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Strict action ordered against profiteers

KARACHI: Additional Chief Secretary Local Government of Sindh Engineer Syed Najam Ahmad Shah has warned the...

Published 23 Feb, 2023 05:52am

Subsidised essential items: PM takes firm step to firm up Ramazan strategy

Calls for improving liaison between centre and provinces and directs strict action against hoarders

Updated 14 Feb, 2023 09:01am

Edible oil: SBP, MoF urged to ask banks to open LCs

ISLAMABAD: The edible oil industry has asked the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Ministry of Finance to direct the...

Updated 06 Jan, 2023 09:12am

Pakistan

USC introduces system for purchasing subsidised items

ISLAMABAD: On the special orders of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Utility Stores Corporation (USC) is providing...

Published 31 Oct, 2022 07:12am

Business & Finance

Market distortions: CCP brings out study on 10 essential items

ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has strongly criticised the government’s policy of ...

Published 18 Oct, 2022 06:42am

Essential commodities: Stakeholders told to avoid speculative trading

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal Thursday directed the...

Updated 16 Sep, 2022 09:49am

Import permits for onion, tomato to be issued

ISLAMABAD: Aimed at ensuring the supply of essential commodities in the market and stabilise prices, the Ministry of...

Updated 31 Aug, 2022 09:47am

Markets

Essential commodities: NPMC takes stock of prices

ISLAMABAD: The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Tuesday reviewed the prices of essential commodities ...

Published 24 Aug, 2022 05:08am

Markets

‘Essential commodities available at all Utility Stores’

KARACHI: Subsidized items sugar, ghee and flour are available in abundance at all Utility Stores across the ...

Published 24 Jul, 2022 05:04am

5 edible items: Subsidy likely to continue for 2 more months

Economic Coordination Committee expected to provide relief on Atta, sugar, Ghee, rice, and pulses under the PM’s Relief Package-2020

Updated 09 May, 2022 10:38am

Pakistan

Ex-post facto approval of expenditure: ECC asks MoI&P to seek legal opinion

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has directed Ministry of Industries and...

Published 04 Mar, 2022 04:37am

Pakistan

PPP demands govt halt sell-off process

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government should stop the...

Published 04 Feb, 2022 04:43am

Markets

Prices of essential commodities decreasing, claims Punjab CM

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that prices of essential commodities are decreasing due ...

Published 19 Dec, 2021 04:37am

Pakistan

PPP holds countrywide protests against inflation, price hike

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) held countrywide protests against the rising price hike of essential...

Published 11 Dec, 2021 04:12am

Opinion

The spectre of price hike

According to federal cabinet, the prices of essential commodities have been declining for the last two weeks. Well,...

Published 09 Dec, 2021 04:29am

Essential commodities: Prices declining, cabinet told

Fawad Chaudhary says 30 percent discount to the low-income group on essential commodities through ration cards from January 2022 would provide further relief

Updated 08 Dec, 2021 04:36pm

Pakistan

Covid-19 pandemic: USC providing subsidy on 5 essential commodities

ISLAMABAD: During Covid-19 pandemic, despite curtailed working hours and employees of Utility Stores Corporation of...

Published 03 Dec, 2021 04:31am

Tarin asks provinces to ensure availability of flour in market

ISLAMABAD: The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin, has asked the provincial...

Updated 02 Dec, 2021 09:30am

Essential commodities: PM concerned at hoarding, smuggling

Directs all stakeholders to undertake urgent measures and bring out-of-the-box solutions to control smuggling

Updated 02 Dec, 2021 09:21am

Markets

Wholesale, retail prices of commodities re-fixed

FAISALABAD: The District Price Control Committee meeting was held at DC office under the chairmanship of Deputy...

Published 22 Nov, 2021 05:31am

Tarin urges provinces to lift imported sugar stock

Tarin expresses concern over significant differentence in the price of wheat flour in Sindh and Balochistan as compared to the other provinces

Updated 11 Nov, 2021 09:41am

Opinion

Stop playing the blame game

Blaming the Sindh government for soaring prices of sugar is not just sufficient; the federal government that has ...

Published 10 Nov, 2021 05:47am

Pakistan

Two sugar mills sealed as govt steps up crackdown on hoarders

LAHORE: To ensure sale of sugar at the officially-fixed price and its availability in the market, the provincial...

Published 06 Nov, 2021 03:57am

Price stabilization: Tarin directs Punjab CS to provide sugar to KP govt

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin Wednesday directed the chief ...

Updated 04 Nov, 2021 09:38am

PML-N terms it ‘a fraud package’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), while terming Prime Minister Imran Khan’s relief package as a...

Updated 04 Nov, 2021 09:38am

3 essential items: PM announces relief package

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a Rs120 billion subsidy package on three essential commodities ...

Updated 04 Nov, 2021 09:32am

PM to announce relief package today

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to address the nation today (Wednesday) to take it into confidence...

Updated 03 Nov, 2021 11:33am

'Artificial' inflation: PM for strict action against 'perpetrators'

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday said that strict action should be taken against the perpetrators ...

Published 19 Oct, 2021 03:52am

Pakistan

23,000 profiteers, hoarders fined

KARACHI: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh for Bureau of Supply and Prices Dr Khatu Mil Jeewan has said that...

Published 13 Oct, 2021 04:47am

Markets

Essential commodities: Price hike hurts living standards of people: Mian Zahid

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum,...

Published 30 Sep, 2021 04:15am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Mar 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.95 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Mar 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	361.20 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Mar 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Mar 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Mar 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Mar 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	62.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Mar 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	398.28 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Mar 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Mar 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Mar 25 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	56.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Mar 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.95 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Mar 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	361.20 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Mar 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Mar 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Mar 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Mar 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	62.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Mar 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	398.28 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Mar 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Mar 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Mar 25 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	56.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	4,011,170 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Mar 25 Telecard Limited(TELE)	3,877,000 ▲ 0.00
TPL Properties / Mar 25 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	1,839,174 ▲ 0.00
Pak Elektron / Mar 25 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	1,788,500 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Cement / Mar 25 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	1,517,500 ▲ 0.00
Ghani Glo Hol / Mar 25 Ghani Global Holdings Limited(GGL)	1,464,753 ▲ 0.00
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 25 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	1,323,297 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Mar 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	1,307,610 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Mar 25 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	1,204,138 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Mar 25 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	1,161,000 ▲ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 22	285.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 22	283.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 24	130.73
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 24	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 24	1.22
Euro to USD / Mar 24	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 22	4.56

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 24	3970.99
India Sensex / Mar 24	57527.10
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 24	27385.25
Nasdaq / Mar 24	11823.96
Hang Seng / Mar 24	19915.68
FTSE 100 / Mar 24	7405.45
Dow Jones / Mar 24	32237.53
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 24	14957.23
France CAC40 / Mar 24	7015.10

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 21	19235
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 22	175068
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 24	69.26
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 24	1978.21
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 24	76.54

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