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Automart: car prices in Karachi

Rates in the week ended Saturday December 17, 2022

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:48am

FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

TEXT: The FIFA World Cup has entered its final stage and it would be a truly global event and will be one of the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

QATAR NATIONAL DAY 18th DECEMBER

TEXT: On the auspicious occasion of the Anniversary of the National Day for the accession of Sheikh Jassim bin...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Pak-Qatar Takaful and Asset Management

TEXT: Pak-Qatar Group (PQG) – The Group remains the pioneer in dedicated Takaful solutions in Pakistan and...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Aviation minister rejects reports about sale of Roosevelt Hotel

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Aviation and Pakistan Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique has categorically rejected the...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 02:18pm

Customs seizes smuggled goods worth Rs64m

KARACHI: The anti-smuggling team of Customs Intelligence, Karachi has seized smuggled goods worth over Rs64 million...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Expert for switching to new wheat varieties

ISLAMABAD: Agriculture expert Khan Faraz has stressed on need to create awareness among growers and farmers to ...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Wrestling & weightlifting league for youths kicked off at UVAS

LAHORE: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) arranged Prime Minister’s Youth Talent Hunt National Wrestling &...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Public finance management

EDITORIAL: That the Public Finance Management Act 2022 has come into effect in Punjab, to bring transparency and...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

AMAN-23 under focus

Since 2007 a major international naval exercise called AMAN (Peace) organised every two years by Pakistan Navy with...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

ATC convicts two accused in dacoity case

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday convicted two accused involved in a dacoity and attacking a police...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Imran, Elahi discuss dissolution of Punjab Assembly

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi accompanied by former Federal Minister Moonis Elahi and MNA...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

LHC restrains media from revealing identity of rape victims

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court dismissed the bail petition of Muhammad Aamar allegedly involved in rape case and...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Commodities

Prices of essential kitchen items decline

ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential kitchen items have witnessed a declining trend during this week past against the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Punjab Food Minister Dreshak resigns

LAHORE: Minister for Food Punjab Sardar Hasnain Bahadur Dreshak resigned from the ministry on Saturday. In a tweet...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

CM approves installation of 500 solar water pumps

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi granted an approval to install 500 solar water pumps in 13...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

PAD orders action against fertiliser hoarders

LAHORE: The Punjab government has directed all the districts’ administrations to speed up a crackdown against the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Minister vows to take up Hajj-related issues with Saudi authorities

LAHORE: While promising to take up all Hajj related matters with Saudi authorities in consultation with 65 ministers...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Alarming increase in car theft incidents seen in capital

ISLAMABAD: The capital city witnessed an alarming increase in incidents of car theft as car lifters stole or ...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

PPP to table resolution against Modi in parliament

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said a resolution against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Bumper green aluminium output is good news for carmakers, and climate

Aluminium makers are set to boost low-carbon metal output by 10% in 2023 and churn out even more in the years ahead,...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

At COP15, businesses urged to act for nature

Widely blamed for ravaging Earth’s ecosystems, big businesses are nevertheless being turned to as key players in a...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Four leaders sign agreement to bring green Azeri energy to Europe

BUCHAREST: The leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary signed an agreement on Saturday on the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

FO reacts strongly to India’s MEA remarks about Bilawal

Reminds New Delhi of the shameful story of mass killings, lynching, rape, and plunder in the 2002 Gujarat massacre

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:43am

Toxic alcohol kills 37 in Bihar

CHAPRA: Toxic hooch has killed at least 37 people in the eastern Indian state of Bihar where alcohol is banned,...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

PM irked by absence of top officials from crucial meeting

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly expressed his annoyance at Federal Secretaries for not...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:39am

Imran wasted time of media, public: Marriyum

Minister for Information and Broadcasting says Imran does not have the courage to dissolve the assemblies

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:42am

President Alvi summons NA session on Tuesday

Present session will be the 47th session of the 15th National Assembly

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:41am

JI mounts protests against growing street crimes in Karachi

KARACHI: The Karachi chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Saturday held dozens of demonstrations to observe a ‘black...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

The Weather

KARACHI: The weather report on Saturday (December 17, 2022) and the forecast for Sunday (December 18, 2022)....

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Teachings of country’s forefathers provide solution to crises: speakers

KARACHI: Renowned academicians, intellectuals, historians, social scientists and intellectuals Saturday said the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Efforts underway to put country on road to progress: minister

KASUR: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday the government is making sincere...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Plan afoot for water resources development in 18 districts of Balochistan: minister

QUETTA: Federal Minister of Science and Technology Agha Hasan Baloch has said that a comprehensive plan for the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Defamation case against Geo News, others filed in UAE: Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that his lawyers in the United Arab...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Declaring Punjab, California sister states: Governor, US diplomat discuss progress on agreement

LAHORE: US Consul General William K Makaneole called on Punjab Governor Muhammad Baleegh ur Rehman here on Saturday...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Commodities

Gold prices hit new highs

KARACHI: The upsurge on Saturday continued to spur gold prices to another historic high on the local market, traders...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Toshakhana gifts: LHC moved for making details public

LAHORE: A Bar member has approached the Lahore High Court seeking directions to public details of Toshakhana gifts...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Shaukat Khanum hospital gives award to Hashoo Hotels

ISLAMABAD: This October marked the sixth consecutive year since Hashoo Hotels joined hands with Shaukat Khanum...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Letters

There’s a mood of gloom and despondency

A wave of despondency pervades the entire country because of growing political instability that has been exacting ...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

