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Power generation: The rut continues

For the sixth month running, electricity generation went down year-on-year, as March 2024 generation was recorded...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 08:55am

BR Research

Pakistan’s extreme energy poverty

The Power Minister during the Eid break felicitated the nation for a Rs3/unit respite in electricity tariff – that...

Published 16 Apr, 2024 08:38am

BR Research

Power tariff: A quarter’s respite

Another quarter, another massive adjustment. At Rs2.75/unit approved in lieu of periodic adjustments for 2QFY24, the...

Published 01 Apr, 2024 05:00am

Opinion

Why we lag in exports

One of Pakistan’s most pressing economic issues is the chronic shortage of foreign exchange underscored by an...

Published 14 Mar, 2024 03:00am

Business & Finance

Business community rejects hike in electricity bills: KCCI

KARACHI: Business and industrial community rejects another hike of Rs 7.5 per unit in electricity bills. President...

Published 28 Feb, 2024 06:10am

Editorials

Power tariffs: digging a deep hole

EDITORIAL: There is no stopping the electricity bill hikes and power sector managers don’t seem to care much about...

Published 23 Feb, 2024 06:36am

Senators criticise ‘unbearable’ rise in energy tariffs

ISLAMABAD: The members of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Wednesday vehemently criticised what they...

Updated 15 Feb, 2024 09:48am

Opinion

Solar is solution

I am writing to advocate for a noble initiative that could significantly benefit our communities — urging solar...

Published 12 Jan, 2024 03:06am

Pakistan

Sindh cabinet approves financial allocations for development projects

KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet has approved financial allocations for various development projects, including Rs 29.379...

Published 27 Dec, 2023 05:15am

Markets

Pakistan’s power generation cost jumps nearly 20% in November

Increase in fuel cost witnessed mainly due to a decline in nuclear, wind and, solar-based generation, says one brokerage house

Updated 20 Dec, 2023 05:00pm

IPP leader pledges 300 units of power free if voted to power

ISLAMABAD: Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) President Abdul Aleem Khan announced that following a victorious election...

Updated 18 Dec, 2023 09:41am

Editorials

Rising Sensitive Price Index: sensitive matter

EDITORIAL: The year-on-year (YoY) increase in the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) remained worryingly high at 29.65...

Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am

Markets

Expert explains how hike in power tariffs hurting people

KARACHI: Extraordinary increase in the electricity charges has become a menace for the common man and industry, ...

Published 23 Oct, 2023 05:58am

FPA, QTA in electricity bills: SC sets aside LHC verdict

Declares Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) and Quarter Tariff Adjustment (QTA) in electricity bills as illegal and without lawful authority

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 09:35am

‘Inflated’ bills: Intelligence agency comes to the rescue of power consumers?

Agency has prompted caretaker government to intervene and take action to provide immediate relief

Updated 10 Oct, 2023 12:40pm

‘FPA, QTA in power bills’: SC issues notices to AGP, respondents

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court issued notice to the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) and respondents in petitions...

Updated 04 Oct, 2023 08:34am

‘Unholy’ pacts with IPPs must be reviewed: Senate panel

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat recommended that there is an essential need to...

Updated 28 Sep, 2023 10:08am

Business & Finance

Industrialist underscores need for reducing electricity losses

LAHORE: Chairman Kattar Band Road Industrial Association and former vice president of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and...

Published 28 Sep, 2023 05:33am

Editorials

Household debt cycle

EDITORIAL: One of the enduring lessons of economic downturns is that they run households, especially middle- and...

Published 23 Sep, 2023 05:58am

Closed industrial units: Minister advocates payment of power bills in instalments

Caretaker Minister for Commerce and Industry says there are one million unemployed across the country due to the closure of industrial units

Updated 23 Sep, 2023 08:45pm

Opinion

Moving from failure to failure successfully?

Winston Churchill said, ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm’....

Published 18 Sep, 2023 07:14am

Pakistan

AJK PM resolves to raise voice for rights of people at every forum

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, while reiterating his commitment to serve...

Published 17 Sep, 2023 06:05am

Opinion

Govt as the biggest power defaulter

The media is replete with news of the Power Sector – mostly negative. Most recently, it is the exorbitant bills...

Updated 17 Sep, 2023 06:37am

Markets

Nepra grills CEOs of Discos for inflated electricity bills

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday grilled Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)...

Updated 13 Sep, 2023 09:12am

Business & Finance

‘High power cost damages industry, SMEs badly’

KARACHI: Increased cost of electricity is quite painful and it has damaged the industry, SMEs and the household...

Published 12 Sep, 2023 06:22am

Aug electricity bills: Consumers hit by Rs7.64 to Rs15 per unit hike: PD

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has revealed that domestic and commercial consumers have been hit by Rs 7.64 to Rs....

Updated 12 Sep, 2023 09:34am

Opinion

The energy quagmire

When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. ‘Increase electricity consumption to lower the...

Published 11 Sep, 2023 07:00am

Opinion

Failure of power sector: stop the blame game

It was only recently that the Senate Standing Committee on Power on unbraided the top brass of Power Division for...

Published 10 Sep, 2023 03:20am

Opinion

Bills: repenting for the sins of others

Jolted by the severe backlash against highly inflated power bills resulting in protests across the country joined by...

Published 09 Sep, 2023 06:20am

FCA mechanism: DISCOs’ July tariff raised by Rs1.46 per unit

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has increased tariff of power Distribution...

Updated 09 Sep, 2023 08:44am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 26	278.58
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 26	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 26	158.33
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 26	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 26	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 26	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 26	5099.96
India Sensex / Apr 26	73730.16
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 26	37934.76
Nasdaq / Apr 26	15927.90
Hang Seng / Apr 26	17651.15
FTSE 100 / Apr 26	8139.83
Dow Jones / Apr 26	38239.66
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 26	18161.01

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 26	83.85
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 26	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 26	210048
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 26	2337.96
Cotton US¢/pound / Apr 26	80.90
Petrol/Litre / Apr 28	293.94

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 28 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 28 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 28 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 28 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 28 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 28 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 28 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 28 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 28 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 28 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 28 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 28 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 28 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 28 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 28 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 28 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 28 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 28 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 28 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 28 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 28 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 28 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 28 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 28 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 28 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 28 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 28 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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