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Afghan security forces

Pakistani, Afghan security forces clash at closed main border crossing

Published 03 Mar, 2025 08:02pm

KABUL/PESHAWAR: Pakistani and Afghan security forces clashed on Monday at the recently shuttered main border...

Pakistan, Afghan forces continue exchange of heavy fire

Published 16 May, 2024 06:29am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghan security forces continued to exchange heavy fire on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border ...

Hideouts of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: Pakistan carries out air strikes inside Afghanistan

Published 19 Mar, 2024 04:53am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghan security forces exchanged heavy fire on Monday morning following the launch of...

Afghan Taliban criticises closure of main border crossing with Pakistan

Updated 10 Sep, 2023 06:09pm

KABUL: The Afghan Taliban criticised the closure of its main border crossing with Pakistan this week after clashes...

Three killed in Afghanistan hotel blast

Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:30am

KABUL: Three people were killed and another seven were wounded in an explosion on Monday at a hotel in the eastern...

Unwarranted provocations

Published 15 Dec, 2022 06:30am

EDITORIAL: Seven Pakistanis lost their lives and 16 others were injured, some of them critically, on Sunday in the...

Islamabad asks Kabul to ensure deadly firing incident doesn’t happen again

Published 13 Dec, 2022 07:22am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan condemned the unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on the civilian population in Chaman by ...

Attack on diplomat: FO declines to confirm reports about suspect’s arrest

Updated 04 Dec, 2022 12:01pm

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office on Saturday expressed its inability to confirm the reported arrest of a suspect allegedly...

Pak soldier martyred

Updated 22 Nov, 2022 09:21am

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan army soldier embraced martyrdom and 11, including four children were injured following a clash...

Part of border fence purportedly removed in Nangarhar

Published 22 Dec, 2021 06:13am

ISLAMABAD: The local Taliban members and Afghan security forces have purportedly removed a section of razor wire...

Senior Taliban commander killed in hospital attack

Updated 03 Nov, 2021 04:21pm

At least 19 people were killed in Tuesday's attack on Kabul's main military hospital, according to a health ministry official who did not want to be named

Afghanistan: PM spells out for world 'two stark choices'

Updated 18 Sep, 2021 10:07am

Imran Khan addresses Meeting of the Heads of Delegations of Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Protest against Taliban in Kandahar

Published 15 Sep, 2021 04:20am

KANDAHAR: Thousands of Afghans protested against the Taliban in the southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, according...

The real weapons of mass destruction

Published 13 Sep, 2021 05:46am

Sorry, wrong number. That is exactly what Tony Blair said when confronted with the Chilcot report on going into a ...

After Taliban takeover, concerns mount over US counterterrorism ability

Published 26 Aug, 2021 04:52am

WASHINGTON: With no US troops or reliable partners left, jails emptied of militants and the Taliban in control,...

Taliban say no evacuation extension

Published 25 Aug, 2021 04:34am

KABUL: Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers said on Tuesday they wanted all foreign evacuations from the country...

Afghan forces abandon third largest city to the Taliban as blitz continues

Published 13 Aug, 2021 04:44am

HEART: Afghan forces abandoned the country's third biggest city to the Taliban Thursday, hours after insurgents...

Kabul hit by powerful explosion, gunfire, at least three dead

Published 04 Aug, 2021 02:39am

KABUL: A powerful blast followed by sporadic gunfire hit Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday near the city’s...

UN compound attacked in western Afghanistan

Published 31 Jul, 2021 02:17am

KABUL: “Anti-government elements” in Afghanistan attacked the main UN compound in the capital of the western...

