Opinion » Letters

Letters

‘After aerial humiliation, panicked India bombed its own people’

This is apropos letters to the Editor titled “After aerial humiliation, panicked India bombed its own people”...

Published 15 May, 2025 06:25am

Letters

‘After aerial humiliation, panicked India bombed its own people’

This is apropos a letter to the Editor carried by the newspaper on Monday. In this writer’s view, the gravest...

Published 14 May, 2025 05:56am

Letters

Unlocking Islamic finance in Pakistan: real strategies for real growth

For Islamic finance in Pakistan to truly thrive, we need a unified regulatory framework that is consistently applied...

Published 13 May, 2025 06:15am

Letters

After aerial humiliation, a panicked India bombed its own people

In one of the most stunning and deeply troubling incidents of modern military conflict, the May 2025 India-Pakistan...

Updated 12 May, 2025 07:02am

Letters

The challenge of quiet quitting

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and with shifting employee attitudes, organizations are faced by an...

Published 11 May, 2025 02:45am

Letters

There’s a need to strike a fair balance between solar and grid users

Pakistan’s solar progress is nothing short of impressive. Solar energy made up over 14 percent of the country’s...

Published 10 May, 2025 06:08am

Letters

‘India’s Indus waters gamble: illegal, impossible, and immoral’

This is apropos three letters to the Editor headlined above carried by the newspaper on Tuesday, Wednesday and...

Published 09 May, 2025 06:20am

Letters

‘India’s Indus waters gamble: illegal, impossible, and immoral’

This is apropos two back-to-back letters to the Editor headlined above carried by the newspaper on Tuesday and...

Published 08 May, 2025 06:21am

Letters

‘India’s Indus waters gamble: illegal, impossible, and immoral’

This is apropos a letter to the Editor headlined above carried by the newspaper yesterday. I would like to add that...

Published 07 May, 2025 06:50am

Letters

India’s Indus waters gamble: illegal, impossible, and immoral

The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), signed in 1960 between India, Pakistan, and the World Bank, is considered one of the...

Published 06 May, 2025 03:19am

Letters

SIAL Canada agri show

Recently SIAL Canada Agri Business Exhibition was held on April/29 thru May/1, in Canada’s major trade &...

Published 05 May, 2025 06:14am

Letters

India favouring war over peaceful solutions

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly urged Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies to impress upon India to...

Updated 04 May, 2025 06:54am

Letters

Complicated power billing system

I find the electricity billing system unnecessarily complicated and completely lacking in transparency. While...

Published 03 May, 2025 06:07am

Letters

Financial literacy

Pakistan Financial Literacy Week, organised from April 14-18, 2025, highlighted the importance of financial ...

Updated 02 May, 2025 07:41am

Letters

The energy challenge

The launch of the Energy Progress & Innovation Challenge (EPIC) is a step in the right direction for ...

Published 01 May, 2025 06:03am

Letters

Pahalgam attack: India’s refusal to formation of global investigation body

That a belligerent India does not have any proof to substantiate its allegations against Pakistan is a fact that has...

Published 30 Apr, 2025 05:57am

Letters

Growing belligerence of Godi Media

The current leadership in India seems to have lost its marbles. Its knee-jerk reaction to the Pahalgam tragedy stems...

Published 29 Apr, 2025 03:07am

Letters

India must revisit its approach to crisis

That India has certainly upped the ante against Pakistan is a fact that has found its best expression from a very...

Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:43am

Letters

The Indus Waters Treaty

Terming the suspension of Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) as an act of war, the Foreign Office has rightly warned that if...

Updated 27 Apr, 2025 06:51am

Letters

India is upping the ante

That sanity gaining ground in the Donald Trump’s White House is a fact that has found its best expression from...

Published 26 Apr, 2025 02:57am

Letters

Indian nation controlled by bloodthirsty warmongering Modi

The Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC deserves praise for hosting an excellent economic dialogue on the sidelines...

Published 25 Apr, 2025 06:05am

Letters

Reimagining Pakistan

In an inspiring show of student leadership, Sannan Pervez and Muhammad Hadi, two graduate students at Harvard...

Published 24 Apr, 2025 04:11am

Letters

Global recession is in the offing?

Donald Trump’s stop-start tariff rollout has “significantly” increased global financial stability risks, the...

Published 23 Apr, 2025 06:29am

Letters

Pope Francis dies

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died. He has died on Easter Monday...

Published 22 Apr, 2025 05:55am

Letters

Strengthening intellectual property enforcement

The most strategic response to trade restrictions and tariff pressures lies not in retaliation, but in strengthening...

Published 21 Apr, 2025 05:42am

Letters

Dar in Kabul

It is increasingly clear that deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar has successfully done what was...

