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Sudan army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitaries

KHARTOUM: The Sudanese army said it recaptured Khartoum airport from the Rapid Support Forces and surrounded the...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 07:49am

Africa

Sudan army strike on Darfur market kills hundreds: monitor

KHARTOUM: A Sudanese war monitor accused the army Tuesday of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market...

Published 25 Mar, 2025 02:04pm

Africa

IMF has received a formal request for a new Kenya financing programme

NAIROBI: The International Monetary Fund has received a formal request for a new programme from Kenyan authorities...

Published 17 Mar, 2025 10:42am

Africa

Fitch thinks South Africa will struggle to stabilise debt as projected in budget

JOHANNESBURG: Fitch ratings agency said on Friday that it thought South Africa’s government would struggle to...

Published 14 Mar, 2025 04:40pm

Europe

EU unveils 4.7bn-euro investment package for South Africa

CAPE TOWN: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announced Thursday plans to have billions of euros pumped into investments...

Published 13 Mar, 2025 07:49pm

Africa

South Africa bus crash kills 12, dozens hurt

EKURHULENI: A bus overturned in an area of Johannesburg near South Africa’s main airport early Tuesday, killing at...

Published 11 Mar, 2025 02:31pm

MENA

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

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

Published 11 Mar, 2025 01:55pm

MENA

Uganda reports second Ebola death, a 4-year-old, WHO says

KAMPALA: A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the World Health Organization said,...

Published 02 Mar, 2025 12:19pm

Africa

Blasts kill 11 at rally in eastern Congo

BUKAVU (Congo): Explosions killed 11 people and wounded 65 at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Congo city...

Published 28 Feb, 2025 06:24am

Africa

Former African leaders launch debt relief drive for poor nations

CAPE TOWN: The high debt saddling the world’s poorest countries needs an urgent reset to avoid multiple crises,...

Published 28 Feb, 2025 06:24am

Africa

G20 finance ministers, central bankers to meet amid fractious geopolitics

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South...

Published 26 Feb, 2025 08:17am

Africa

Wide power cuts in S Africa in new electricity failure

JOHANNESBURG: Power was abruptly cut to large parts of South Africa Sunday and the national energy provider...

Published 24 Feb, 2025 06:23am

Africa

Sudan’s RSF, allies sign charter for rival govt

NAIROBI: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies have agreed to form a parallel government, they...

Published 24 Feb, 2025 06:23am

Africa

Uganda discharges all eight Ebola patients, health minister says

KAMPALA: Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain...

Published 19 Feb, 2025 10:35am

Africa

At least 200 killed in three-day Sudan paramilitary assault

PORT SUDAN (Sudan): Sudanese paramilitaries killed more than 200 people in a three-day assault south of Khartoum, a...

Published 19 Feb, 2025 06:21am

Africa

South Africa’s unemployment rate marginally lower in fourth quarter

PRETORIA: South Africa’s official unemployment rate fell slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by job...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 06:12pm

Africa

Cairo building collapse kills 10: state media

CAIRO: A building collapse in the Egyptian capital killed 10 people and injured eight more on Monday, with several...

Published 17 Feb, 2025 02:05pm

Africa

Egypt’s President Sisi to not attend any White House talks if Gaza displacement on agenda, Egyptian sources say

CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not travel to Washington for talks at the White House if the...

Published 12 Feb, 2025 04:54pm

Africa

Namibia’s ‘founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies aged 95

WINDHOEK: Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia’s first democratically elected president...

Published 09 Feb, 2025 10:23am

MENA

South Africa condemns ‘misinformation’ after Trump freezes aid

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa condemned on Saturday US President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze aid to the country...

Published 08 Feb, 2025 06:16pm

MENA

Trump signs order to cut funding for South Africa over land policy, ICJ case

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the...

Published 08 Feb, 2025 05:35pm

Africa

Bodies of migrants recovered in two locations in Libya, security and Red Crescent say

BENGHAZI: At least 29 bodies of migrants have been recovered in two locations in the southeast and west of Libya, a...

