A total of 78,000 shares were traded which were up by 22,948 shares when compared with Wednesday's trading of 55,052 shares.

Out of 126 companies share prices of 87 companies recorded increase, share prices of 39 companies registered decrease while that of zero company remained stable.

The share prices of National Refinery increased by Rs16.67 per share, while the share prices of Unilever Pakistan decreased by Rs06.02.

Bank of Punjab, Silk Bank and Karachi Electric Supply remained the top trading companies in Thursday trading with 25,000, 15,000 and 10,000 respectively.

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