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Essential commodities: Paramilitary forces empowered to exercise anti-smuggling powers

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has empowered Pakistan Rangers/Frontier Corps of Balochistan and...

Updated 09 Nov, 2023 03:59pm

Essential commodities: NPMC satisfied with current price trend

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

Updated 03 Nov, 2023 08:59am

Cross-border smuggling: Security personnel found involved to face stiff action

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said on Monday that the entire nation was united against the...

Updated 03 Oct, 2023 09:33am

Shamshad seeks greater role of provinces towards meeting targets

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Finance Minister, Dr Shamshad Akhtar, has asked the caretaker provincial governments to ensure...

Updated 28 Sep, 2023 09:57am

Wholesale, retail prices of essential commodities: NPMC underscores need for reducing gap

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

Updated 26 Sep, 2023 08:47am

Pakistan

Customs seizes essential commodities worth Rs2.25bn

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Customs has seized large quantities of essential commodities worth Rs. 2.25 billion in various...

Published 09 Sep, 2023 06:20am

Business & Finance

Essential commodities: FBR considering reducing tax rates thru FY24 budget

Other proposals included permission for wheat imports by the private sector to bridge the shortfall, declaration of rice as an industry, tax exemption to students working in the IT sector, level playing field for the solar sector, and tax amnesty for the construction sector

Updated 04 Jun, 2023 09:41am

Wheat flour, sugar and urea: FBR specifies ‘designated areas’ near borders to check smuggling

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has specified border areas of Afghanistan, India and Iran as ...

Updated 20 Apr, 2023 08:35am

Business & Finance

Policy of increasing interest rate to reduce inflation has failed: Mian Zahid

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

Published 19 Apr, 2023 06:36am

Four ‘essential’ commodities: Customs given legal backing to take action against smuggling

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has declared wheat and wheat flour, sugar and urea as “essential...

Updated 18 Apr, 2023 09:07am

Crackdown on hoarders, profiteers ordered

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday approved a massive crackdown against hoarding, profiteering and...

Updated 17 Apr, 2023 08:46am

Essential items: Govt vows to take strict action against smugglers

ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday vowed to take strict action against those elements involved in smuggling of...

Updated 13 Apr, 2023 08:49am

Pakistan

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

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Punjab Mod / Dec 5 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	1.80 ▲ 0.20 (12.50%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 5 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	10.50 ▲ 1.00 (10.53%)
Bawany Air Products / Dec 5 Bawany Air Products Limited(BAPL)	11.28 ▲ 1.00 (9.73%)
Tri-Star Power / Dec 5 Tri-Star Power Limited(TSPL)	11.88 ▲ 1.00 (9.19%)
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Dec 5 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	12 ▲ 1.00 (9.09%)
Nazir Cotton Mills / Dec 5 Nazir Cotton Mills Limited(NCML)	3.91 ▲ 0.31 (8.61%)
First Elite Cap.Mod / Dec 5 First Elite Capital Modaraba(FECM)	3.50 ▲ 0.27 (8.36%)
Sakrand Sugar / Dec 5 Sakrand Sugar Mills Limited(SKRS)	9.94 ▲ 0.71 (7.69%)
Tariq Corporation / Dec 5 Tariq Corporation Limited(TCORP)	19.18 ▲ 1.34 (7.51%)
Matco Foods Ltd / Dec 5 Matco Foods Limited(MFL)	37.86 ▲ 2.64 (7.50%)

Stock	Price
Universal Ins. / Dec 5 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	6.45 ▼ -0.70 (-9.79%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Dec 5 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	7.80 ▼ -0.80 (-9.30%)
Unicap Modaraba / Dec 5 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	1.81 ▼ -0.16 (-8.12%)
Universal Network (GEM) / Dec 5 Universal Network Systems Limited (GEM)(GEMUNSL)	26.11 ▼ -2.12 (-7.51%)
MithchellsFruit / Dec 5 Mitchells Fruit Farms Limited(MFFL)	225.64 ▼ -18.30 (-7.50%)
Otsuka Pakistan / Dec 5 Otsuka Pakistan Limited(OTSU)	159.25 ▼ -12.91 (-7.50%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 5 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	16.31 ▼ -1.31 (-7.43%)
F.Credit & Inv / Dec 5 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	5.51 ▼ -0.43 (-7.24%)
Philip Morris Pak. / Dec 5 Philip Morris (Pakistan) Limited(PMPK)	510.70 ▼ -39.30 (-7.15%)
Saif Textile / Dec 5 Saif Textile Mills Limited(SAIF)	10.22 ▼ -0.77 (-7.01%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Dec 5 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	58,087,694 ▲ 0.24
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 5 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	57,079,786 ▲ 0.01
Fauji Cement / Dec 5 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	41,984,500 ▲ 0.28
Pak Refinery / Dec 5 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	30,480,397 ▲ 1.12
P.T.C.L. / Dec 5 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	28,170,500 ▲ 0.47
Hascol Petrol / Dec 5 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	26,337,000 ▲ 0.36
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 5 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	26,128,740 ▲ 0.52
Oil & Gas Dev. / Dec 5 Oil & Gas Development Company Limited(OGDC)	23,810,103 ▼ -1.28
Pak Petroleum / Dec 5 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	23,518,237 ▼ -0.58
Maple Leaf Cement / Dec 5 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	22,423,667 ▲ 0.19

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