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food insecurity

Can oil derail AI?

Updated 11 Jun, 2026 06:56am

The US-Israeli war on Iran has already produced a surprisingly long list of unintended consequences. Shipping routes...

Over 2.7m children under five facing acute malnutrition

Published 01 May, 2026 06:44am

LAHORE: Over 2.7 million children under five in Pakistan face acute malnutrition, even as one province charts a...

Governance fault lines in food security

Updated 30 Apr, 2026 06:21am

EDITORIAL: The UN’s 2026 Global Report on Food Crises ranking Pakistan among the top 10 nations with the most acute...

EDITORIAL: Rising food insecurity exposes policy gaps

Updated 13 Jan, 2026 08:43am

EDITORIAL: The Food Insecurity Experience Scale findings from HIES 2024–25 present a reality far more troubling than...

OPINION: Pakistan’s human development reckoning

Updated 12 Jan, 2026 09:24am

After a six-year hiatus, Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) has returned, and with it a...

PEOC – Strengthening Visibility and Growth of Pakistan’s Edible Oil Industry

Published 10 Jan, 2026 07:53am

Farhat Rasheed JanmohammedDirector, Westbury Group of Companies

Indonesia touts ‘victory’ in rice self-sufficiency

Published 08 Jan, 2026 06:20am

KARAWANG (Indonesia): President Prabowo Subianto said on Wednesday that Indonesia’s rice production met all...

Ahead of Ramazan: NPMC reviews price trends, other matters

Published 07 Jan, 2026 05:53am

ISLAMABAD: The National Price Monitoring Committee presented a detailed overview of inflation trends, noting that...

Food insecurity surges in Pakistan, with one in four households affected

Published 05 Jan, 2026 12:25pm

Food insecurity has increased in both urban and rural areas, reveals the survey

BISP fraud betrays the poor

Published 02 Sep, 2025 06:12am

EDITORIAL: In a country where poverty levels stand at a staggering 44.7 percent, 11 million people face acute food...

Surge in conflicts fuels extreme poverty: World Bank

Published 28 Jun, 2025 05:28am

WASHINGTON: Conflicts and related fatalities have more than tripled since the early 2000s, fuelling extreme poverty,...

Fighting food insecurity

Published 20 May, 2025 05:58am

EDITORIAL: The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s latest report on global food insecurity, published last week,...

Global acute hunger hits new high, 2025 outlook ‘bleak’: report

Published 17 May, 2025 06:05am

PARIS: More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other...

Post-harvest losses in country up to 40pc, says ADB

Published 10 Dec, 2024 08:20am

ISLAMABAD: Post-harvest losses in Pakistan are estimated at 20 to 40 percent for various crops, due to lack of...

Ziauddin University marks World Food Day

Published 24 Oct, 2024 06:49am

KARACHI: “According to the 2024 Global Hunger Index, Pakistan ranks 109th out of 127 countries, with 36.9% of the...

Dozens of states to pledge to combat use of food as weapon of war

Published 04 Aug, 2023 06:20am

UNITED NATIONS: More than 75 countries will “commit to take action to end the use of food as a weapon of war and...

Ministry launches ‘National multi-sectoral nutrition’ programme

Published 27 Jul, 2023 06:26am

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives on Wednesday launched “National...

Russia exits deal for export of Ukrainian grain

Updated 18 Jul, 2023 09:05am

KYIV: Russia halted participation on Monday in the year-old UN-brokered deal that lets Ukraine export grain through...

20,000 families: Unity Foods, Governor Sindh launch ‘food ration donation’ drive

Published 28 Jun, 2023 06:31am

ISLAMABAD: Unity Foods (UFL), a leading player in the food industry, is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue ...

Now a nutrition crisis

Published 18 Jun, 2023 06:27am

EDITORIAL: It’s is indeed most disturbing but no surprise, really, that Pakistan’s many crises – economic,...

Confronting climate change

Published 20 May, 2023 05:59am

EDITORIAL: While Pakistan is still reeling from the effects of last year’s devastating floods, the UN has issued a...

An upcoming catastrophe

Published 30 Apr, 2023 05:10am

The recommendations we are going to discuss here may create unrealistic expectations from the authorities as we are...

International Peasants Rights Day: HWA advocates land reforms to address food insecurity

Published 17 Apr, 2023 06:41am

HYDERABAD: Sindh has long been plagued by a high frequency of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and other natural...

Yellen says Russian oil price cap could save African countries $6bn annually

Published 23 Jan, 2023 08:13am

DAKAR: Russia’s war against Ukraine is hitting Africans particularly hard by exacerbating food insecurity and...

