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The taxation challenge

This is the third week after finalization of IMF programme. The first week was depressing as the as the PTI economic tea

Published 27 May, 2019 05:38am

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Orange is the new black

India’s saffron revolution is nearing completion. The orange hues of BJP have managed to avoid a hung parliament, relega

Published 27 May, 2019 05:19am

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Board of Investment: the missing discourse

Haroon Shariff’s decision to resign from the Board of Investment (BoI) is not good news; nor is the news of Younus Dagha

Published 24 May, 2019 06:35am

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313 Grains of salt: Pak-China FTA

The Pakistan-China FTA has had its fair share of criticism. The business community has complained that many of the count

Updated 24 May, 2019 07:01am

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Sizing Pakistan’s ethanol market

Numbers always manage to tell a story, even if those with a proprietary right may wish to withhold them. Pakistan’s etha

Updated 24 May, 2019 07:12am

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Think import substitution

After three months of under $1 billion monthly deficit (Jan-Mar monthly CAD avg: $674 mn), the current account deficit s

Published 23 May, 2019 06:16am

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Bahawalpur province: start with lands reforms!

The legendary South Punjab province! It’s a tale from Neverland – loosely based on the mythical oppression of people fro

Published 23 May, 2019 06:09am

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Huawei: gloves are off

There may be a method to this madness. But Donald J. Trump is taking Richard Nixon’s Madman Theory to a whole new level,

Published 23 May, 2019 05:55am

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Getting inflation right

An opposition that was supposed to be hiding in the slumbers or just fighting court cases for their respective leaders u

Published 22 May, 2019 03:44am

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Demystifying food exports inertia

PBS monthly trade numbers are out, and exports don’t seem to have bought into the rupee devaluation bonhomie. While 10MF

Updated 22 May, 2019 10:04am

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Exports – zero sum game

April was tipped as the starting point of export revival by a few circles. April came and went. The exports refused to h

Published 21 May, 2019 07:34am

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Costly detours

The country’s airspace closure has entered a third month amid the ongoing hostility between Pakistan and India post Pulw

Updated 20 May, 2019 06:45am

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A Teflon prime minister?

Nothing wastes political capital like an economic downturn. It’s not just in the West where consultants warn political i

Updated 20 May, 2019 06:33am

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Tale of two amnesties

Embarrassments aside, the Assets Declaration Ordinance 2019, commonly referred to as Amnesty Scheme , is one of the bett

Published 17 May, 2019 05:10am

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Reinventing office space

In an age of disruption, almost all conventional sectors have undergone a complete transformation in business model. Rid

Published 17 May, 2019 04:53am

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Wheat prices: is it time to panic?

News in the media suggests that the double whammy delivered by oil prices coupled with devastating rain fall in Punjab d

Published 15 May, 2019 06:32am

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Too big to break?

A social media giant finds itself under the spotlight again. Critics have previously charged that fake news, fake person

Published 15 May, 2019 06:17am

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When the sky falls

A year after unilaterally pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration has Iran right where it wanted

Published 10 May, 2019 04:43am

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People are never happy

Criticism on everything seems to be the favorite time pass; not just coming from opposition benches, but intellectuals o

Published 09 May, 2019 03:49am

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From Shabbar’s lens

Shabbar Zaidi is no stranger to tax policy and administration affairs in Pakistan. The official notification of his appo

Published 08 May, 2019 06:55am

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Egypt, Pakistan and the IMF

The central bank governor coming right from the IMF - managing Egypt, is fueling skepticism that the Fund has brought hi

Published 07 May, 2019 05:36am

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PSDP’s April surprise

Contrary to suspicions of a slowdown in development spending, the federal government’s development ledger seems is still

Published 07 May, 2019 05:24am

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Press freedom!

The World Press Freedom Day was celebrated last week (May 3). This year’s theme of Unesco’s annual conference marking th

Published 06 May, 2019 06:31am

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Inflation challenges ahead

The headline inflation came down from 9.4 percent in Mar19 to 8.8 percent in Apr19; the decline was expected as the high

Published 03 May, 2019 06:42am

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Thanos: the last laugh

Tickets for ‘Avengers: Endgame’ are reportedly in black trade in Karachi these days. As superhero movies go, the plot re

Updated 03 May, 2019 06:46am

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Free the statistics (division)

Andrew Marshall, arguably the most respected Pentagon strategist, died a few weeks ago. One of his many feats was to fla

Published 02 May, 2019 06:46am

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SYS has a good start

It’s been a good start to the year for a prominent local software house. As per a company notice sent to the stock excha

Published 30 Apr, 2019 05:22am

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IMF programme: Could be very tough

The IMF team is in Islamabad to finalize the conditions for the upcoming programme. Apart from an agreement on having a

Published 29 Apr, 2019 06:50am

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Top-up to lose

A judicial ruling on money matters is bound to draw mixed response, depending on how favourable the precedent is to one’

Published 29 Apr, 2019 06:49am

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Agri-Plotistan

Populist notions peddled by the media often insinuate that most of Pakistan’s rural economy is landless, with land owner

Published 24 Apr, 2019 06:15am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 25	278.52
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 25	278.32
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 25	155.60
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 25	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 25	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 25	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 24	5070.63
Nasdaq / Apr 24	15712.75
Dow Jones / Apr 24	38460.92
India Sensex / Apr 25	73780.80
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 25	37628.48
Hang Seng / Apr 25	17264.90
FTSE 100 / Apr 25	8077.84
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 25	17994.97

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 23	21035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 23	213220
Petrol/Litre / Apr 25	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 25	83.02
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 25	2325.45
Diesel/Litre / Apr 25	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 25 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 25 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 25 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 25 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 25 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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