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Water shortage

EDITORIAL: Reports suggest that Pakistan is bracing for 25 percent water shortage during rabi season that has raised...

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:09am

Editorials

Terrorism, with plausible deniability

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s accusation at the UN General Assembly that India has turned terrorism into an instrument of...

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:10am

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

Rural transformation: a structural solution

Improved seeds and livestock genetics made headlines at the UN. But without water reform and land rights, Pakistan’s...

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:26am

BR Research

Sticky oil price is a big worry

Oil markets have always had a complicated relationship with geopolitics. Prices spike on the headline, traders wait...

Published 30 Sep, 2026 05:49am

BR Research

Millat Tractors Limited: performance and outlook

Millat Tractors Limited (PSX: MTL) is a public limited company incorporated in Pakistan in 1964. MTL is engaged in...

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 12:11pm

Editorials

Information, upon request

EDITORIAL: When the best-performing provincial government in a national assessment complies with only 59 percent of...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:02am

Opinion

Are you a CEO or a leader?

“He’s here!” “The new guy is in!” “The top man has been replaced!” “Hmm…Let us see how he behaves.” Chats are full...

Published 29 Sep, 2026 08:21pm

World

Morocco's king appoints first woman prime minister following election

The king asked El Mansouri to form a new government

Published 29 Sep, 2026 11:26pm

Perspectives

Farming needs a digital push

Agriculture in Pakistan relies on land, water, hard work, and farmers’ experience. But these foundations are coming...

Published 29 Sep, 2026 11:20pm

Editorials

Why FDI remains elusive

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s improving external position and better sovereign credit profile have yet to translate into the...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:06am

Opinion

Rethinking monitoring and evaluation in Pakistan’s power sector

Ministry evaluates if the policies governing DISCOs are achieving their intended objectives

Published 29 Sep, 2026 12:57pm

Opinion

IMF programme’s fourth review

The fourth review of the IMF Extended Fund Facility and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility is to commence...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:08am

Opinion

Impassable impasse

Despite the fact that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf has postponed its much-touted ‘long march’ from September 27,...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:10am

BR Research

PSO in FY26–held back by a weaker last quarter

Pakistan State Oil Company Limited’s (PSX: PSO) FY26 performance was mixed. The company remained operationally...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:20am

BR Research

Bestway Cement Limited: performance and outlook

Bestway Cement Limited (PSX: BWCL) was incorporated in Pakistan as a public limited company in 1993. The company is...

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:32am

Markets

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs

Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud

Published 29 Sep, 2026 12:29pm

Editorials

The civil service challenge

EDITORIAL: Pakistan does not lack ideas for civil service reform; what it has long lacked though is the political...

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

Opinion

Pakistan’s investors still waiting for a reason to believe

Pakistan’s macroeconomic turnaround over the past three years is real. Foreign exchange buffers have been rebuilt,...

Updated 28 Sep, 2026 05:56am

Sports

Nagoya organisers regret Pakistan and South Korea travel mix-ups

Despite being sent to the wrong venue, Pakistan's volleyball team still managed a 3-0 win at the Aichi-Nagoya Games

Published 29 Sep, 2026 04:24pm

Perspectives

How cheap drones are rewriting the economics of war

In May 2026, a Ukrainian interceptor drone costing roughly $2,000 chased down a Russian Shahed over Kyiv. The Shahed...

Published 28 Sep, 2026 10:53pm

Opinion

Establish a gas market for boosting exports

Pakistan’s gas debate is usually presented as a choice between indigenous gas and imported LNG

Published 28 Sep, 2026 02:47pm

Editorials

A temporary breather in RLNG import

EDITORIAL: The recent international oil price crisis due to the ongoing war, which has engulfed the Gulf region, is...

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

Pakistan

China's space diplomacy lifts Pakistani astronaut toward orbit

The details shared by Gilani and Ansari are the first insight provided by SUPARCO to foreign media since the pilots were selected and deployed to China

Updated 28 Sep, 2026 09:45am

Pakistan

Pharma markets face shortage of over 100 life-saving drugs

Manufacturers have repeatedly approached the government to revise up medicine prices

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

Opinion

Is deregulation the best way forward?

The mantra that deregulation is the best way to deal with public sector inefficiency and corruption has been...

Updated 28 Sep, 2026 05:54am

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

BR Research

LSM finds a higher base

Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) growth may have slowed to 3 percent YoY in July, but the headline understates the...

