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Miftah Ismail

The LSMI slide

EDITORIAL: Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) output suffered yet another hit in February 2023 against...

Published 19 Apr, 2023 06:36am

Pakistan

PDM, Imran Khan, chief justice and COAS need to hold talks: Shahid Khaqan

Former PM says political parties need to act before people come out on the streets

Published 15 Apr, 2023 09:00pm

Opinion

The IMF-govt trust deficit

The Pakistani public is being subjected to extremely disturbing macroeconomic indicators with each subsequent update...

Published 27 Mar, 2023 06:15am

Editorials

Dangerous impasse on numerous fronts

EDITORIAL: Overwhelming evidence indicates that all sectors are suffering from a deepening malaise of, at best,...

Published 25 Mar, 2023 06:25am

Editorials

‘Reimagining Pakistan’

EDITORIAL: Ideas about rescuing the economy, especially about ending its dependence on donor bailouts, come a dime a...

Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am

Opinion

Things are still difficult for the Sharifs

Miftah Ismail of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been speaking his mind in a blunt way ever since he was...

Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am

Pakistan

Pakistan's ex finance chief Miftah warns against any kind of debt restructuring

Difficult task to get China and the West to sit on one table for such an endeavour, he says

Updated 16 Mar, 2023 09:46am

Opinion

Something’s gotta give

A small group of alienated members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have...

Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am

Business & Finance

Country can avoid IMF only through higher exports, tax collections: Miftah

KARACHI: Former Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday said that in order to avoid International Monetary...

Updated 13 Mar, 2023 09:12am

Business & Finance

Ongoing crisis result of ‘last 75 years’ mistakes’, says Miftah

KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail has said Pakistan has reached to this state owing to the mistakes of...

Published 05 Mar, 2023 03:36am

Pakistan

Pakistan should prioritise population planning, female education: Miftah Ismail

Former finance minister says Bangladesh, Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in implementing population planning

Updated 04 Mar, 2023 06:55pm

Pakistan

Accountability court revokes non-bailable arrest warrant for Shahid Khaqan in LNG case

Warrant was issued over failure of PML-N leader to appear before the court

Updated 21 Feb, 2023 10:10pm

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Dar doesn’t like qualified economists

“Ishaq Dar says that he has to fix the economy that was mishandled by the inexperienced Khan administration.”...

Published 17 Feb, 2023 06:00am

Opinion

After the IMF tranche

On December 16, 2021 at a Hamdard University seminar where Dr Miftah Ismail was another speaker, I had said that...

Updated 14 Feb, 2023 01:05pm

Opinion

Pakistan: grave economic distress

On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank ...

Published 13 Feb, 2023 05:57am

Pakistan

Punjab, KP assemblies: Asad hopes election dates will be announced by weekend

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secretary general Asad Umar on Tuesday showed optimism that election dates...

Published 08 Feb, 2023 06:10am

Editorials

Symptoms of fissures

EDITORIAL: Even though there is the question of ‘ifs and buts’ engulfing the possibility of general election on...

Published 04 Feb, 2023 06:08am

Markets

Deal or default: Pakistan’s economy set for an endgame

Distressed by debt, many analysts expect 'reprofiling' rather than mass write-off of payments

Published 01 Feb, 2023 01:13pm

Business & Finance

Economic mess: embittered Miftah offers ‘solution’

KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail Friday said that instead of depreciating the value of the dollar...

Published 28 Jan, 2023 06:20am

Pakistan

Miftah takes a dig at Dar, again

KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail on Thursday took a dig at Finance Minister Ishaq...

Published 27 Jan, 2023 06:15am

Pakistan

Keeping dollar in narrow range was insanity, says Dr Miftah Ismail at IBA event

Former finance minister says black market cannot be stopped by administrative measures

Updated 27 Jan, 2023 10:58am

Pakistan

Ishaq Dar has inflicted huge financial dent to Pakistan: Miftah Ismail

Former finance minister says Dar thought he could run the economy without IMF programme

Updated 26 Jan, 2023 06:48pm

Opinion

The Saudi snub, and after…

The prime minister’s decision to do whatever was needed to complete the 9th review of the stalled IMF programme ...

Updated 26 Jan, 2023 06:19am

Editorials

‘I feel humiliated…’

EDITORIAL: Constitution doesn’t prescribe medicine for every ill that besets today’s Pakistan, but even by...

Published 26 Jan, 2023 05:58am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Refusing to play ball

“The Khan says he may return to the national assembly so that RR and Shehbaz Sharif do not appoint a caretaker...

Published 18 Jan, 2023 06:22am

Editorials

Know thy economy

EDITORIAL: The government of Pakistan’s comparative data revealed under the title “Know Your Economy” in the...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 06:38am

Miftah calls for economic ‘overhaul’

Lamenting the political situation in Punjab, the PML-N stalwart said we should focus on the revival of the country’s economy rather than surfing energies on the ‘political games’

Updated 16 Jan, 2023 09:41am

Opinion

Pakistan: a state and its citizens in state of denial – I

On December 16, 2021 at a seminar at Hamdard University where Dr Miftah Ismail, who later became country’s finance...

Published 04 Jan, 2023 06:02am

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Buddha said three things cannot be hidden

“Talking of Achilles’ heel…” “Achilles as in a great warrior of the Trojan war in Greek mythology?”...

Published 31 Dec, 2022 06:32am

Markets

Pakistan's Rupee sees its worst year since 2008 meltdown

PKR lost 22% during 2022, depreciating from 176.51 to 226.43 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market

Updated 01 Jan, 2023 01:19pm

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	156.17
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 25	5048.42
Nasdaq / Apr 25	15611.76
Dow Jones / Apr 25	38085.80
India Sensex / Apr 26	74171.68
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 26	37934.72
Hang Seng / Apr 26	17626.75
FTSE 100 / Apr 26	8123.98
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 26	18016.27

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 25	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 25	240900
Petrol/Litre / Apr 26	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 26	83.89
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 26	2336.33
Diesel/Litre / Apr 26	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 26 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 26 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 26 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 26 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 26 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 26 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 26 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 26 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 26 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 26 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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