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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 / 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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