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The priceless sovereignty

To be free but dependent. To be independent yet not free. To be unethical but legal. To be illegal yet democratic....

Published 04 Apr, 2022 05:38am

US should have pushed Ashraf Ghani harder: Khalilzad

WASHINGTON: The United States did not put enough pressure on former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani to share power ...

Updated 25 Oct, 2021 09:34am

World

US should have pushed ex-Afghan president Ghani harder: Khalilzad

WASHINGTON: The United States did not put enough pressure on former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani to share power ...

Updated 24 Oct, 2021 09:31pm

Transit trade talks with India under way: Dawood

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Advisor on Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood said on Thursday that talks with...

Updated 22 Oct, 2021 10:32am

World

US envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad steps down

Khalilzad will be replaced by his deputy, Tom West, says Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Updated 20 Oct, 2021 08:42am

Pakistan

PACF warns of looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: "Millions of Afghan internally displaced people (IDPs) are at the risk of a serious humanitarian crisis,...

Published 12 Oct, 2021 04:44am

Pakistan

Any wait-and-see approach on Afghanistan tantamount to abandonment: NSA Moeed

Urges regional and Western countries to sit together and draw specific plans for immediate humanitarian relief

Published 08 Oct, 2021 01:01am

World

'No more hope': Afghan Hazaras live in fear under Taliban rule

BAMIYAN: A black and white Taliban flag flies over the blown-up statue of a revered Hazara chief at the entrance to...

Published 07 Oct, 2021 07:58pm

US watchdog to look into allegations Ghani took money from country

WASHINGTON: John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said on Wednesday his office...

Published 07 Oct, 2021 03:32am

World

Taliban say four Islamic State members captured near Kabul

The raid, in Paghman district just outside the Afghan capital, follows a bomb attack on a mosque on Sunday claimed by Islamic State

Published 06 Oct, 2021 09:47pm

Afghan failure: Mazari rebukes US for introducing bill targeting Pakistan

KARACHI: Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has warned that Pakistan will be made to “pay heavy price” for...

Updated 29 Sep, 2021 09:24am

World

Unusual UN meet to close without Taliban, Myanmar speeches

UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly in New York ends Monday but without speeches by those in power in ...

Published 28 Sep, 2021 05:12am

World

Unusual UN meet to close without Taliban, Myanmar speeches

The UN representative of Afghanistan's former regime was expected to defy the Taliban with an address Monday after the group requested its new foreign minister be allowed to speak instead

Published 27 Sep, 2021 10:01am

Pakistan

Fawad draws parallels between Nawaz, Ghani

JHELUM: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said Nawaz Sharif and...

Published 26 Sep, 2021 03:23am

Afghanistan: Pakistan regrets US’ ungratefulness

New York: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday regretted that the United States has not recognised...

Updated 23 Sep, 2021 09:38am

World

Taliban ask to address UN General Assembly, name new envoy

Ambassador of the Afghan government ousted by the Taliban last month has also requested to speak, with the UN yet to decide who will represent the country at the world body

Updated 22 Sep, 2021 11:17am

World

Afghan envoys marooned abroad after Taliban's sudden return

KABUL: The Taliban's abrupt return to power has left hundreds of Afghan diplomats overseas in limbo: running out of...

Published 17 Sep, 2021 03:52am

Exiled Ghani apologises to Afghan people

Former Afghan president says leaving was the only way to keep the guns silent and save Kabul

Updated 09 Sep, 2021 09:23am

Opinion

Exhausted and abandoned: why Afghanistan’s army collapsed

When the Taliban swept into Kabul last month, capturing Afghanistan’s capital without a fight, the sheer speed of...

Published 08 Sep, 2021 04:06am

Opinion

Events in Afghanistan

The current Afghan situation is to be seen on a bigger canvas not limited to events after the Soviet invasion in...

Published 02 Sep, 2021 04:21am

Opinion

The goal was endless war

According to the terms of the Washington-Taliban agreement signed in Doha in February 2020, the US is bound to...

Published 01 Sep, 2021 03:59am

Pakistan, Germany for common global strategy

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Germany, on Tuesday, urged the international community to develop a common strategy on...

Published 01 Sep, 2021 03:46am

Opinion

'As You Like It'

This timeless quotation from a famous Shakespearean play has been taken literally by residents of this world. The...

Published 30 Aug, 2021 06:57am

Editorials

Taliban rejection of troop withdrawal delay

EDITORIAL: The unexpected and abrupt fall of Kabul to the Taliban caused a power vacuum creating conditions that ...

Published 25 Aug, 2021 04:43am

Pakistan

Pakistani envoy rejects US lawmaker’s claim

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, has disputed a claim by a US lawmaker...

Published 24 Aug, 2021 05:02am

Opinion

'Wilful' surrender

Abandoned. Deserted. Gone with the wind. That is what the anguished visuals show. A US Air Force plane taking off...

Published 23 Aug, 2021 06:20am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The fall of Kabul

"I have been watching the coverage of the fall of Kabul..." "Right, but it ain't a coup you know - I mean it isn't...

Published 21 Aug, 2021 04:21am

World

UAE to temporarily host 5,000 evacuated Afghans en route elsewhere

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has agreed to host 5,000 Afghan nationals to be evacuated from their country on ...

Published 20 Aug, 2021 11:48pm

World

Taliban urged to allow fleeing Afghans safe passage

Tens of thousands of people have tried to flee Afghanistan since the group swept into the capital on Sunday, completing a stunning rout of government forces and ending two decades of war

Published 19 Aug, 2021 01:20pm

World

Images of women vandalised as Kabul faces up to Taliban rule

The new regime's fighters took control of the city on Sunday after a lightning offensive that saw the former government's provincial strongholds around the country topple like dominoes in a matter of days

Updated 19 Aug, 2021 02:42pm

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.70 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	270.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	79.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	640.88 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	10.15 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / May 20 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	86.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 20 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.70 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 20 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	270.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 20 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 20 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 20 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 20 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	79.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 20 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	640.88 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 20 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 20 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	10.15 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / May 20 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	86.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume

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Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 20	200.20
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 20	199.80
USD to Japanese Yen / May 20	128.12
USD to Swiss Franc / May 20	0.97
Pound Sterling to USD / May 20	1.24
Euro to USD / May 20	1.06
UK LIBOR % / May 20	0.82

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 20	3900.79
India Sensex / May 20	52792.23
Tokyo Nikkei / May 20	26673.91
Nasdaq / May 20	11388.50
Hang Seng / May 20	20581.03
FTSE 100 / May 20	7302.74
Dow Jones / May 20	31253.13
Germany DAX 30 / May 20	13882.30
France CAC40 / May 20	6272.71

Item	Value
Crude Oil / May 20	112.00
Karachi Cotton Assoc. / May 20	21180.00
Gold 10 Grams / May 20	113300.00
Gold Spot / May 20	1838.55
Cotton / May 20	128.58

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