Tag: Momentum

  Chief of Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad has said that opposition parties’ movement will gain momentum within 25 days (of its launch)...

  Preparations for the forthcoming festival of Christmas have gained momentum in the twin cities as the Christian community is all set to celebrate the...

Australia were charged with confidence by their performance in the opening test against South Africa and are determined to ride the momentum to victory...

Republican Mitt Romney hits the campaign trail hard this week to try to inject some fresh momentum into his flagging presidential bid as polls...

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini hopes the international break hasn't ruined his side's early-season momentum. City started the season with two wins over Southampton and...

PTI Chairman Imran Khan said Tuesday tsunami had not come to halt and it would come with full momentum now. PTI chairman was...

With less than a week before Eidul Azha, the residents of the garrison city of Rawalpindi can be seen thronging shopping malls and cattle...

Investors turn bullish as KSE 100 index closed at 11,762 with highest volumes of 97 million for the week. National Saving Schemes reduced the...

Eid shopping has started gaining momentum in Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur and Sialkot as the number of buyers and stalls is increasing with every passing...

After being briefly encouraged by PPL, investors were again inactive as the market shed eight points today to close at 12,306 points. Today’s market...

The Punjab government’s new admission drive in schools to ensure 100 percent literacy in the province gained a fresh momentum after the secretary schools...

LAHORE - Thousands of devotees from across the country on Friday thronged the shrine of Hazrat Shah Hussain, also known as Madhu Lal Hussain, to celebrate the second day of the Mela Chiraghan or the festival of lights. Mela Chiraghan has started as the three-day Urs has been scheduled for March 26 to 28. Last night a huge rush of devotees was seen at the shrine and many people kept visiting the shrine to offer Fateha.
Devotees lit up candles at the shrine, offered floral wreaths

DHAKA = Pakistan's confidence level has received a huge boost ahead of their key quarterfinal clash against the West Indies, said vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq.
"That was a big match for us and the way we held our nerves, it showed we have the potential to beat any side now. The win over Australia was a long time in coming but I think it came at the perfect time for us and that too in a close match." "It's a good feeling to be the team that ended Australia's fantastic 34-match run.

KARACHI - After an initial set back, the local equity market exhibited renewed consolidation in initial hours; however it failed to set a direction. Cautious accumulation, however, turned into a bold bullish spell wherein oil and gas exploration stocks led the show duly followed by various stocks from the main board having speculative tendency - thus allowing the benchmark yet another triple digit gain. The KSE-100 index closed at 11699.16 levels following a gain of 90.73 points,

COMMENT - At last sanity prevailed and Shahid Afridi was retained as captain for the World Cup 2011. It was indeed preposterous to create this entire controversy so close to the big event. Misbah-ul-Haq has been doing a good job as Test captain but Afridi has been leading in the ODIs for the last year or so. Dillydallying on his appointment now was not on.
Luckily for Pakistan cricket, unlike 2009-10 twin tour Down Under, the results of such brinkmanship by Ijaz Butt have not

KARACHI - The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) exhibited bullish activity as investors' expected an early introduction of the leverage product. The KSE-100 index accumulated 56.29 points or 0.46 percent to close at 12,415.35 points. The benchmark hit intraday high and low of 12,442.55 and 12,344.06 respectively. Volume at the ready-counter stood at 102,520,886 shares, while the value stood at Rs 4.715 trillion.
The number of gainers and losers for the day were 204 and 149

LAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained bearish with a decline in the volume. The LSE 25-index lost 17.03 points to close at 3,829.41 against its opening at 3846.44 levels. Out of total 115 active scrips, 19 went up, 39 went down and 57 closed without any change in their opening values.
Volume of the market remained 5.44 million shares, which was 2.41 million shares less than Wednesday's turnover of 7.86 million shares. Lotte Pakistan PTA was the volume leader with 2.67