Pakistan isn’t meeting its economic potential, and some of that has to do with widespread gender equality, according to a recent research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, which shows Pakistan at…
LONDON: Women will have to wait 217 years before they earn as much as men and have equal representation in the workplace, research said, revealing the widest gap in almost a decade. Women…
Despite numerous challenges and sacrifices against terrorism, Pakistanis stands at the 10th position in the index of expectations and hopes, showing optimistic attitude towards life, says a survey conducted by Gallup international.…
The Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) on Friday witnessed bullish trend as the ISE-10 index went up by 7.28 points to close at 4090.63 points. A total of 20,000 shares were traded, which…
The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark 100-share index plummeted over 400 points on Tuesday amid political instability. The index stood at 28416.71 points after it decreased by 1.51 per cent till Tuesday afternoon.…
Pakistan continued its dismal performance in the field of human development as it failed to improve its position on the Human Development Index (HDI) over the past five years. According to the…
Despite experiencing inflationary pressure in the region, Pakistan has managed to contain inflation rate within single digit which is lower than the regional countries including India and Sri Lanka. Pakistan’s year on…
Egypt has fallen in a global league table of perceived official corruption in the past year, and the Arab Spring revolutions have yet to produce serious anti-corruption action across the region, Transparency…
Asian markets mostly rose Monday after more weak Chinese manufacturing data fuelled hopes for fresh monetary easing, following hints from the US Fed chief about similar moves in the United States. Tokyo…
European stock index futures pointed to a flat open on Thursday as investors consolidated recent gains ahead of widely anticipated moves from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England to…
The apex regulators from Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) are due here at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) Thursday next week to discuss, among other long pending issues, why volumes on…
Rebutting Foreign Policy magazine’s inclusion of Pakistan in its failed states index, Islamabad’s embassy in Washington has said the “cavalierly” applied flawed methodology overlooks the country’s many inherent strengths, domestic achievements and…
Bulls gave the new PM their own guard of honour, as they went off their rockers en route to lifting the index by 130 points. Fall in global stocks and commodities clamoured…
Index gains merely 9.60 points after global stocks and commodities left their respective waking up acts to the 11th hour. The bulls were late and the bears were left with arms wide…
The Governing Board of Directors of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has decided to introduce a new 100-index free float benchmark that would run parallel with the existing full capitalization index at…
The day saw the benchmark 100-share index decreasing by 28.43 points to 13,717.30 points against 13,745.73 points of Wednesday Ahsan Mehanti, Director at Arif Habib Investments Limited., said that stocks closed lower…
The day saw the benchmark 100-share index plunged by 189.70 points to 14,230.49 points against 14,420.19 points of Thursday. Ahsan Mehanti, Director at Arif Habib Investments Limited., said that the Stocks closed…