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

Sports

India, Pakistan on Asian Games collision course after cricket washout

A few hours later, with rain in the air, India progressed against Afghanistan with no prospect of play for the same reason

Published 28 Sep, 2026 01:12pm

BR Research

Interview with Adil Salahuddin, CEO and Head of Coverage – Standard Chartered Pakistan

‘Pakistan's next growth opportunity lies in connecting more deeply with global trade and investment flows’

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 01:57pm

Editorials

Drill now, drown later

EDITORIAL: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ accusation that Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an “open...

Published 27 Sep, 2026 02:24am

Editorials

Closing the gap, from the bottom

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s strongest annual improvement in gender parity in a decade would ordinarily be cause for...

Published 27 Sep, 2026 02:24am

Opinion

Independent directors: a burden or a solution?

During the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s onward, major corporate failures took place in the Western...

Updated 27 Sep, 2026 04:47am

Opinion

Pakistan’s GM maize demands sovereign AgTech, not imported seeds

In a watershed moment for the country’s agricultural sector, Pakistan has officially decided in principle to...

Updated 27 Sep, 2026 04:48am

Editorials

Global trade disruptions

EDITORIAL: The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) recently uploaded report dated 2026 titled A Critical Juncture of...

Published 26 Sep, 2026 05:19am

Editorials

Converging crises

EDITORIAL: Just when Pakistan could have done with a little less uncertainty, the security and political temperature...

Published 26 Sep, 2026 05:19am

Perspectives

The government that talks to itself

In marketing, when the source is not trusted, the message stops mattering. Doesn’t matter how good your copy is....

Published 26 Sep, 2026 09:34pm

Life & Style

How a Pakistani rescue became a Hollywood Thriller – and what it took to get there

In August 2023, a cable car carrying eight people – six of them schoolboys on their way to class – snapped two of its three supporting cables and hung for 14 hours, 900 feet above a ravine in Battagram

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 04:24pm

Opinion

Criticality of country’s planning commission

Pakistan once had a development institution that looked beyond the next budget, the next political cycle and the...

Published 26 Sep, 2026 05:19am

Business & Finance

Five things to know about Salman Dar, Apple's first head of govt affairs for Pakistan

Dar's appointment is considered significant development as Pakistan aims to strengthen its digital economy

Published 26 Sep, 2026 06:27pm

Opinion

An alarming scenario

There has always been violence on the streets of Karachi. Pick up any newspaper any day and you will find news of...

Updated 26 Sep, 2026 07:38am

Editorials

A tax scheme in trouble

EDITORIAL: The latest figures on the Fixed Tax Asaan Scheme expose the familiar failure of yet another attempt to...

Published 25 Sep, 2026 05:45am

Editorials

Export-led growth?

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a meeting with prominent industrialists and businessmen on Tuesday...

Published 25 Sep, 2026 05:45am

Opinion

FBR: Reforms at what cost?

Pakistan’s tax administration is again being offered a foreign-financed technological cure. The Central Development...

Updated 25 Sep, 2026 06:31am

Opinion

Learning from China’s economic philosophy and policy — IX

Another lesson to learn from China is how it has used a differentiated interest rate policy for banking, and other...

Updated 25 Sep, 2026 06:06am

BR Research

The oil shock moves downstream

The global oil shock is starting to look different. Crude is still expensive and volatile, but the bigger pressure...

Published 25 Sep, 2026 05:45am

BR Research

‘One unicorn does not create an ecosystem’: Gobi Partners Pakistan Managing Partner

Naiel Oberoi Ikram is Managing Partner at Gobi Partners Pakistan and Partner at Fatima Gobi Venture (FGV), one of...

Updated 25 Sep, 2026 01:55pm

WATCH: Tax return filing: what Pakistanis need to know before September 30

September 30 tax return deadline is approaching. Who must file, do salaried individuals need to file if tax is...

Published 24 Sep, 2026 02:55pm

Editorials

Include planning ministry in IMF negotiations

EDITORIAL: International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme is a whole of the government programme engaging federal and...

Updated 24 Sep, 2026 06:35am

Editorials

Is Pakistan open for business?

EDITORIAL: When 91 percent of respondents say that doing business in Pakistan is difficult, there is little room...

Updated 24 Sep, 2026 01:32pm

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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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