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Blame game

EDITORIAL: Inter-ministerial coordination and cooperation, the hallmark of smooth government functioning, appears to...

Published 06 Oct, 2021 04:17am

World

World needs to spend another $100 trillion on UN fight against global woes: report

LONDON: Global goals tackling poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change face a $100 trillion funding...

Updated 17 Sep, 2021 06:08pm

Markets

Pakistan for early completion of Stream Gas Pipeline Project

ISLAMABAD: In a virtual meeting with Russian Ambassador Danila Ganich, Deputy Chairman Senate Mirza Muhammad Afridi...

Published 16 Sep, 2021 04:02am

Business & Finance

PM urges usage of China's Juncao technology to address food insecurity

Says sustainable ways of achieving economic recovery, growth, and development are critical during the pandemic
Remarks come during virtual forum on 20th anniversary of Juncao Assistance and Sustainable Development Cooperation

Updated 03 Sep, 2021 03:41pm

World

Pandemic threatens Asia-Pacific's progress on global development goals, says ADB

Developing Asia's extreme poverty rate - or the proportion of its people living on less than $1.90 a day - would have fallen to 2.6% in 2020 from 5.2% in 2017 without COVID-19

Published 24 Aug, 2021 12:02pm

Pakistan

Govt allocates Rs200bn for poverty alleviation: Dr Sania

ISLAMABAD: The government has allocated Rs200 billion for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division in the...

Published 13 Jul, 2021 03:22am

Opinion

Tackling poverty

One of the key questions today is what has happened to the incidence of poverty in 2020-21, a year which is new...

Published 29 Jun, 2021 03:24am

Pakistan

Ehsaas Programme different from BISP: Dr Sania

LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar said on Saturday that 95...

Published 27 Jun, 2021 03:56am

Opinion

Economic direction and role of government — II

The overall economic policy, including that of the philosophy of Budget, must take into consideration the fact that...

Published 26 Jun, 2021 03:24am

World

Debt could trap low-income nations in poverty

PARIS: A lasting divide risks emerging between rich and poor countries if the rising debt burden of low-income and...

Published 24 Jun, 2021 03:36am

Anti-poverty groups criticise rich countries over G7 tax deal

FRANKFURT: Anti-poverty campaigners on Monday criticised a deal reached by seven wealthy countries to impose a...

Published 08 Jun, 2021 04:09am

Pandemic plunges 100 million more workers into poverty: UN

Covid-19 "has not just been a public health crisis, it's also been an employment and human crisis," ILO chief said.

Updated 02 Jun, 2021 05:03pm

Pakistan

Bilawal slams PM over rising inflation, poverty

KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hit hard on Imran Khan’s PTI government for showing insensitivity...

Updated 10 May, 2021 10:21am

Pakistan

Bilawal slams PM over rising inflation, poverty

KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hit hard on Imran Khan’s PTI government for showing insensitivity...

Updated 10 May, 2021 10:21am

Pakistan

Poverty reduction to gauge PTI govt’s success after five years: PM

The representatives of respective banks and the Maritime Affairs Ministry signed the documents to provide loans to the fishermen under the Kamyab Jawan Programme.

Published 22 Apr, 2021 09:46pm

PM expands free meals programme

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday announced to expand the network of meals-on-wheels kitchens under...

Updated 12 Apr, 2021 09:14am

World

India contributed to nearly 60% of the global rise in poverty in 2020: Study

According to a recent study, an estimated 131 million people were thrust into poverty in 2020, as the global economic slump caused by the pandemic has shrunk the world's middle class population.
A large driver of this rising poverty appears to be the South Asian region, which “is estimated to have added nearly double the amount of people to the ranks of the globally poor as sub-Saharan Africa in the pandemic".

Updated 29 Mar, 2021 04:53pm

World

Lebanon protesters block roads over worsening poverty

Lebanon's economic crisis has been aggravated by several lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Published 09 Mar, 2021 05:14pm

Business & Finance

What lessons can the world learn from China's War on Poverty?

Dr. Alessandra Cappelletti an associate professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Liverpool University says there are some reasons why this project is so successful.

Published 02 Mar, 2021 02:21pm

Pakistan

Poverty-hit people looking towards PSP: Kamal

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said that the poverty and inflation-hit people...

Published 24 Feb, 2021 05:24am

Pakistan

Senate panel informed: 80m people in Pakistan living in poverty

ISLAMABAD: Forty percent or at least 80 million people of the total population of Pakistan are living in poverty and...

Published 21 Jan, 2021 04:23am

World

Pandemic reveals hidden poverty in wealthy Japan

Around 40 percent of workers are in vulnerable "non-regular" jobs with lower wages and contracts that can be terminated easily.

Published 19 Jan, 2021 06:07pm

Editorials

The population bomb

EDITORIAL: That about four percent of all newborns that came into the world on New Year’s Day were born in ...

Updated 08 Jan, 2021 03:30am

World

Pandemic tips more into extreme poverty in Nigeria's Lagos

Thousands of families live in the floating slum, often in tightly packed huts with no running water or electricity.

Published 07 Jan, 2021 06:52pm

World

Almost 700,000 people flung into poverty due to pandemic crisis in the U.K: Study

According to a recent study, nearly 700,000 individuals in the United Kingdom, have been flung into poverty as a result of the pandemic.
The onset of the pandemic pushed the total number of poverty stricken individuals in the United Kingdom to more than 15 million, or 23 percent of the population.

Updated 08 Dec, 2020 01:59pm

Business & Finance

COVID-19 set to push over 32mn of the world’s poorest people into extreme poverty: UN

The extreme poverty level in LDCs is projected to expand by 32 million in 2020, to reach 377 million people.

Published 07 Dec, 2020 11:52am

World

COVID-19 could push one billion people into extreme poverty by 2030, UN warns

UN study suggests that the phenomenon can only be avoided by taking timely measures like investing in public health, social and safety net programmes and green transition

Published 04 Dec, 2020 11:04am

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Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Investments / Oct 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.19 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / Oct 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	280.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Oct 22 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Oct 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Oct 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Oct 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	79.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Oct 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	776.39 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Oct 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Oct 22 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	137.93 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / Oct 22 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	31.74 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Investments / Oct 22 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.19 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / Oct 22 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	280.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Oct 22 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Oct 22 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Oct 22 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Oct 22 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	79.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Oct 22 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	776.39 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Oct 22 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Oct 22 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	137.93 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / Oct 22 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	31.74 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Oct 22	173.95
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Oct 22	173.80
USD to Japanese Yen / Oct 22	113.85
USD to Swiss Franc / Oct 22	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Oct 22	1.38
Euro to USD / Oct 22	1.16
UK LIBOR % / Oct 22	0.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Oct 22	4549.78
India Sensex / Oct 22	60923.50
Tokyo Nikkei / Oct 22	28590.46
Nasdaq / Oct 22	15215.70
Hang Seng / Oct 22	26017.53
FTSE 100 / Oct 22	7190.30
Dow Jones / Oct 22	35603.08
Germany DAX 30 / Oct 22	15472.56
France CAC40 / Oct 22	6686.17