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Prices of essential commodities

Cabinet body informs Dar: No shortages anticipated, prices stabilising

Published 17 Oct, 2026 04:52am

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting of the Cabinet...

DPM Dar directs monitoring of supply chains, prices of essential commodities

Published 16 Oct, 2026 12:10pm

Directs strict action against hoarding to protect consumers

NPMC informed: WPI-based inflation jumps 13.3pc YoY

Published 09 Oct, 2026 06:01am

ISLAMABAD: The inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) jumped 13.3 percent year-on-year, while weekly...

PMC meeting reviews prices: Transport fares decline by 30pc in some cities; prices of essential commodities show mixed trend

Updated 12 Apr, 2026 06:02am

ISLAMABAD: In a bid to closely monitor inflationary trends and ensure relief for consumers, the National Price...

Price hike: Lahore admin inspects 169,000 retail outlets

Published 18 Mar, 2026 04:35am

LAHORE: During the month of Ramadan, the Lahore district administration conducted over 169,000 inspections of retail...

Weekly SPI slightly up

Published 07 Feb, 2026 05:45am

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the week ending February 4 registered a slight increase of 0.09...

Peshawar: prices of essential food commodities remain steady

Published 02 Feb, 2026 07:20am

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities including vegetables, cooking oil/ghee, sugar, flour, live...

Dar reviews essential commodities’ situation

Published 28 Jan, 2026 05:34am

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Tuesday chaired a meeting to...

Sept inward remittances up, FDI down YoY

Updated 28 Oct, 2025 02:29pm

Inflation expected to remain in the range of 5-6 percent in October

Prices of food items show mixed trend

Published 09 Dec, 2024 06:43am

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in prices of essential commodities including live chicken / meat, vegetable, flour, sugar and...

Cut in petrol prices

Published 05 Oct, 2024 06:43am

EDITORIAL: The cut in petrol and diesel prices for the fifth consecutive fortnight – amounting to total reduction...

Maryam vows to strengthen supply chain mechanism to keep food prices in check

Published 30 Jul, 2024 03:10am

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to make supply chain...

Minister orders strict monitoring of prices of essential commodities

Published 23 Mar, 2024 05:41am

HYDERABAD: The Sindh minister for Irrigation and food Jam Khan Shoro said that all the officers of concerned...

Cabinet takes stock of situation

Updated 12 Mar, 2024 09:42am

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed that a committee should be established immediately to control...

Waiting for Ramazan

Published 17 Feb, 2024 05:51am

The holy month of Ramazan is just around the corner. It is a month of piety and sharing and gives the well-to-do a...

Prices: provinces, ICT asked to curtail wholesale-retail gap

Published 17 Jan, 2024 06:02am

ISLAMABAD: The Caretaker Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Muhammad Sami Saeed has ...

Action continues against profiteers in Karachi

Published 22 Nov, 2023 05:48am

KARACHI: The campaign against profiteers initiated by the city administration remained continued here. The price...

Prices of essential commodities remain high

Published 20 Nov, 2023 06:28am

PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities, like vegetables, pulses, fruits, live chicken/meat, sugar and flour...

Kakar asks CMs to cut rates of essential items

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 08:39am

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday asked the chief ministers to cut the prices of...

Sensitive Price Index: data firm yet sensitive

Published 28 Feb, 2023 06:15am

EDITORIAL: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) computed on weekly basis to assess the price movement of 51 essential...

Govt asks officials to ensure adequate supply of commodities during Ramazan

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

LAHORE: The Industries, Commerce, Investment and Skills Development (ICI&SD) Department of Punjab has issued...

Business community calls for economic stability

Published 21 Oct, 2022 05:57am

KARACHI: Electronics and Motorcycle Dealers Alliance Karachi, and Sindh Trade Union chairman Sheikh Habib held a...

Reviving NPMC

Published 04 Sep, 2022 05:44am

EDITORIAL: It took the government four months of runaway inflation to realise that disbanding the National Price...

The people have spoken but…

Published 20 Jul, 2022 05:48am

EDITORIAL: The outcome of by-elections on 20 seats of the Punjab Assembly is a moment of truth which may well set a...

