News stories for Nadeem ul Haque

Nadeem ul Haque

Opinion

Pakistan’s conference economy: research for reform or extravaganza?

Pakistan has one industry that never fails to grow. Conferences. Every week brings another one, on reform, on...

Published 13 Nov, 2026 05:14am

Opinion

Pakistan’s most expensive lottery

Every February, Pakistan runs a lottery. The ticket is paid for not in rupees but in the best years of young...

Updated 02 Nov, 2026 06:16am

Opinion

The future we are failing to build—III

Cotton, population, education and the AI economy Some institutional failures can be concealed by subsidies and...

Published 01 Nov, 2026 02:31am

Opinion

The return of centralised control—II

PPMC, regulators and the fragmentation of energy planning Pakistan’s power sector shows how reform can be reversed...

Updated 31 Oct, 2026 06:50am

Opinion

The architecture of unaccountability—I

Why institutions survive failure Pakistan has long blamed economic failure on corruption, weak implementation,...

Published 30 Oct, 2026 05:43am

Opinion

Another reprieve, not yet stabilization

Pakistan joined the IMF in 1950. Since then it has entered 25 formal lending arrangements, plus a separate emergency...

Updated 23 Oct, 2026 06:16am

Opinion

The saver pays—II

Pakistan’s banks are strong, profitable and protected. Its financial system is shallow. Zafar Masud blames “the...

Published 21 Oct, 2026 02:29am

Opinion

Who built the field?—I

I argued for bank privatization before it was fashionable. I would argue for it again. Nobody sensible wants back...

Updated 20 Oct, 2026 06:02am

Opinion

Our cities are not allowed to grow up

Part two: the housing policy speaks the language of dense, vertical cities, and leaves out every reform that would...

Published 19 Oct, 2026 02:10am

Opinion

Education without learning

Pakistan's education crisis stems from deep-seated over-regulation and political control, stifling school autonomy and hindering the nation's ability to build an AI-ready workforce

Published 16 Oct, 2026 01:44pm

Opinion

A housing policy that forgot the questions—I

Pakistan’s new housing policy never asks what the state should do in housing, or why our cities cannot grow up. The...

Updated 15 Oct, 2026 06:52am

Opinion

The dollars come home. Pakistan’s future leaves.

Every new remittance record is celebrated as proof of Pakistan’s resilience. It should instead make us uneasy....

Updated 12 Oct, 2026 06:27am

Opinion

The sovereign-bank nexus and its pitfalls

Every few days there is a lament in newspapers and on TV that the cash economy must be killed, and that Pakistanis...

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:36am

Opinion

K-Electric tariff reversal weakens Pakistan’s privatisation case

Karachi’s consumers are being asked to celebrate a tariff cut they may never see. NEPRA has reduced K-Electric’s...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:13am

Opinion

Pakistan has made tax compliance a competitive disadvantage

FBR keeps squeezing visible taxpayers while informality, distortion and leakage remain built into the system

Published 28 Sep, 2026 12:35pm

Opinion

Banks-based economy not a growth economy

Two pieces recently framed a debate worth settling. Shahid Kardar, in Dawn (“Bank domination”), showed that...

Updated 23 Sep, 2026 06:54am

Opinion

Privatization without institutions is a change of letterhead

Private ownership can improve incentives, but it cannot rescue a sector governed by opaque subsidies, weak...

Updated 22 Sep, 2026 07:10am

Opinion

Pakistan needs cities that grow, not provinces that govern

Pakistan’s administrative reform debate begins from the wrong premise. We keep asking how many provinces the country...

Published 01 Sep, 2026 04:49am

Opinion

Colonial mindset

Pakistan has been independent for nearly eight decades. The Union Jack came down, the British went home, and we...

Published 26 Aug, 2026 04:57am

Opinion

Annual Plan defeatism

Every year Pakistan publishes an Annual Plan with growth targets, sectoral targets, investment targets, export...

Published 15 Jul, 2026 02:14am

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 13	276.80 ▼ -0.01
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 13	276.60 ▼ -0.01
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 13	159.71 ▼ -0.21
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 13	0.84 ▲ 0.003
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 13	1.32 ▼ -0.0022
Euro to USD / Nov 13	1.10 ▼ -0.0036
SOFR % / Nov 12	3.90 ▲ 0.01

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 13	7,561.67
India Sensex / Nov 13	81,592.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 13	61,142.35
Nasdaq / Nov 13	25,136.27
Hang Seng / Nov 13	23,637.60
FTSE 100 / Nov 13	10,902.56
Dow Jones / Nov 13	52,347.55
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 13	26,749.95
France CAC40 / Nov 13	8,368.91

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 14	330
Diesel/Litre / Nov 14	360
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 13	88.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 13	18,080
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 13	352,911
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 13	3,884.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 13	82.61

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	6.07 ▲ 1 (19.72%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 13 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	8.77 ▲ 1 (12.87%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	2.64 ▲ 0.28 (11.86%)
Shabbir Tiles / Nov 13 Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Limited(STCL)	10.10 ▲ 1 (10.99%)
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	1.38 ▲ 0.13 (10.4%)
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Nov 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	12.06 ▲ 1.1 (10.04%)
Unicap Modaraba / Nov 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	22.84 ▲ 2.08 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Nov 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	82.90 ▲ 7.54 (10.01%)
Ningbo Green Light / Nov 13 Ningbo Green Light Energy Limited(NGLEL)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)
Zuma Resources / Nov 13 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	33.75 ▲ 3.07 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Arpak Int. / Nov 13 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	124.84 ▼ -13.87 (-10%)
First AL-Noor Mod. / Nov 13 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	12.64 ▼ -1.36 (-9.71%)
Shadman Cotton / Nov 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	69.87 ▼ -6.73 (-8.79%)
Fateh Sports / Nov 13 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	193.60 ▼ -16.58 (-7.89%)
Asim Textile / Nov 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	62.73 ▼ -4.34 (-6.47%)
D.M. Corporation / Nov 13 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	151.06 ▼ -9.64 (-6%)
Bhanero Textile / Nov 13 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	1,207.41 ▼ -76.42 (-5.95%)
Hira Textile / Nov 13 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4.01 ▼ -0.24 (-5.65%)
J.A.Textile / Nov 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	73.72 ▼ -4.26 (-5.46%)
AN Textile Mills / Nov 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	58.55 ▼ -3.21 (-5.2%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	303,195,710 ▲ 0.13
Kohinoor Spinning / Nov 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	59,505,118 ▲ 0.34
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	46,791,082 ▲ 0.28
Dost Steels Ltd. / Nov 13 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	43,180,738 ▲ 0.37
TPL Properties / Nov 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	32,746,701 ▲ 0.48
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Nov 13 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	27,571,943 ▲ 0.05
F. Nat.Equities / Nov 13 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	24,996,122 ▲ 0.01
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	24,965,743 ▲ 1
Cnergyico PK / Nov 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	22,527,745 ▲ 0.14
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 13 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	21,467,835 ▲ 0.82

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