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Shahid Sattar

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

Opinion

‘Mirage’ of PSX: Why a rising index does not equal recovery?

Pakistan loves a good headline, and few headlines are more seductive than a stock market touching new highs. A...

Updated 01 Jun, 2026 06:02am

Opinion

Why selling Pakistan’s better DISCOs?

Privatisation without tariff truth, asset ring-fencing, and a competent regulator risks turning reform into...

Published 25 May, 2026 06:06am

Opinion

Pakistan’s gas market cannot survive reform delay

Pakistan’s gas sector is no longer facing a temporary imbalance. It has entered a structural decline. The continued...

Published 21 May, 2026 05:01am

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

Pakistan’s power crisis also transmission crisis

Unless the grid is strengthened urgently, cheaper electricity will remain stranded, costly generation will keep...

Published 28 Apr, 2026 06:05am

Opinion

Global pressure on Pakistan’s energy landscape

At a time when global energy markets are under stress because of tensions involving Iran and the wider Gulf,...

Updated 21 Apr, 2026 07:38am

Opinion

IMF orthodoxy institutionalizing Pakistan’s economic decline

The history of sovereign insolvency is rarely just about ledger balances; it is a story of the erosion of the state...

Published 31 Dec, 2025 05:54am

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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
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%)
Ruby Textile / Aug 12 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	25.51 ▲ 2.32 (10%)
Service Textile / Aug 12 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	48.39 ▲ 4.4 (10%)

Stock	Price
Pak Gen.Ins. / Aug 12 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	23.82 ▼ -2.65 (-10.01%)
First Tri-Star Mod. / Aug 12 First Tri-Star Modaraba(FTSM)	49.21 ▼ -5.47 (-10%)
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 12 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	15.07 ▼ -1.67 (-9.98%)
Jubilee Spinning / Aug 12 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	50.51 ▼ -3.88 (-7.13%)
JS Investments / Aug 12 JS Investments Limited(JSIL)	44.15 ▼ -3.33 (-7.01%)
Asia Ins. / Aug 12 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	40.20 ▼ -2.8 (-6.51%)
Sindh Abadgar / Aug 12 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	363 ▼ -23.07 (-5.98%)
Din Tex. / Aug 12 Din Textile Mills Limited(DINT)	64 ▼ -3.99 (-5.87%)
Suhail Jute / Aug 12 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	219 ▼ -13.21 (-5.69%)
Elahi Cotton / Aug 12 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	235.10 ▼ -11.84 (-4.79%)

Stock	Volume
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 12 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	67,182,327 ▼ -1.67
Cnergyico PK / Aug 12 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	50,770,305 ▲ 0.24
Hascol Petrol / Aug 12 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	29,270,499 ▲ 0.28
WorldCall Telecom / Aug 12 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	21,850,827 ▼ -0.02
Thatta Cement / Aug 12 Thatta Cement Company Limited(THCCL)	20,426,724 ▲ 1.54
Siddiqsons Tin / Aug 12 Siddiqsons Tin Plate Limited(STPL)	19,637,565 ▼ -0.11
Unity Foods Ltd / Aug 12 Unity Foods Limited(UNITY)	12,696,533 ▼ -0.21
B.O.Punjab / Aug 12 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	11,439,829 ▲ 0.32
Treet Battery / Aug 12 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	10,326,470 ▲ 0.44
Beco Steel Ltd / Aug 12 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	9,359,919 ▲ 0.12

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