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Poverty alleviation: NA body directs ministry to ensure transparency in funding mechanisms

Updated 20 Feb, 2026 08:30am

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety has directed the...

Mangla refurbishment to help raise capacity to 1,310MW

Published 19 Feb, 2026 04:34am

LAHORE: Chairman Wapda Lt Gen Muhammad Saeed (retd) reviewed progress on the Mangla Refurbishment Project during a...

Water failure in Pakistan: exclusive interview with Simi Kamal, Chairperson and CEO Hisaar Foundation

Updated 22 Dec, 2025 07:46am

Simi Kamal is among Pakistan’s most authoritative voices on water governance, climate adaptation, and livelihoods,...

World’s richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study show

Published 21 Nov, 2025 05:36am

LONDON: Two dozen of the world’s richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from...

Opinion: Reviving offshore oil and gas prospects

Updated 12 Nov, 2025 07:45am

In the backdrop of rapidly depleting oil and gas resources, it is encouraging that Pakistan has successfully revived...

Indoctrination of extremism—II

Published 21 Sep, 2025 05:29am

Primary school math textbooks produced by UNO and funded by USAID incorporated militant ideology to promote violence...

Outsourced power: how aid agencies engineered Pakistan’s energy bureaucracy?—I

Published 16 Jul, 2025 06:34am

In Pakistan’s power sector, aid doesn’t just fund wires and transformers—it writes policy, births ...

Over 14m people could die from US foreign aid cuts

Published 02 Jul, 2025 06:01am

PARIS: More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by...

US-China trade truce may ease Komatsu’s tariff pain by $140 million, CEO says

Published 22 May, 2025 11:18am

TOKYO: Komatsu should see a nearly 20 billion yen ($140 million) mitigation in the impact of U.S. tariffs on its...

The ‘disorder doctrine’

Updated 15 May, 2025 08:07am

Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office in January with immense popular support, promising world peace and a return...

HEC tells Senate body: USAID has stopped scholarships for Pakistani students

Updated 06 May, 2025 07:23am

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman has informed the Senate Committee on Education and...

US aid cuts strain response to health crises worldwide: WHO

Published 21 Apr, 2025 05:42am

RIYADH: The United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on already acute humanitarian crises across the...

Erratic policy

Published 14 Apr, 2025 06:01am

EDITORIAL: After abruptly freezing through an executive order all foreign assistance under the US Agency for...

US ends global UGRAD exchange programme for Pakistan

Updated 08 Apr, 2025 11:37pm

The United States has discontinued the Global Undergraduate Exchange programme (Global UGRAD) for students from...

Washington formalizes plans to shutter USAID

Published 30 Mar, 2025 05:34am

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans Friday to effectively close the US...

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strand drugs in warehouse

Published 11 Mar, 2025 01:55pm

NAIROBI: The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya’s capital Nairobi has been...

UN migration agency says aid to Rohingya in Indonesia reinstated

Published 11 Mar, 2025 11:55am

JAKARTA: The United Nations’ migration agency has reinstated humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in...

A requiem for USAID

Published 06 Mar, 2025 06:56am

The USAID tap has run dry, and its disbandment has sent tremors around the globe. The freeloaders in the developing...

US Supreme Court won’t let Trump withhold payment to foreign aid groups

Published 05 Mar, 2025 09:46pm

WASHINGTON: A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to let President Donald Trump’s administration...

US cuts overseas development program budgets by more than 90%: State Dept

Published 27 Feb, 2025 10:59am

WASHINGTON: The United States has dramatically cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programs, with...

US Supreme Court Robert’s pauses federal judge’s order on Trump administration foreign aid funding

Published 27 Feb, 2025 08:39am

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge’s order requiring President Donald...

US unfreezes $397 million to ensure Pakistan’s F-16 jets focus on ‘counterterrorism’

Updated 23 Feb, 2025 09:50pm

In 2019, Pakistan faced accusations of deploying U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets against India during an aerial skirmish over Kashmir

India investigates possible election-influencing activity by USAID

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 17	162.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 17	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 17	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 17	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 17	64,141.12
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Hang Seng / Jul 17	24,562.24
FTSE 100 / Jul 17	10,600.37
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 17	24,830.98
France CAC40 / Jul 17	8,338.81

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 17	82.49
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 17	4,017.39
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 17	78.63
Petrol/Litre / Jul 19	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 19	354.35

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Dadabhoy Cement / Jul 17 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	17.01 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
Ruby Textile / Jul 17 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	17.59 ▲ 1.6 (10.01%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 17 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	53.68 ▲ 4.88 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 17 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	272.21 ▲ 24.75 (10%)
Suhail Jute / Jul 17 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	223.96 ▲ 20.36 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 17 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	418.56 ▲ 38.05 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 17 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	50.61 ▲ 4.6 (10%)
Asia Ins. / Jul 17 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	34.45 ▲ 3.13 (9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 17 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	107.58 ▲ 9.65 (9.85%)
TPL Trakker Ltd / Jul 17 TPL Trakker Limited(TPLT)	27.91 ▲ 2.5 (9.84%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp. (R) / Jul 17 Tariq Corporation Limited(Right)(TCORPR2)	2.70 ▼ -0.89 (-24.79%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jul 17 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	11.04 ▼ -1.23 (-10.02%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 17 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,871.47 ▼ -207.94 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 17 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	62.27 ▼ -6.92 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 17 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	97.59 ▼ -10.84 (-10%)
Mughal Iron & Steel(C) / Jul 17 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd (C)(MUGHALC)	63 ▼ -6.99 (-9.99%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 17 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	150.29 ▼ -16.65 (-9.97%)
Paramount Spinning / Jul 17 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	10.91 ▼ -1.1 (-9.16%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jul 17 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	23.62 ▼ -2.36 (-9.08%)
Supernet Tech. / Jul 17 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	41.34 ▼ -3.72 (-8.26%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 17 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	86,491,992 ▲ 0.19
TPL Properties / Jul 17 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	62,545,194 ▼ -0.67
Pak Refinery / Jul 17 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,580,070 ▲ 2.94
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 17 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,499,606 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 17 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,396,866 ▼ -0.24
Lotte Chemical / Jul 17 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,830,259 ▼ -1.32
Hascol Petrol / Jul 17 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	14,534,208 ▼ -0.33
B.O.Punjab / Jul 17 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,503,494 ▼ -0.51
TPL REIT Fund I / Jul 17 TPL REIT Fund I(TPLRF1)	11,458,248 ▼ -0.29
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 17 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	10,427,355 ▲ 0.51

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