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population census

Noted businessman commends PBS on completion of Pakistan digital economic census

Published 26 Aug, 2025 07:05am

KARACHI: Mian Zahid Hussain, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), former Minister of...

Outsized population role in NFC Awards

Published 26 Aug, 2025 05:32am

EDITORIAL: With the president constituting the 11th National Finance Commission (NFC) on August 22, a vital function...

The data Pakistan needed

Updated 25 Aug, 2025 06:26am

EDITORIAL: Following the release of the 2023 population census last year and the agriculture census earlier this...

Pakistan Economic Survey fails to calculate unemployment rate for current year

Updated 10 Jun, 2025 10:44am

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Survey 2024-25 failed to calculate the unemployment rate for the current year and instead...

India sets date of population and caste census

Published 04 Jun, 2025 07:07pm

NEW DELHI: The world’s most populous nation India will conduct a census in 2027, its first since 2011, the...

No high population growth blackmail, please

Updated 03 Jun, 2025 06:38am

EDITORIAL: Ahsan Iqbal, the Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, on the occasion of the launch...

Human development index of provinces

Published 10 Dec, 2024 06:43am

The Population and Housing Census of 2023 has generated a lot of useful information on key indicators. The ...

Findings of 2023 population census

Published 20 Aug, 2024 07:01am

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has recently disseminated the detailed results of the 7th Population and...

Population growth: A growing crisis

Published 23 Jul, 2024 07:10am

EDITORIAL: The findings of the 2023 population census, released on July 18, have been of little surprise, as they...

Balochistan falls behind

Published 12 Sep, 2023 06:56am

Balochistan is the smallest province of Pakistan, with a share of 6.2% in the national population, according to the...

ECP invites politicians to discuss ‘election roadmap’

Updated 24 Aug, 2023 09:33am

ISLAMABAD: Faced with strong public and political backlash over a likely delay in holding the general elections in...

FAFEN underscores need for ‘electoral fairness’ thru delimitation exercise

Published 21 Aug, 2023 06:43am

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Sunday called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan ...

ECP announces launch of fresh delimitation of constituencies: General election delay seemingly inevitable

Updated 18 Aug, 2023 09:42am

ISLAMABAD: What appears to be a vivid indication that the general elections would not be held in the country before...

Delimitation: CJP asks ECP to carry out process in transparent manner

Updated 16 Aug, 2023 09:17am

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial noted delimitation of constituencies is a matter of public interest and...

A questionable census

Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:55am

On 5th August, the Council of Common Interests unanimously approved the results of the 7th Population Census of...

Cat’s out of the bag

Published 14 Aug, 2023 06:29am

EDITORIAL: Rumours that plans were afoot to delay the general election, due at the end of the year, turned out to be...

Elections should be held on the basis of recent census: PDP

Published 24 Jul, 2023 07:13am

KARACHI: The coming general elections should be ideally held on the basis of recent population census after ...

Stop incentivising population growth

Updated 24 May, 2023 06:40am

EDITORIAL: Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal while briefing the media emphasised...

Pakistan’s population attains new mark amid economic slump

Updated 23 May, 2023 11:31am

Reaches 249,566,743 (249.566 million), as per the initial results of the seventh national and first digital census 2023

Population of urban Sindh: MQM-P presents its perspective

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Aug 13	277.85
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Aug 13	277.65
USD to Japanese Yen / Aug 14	159.32
USD to Swiss Franc / Aug 14	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Aug 14	1.35
Euro to USD / Aug 14	1.16
SOFR % / Aug 14	3.63

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Aug 14	7,785.76
India Sensex / Aug 14	78,009.25
Tokyo Nikkei / Aug 14	68,713.80
Nasdaq / Aug 14	26,729.16
Hang Seng / Aug 14	25,116.85
FTSE 100 / Aug 14	10,750.11
Dow Jones / Aug 14	53,732.41
Germany DAX 30 / Aug 14	26,440.31
France CAC40 / Aug 14	8,636.80

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Aug 13	18,580
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Aug 13	394,749
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Aug 14	82.40
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Aug 14	4,376.40
Cotton US¢/pound / Aug 14	84.80
Petrol/Litre / Aug 16	325.43
Diesel/Litre / Aug 16	383.95

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Gammon Pak / Aug 13 Gammon Pakistan Limited(GAMON)	28.25 ▲ 2.57 (10.01%)
Ideal Dynamics / Aug 13 Ideal Dynamics Limited(IDEAL)	49.13 ▲ 4.47 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Aug 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	49.58 ▲ 4.51 (10.01%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Aug 13 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	79.51 ▲ 7.23 (10%)
Arctic Textile / Aug 13 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	47.19 ▲ 4.29 (10%)
Aisha Steel (CPS) / Aug 13 Aisha Steel Mills Limited (CPS)(ASLCPS)	114.83 ▲ 10.44 (10%)
Asim Textile / Aug 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	90.50 ▲ 8.23 (10%)
Buxly Paints / Aug 13 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	336.04 ▲ 30.55 (10%)
J.A.Textile / Aug 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	68.84 ▲ 6.26 (10%)
MACPAC Films / Aug 13 MACPAC Films Limited(MACFL)	73.07 ▲ 6.64 (10%)

Stock	Price
Supernet Tech. / Aug 13 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	29.87 ▼ -11.86 (-28.42%)
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 13 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	13.56 ▼ -1.51 (-10.02%)
Universal Ins. / Aug 13 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	20.71 ▼ -2.3 (-10%)
Mughal Energy / Aug 13 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	27.20 ▼ -2.72 (-9.09%)
Beco Steel Ltd / Aug 13 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	5.11 ▼ -0.46 (-8.26%)
Tri-Star Mutual / Aug 13 Tri-Star Mutual Fund Limited(TSMF)	17.14 ▼ -1.43 (-7.7%)
Asia Ins. / Aug 13 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	39.82 ▼ -3.18 (-7.4%)
ARM Green Industries / Aug 13 ARM Green Industries Limited(ARMG)	55.60 ▼ -4.43 (-7.38%)
Shadman Cotton / Aug 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	64.02 ▼ -4.9 (-7.11%)
Pak Tobacco / Aug 13 Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited(PAKT)	1,364.29 ▼ -96.5 (-6.61%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Aug 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	247,072,281 ▲ 0.57
Beco Steel Ltd / Aug 13 Beco Steel Limited(BECO)	103,802,064 ▼ -0.46
Pak Refinery / Aug 13 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	40,235,369 ▲ 5.93
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Aug 13 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	39,092,471 ▼ -1.51
WorldCall Telecom / Aug 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	26,025,744 ▲ 0.01
Thatta Cement / Aug 13 Thatta Cement Company Limited(THCCL)	19,608,245 ▲ 3.36
B.O.Punjab / Aug 13 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	16,204,913 ▲ 0.18
Hascol Petrol / Aug 13 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	15,337,298 ▼ -0.48
TPL Properties / Aug 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	15,140,554 ▼ -0.31
TPL Corp Ltd / Aug 13 TPL Corp Limited(TPL)	14,138,754 ▲ 0.53

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