Punjab to request federal govt not to allow sugar export

Published 09 Jun, 2022 06:18am

LAHORE: Inaugurating the Chief Minister’s price dashboard for online monitoring of prices of essential commodities...

Punjab upgrades Qeemat App

Published 08 Jun, 2022 06:19am

LAHORE: Secretary Industries and Commerce Punjab Dr Ahmad Javed Qazi has said availability, quality and prices of...

Flour, sugar prices reduced in Punjab

Updated 20 Apr, 2022 01:54pm

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced relief package for the month of Ramzan to reduce the price of...

Wheat imports: Tarin asks ministry to come up with ‘accurate need’

Updated 29 Mar, 2022 10:06am

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has asked the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to come up...

Minister says there’s decline in prices of essential commodities

Updated 13 Feb, 2022 10:40am

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Saturday said that due to the...

‘Mini-budget’: Where are provinces?

Published 01 Jan, 2022 04:07am

In one of his articles for this newspaper noted economist Dr Hafiz Pasha had argued, among other things, that...

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 13	276.80 ▼ -0.01
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 13	276.60 ▼ -0.01
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 13	159.71 ▼ -0.21
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 13	0.84 ▲ 0.003
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 13	1.32 ▼ -0.0022
Euro to USD / Nov 13	1.10 ▼ -0.0036
SOFR % / Nov 12	3.90 ▲ 0.01

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 13	7,561.67
India Sensex / Nov 13	81,592.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 13	61,142.35
Nasdaq / Nov 13	25,136.27
Hang Seng / Nov 13	23,637.60
FTSE 100 / Nov 13	10,902.56
Dow Jones / Nov 13	52,347.55
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 13	26,749.95
France CAC40 / Nov 13	8,368.91

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 14	330
Diesel/Litre / Nov 14	360
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 13	88.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 13	18,080
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 13	352,911
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 13	3,884.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 13	82.61

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	6.07 ▲ 1 (19.72%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 13 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	8.77 ▲ 1 (12.87%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	2.64 ▲ 0.28 (11.86%)
Shabbir Tiles / Nov 13 Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Limited(STCL)	10.10 ▲ 1 (10.99%)
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	1.38 ▲ 0.13 (10.4%)
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Nov 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	12.06 ▲ 1.1 (10.04%)
Unicap Modaraba / Nov 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	22.84 ▲ 2.08 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Nov 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	82.90 ▲ 7.54 (10.01%)
Ningbo Green Light / Nov 13 Ningbo Green Light Energy Limited(NGLEL)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)
Zuma Resources / Nov 13 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	33.75 ▲ 3.07 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Arpak Int. / Nov 13 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	124.84 ▼ -13.87 (-10%)
First AL-Noor Mod. / Nov 13 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	12.64 ▼ -1.36 (-9.71%)
Shadman Cotton / Nov 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	69.87 ▼ -6.73 (-8.79%)
Fateh Sports / Nov 13 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	193.60 ▼ -16.58 (-7.89%)
Asim Textile / Nov 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	62.73 ▼ -4.34 (-6.47%)
D.M. Corporation / Nov 13 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	151.06 ▼ -9.64 (-6%)
Bhanero Textile / Nov 13 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	1,207.41 ▼ -76.42 (-5.95%)
Hira Textile / Nov 13 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4.01 ▼ -0.24 (-5.65%)
J.A.Textile / Nov 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	73.72 ▼ -4.26 (-5.46%)
AN Textile Mills / Nov 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	58.55 ▼ -3.21 (-5.2%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	303,195,710 ▲ 0.13
Kohinoor Spinning / Nov 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	59,505,118 ▲ 0.34
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	46,791,082 ▲ 0.28
Dost Steels Ltd. / Nov 13 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	43,180,738 ▲ 0.37
TPL Properties / Nov 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	32,746,701 ▲ 0.48
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Nov 13 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	27,571,943 ▲ 0.05
F. Nat.Equities / Nov 13 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	24,996,122 ▲ 0.01
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	24,965,743 ▲ 1
Cnergyico PK / Nov 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	22,527,745 ▲ 0.14
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 13 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	21,467,835 ▲ 0.82

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