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Shahid Sattar

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

One energy system, too many silos

Why Pakistan must stop managing fuels and start governing energy as a system. Pakistan’s energy crisis is not the...

Updated 07 Sep, 2026 07:21am

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

Why Pakistan keeps administering its energy crisis

Pakistan’s energy crisis has been analysed endlessly. Circular debt, capacity payments, distribution losses, gas...

Published 24 Aug, 2026 03:45am

Opinion

Inflation and the cost of an unreformed state

Pakistan’s inflation problem has returned just as the government wants the public to believe that macroeconomic...

Updated 17 Aug, 2026 06:55am

Opinion

Neelum-Jhelum after commissioning: from national asset to liability (Part-II)

First major operational blow came in 2022, when tailrace tunnel failed, plant was shut down

Published 15 Aug, 2026 05:19pm

Opinion

Neelum-Jhelum before commissioning: design was the first warning (Part-I)

A shift to a larger, riskier design for Neelum-Jhelum multiplied geological and financial burdens

Published 14 Aug, 2026 09:34pm

Opinion

AI arriving in Pakistan as mirror

Pakistan’s relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) is usually framed as a question of adoption: how fast can...

Updated 10 Aug, 2026 05:30am

Opinion

Deemed duty: Pakistan’s hidden tax on fuel consumers

Pakistan’s petroleum pricing system has many visible burdens: petroleum levy, margins, freight, exchange-rate...

Published 03 Aug, 2026 02:22am

Opinion

Iran-Pakistan pipeline needs a price reset

Without a functioning gas market and a substantially lower price, the project risks becoming a taxpayer liability...

Updated 09 Jul, 2026 05:42am

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’s export trap—II

Why a narrow, low-value and cotton-locked export base can no longer carry the economy India offers an important...

Published 29 Jun, 2026 02:36am

Opinion

Pakistan’s export trap-I

Why a narrow, low-value and cotton-locked export base can no longer carry the economy Pakistan does not merely have...

Updated 25 Jun, 2026 08:04am

Opinion

Hemp denim and high-value apparel: the window for Pakistan is now

The establishment of the Cannabis Control and Regulatory Authority (CCRA), together with the notification and...

Updated 23 Jun, 2026 06:42am

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

Pakistan cannot tax its future to pay for its energy past

Legacy energy liabilities must be separated from current consumption tariffs if Pakistan wants affordable power,...

Updated 18 Jun, 2026 07:53am

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 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

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World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Sep 29	277.32
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Sep 29	277.12
USD to Japanese Yen / Sep 30	157.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Sep 30	0.83
Pound Sterling to USD / Sep 30	1.32
Euro to USD / Sep 30	1.13
SOFR % / Sep 28	3.90

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Sep 29	7,670.84
Nasdaq / Sep 29	26,797.54
Dow Jones / Sep 29	51,349.92
India Sensex / Sep 30	72,729.39
Tokyo Nikkei / Sep 30	66,728.56
Hang Seng / Sep 30	24,534.37
FTSE 100 / Sep 30	10,714.17
Germany DAX 30 / Sep 30	25,546.29
France CAC40 / Sep 30	8,055.71

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Sep 29	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Sep 29	374,945
Petrol/Litre / Sep 30	387.54
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Sep 30	89.69
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Sep 30	4,309.98
Diesel/Litre / Sep 30	402.24
Cotton US¢/pound / Sep 30	79.18

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Colony Tex.Mills Ltd / Sep 30 Colony Textile Mills Limited(CTM)	7.26 ▲ 1 (15.97%)
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	5.73 ▲ 0.77 (15.52%)
Lse Spac-I Ltd. / Sep 30 Lse Spac-I Limited(SPAC1)	20.41 ▲ 1.86 (10.03%)
Tri-Star Mutual / Sep 30 Tri-Star Mutual Fund Limited(TSMF)	16.57 ▲ 1.51 (10.03%)
Sindh Modaraba / Sep 30 Sindh Modaraba(SINDM)	33.28 ▲ 3.03 (10.02%)
Ghazi Fabrics / Sep 30 Ghazi Fabrics International Limited(GFIL)	26.38 ▲ 2.4 (10.01%)
Asim Textile / Sep 30 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	113.96 ▲ 10.36 (10%)
Dadex Eternit / Sep 30 Dadex Eternit Limited(DADX)	150.32 ▲ 13.67 (10%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Sep 30 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	29.04 ▲ 2.64 (10%)
Oilboy Energy / Sep 30 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	18.59 ▲ 1.69 (10%)

Stock	Price
Ashfaq Textile / Sep 30 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	50.57 ▼ -5.62 (-10%)
Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS) / Sep 30 Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS)(GCWLPRS)	118.83 ▼ -13.16 (-9.97%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Sep 30 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	11.25 ▼ -1.15 (-9.27%)
The Thal Ind.Corp. / Sep 30 The Thal Industries Corporation Limited(TICL)	918.13 ▼ -92.07 (-9.11%)
Pakistan Services / Sep 30 Pakistan Services Limited(PSEL)	1,019.63 ▼ -99.15 (-8.86%)
Mandviwala / Sep 30 Mandviwala Mauser Plastic Industries(MWMP)	77.07 ▼ -7.14 (-8.48%)
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	23.41 ▼ -1.84 (-7.29%)
D.M. Corporation / Sep 30 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	165.33 ▼ -11.63 (-6.57%)
Cordoba Logistics / Sep 30 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	28.32 ▼ -1.94 (-6.41%)
EMCO Industries / Sep 30 Emco Industries Limited(EMCO)	32.10 ▼ -1.93 (-5.67%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Int.Bulk / Sep 30 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	73,446,994 ▲ 0.11
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	58,387,095 ▲ 0.77
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Sep 30 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	50,882,891 ▼ -0.09
Cnergyico PK / Sep 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	28,308,841 ▲ 0.03
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Sep 30 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	21,823,804 ▲ 1.27
Arif Habib Corp / Sep 30 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	17,873,579 ▲ 0.1
Pak Refinery / Sep 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	17,817,038 ▲ 0.45
WorldCall Telecom / Sep 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	17,431,935 ▼ -0.01
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	16,575,953 ▼ -1.84
F. Nat.Equities / Sep 30 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	14,238,200 ▲ 0

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