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Funding shortfall forces food ration cuts for millions of hungry Afghans

KABUL: The UN World Food Programme has been forced to cut rations to 4 million Afghans this month, it said in a...

Published 18 Mar, 2023 02:14pm

UN grants one-year extension to Afghanistan mission

UNITED NATIONS: The Security Council on Thursday renewed the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for...

Updated 17 Mar, 2023 09:10am

World

Bomb attack kills guard, wounds journalists in Afghan north

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, (Afghanistan): A bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday killed a...

Published 12 Mar, 2023 05:55am

World

Blast in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province kills one, injures 5

KABUL: A blast hit the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Saturday, police said, killing one person...

Updated 11 Mar, 2023 06:45pm

Pakistan

Taliban team may arrive soon to discuss security challenges

ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation of Afghan Taliban’s interim government is expected to arrive in Islamabad soon...

Published 11 Mar, 2023 03:16am

World

Afghan women ‘most repressed in the world’, says UN mission

KABUL: Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the “most repressive country in the world” for women’s rights,...

Published 08 Mar, 2023 02:17pm

Pakistan

Afghan team likely to arrive soon for security talks: minister

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday said that a high-level Afghan delegation is expected to arrive ...

Published 08 Mar, 2023 06:20am

World

Taliban’s persecution of women could be ‘crime against humanity’: UN report

GENEVA: The Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan could amount to a crime against humanity,...

Published 06 Mar, 2023 06:21pm

Afghan Taliban reluctant to rein in TTP

ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban’s interim government has expressed its reluctance to go against the outlawed...

Updated 04 Mar, 2023 09:10am

New hope for CASA-1000 as Taliban govt decides to honour previous pact

ISLAMABAD: In a major development, Taliban regime has decided to honour all pacts related to Central Asia-South...

Updated 27 Feb, 2023 08:42am

Pakistan

Trade resumes after key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan reopens

JALALABAD: Trucks carrying food and pharmaceuticals crossed through a key border crossing between Pakistan and...

Updated 25 Feb, 2023 07:19pm

Opinion

Watch thy neighbours–II

Pakistan has India to its east, Afghanistan to its northwest and Iran to its west while China borders the country in...

Updated 25 Feb, 2023 06:58am

Editorials

Kabul govt and the TTP

EDITORIAL: Tensions have been mounting between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban government, leading every once in a...

Published 23 Feb, 2023 05:52am

World

Taliban sets up investment consortium with firms from Pakistan, Russia, Iran

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran...

Published 22 Feb, 2023 06:57pm

Pakistan

Pakistani delegation reaches Kabul to discuss ‘security-related matters’

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif is leading the delegation

Updated 22 Feb, 2023 05:23pm

World

US judge rules 9/11 victims cannot seize Afghan central bank funds

NEW YORK: The families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks cannot seize $3.5 billion in funds...

Published 22 Feb, 2023 11:44am

Pakistan

Torkham border crossing closed, residents report gunfire

KABUL/PESHAWAR: Taliban authorities have closed the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Afghan...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Opinion

Time to wake up

What had been forecast by this writer after the post-APS military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP’s)...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

World

Taliban plans to turn former foreign bases into special economic zones

KABUL: The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special...

Updated 19 Feb, 2023 08:35pm

World

Taliban raid office of Tamadon TV in Afghanistan

NEW YORK: The Taliban must allow Tamadon TV to operate freely and independently and end its campaign of harassment...

Published 17 Feb, 2023 06:00am

World

Refugee from Taliban offers virtual tours of her homeland

MILAN: Forced to flee by the Taliban, Fatima Haidari now offers virtual tours of Afghanistan from her new home in...

Published 15 Feb, 2023 11:38am

Opinion

The untouchables

Our culture respects the dead. Condolences pour in from near and far, even from ‘enemies’. The faults of the...

Published 07 Feb, 2023 06:48am

World

Qatar sends envoy to Afghan capital to meet with Taliban

KABUL: An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met with the Taliban...

Published 05 Feb, 2023 06:40pm

Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf: the military ruler who allied with the US and oversaw rapid growth

ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf, the four-star general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after...

Published 05 Feb, 2023 11:51am

Pakistan

Pakistan to appeal to Taliban leader after terrorism surges

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan...

Published 04 Feb, 2023 04:07pm

Pakistan

Pakistan expects 'sincere cooperation' from Afghan interim govt to address terrorism: FO

Foreign Office says Pakistan doesn't believe in accusations or finger-pointing

Updated 02 Feb, 2023 09:03pm

Pakistan

Three policemen martyred in TTP attack in northern Pakistan

PESHAWAR: TTP on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police post in northern Pakistan...