Pakistan risks ‘extraordinary misery’ without flood recovery help: UN

Updated 09 Jan, 2023 08:54am

World Bank estimates that up to nine million more people could be dragged into poverty as a result of the flooding

Call for dealing with climate change, food insecurity

Says flooding in Pakistan has exacerbated previously high levels of food insecurity

So much for ‘zero-hunger target’

Published 11 Sep, 2022 03:51am

EDITORIAL: Not that anybody needed to be reminded about the sorry state of the agriculture sector, considering the...

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 16	278.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 16	278.30
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 16	160.26
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 16	0.80
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 16	1.34
Euro to USD / Jun 16	1.16
SOFR % / Jun 16	3.65

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 15	7,554.29
Nasdaq / Jun 15	26,683.94
Dow Jones / Jun 15	51,671.03
India Sensex / Jun 16	76,714.29
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 16	69,722.25
Hang Seng / Jun 16	24,445.52
FTSE 100 / Jun 16	10,492.70
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 16	25,085.84
France CAC40 / Jun 16	8,452.87

Item	Value
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 15	389,600
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 16	80.57
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 16	20,280
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 16	4,326.02
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 16	76.67
Petrol/Litre / Jun 17	373.78
Diesel/Litre / Jun 17	378.78

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Fid. Leasing / Jun 16 First Fidelity Leasing Modaraba(FFLM)	15.36 ▲ 2.67 (21.04%)
Pak. P.V.C. / Jun 16 Pakistan PVC Limited(PPVC)	34.60 ▲ 6.01 (21.02%)
Pak Stock Exchange / Jun 16 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	52.70 ▲ 9.15 (21.01%)
Crescent Steel / Jun 16 Crescent Steel & Allied Products Limited(CSAP)	116.84 ▲ 20.28 (21%)
National Silk / Jun 16 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	195.13 ▲ 33.87 (21%)
Service Textile / Jun 16 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	42.82 ▲ 7.43 (20.99%)
MACPAC Films / Jun 16 MACPAC Films Limited(MACFL)	72.73 ▲ 12.61 (20.97%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jun 16 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	28.77 ▲ 4.97 (20.88%)
Ansari Sug. / Jun 16 Ansari Sugar Mills Limited(ANSM)	24.39 ▲ 4.1 (20.21%)
Nets Internat.Comm. / Jun 16 Nets International Communication Limited(GEMNETS)	33.43 ▲ 5.53 (19.82%)

Stock	Price
Ideal Spinning / Jun 16 Ideal Spinning Mills Limited(IDSM)	69.48 ▼ -8.96 (-11.42%)
Askari Life Assur. / Jun 16 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	23.10 ▼ -2.44 (-9.55%)
Universal Ins. / Jun 16 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	22.60 ▼ -2.28 (-9.16%)
Frontier Ceramics / Jun 16 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	74.97 ▼ -6.17 (-7.6%)
Idrees Tex. / Jun 16 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	46.69 ▼ -3.41 (-6.81%)
Data Agro / Jun 16 Data Agro Limited(DAAG)	91.73 ▼ -6.34 (-6.46%)
Gulshan Sp. / Jun 16 Gulshan Spinning Mills Limited(GSPM)	6.11 ▼ -0.39 (-6%)
GOC (Pak) / Jun 16 GOC (Pak) Limited.(GOC)	117.18 ▼ -5.82 (-4.73%)
Sakrand Sugar / Jun 16 Sakrand Sugar Mills Limited(SKRS)	26.05 ▼ -1.22 (-4.47%)
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Jun 16 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	10.86 ▼ -0.48 (-4.23%)

Stock	Volume
Lotte Chemical / Jun 16 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	108,119,661 ▼ -0.25
Pak Int.Bulk / Jun 16 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	49,523,210 ▲ 0.84
Siddiqsons Tin / Jun 16 Siddiqsons Tin Plate Limited(STPL)	43,732,572 ▲ 0.46
Sui South Gas / Jun 16 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	42,975,274 ▲ 3.46
K-Electric Ltd. / Jun 16 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	40,115,690 ▲ 0.09
B.O.Punjab / Jun 16 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	40,078,444 ▲ 1.77
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 16 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	37,091,776 ▲ 0.02
TPL Corp Ltd / Jun 16 TPL Corp Limited(TPL)	34,505,206 ▲ 2.1
TPL Properties / Jun 16 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	31,351,342 ▲ 0.37
Maple Leaf Cement / Jun 16 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	28,293,781 ▲ 7.15

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