Jun, 2025 05:49am

Opinion

Remembering Civil Defence

As someone who has lived through three wars with India in 1965, 1971 and then the recent conflict in 2025 I was a...

Updated 31 May, 2025 07:48am

Opinion

Conflicts in history

So what would you equate the senseless charge of the Indians under the assumption that they will overwhelm the armed...

Updated 24 May, 2025 08:00am

Opinion

Tackling water shortages

Water is the most important topic these days. Everywhere you go people are discussing water and the threats to its...

Updated 17 May, 2025 07:40am

Opinion

Let us be prepared

The heatwave season has begun. Already, Karachi is passing through the first of these heat waves as temperatures...

Updated 10 May, 2025 07:46am

Opinion

Respect the rickshaw

After daily and frightfully shocking traffic incidents that mostly involved heavy transport vehicles like dumper...

Updated 03 May, 2025 07:30am

Opinion

Warning shot from nature

There were heavy hailstorms lashing out at Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Wednesday. These were no...

Published 26 Apr, 2025 02:57am

Opinion

Wasteful water habits

I remember how in my childhood I would come home from school and being thirsty after a long walk go straight to the...

Updated 19 Apr, 2025 07:42am

Opinion

The manhole menace

Another child falls into a manhole to lose his life to these gaping open death traps that should better be named as...

Published 12 Apr, 2025 05:40am

Opinion

Shadow over Eid

For those of us who think and feel a shadow was cast over Eid celebrations this year. Tragedy after tragedy struck...

Published 05 Apr, 2025 06:24am

Opinion

Go fly a kite

How many of us have heard the expression “Go fly a kite”. Usually, it means go away and stop bothering me. A simple...

Published 29 Mar, 2025 02:58am

Opinion

Crisis of accidents

Fatalities in traffic accidents in Karachi majority of them inflicted by heavy vehicles has even caught attention of...

Published 22 Mar, 2025 02:47am

Opinion

The continuing polio challenge

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries that still have the polio virus. Pakistan in spite of...

Updated 15 Mar, 2025 07:31am

Opinion

Reclaimed land

Every time you look up there is another tall building rising into the blue sky from the sea level in Clifton. At the...

Published 08 Mar, 2025 02:48am

Opinion

The beauty of Ramazan

Ramazan is just around the corner and this year in Pakistan we will also be having some World Cup cricket matches...

Updated 01 Mar, 2025 07:03am

Opinion

Working with the municipality

Working in a Canadian company in Ottawa, Canada, in the early seventies I was so eager to see snowfall. Having grown...

Published 22 Feb, 2025 06:31am

Opinion

A city wearing gloves

The first five days of this month forced me to return to a topic on which I have written several times. The reason...

Published 15 Feb, 2025 06:34am

Opinion

Begging in Karachi

The growing menace of beggars at traffic lights was brought to the attention of courts the other day by a petition...

Updated 08 Feb, 2025 07:18am

Opinion

Election promises

The world is changing at a dizzying pace. This change has now got fresh stimulus with the election of Donald Trump ...

Published 01 Feb, 2025 06:30am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 13	283
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 13	282.75
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 14	144.07
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 14	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 14	1.36
Euro to USD / Jun 14	1.15
UK LIBOR % / Jun 14	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 14	5,976.97
India Sensex / Jun 14	81,118.60
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 14	37,834.25
Nasdaq / Jun 14	19,406.83
Hang Seng / Jun 14	23,892.56
FTSE 100 / Jun 14	8,850.63
Dow Jones / Jun 14	42,197.79
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 14	23,516.23
France CAC40 / Jun 14	7,784.68

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 14	72.98
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 14	16,485
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 14	310,007
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 14	3,432.34
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 14	67.84
Petrol/Litre / Jun 15	253.63
Diesel/Litre / Jun 15	254.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Jun 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	2.93 ▲ 1 (51.81%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Jun 13 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	3.06 ▲ 0.94 (44.34%)
First Prudential Mod. / Jun 13 First Prudential Modaraba(PMI)	3.39 ▲ 1 (41.84%)
Media Times Ltd / Jun 13 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.71 ▲ 0.58 (27.23%)
Invest Bank / Jun 13 Invest Capital Investment Bank Limited(ICIBL)	7.11 ▲ 1 (16.37%)
Unicap Modaraba / Jun 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	3.65 ▲ 0.48 (15.14%)
First Dawood Prop. / Jun 13 First Dawood Properties Limited(FDPL)	3.56 ▲ 0.36 (11.25%)
Ashfaq Textile / Jun 13 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	25.70 ▲ 2.34 (10.02%)
AN Textile Mills / Jun 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	15.49 ▲ 1.41 (10.01%)
Shadman Cotton / Jun 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	47.38 ▲ 4.31 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Shaheen Ins. / Jun 13 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	4.75 ▼ -0.65 (-12.04%)
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Jun 13 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	12.20 ▼ -1.36 (-10.03%)
First Elite Cap.Mod / Jun 13 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	37.98 ▼ -4.22 (-10%)
Khyber Textile / Jun 13 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	1,794.55 ▼ -199.39 (-10%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Jun 13 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	18,889.10 ▼ -2098.79 (-10%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jun 13 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	11.23 ▼ -1.24 (-9.94%)
Arctic Textile / Jun 13 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	39.72 ▼ -4.26 (-9.69%)
Crescent Cotton / Jun 13 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	50.41 ▼ -5.4 (-9.68%)
Shahtaj Textile / Jun 13 Shahtaj Textile Limited(STJT)	78.62 ▼ -8.32 (-9.57%)
Hala Enterprise / Jun 13 Hala Enterprises Limited(HAEL)	30.69 ▼ -3.23 (-9.52%)

Stock	Volume
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Jun 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	116,655,242 ▲ 1
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	100,891,108 ▲ 0.08
Ist.Capital Sec / Jun 13 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	85,324,384 ▲ 0.94
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jun 13 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	30,960,243 ▲ 0.62
B.O.Punjab / Jun 13 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	27,555,139 ▼ -0.26
Kohinoor Spining / Jun 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	27,294,482 ▲ 0.17
Media Times Ltd / Jun 13 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	27,189,737 ▲ 0.58
Cnergyico PK / Jun 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	26,834,469 ▼ -0.35
First Prudential Mod. / Jun 13 First Prudential Modaraba(PMI)	23,063,464 ▲ 1
Sui South Gas / Jun 13 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	21,700,047 ▼ -0.4

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