Published 19 Jan, 2023 09:56pm

World

Three foreign NGOs partially resume aid in Afghanistan

KABUL: At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan,...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 07:01am

World

Three foreign NGOs partially resume aid in Afghanistan

KABUL: At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan,...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 01:52pm

Editorials

Baffling logic

EDITORIAL: It is astounding that former prime minister Imran Khan still thinks that the best way to deal with the...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 07:02am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Pak Mod. / Mar 22 First Pak Modaraba(PAKMI)	1.52 ▲ 0.18 (13.43%)
Pak Agro Pack. (GEM) / Mar 22 Pak Agro Packaging Limited (GEM)(GEMPAPL)	8.88 ▲ 0.88 (11.00%)
Balochistan Glass / Mar 22 Balochistan Glass Limited(BGL)	13.30 ▲ 1.00 (8.13%)
Khyber Tex. / Mar 22 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	257.53 ▲ 17.96 (7.50%)
Allied Rent. / Mar 22 Allied Rental Modaraba(ARM)	27.83 ▲ 1.94 (7.49%)
Khairpur / Mar 22 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	61.69 ▲ 4.30 (7.49%)
Metro Steel / Mar 22 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	27.55 ▲ 1.92 (7.49%)
Adamjee Life Assur. / Mar 22 Adamjee Life Assurance Company Limited(ALIFE)	18.43 ▲ 1.28 (7.46%)
John&Philips / Mar 22 Johnson & Phillips (Pakistan) Limited(JOPP)	38.95 ▲ 2.44 (6.68%)
Ismail Ind. / Mar 22 Ismail Industries Limited(ISIL)	487.74 ▲ 29.55 (6.45%)

Stock	Price
Jubile Life InsXD / Mar 22 Jubilee Life Insurance Company Limited(JLICL)	116 ▼ -25.68 (-18.13%)
Pak Gen.Ins. / Mar 22 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	3.76 ▼ -0.64 (-14.55%)
Dewan Textile / Mar 22 Dewan Textile Mills Limited(DWTM)	2.01 ▼ -0.32 (-13.73%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 22 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	7.05 ▼ -0.95 (-11.88%)
Habib Metropol. / Mar 22 Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited(HMB)	31.68 ▼ -4.04 (-11.31%)
Bankislami Pak. / Mar 22 BankIslami Pakistan Limited(BIPL)	10 ▼ -1.23 (-10.95%)
F.Treet Manuf / Mar 22 First Treet Manufacturing Modaraba(FTMM)	7.10 ▼ -0.75 (-9.55%)
B.O.Punjab / Mar 22 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	4.07 ▼ -0.36 (-8.13%)
Kohat Textile / Mar 22 Kohat Textile Mills Limited(KOHTM)	11.55 ▼ -0.96 (-7.67%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Mar 22 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	5.65 ▼ -0.46 (-7.53%)

Stock	Volume
Unity Foods Ltd / Mar 22 Unity Foods Limited(UNITY)	25,054,065 ▼ -0.06
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 22 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	16,643,395 ▲ 0.02
Fauji Foods Ltd / Mar 22 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	15,140,985 ▼ -0.12
Maple Leaf Cement / Mar 22 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	9,688,020 ▲ 0.18
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 22 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	6,626,500 ▼ -0.06
Dewan Motors / Mar 22 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	6,524,000 ▼ -0.28
Bankislami Pak. / Mar 22 BankIslami Pakistan Limited(BIPL)	5,405,500 ▼ -1.23
Cnergyico PK / Mar 22 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	4,708,036 ▲ 0.10
Pak Elektron / Mar 22 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	4,522,500 ▲ 0.34
Hascol Petrol / Mar 22 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	4,470,500 ▲ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 21	285.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 21	283.90
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 21	131.23
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 21	0.93
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 21	1.23
Euro to USD / Mar 21	1.07
UK LIBOR % / Mar 20	4.56

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 20	3951.57
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 20	26945.67
Nasdaq / Mar 20	11675.54
Dow Jones / Mar 20	32244.58
India Sensex / Mar 21	58074.68
Hang Seng / Mar 21	19128.12
FTSE 100 / Mar 21	7481.91
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 21	15117.14
France CAC40 / Mar 21	7112.90

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 20	19235
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 20	177726
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 21	67.15
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 21	1982.31
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 21	77.62

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