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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

The burden of govt debt

The government debt outstanding is the debt that is to be serviced out of the Federal Consolidated Fund plus the ...

Updated 13 May, 2025 07:37am

Opinion

Tax revenue target for 2025-26

The process of preparation of the federal and provincial budgets is underway now and the respective budgets will be...

Published 06 May, 2025 03:19am

Opinion

State of the economy

The previous week’s article had focused on the growth performance of the economy from July 2024 to March 2025. An...

Published 29 Apr, 2025 03:07am

Opinion

State of the economy

The first three quarters of 2024-25 have come to an end. This is the appropriate time for reviewing the state of the...

Published 22 Apr, 2025 06:21am

Opinion

Evolution of public debt

Pakistan today is one of the Asian countries with a relatively high level of public debt in relation to the GDP. As...

Published 15 Apr, 2025 05:54am

Opinion

The global trade war

The USA, under the new Trump Administration, has unilaterally imposed tariffs on all imports into the country. The...

Published 08 Apr, 2025 06:14am

Opinion

Development gap of Balochistan

The province of Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan in terms of area. It has an area of 347,190 sq.kms,...

Published 03 Apr, 2025 05:39am

Opinion

Vulnerable balance of payments

The figures of the external balance of payments of Pakistan have been released recently by the SBP for February 2025...

Published 25 Mar, 2025 06:33am

Opinion

Provincial revenue mobilisation

The previous article had focused on the overall fiscal performance of Provincial governments in the first six months...

Published 18 Mar, 2025 07:03am

Opinion

Fiscal performance of provincial govts

The information on fiscal operations by the four provincial governments in the first half of 2024-25 has been...

Updated 11 Mar, 2025 06:02am

Opinion

Extremely high unemployment rate

The digital Population and Housing Census of 2023 conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up...

Updated 04 Mar, 2025 07:04am

Opinion

Ebbing of external inflows

The release of information recently by multiple sources has highlighted some worrying trends in external financing...

Published 25 Feb, 2025 06:53am

Opinion

Fiscal outcomes in H1FY25

The statistics on fiscal operations by the Federal and the Provincial governments have been released by the Ministry...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 03:01am

Opinion

IMF programme targets: performance

This is an appropriate time to evaluate the initial performance of Pakistan’s economy in the first half of ...

Updated 11 Feb, 2025 06:59am

Opinion

Higher unemployment and lower real wages

There has been a great deal of euphoria about the stabilisation of the economy of Pakistan. This is amply...

Updated 04 Feb, 2025 07:13am

Opinion

Stabilisation versus growth

The first six months of 2024-25 have revealed a mixed picture of the economy with some positive developments along...

Published 28 Jan, 2025 06:45am

Opinion

Value of the rupee

The SBP has released the estimate of the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index of the rupee in December 2024. It...

Updated 21 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Opinion

Growth in exports

Pakistan’s merchandize exports have shown double-digit growth rate of 10.5 percent in the first half of 2024-25....

Published 14 Jan, 2025 03:12am

Opinion

Review of the IMF programme

This is the appropriate time to review progress on implementation of the reforms committed to the IMF in the new IMF...

Updated 07 Jan, 2025 07:22am

Opinion

Prospects for 2025

The year 2025 will come after a year which has witnessed both positive and negative trends. The GDP growth rate has...

Updated 31 Dec, 2024 07:02am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 16	281.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 16	281.50
USD to Japanese Yen / May 16	145.21
USD to Swiss Franc / May 16	0.83
Pound Sterling to USD / May 16	1.33
Euro to USD / May 16	1.12
UK LIBOR % / May 14	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 15	5,916.93
Nasdaq / May 15	19,112.32
Dow Jones / May 15	42,322.75
India Sensex / May 16	82,241.91
Tokyo Nikkei / May 16	37,762.61
Hang Seng / May 16	23,345.94
FTSE 100 / May 16	8,686.51
Germany DAX 30 / May 16	23,854.97
France CAC40 / May 16	7,901.67

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 15	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 15	287,379
Petrol/Litre / May 16	252.63
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 16	61.55
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 16	3,224.61
Diesel/Litre / May 16	254.64
Cotton US¢/pound / May 16	65.53

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Equity Modaraba / May 16 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.45 ▲ 0.6 (21.05%)
Pak. P.V.C. / May 16 Pakistan PVC Limited(PPVC)	8.40 ▲ 1 (13.51%)
First Capital Equities / May 16 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	4.50 ▲ 0.52 (13.07%)
Dewan Mushtaq / May 16 Dewan Mushtaq Textile Mills Limited(DMTM)	10.83 ▲ 1 (10.17%)
AN Textile Mills / May 16 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	13.06 ▲ 1.19 (10.03%)
Sitara Peroxide / May 16 Sitara Peroxide Limited(SPL)	13.73 ▲ 1.25 (10.02%)
Fast Cables / May 16 Fast Cables Limited(FCL)	24.16 ▲ 2.2 (10.02%)
Pak Synthetics / May 16 Pakistan Synthetics Limited(PSYL)	62.34 ▲ 5.67 (10.01%)
Bawany Air Products / May 16 Bawany Air Products Limited(BAPL)	44.17 ▲ 4.02 (10.01%)
Kohinoor Mills / May 16 Kohinoor Mills Limited(KML)	32.09 ▲ 2.92 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Parmount Sp. / May 16 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	3.16 ▼ -0.54 (-14.59%)
Tariq Corp.Pref. / May 16 Tariq Corporation Limited-Preference Shares(TCORPCPS)	7.14 ▼ -0.97 (-11.96%)
TPL Life Insur. / May 16 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	47.57 ▼ -5.27 (-9.97%)
Apna Microfin. / May 16 Apna Microfinance Bank Limited(AMBL)	9.05 ▼ -0.99 (-9.86%)
Crescent Cotton / May 16 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	48.20 ▼ -5.26 (-9.84%)
Ellcot Spinning / May 16 Ellcot Spinning Mills Limited(ELSM)	101.65 ▼ -10.54 (-9.39%)
East West Ins. / May 16 East West Insurance Company Limited(EWIC)	52 ▼ -5.29 (-9.23%)
Shams Textile / May 16 Shams Textile Mills Limited(STML)	24.30 ▼ -2.43 (-9.09%)
B. F. Mod. / May 16 B.F. Modaraba(BFMOD)	7.95 ▼ -0.78 (-8.93%)
Olympia Mills / May 16 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	46.20 ▼ -4.27 (-8.46%)

Stock	Volume
At-Tahur Ltd. / May 16 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	44,317,984 ▲ 0.21
Cnergyico PK / May 16 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	32,148,988 ▼ -0.18
Lotte Chemical / May 16 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	28,049,504 ▲ 1.31
Pak Refinery / May 16 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	24,229,848 ▼ -0.52
K-Electric Ltd. / May 16 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,507,342 ▼ -0.04
Pak Elektron / May 16 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	18,144,829 ▼ -1.47
WorldCall Telecom / May 16 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	16,543,964 ▼ -0.02
Fauji Foods Ltd / May 16 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	15,849,609 ▲ 0.05
P.T.C.L. / May 16 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,650,899 ▲ 0.64
Sui South Gas / May 16 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	14,606,631 ▼ -1.2

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