News stories for Nadeem ul Haque

Nadeem ul Haque

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

Opinion

Inherited democracy and closed political market

Pakistan’s dynastic politics is usually treated as a moral failure. We complain that fathers hand seats to sons,...

Published 06 Jul, 2026 03:13am

Opinion

Pakistan has equity appetite; its owners have control anxiety

Pakistan keeps saying it has no capital. Firms complain that bank borrowing is expensive. Government complains that...

Published 30 Jun, 2026 05:08am

Opinion

Pakistan needs equity markets, not dynastic control

Pakistan’s problem is not only that the state owns too much. It is also that too many productive assets remain...

Published 22 Jun, 2026 05:36am

Opinion

End the budget ‘circus’

Pakistan has turned the budget into an annual suspense drama. Businesses wait. Markets speculate. Consultants guess....

Published 16 Jun, 2026 04:12am

Opinion

Privatization must create markets, not new oligarchs

Pakistan does need privatization. But privatization is not reform merely because ownership moves from the public...

Published 15 Jun, 2026 02:32am

Opinion

Pakistan’s ‘fake’ search committees

Pakistan today suffers from a quiet but devastating institutional fraud. We pretend to conduct global-style...

Published 12 Jun, 2026 06:08am

Opinion

Pakistan cannot reform power tariffs without breaking up the DISCOs

Uniform national tariffs hide failure, destroy incentives, and make privatisation harder. But tariff reform will...

Published 08 Jun, 2026 02:29am

Opinion

Advocating for the creation of a new ‘Growth Commission’

Pakistan’s economy continues to grapple with deep structural challenges, from stagnant productivity and ballooning...

Published 05 Jun, 2026 05:48am

Opinion

Pakistan’s greatest risk in ME crisis is social, not merely economic

Pakistan is no longer watching the Middle East crisis from a safe distance. Its effects are already here — in petrol...

Published 18 May, 2026 05:40am

Opinion

Pakistan’s gas upstream crisis

Pakistan’s gas crisis is usually narrated as a story of depletion. Fields matured, reservoirs declined, demand rose,...

Published 11 May, 2026 05:59am

Opinion

Pakistan mispriced gas and mispriced its future

Pakistan did not merely misprice gas. It mispriced its own future. For decades, the country treated natural gas not...

Updated 04 May, 2026 06:04am

Opinion

Innovation is not a policy but a system

Mehran Gul’s The New Geography of Innovation makes a compelling and timely argument: innovation is no longer the...

Published 27 Mar, 2026 06:40am

Opinion

Our ‘Groundhog Day’ policies

Pakistan’s economic failure is often described as a failure to liberalize, to export, or to industrialize properly....

Updated 11 Feb, 2026 06:10am

Opinion

Understanding Pakistan’s SOE problem

Once the illusion is stripped away, Pakistan’s SOE problem becomes remarkably simple. The country does not suffer...

Updated 03 Feb, 2026 06:32am

Opinion

Outsourced power: how aid agencies engineered Pakistan’s energy bureaucracy?—II

Enter 2025, it was decided that the fundamentally unsustainable power sector could only be saved by putting to waste...

Published 17 Jul, 2025 03:32am

Opinion

Outsourced power: how aid agencies engineered Pakistan’s energy bureaucracy?—I

In Pakistan’s power sector, aid doesn’t just fund wires and transformers—it writes policy, births ...

Published 16 Jul, 2025 06:34am

Opinion

Currency chaos in Pakistan: crises by design

If currency crises were rare catastrophes, one might chalk them up to bad luck. But in Pakistan’s case, they’ve...

Updated 16 Jun, 2025 08:15am

Opinion

The scourge of ‘ON’

Where other countries have graduated their automobile industry from assembling to manufacturing, and progressively...