OPD complex and women’s ward inaugurated: CM announces decision to upgrade Sir Cowasjee institute of psychiatry to university level

HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah taking a historic decision has announced to upgrade the...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Expert stresses need for controlling inflation, govt spending

KARACHI: “Unless we control the prices of daily use items and slash the government expenditure, nothing will be...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Taxes

11pc customs duty imposed on import of night vision goggles

ISLAMABAD: The customs classification committee of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has ruled that imported night...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 02:18pm

Attack on hotel in Kabul

EDITORIAL: Seemingly, the Islamic State in Afghanistan is all set to disrupt the Taliban interim government’s...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

NBP employees are not govt servants: SC

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court held that employees of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) are not “government...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 02:17pm

FBR allows cross-stuffing of transit cargoes

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has allowed cross-stuffing of transit cargo during the inter-port...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

ADB’s IED validates ‘flood project’

ISLAMABAD: The Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has rated “Pakistan:...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:38am

E&P licences revival: Country to receive $5m foreign investment in 3 months

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet decision to revive 11 revoked licences for enhancing production activities of oil and gas in...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:39am

KPK, Punjab PAs to be dissolved on 23rd: PTI chief

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Saturday announced the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:36am

Pakistan’s counter-terrorism operations critical to region’s stability: Centcom chief

ISLAMABAD: US Central Command (Centcom) Chief General Michael E Kurilla has said that Pakistan’s counter-terror...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:39am

Entire PSW system trade data is confidential: FBR

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has declared that all trade-related information, transmission,...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:35am

Int’l carriage of goods by roads: FBR standardizes conditions for senders, carriers

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has standardized conditions for the senders and carriers of the...

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 09:39am

Germany cuts the ribbon on first LNG terminal

WILHELMSHAVEN: Germany on Saturday inaugurated its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, built in record time,...

Published 18 Dec, 2022 03:36am

Dar sharpens focus on energy circular debt

Finance Minister considering plan to reduce the stock of circular debt in both power and gas sectors by dividends or issuance of term finance certificates

Updated 18 Dec, 2022 11:43am

Discos’ tariff slashed by 32-paisa for Oct

Previous Day

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 20	280.28
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 20	280.08
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 20	148.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 20	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 20	1.30
Euro to USD / Mar 20	1.09
UK LIBOR % / Mar 19	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 19	5,675.29
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 19	37,751.88
Nasdaq / Mar 19	17,750.79
Dow Jones / Mar 19	41,964.63
India Sensex / Mar 20	76,000.05
Hang Seng / Mar 20	24,240.81
FTSE 100 / Mar 20	8,732.14
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 20	23,288.35
France CAC40 / Mar 20	8,163.28

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 19	17,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 19	272,076
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 20	67.58
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 20	3,046.67
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 20	66.70
Petrol/Litre / Mar 21	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 21	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Elite Cap.Mod / Mar 20 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	9.29 ▲ 0.94 (11.26%)
Sally Textile / Mar 20 Sally Textile Mills Limited(SLYT)	10 ▲ 1 (11.11%)
Jubilee Spinning / Mar 20 Jubilee Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd.(JUBS)	10.20 ▲ 1 (10.87%)
Universal Ins. / Mar 20 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	10.80 ▲ 1 (10.2%)
Crescent Textile / Mar 20 The Crescent Textile Mills Limited(CRTM)	14.72 ▲ 1.34 (10.01%)
Gammon Pak / Mar 20 Gammon Pakistan Limited(GAMON)	27.50 ▲ 2.5 (10%)
Bela Auto / Mar 20 Bela Automotives Limited(BELA)	151.70 ▲ 13.79 (10%)
Macter Int. Ltd / Mar 20 Macter International Limited(MACTER)	444.15 ▲ 40.38 (10%)
Mughal Energy / Mar 20 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	22 ▲ 2 (10%)
Thatta Cement / Mar 20 Thatta Cement Company Limited(THCCL)	227.63 ▲ 20.69 (10%)

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Mar 20 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	8.29 ▼ -1 (-10.76%)
Int. Knit. / Mar 20 International Knitwear Limited(INKL)	19.57 ▼ -2.17 (-9.98%)
Sardar Chemical / Mar 20 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	32.75 ▼ -3.63 (-9.98%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / Mar 20 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	46.20 ▼ -5.07 (-9.89%)
Asim Textile / Mar 20 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	14.10 ▼ -1.53 (-9.79%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 20 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	126.50 ▼ -13.55 (-9.68%)
Khalid Siraj / Mar 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	8.61 ▼ -0.92 (-9.65%)
Idrees Tex. / Mar 20 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	21.99 ▼ -2.04 (-8.49%)
IGI Life Ins / Mar 20 IGI Life Insurance Limited(IGIL)	17 ▼ -1.52 (-8.21%)
Bawany Air Products / Mar 20 Bawany Air Products Limited(BAPL)	24.50 ▼ -2.07 (-7.79%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Mar 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	162,359,740 ▲ 0.68
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 20 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	52,151,863 ▼ -0.33
Pak Refinery / Mar 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	44,734,751 ▲ 2.55
B.O.Punjab / Mar 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	44,523,419 ▼ -0.52
Pak Elektron / Mar 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	36,133,139 ▲ 0.06
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	30,884,952 ▲ 0.02
Fauji Cement / Mar 20 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	29,042,128 ▼ -0.12
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 20 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	28,324,854 ▼ -2.01
Sui South Gas / Mar 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	24,434,119 ▲ 0.97
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Mar 20 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	19,841,434 ▲ 1.08

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