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Executive Summary of the Economic Survey 2019-20

The Pakistan Economic Survey 2019-20 consists of major economic indicators such as Growth and Investment, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Mining , Fiscal Development, Money and Credit , Capital Markets & Corporate Sector, Inflation, Trade and Payments , Pu

Updated 12 Jun, 2020 02:22am

Sports

Amir and Haris not available for England tour

Both players withdrawn themselves for family reasons.

Published 11 Jun, 2020 07:52pm

Sports

PCB warns plays involved in COVID-19 SOP violation

Babar Azam, Naseem Shah and Imam ul Haq were spotted training at the Abdul Qadir Cricket Academy without following proper health and safety measures.

Published 11 Jun, 2020 02:47pm

Sports

Younis appointment excite Test stars

“Excellent opportunity to learn from Younis during a pressure series,” says Azhar Ali.

Published 11 Jun, 2020 01:56pm

PM offers to help India, share Pakistan's cash transfer program to cope with coronavirus

He said his government's cash transfer program is lauded internationally for its transparency.

Updated 11 Jun, 2020 02:43pm

Business & Finance

Petrol shortage crisis: Situation will improve in three days, claims minister

There is a shortage of petrol in most of the cities of the country including Karachi and despite most of the petrol pumps are open but petrol is not available.

Updated 11 Jun, 2020 12:02pm

Sports

Younis excited to start new partnership with Misbah

Khan has been appointed as team’s batting coach for tour of England.

Updated 10 Jun, 2020 06:46pm

Paris Club agrees to suspend Pakistan debt service payments

This initiative will also contribute to help Pakistan to improve debt transparency and debt management.

Published 10 Jun, 2020 03:25pm

Business & Finance

Budget 2020-21: Pakistan's to target 2.3% growth after pandemic hit

“The GDP growth for 2020-21 is targeted at 2.3 percent with contributions from agriculture (2.9 percent), industry (0.1 percent) and services (2.8 percent).”

Published 10 Jun, 2020 11:58am

Sports

Akram backs Younis’s appointment as batting coach

Pakistan team will play three Test and same number of Twenty20 Internationals in England.

Published 09 Jun, 2020 07:36pm

Pakistan

Pakistani mango exports to Iran face serious challenges this year due to ill-planning

It is feared that this year only around 800 tonnes mango will be exported to Iran against the estimate of 15,000 tonnes export under normal circumstances.

Published 09 Jun, 2020 07:28pm

Sports

Faced racism while playing in IPL: Sammy

The all-rounder had initially thought that the word meant ‘strong stallion’ but that was clearly not the case.

Published 09 Jun, 2020 05:02pm

Sports

Younis Khan appointed Pakistan batting coach for England tour

Mushtaq Ahmed to travel as spin bowling coach to further bolster head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and fast bowling coach Waqar Younis.

Published 09 Jun, 2020 01:32pm

Pakistan

Pakistan among the least safe country for coronavirus: Report

Pakistan managed to score only 370 points faring poorly even against countries such as Bhutan and Nepal, which were ranked at 140 and 142, respectively, with scores of 392 and 390, respectively.

Published 09 Jun, 2020 12:30pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan’s inflation rate not the highest in the world: SBP

"While Pakistan did have a relatively elevated inflation rate so far in FY20, it is not true that it was the highest in the world," says SBP.

Published 08 Jun, 2020 10:53am

Pakistan's COVID-19 cases cross 100,000 mark

The country reported 4,728 in the past 24 hours.

Published 08 Jun, 2020 10:13am

Business & Finance

ADB to provide $5.28mn grant to support COVID-19 response in KPK

Under the agreement, the Government of Norway will provide a $5.28 million grant to strengthen the emergency response system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province amid the coronavirus crisis.

Published 06 Jun, 2020 03:16pm

ADB to provide $300 million emergency Covid-19 loan to Pakistan

The loan amount will strengthen country's public health response to the disease and help meet the basic needs of the poor segments of society

Updated 05 Jun, 2020 07:06pm

Millions of Pakistanis to get unemployed due to COVID-19, warns finance ministry

The ministry informed that the country’ s GDP growth prior to the outbreak of COVID pandemic the pandemic was expected to be 3.24pc, which has reduced to a negative 0.4pc during the ongoing fiscal year.

Published 05 Jun, 2020 02:24pm

Pakistan

Pakistan to not export surgical, N95 masks, informs Dawood

Pakistan's fruits, vegetables, meat, and poultry exports to the Middle Eastern countries grew by 36pc over the last twelve months.

Published 05 Jun, 2020 12:54pm

Pakistan

Pakistan rejects India's malicious allegations; warns world about role of spoilers within, outside Afghanistan

She added TTP was operating from Afghanistan and with Indian support, threatens Pakistan and other countries in the region.

Published 05 Jun, 2020 12:58am

Sports

Probable squad of Pakistan for England tour

The men-in-green will play three Test and same number of T20Is on the tour.

Published 04 Jun, 2020 03:23pm

Business & Finance

Emirates announce to resume scheduled flight operations to Pakistan

As per details, Emirates will resume scheduled flight operations from Pakistan to Dubai from June 8.

Published 04 Jun, 2020 02:40pm

Pakistan now has more coronavirus cases than China

Pakistan has recorded more than 85000 cases, while China has reported 84,160 cases so far.

Updated 04 Jun, 2020 02:31pm

UN chief calls for avoiding moves that escalates India-Pakistan tensions

*Qureshi reiterated Pakistan's offer to UNMOGIP to visit the alleged sites to confirm the veracity of Indian claims.

Published 04 Jun, 2020 02:17am

Pakistan

Pak-USA trade surplus decrease by 3.73pc in 10 months: SBP

Overall Pakistan’s exports to other countries witnessed decline of 2.40 percent in ten months, from $19.649 billion to $20.134 billion.

Published 04 Jun, 2020 02:01am

Sports

Cricket world wishes Wasim Akram on his 54th Birthday

The left-armer is the only bowler to have achieved four hat-tricks in international cricket, with two each in Tests and ODIs.

Published 03 Jun, 2020 04:24pm

Business & Finance

Sindh Bank launches its new website

The Bank has earned a reputation of a reliable and efficient banking institution in a brief span of time.

Published 02 Jun, 2020 08:49pm

Business & Finance

Bangladesh pharma sends COVID-19 drug to Pakistan to treat patients

Beximco is the first company in the world who developed and introduced generic Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19.

Published 02 Jun, 2020 04:05pm

Pakistan

Pakistan condemns extra-judicial killing of 13 Kashmiris in a day by Indian forces

FO said India must realize that RSS-BJP combine stands exposed before the world for its illegal and inhuman actions and extremist ‘Hindutva’ agenda.

Published 02 Jun, 2020 03:45pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 29	278.53
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 29	278.03
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 29	156.41
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 29	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 29	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 29	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 26	5099.96
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 26	37934.76
Nasdaq / Apr 26	15927.90
Dow Jones / Apr 26	38239.66
India Sensex / Apr 29	74257.68
Hang Seng / Apr 29	17861.75
FTSE 100 / Apr 29	8179.85
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 29	18202.27

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 26	20535
Petrol/Litre / Apr 29	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 29	83.16
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 29	209105
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 29	2332.70
Diesel/Litre / Apr 29	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 29 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 29 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 29 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 29 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 29 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 29 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 29 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 29 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 29 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 29 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 29 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 29 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 29 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 29 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 29 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 29 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 29 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 29 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

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

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