Published 20 Apr, 2025 02:50am

Letters

The link between security and economic growth

The civilian and military leadership’s resolve in relation to the country’s security must have spooked its enemies...

Updated 19 Apr, 2025 07:45am

Letters

Balochistan: army chief’s optimism

Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir deserves praise for his optimism about the future of the country in general and...

Published 18 Apr, 2025 07:05am

Letters

An opportunity, indeed

It is indeed a matter of great satisfaction that the Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) has ...

Published 17 Apr, 2025 07:12am

Letters

Rating upgrade by Fitch

It’s indeed a matter of great satisfaction that global rating agency Fitch has upgraded county’s foreign credit...

Published 16 Apr, 2025 06:24am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 14	281.78
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 14	281.68
USD to Japanese Yen / May 14	146.04
USD to Swiss Franc / May 14	0.84
Pound Sterling to USD / May 14	1.33
Euro to USD / May 14	1.12
UK LIBOR % / May 14	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 14	5,892.58
India Sensex / May 14	81,330.56
Tokyo Nikkei / May 14	37,705.74
Nasdaq / May 14	19,146.81
Hang Seng / May 14	23,574.72
FTSE 100 / May 14	8,585.01
Dow Jones / May 14	42,051.06
Germany DAX 30 / May 14	23,527.01
France CAC40 / May 14	7,836.79

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 14	61.91
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 14	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 14	293,124
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 14	3,152.57
Cotton US¢/pound / May 14	65.37
Petrol/Litre / May 15	252.63
Diesel/Litre / May 15	256.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Cres.Star Ins. / May 15 Crescent Star Insurance Limited(CSIL)	3.08 ▲ 0.47 (18.01%)
Parmount Sp. / May 15 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	3.68 ▲ 0.44 (13.58%)
Ghani Chemworld / May 15 Ghani Chemworld Limited(GCWL)	9.14 ▲ 1 (12.29%)
Saif Textile / May 15 Saif Textile Mills Limited(SAIF)	9.76 ▲ 1 (11.42%)
Hala Enterprise / May 15 Hala Enterprises Limited(HAEL)	13.26 ▲ 1.21 (10.04%)
Sana Ind / May 15 Sana Industries Limited(SNAI)	25.81 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)
P.T.C.L. / May 15 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	22.06 ▲ 2.01 (10.02%)
AN Textile Mills / May 15 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	11.87 ▲ 1.08 (10.01%)
Octopus Digital / May 15 Octopus Digital Limited(OCTOPUS)	52.09 ▲ 4.74 (10.01%)
Arctic Textile / May 15 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	23.63 ▲ 2.15 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp.Pref. / May 15 Tariq Corporation Limited-Preference Shares(TCORPCPS)	7.11 ▼ -1 (-12.33%)
Hussain Industries / May 15 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	26.37 ▼ -2.92 (-9.97%)
TPL Life Insur. / May 15 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	46.80 ▼ -4.5 (-8.77%)
Dewan Mushtaq / May 15 Dewan Mushtaq Textile Mills Limited(DMTM)	8.06 ▼ -0.77 (-8.72%)
Tri-Star Mutual / May 15 Tri-Star Mutual Fund Limited(TSMF)	8.11 ▼ -0.69 (-7.84%)
Sanghar Sugar / May 15 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	55.53 ▼ -4.41 (-7.36%)
Quetta Textile / May 15 Quetta Textile Mills Limited(QUET)	11.25 ▼ -0.89 (-7.33%)
Askari Life Assur. / May 15 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	4.63 ▼ -0.35 (-7.03%)
IbrahimFibres / May 15 Ibrahim Fibres Limited(IBFL)	302 ▼ -19.92 (-6.19%)
Tandlianwala Sugar / May 15 Tandlianwala Sugar Mills Limited(TSML)	155.01 ▼ -9.67 (-5.87%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Refinery / May 15 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	34,909,328 ▲ 1.8
K-Electric Ltd. / May 15 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	32,730,316 ▲ 0.17
Cnergyico PK / May 15 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	31,293,396 ▲ 0.29
At-Tahur Ltd. / May 15 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	23,391,288 ▲ 3.26
Waves Corporation / May 15 Waves Corporation Limited(WAVES)	17,858,363 ▲ 0.23
Sui South Gas / May 15 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	16,872,842 ▲ 0.92
Kohinoor Spining / May 15 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	15,612,201 ▲ 0.12
P.T.C.L. / May 15 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	13,110,845 ▲ 2.01
B.O.Punjab / May 15 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,155,421 ▲ 0.14
Pak Petroleum / May 15 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	10,522,501 ▲ 3.81

Markets →

Budget 2024-25: income tax calculator for FY25

Most Popular