Published 08 Feb, 2023 07:01am

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Aug 11	277.87
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Aug 11	277.67
USD to Japanese Yen / Aug 12	159.43
USD to Swiss Franc / Aug 12	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Aug 12	1.35
Euro to USD / Aug 12	1.15
SOFR % / Aug 11	3.62

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Aug 11	7,728.20
Nasdaq / Aug 11	26,445.45
Dow Jones / Aug 11	53,791.85
India Sensex / Aug 12	77,569.33
Tokyo Nikkei / Aug 12	66,996.61
Hang Seng / Aug 12	25,361.63
FTSE 100 / Aug 12	10,827.40
Germany DAX 30 / Aug 12	26,432.21
France CAC40 / Aug 12	8,692.79

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Aug 11	18,580
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Aug 11	394,149
Petrol/Litre / Aug 12	325.92
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Aug 12	83.83
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Aug 12	4,393.16
Diesel/Litre / Aug 12	382.25
Cotton US¢/pound / Aug 12	84.37

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Paramount Spinning / Aug 12 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	12.39 ▲ 1.13 (10.04%)
Nets Internat.Comm. / Aug 12 Nets International Communication Limited(GEMNETS)	23.72 ▲ 2.16 (10.02%)
Ashfaq Textile / Aug 12 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	44.84 ▲ 4.08 (10.01%)
Cordoba Logistics / Aug 12 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	22.96 ▲ 2.09 (10.01%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Aug 12 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	72.28 ▲ 6.57 (10%)
Aisha Steel (CPS) / Aug 12 Aisha Steel Mills Limited (CPS)(ASLCPS)	104.39 ▲ 9.49 (10%)
Asim Textile / Aug 12 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	82.27 ▲ 7.48 (10%)
Buxly Paints / Aug 12 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	305.49 ▲ 27.77 (10%)
Fecto Cement / Aug 12 Fecto Cement Limited(FECTC)	122.41 ▲ 11.13 (10%)
J.A.Textile / Aug 12 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	62.58 ▲ 5.69 (10%)

Stock	Price
Pak Gen.Ins. / Aug 12 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	23.82 ▼ -2.65 (-10.01%)
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 12 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	15.07 ▼ -1.67 (-9.98%)
ARM Green Industries / Aug 12 ARM Green Industries Limited(ARMG)	54.60 ▼ -5.43 (-9.05%)
First Tri-Star Mod. / Aug 12 First Tri-Star Modaraba(FTSM)	49.98 ▼ -4.7 (-8.6%)
Din Tex. / Aug 12 Din Textile Mills Limited(DINT)	63.52 ▼ -4.47 (-6.57%)
Asia Ins. / Aug 12 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	40.20 ▼ -2.8 (-6.51%)
Jubilee Spinning / Aug 12 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	51 ▼ -3.39 (-6.23%)
Sindh Abadgar / Aug 12 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	363.01 ▼ -23.06 (-5.97%)
JS Investments / Aug 12 JS Investments Limited(JSIL)	44.66 ▼ -2.82 (-5.94%)
Tariq Corp.Pref. / Aug 12 Tariq Corporation Limited-Preference Shares(TCORPCPS)	13.01 ▼ -0.71 (-5.17%)

Stock	Volume
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 12 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	67,213,701 ▼ -1.67
Cnergyico PK / Aug 12 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	57,831,168 ▲ 0.26
Hascol Petrol / Aug 12 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	41,419,094 ▲ 0.39
WorldCall Telecom / Aug 12 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,873,143 ▼ -0.02
Thatta Cement / Aug 12 Thatta Cement Company Limited(THCCL)	23,404,462 ▲ 3.04
Siddiqsons Tin / Aug 12 Siddiqsons Tin Plate Limited(STPL)	21,903,743 ▼ -0.26
Unity Foods Ltd / Aug 12 Unity Foods Limited(UNITY)	17,863,140 ▼ -0.28
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Aug 12 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	16,485,704 ▲ 0.11
B.O.Punjab / Aug 12 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	14,366,093 ▲ 0.42
TPL Corp Ltd / Aug 12 TPL Corp Limited(TPL)	12,937,276 ▲ 0.6

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