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74pc of population can’t afford healthy diet owing to increased cost

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar while calling for revisiting the National Food Security Policy of the country have...

Published 31 May, 2024 06:58am

Economies in developing Asia ageing fast: Pakistan will still have shares below 10pc by 2050: ADB

ISLAMABAD: Some economies in developing Asia are ageing rapidly, however, Pakistan will still have shares lower than...

Updated 03 May, 2024 09:30am

Editorials

Tackling the population crisis

EDITORIAL: Recent weeks have seen increasing clamour among our policymakers for measures aimed at improving...

Published 01 Apr, 2024 05:34am

Pakistan

Punjab govt to create digital record of population

LAHORE: The Punjab Government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, has taken a historic step...

Published 02 Mar, 2024 04:16am

Business & Finance

Sindh’s integrated health, population project: World Bank rates implementation progress as ‘satisfactory’

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) has rated the overall implementation progress of the “Sindh Integrated Health and...

Published 11 Dec, 2023 06:41am

Pakistan

Challenge of growing population highlighted

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

Published 27 Nov, 2023 06:13am

Pakistan

Climate change termed a ticking bomb waiting to go off

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman emphasised the urgency of addressing...

Published 20 Nov, 2023 06:28am

Pakistan

Experts for ‘swift actions’ to deal with burgeoning population challenge

ISLAMABAD: Expressing serious concerns over rapidly growing population of the country, the speakers at an event on...

Published 17 Oct, 2023 05:51am

Pakistan

ECP issues lists of delimited constituencies

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s 266 general seats cover a total population of Pakistan’s 241,499,431 persons and...

Updated 28 Sep, 2023 09:57am

Opinion

The population bulge

The results of the seventh Population and Housing Census of Pakistan in 2023 have been announced recently by the...

Updated 05 Sep, 2023 07:08am

Pakistan

Digital census: PPP, MQM-P say concerned about ‘under-reporting’ of Sindh population

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) have expressed serious...

Updated 23 Aug, 2023 09:42am

Pakistan

Family planning: speakers underscore need for increased awareness

PESHAWAR: Speakers here an awareness and training seminar urged the parents to plan their families while keeping in...

Published 21 Aug, 2023 07:38am

Opinion

A questionable census

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

Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:55am

Total population recorded at 241.49 million: CCI approves results of digital census: PMO

ISLAMABAD: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) has unanimously approved the results of the 2023 digital census on...

Updated 06 Aug, 2023 09:39am

Editorials

Uncontrolled population growth

EDITORIAL: The World Population Day was observed on July 11 as the global population stood at 7 billion. The birth...

Published 13 Jul, 2023 04:50am

World

Xi says China will seek to lift birth rate in face of ageing population

BEIJING: China will enact policies to boost its birth rate, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as policymakers...

Published 17 Oct, 2022 05:57am

World

China population to begin shrinking by 2025: officials

BEIJING: China’s population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and...

Published 02 Aug, 2022 09:17am

Pakistan

7th population, housing census: PBS inaugurates software

ISLAMAAD: Secretary Planning Syed Zafar Ali Shah inaugurated software for the 7th Population and Housing Census,...

Published 27 Jul, 2022 05:23am

Opinion

Desire of a nation

This is essentially a piece that is apolitical. More of history and philosophy. It is about the desire of the...

Published 08 May, 2022 05:25am

Editorials

Elections contribute to democratic governance

EDITORIAL: It will be touch and go for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as far as the matter of completing...

Published 08 May, 2022 05:25am

Opinion

Politics has its own course

It’s widely believed, and rightly so, that law has its own course. But the current dynamics of politics in ...

Published 06 May, 2022 05:03am

Opinion

Invest in barrens

Over the last century, domestic demand for food has escalated as our population has increased radically. According ...

Published 16 Mar, 2022 05:40am

Opinion

Punjab: regional development

There has been a move recently towards the creation of the Province of South Punjab. This will, of course, require a...

Published 25 Jan, 2022 05:03am

Editorials

Head and housing count

EDITORIAL: The 7th population and housing census is going to be a monumentally important exercise because of a ...

Published 19 Jan, 2022 06:15am

World

China’s birth rate at record low in 2021

BEIJING: China’s birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn ...

Published 18 Jan, 2022 04:20am

Pakistan

Population coverage, quality of service: PTA to procure web-based GIS Portal

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided procuring web-based Geographic Information...

Published 27 Oct, 2021 04:50am

Pakistan

40pc of population faces food insecurity: expert

LAHORE: Though Pakistan is amongst the world’s top ten producers of wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, mango, dates...

Published 30 Sep, 2021 04:15am

7th Population and Housing Census: Cabinet divided over deployment of armed forces

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet is said to be divided on deployment of armed forces in 7th Population and Housing...

Updated 28 Sep, 2021 09:33am

Opinion

Sehat Sahulat Programme: SLIC Pakistan’s role

Sehat Sahulat Programme is one of the key milestones of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa towards social welfare...

Published 21 Jul, 2021 01:51am

World

Australia lowers long-term population, economic growth forecasts

CANBERRA: Australia lowered its projections on Sunday for population and economic growth over the next 40 years due...

Published 28 Jun, 2021 04:38am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 13	278.73
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 13	278.53
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 14	157.92
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 14	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 14	1.27
Euro to USD / Jun 14	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 14	5,433.74
India Sensex / Jun 14	76,901.63
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 14	38,814.56
Nasdaq / Jun 14	17,667.56
Hang Seng / Jun 14	18,017.18
FTSE 100 / Jun 14	8,140.39
Dow Jones / Jun 14	38,647.10
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 14	18,104.26

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 14	78.04
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 14	19,935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 14	206,361
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 14	2,311.36
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 14	71.94
Petrol/Litre / Jun 15	268.36

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jun 15 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jun 15 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jun 15 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jun 15 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jun 15 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jun 15 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jun 15 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jun 15 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jun 15 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jun 15 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jun 15 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jun 15 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jun 15 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jun 15 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jun 15 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jun 15 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jun 15 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jun 15 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

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

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