Taliban fighters enter provincial capital, clash with Afghan forces

Updated 30 Jul, 2021 07:35pm

Afghan security forces have thus far held back the Taliban's attempt to take the city with the help of the Afghan air force, but operations were hampered by the presence of civilians in the area

Pakistan reopens Afghanistan border crossing held by Taliban

Taliban dismiss statement, saying they still held the town

Afghan Taliban warn Turkey against 'reprehensible' plan to run Kabul airport

Published 13 Jul, 2021 06:27pm

Statement comes after Ankara, which has offered to run and guard the airport in the capital after NATO withdraws, has been in talks with the United States on financial, political and logistical support

Era ends, uncertainty looms as US forces quit main Afghanistan base

Published 03 Jul, 2021 08:52am

US to leave behind only an embassy protection force
Taliban sweeping into districts as foreign troops go home
Effective end to war launched after Sept. 11 attacks

US is assessing whether Taliban is serious about peace: Blinken

Published 25 Jun, 2021 05:31pm

The Pentagon estimates the Taliban now control 81 of Afghanistan's 419 district centers.

Where things stand for Afghanistan as Ghani visits Washington

Published 24 Jun, 2021 11:57am

Visit comes as Afghan Taliban make huge advances across the country

Afghan forces kill 50 Taliban fighters in fresh clashes

Published 25 May, 2021 10:12am

"The towns and cities the Taliban have targeted are of strategic importance given their proximity to Kabul as some are on supply roads to the capital," said Kabul-based security analyst Bari Arez.
"The setbacks suffered by Afghan forces also indicate that they had not expected such Taliban offensives so soon" after the US military started the final withdrawal, he added.

At least two killed, five hurt in powerful Kabul blast

Published 22 Feb, 2021 04:25am

KABUL: At least two people were killed after a bomb struck a police vehicle in the Afghan capital Kabul, police said...

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 17	162.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 17	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 17	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 17	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 17	64,141.12
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Hang Seng / Jul 17	24,562.24
FTSE 100 / Jul 17	10,600.37
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 17	24,830.98
France CAC40 / Jul 17	8,338.81

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 17	82.49
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 17	4,017.39
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 17	78.63
Petrol/Litre / Jul 19	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 19	354.35

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Dadabhoy Cement / Jul 17 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	17.01 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
Ruby Textile / Jul 17 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	17.59 ▲ 1.6 (10.01%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 17 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	53.68 ▲ 4.88 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 17 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	272.21 ▲ 24.75 (10%)
Suhail Jute / Jul 17 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	223.96 ▲ 20.36 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 17 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	418.56 ▲ 38.05 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 17 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	50.61 ▲ 4.6 (10%)
Asia Ins. / Jul 17 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	34.45 ▲ 3.13 (9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 17 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	107.58 ▲ 9.65 (9.85%)
TPL Trakker Ltd / Jul 17 TPL Trakker Limited(TPLT)	27.91 ▲ 2.5 (9.84%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp. (R) / Jul 17 Tariq Corporation Limited(Right)(TCORPR2)	2.70 ▼ -0.89 (-24.79%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jul 17 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	11.04 ▼ -1.23 (-10.02%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 17 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,871.47 ▼ -207.94 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 17 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	62.27 ▼ -6.92 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 17 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	97.59 ▼ -10.84 (-10%)
Mughal Iron & Steel(C) / Jul 17 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd (C)(MUGHALC)	63 ▼ -6.99 (-9.99%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 17 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	150.29 ▼ -16.65 (-9.97%)
Paramount Spinning / Jul 17 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	10.91 ▼ -1.1 (-9.16%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jul 17 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	23.62 ▼ -2.36 (-9.08%)
Supernet Tech. / Jul 17 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	41.34 ▼ -3.72 (-8.26%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 17 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	86,491,992 ▲ 0.19
TPL Properties / Jul 17 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	62,545,194 ▼ -0.67
Pak Refinery / Jul 17 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,580,070 ▲ 2.94
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 17 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,499,606 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 17 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,396,866 ▼ -0.24
Lotte Chemical / Jul 17 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,830,259 ▼ -1.32
Hascol Petrol / Jul 17 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	14,534,208 ▼ -0.33
B.O.Punjab / Jul 17 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,503,494 ▼ -0.51
TPL REIT Fund I / Jul 17 TPL REIT Fund I(TPLRF1)	11,458,248 ▼ -0.29
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 17 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	10,427,355 ▲ 0.51

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