Published 07 Feb, 2025 11:01am

Africa

Kenya gold mine collapses trapping 12: police

NAIROBI: A dozen people were trapped after a gold mine in western Kenya partially collapsed, police said Tuesday....

Published 04 Feb, 2025 01:57pm

MENA

Congo’s M23 rebels consolidate control over a devastated Goma

GOMA: The United States told Rwanda it was “deeply troubled” by the fall of Goma in eastern Congo to Rwandan-backed...

Published 29 Jan, 2025 03:27pm

USA

Egypt denies reports of Trump-Sisi phone call

CAIRO: Egypt said Tuesday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not speak by phone with Donald Trump at the...

Published 28 Jan, 2025 05:19pm

Africa

Niger frees news editor who aired junta-critical story

ABIDJAN: Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the...

Published 21 Jan, 2025 06:12am

Africa

Fuel tanker truck blast kills at least 60 in Nigeria

MAIDUGURI: At least 60 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria on Saturday when a petrol tanker...

Published 18 Jan, 2025 09:16pm

Africa

Suspected outbreak of Marburg virus kills eight in Tanzania, WHO says

NAIROBI: A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of...

Published 15 Jan, 2025 12:46pm

Africa

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Ethiopia region, GFZ says

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Ethiopia, east of the capital Addis Ababa, early on Saturday, the German...

Published 11 Jan, 2025 11:47am

MENA

Assault on Chad presidential complex leaves 19 dead

N’DJAMENA: Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a...

Published 09 Jan, 2025 12:49pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 28	280.20
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 28	280
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 28	150.83
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 28	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 28	1.29
Euro to USD / Mar 28	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 27	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 27	5,693.31
Nasdaq / Mar 27	17,804.03
Dow Jones / Mar 27	42,299.70
India Sensex / Mar 28	23,448.24
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 28	36,977.70
Hang Seng / Mar 28	77,559.63
FTSE 100 / Mar 28	8,672.68
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 28	22,600.10
France CAC40 / Mar 28	7,969.56

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 27	17,085
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 27	275,205
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 28	69.76
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 28	3,079.82
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 28	66.73
Petrol/Litre / Mar 29	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 29	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel (R) / Mar 27 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	4.01 ▲ 1 (33.22%)
Parmount Sp. / Mar 27 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	4.10 ▲ 0.59 (16.81%)
Shaheen Ins. / Mar 27 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	7.50 ▲ 0.97 (14.85%)
Popular Islamic / Mar 27 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	15.02 ▲ 1.37 (10.04%)
Diamond Ind. / Mar 27 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	33.83 ▲ 3.08 (10.02%)
Sardar Chemical / Mar 27 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	35.95 ▲ 3.27 (10.01%)
J.K.Spinning / Mar 27 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	69.58 ▲ 6.33 (10.01%)
Data Agro / Mar 27 Data Agro Limited(DAAG)	106.28 ▲ 9.66 (10%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 27 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	121.88 ▲ 11.08 (10%)
Allawasaya Tex / Mar 27 Allawasaya Tex. & Finishing Mills Ltd(AWTX)	1,429.95 ▲ 130 (10%)

Stock	Price
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	11.60 ▼ -98.09 (-89.42%)
Elahi Cot. / Mar 27 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	135.93 ▼ -15.1 (-10%)
Khalid Siraj / Mar 27 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	8.03 ▼ -0.87 (-9.78%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Mar 27 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	874.01 ▼ -93.68 (-9.68%)
Saritow Spinning / Mar 27 Saritow Spinning Mills Limited(SSML)	18.90 ▼ -1.75 (-8.47%)
Cordoba Logistics / Mar 27 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	12.61 ▼ -1.15 (-8.36%)
Sally Textile / Mar 27 Sally Textile Mills Limited(SLYT)	11.01 ▼ -0.99 (-8.25%)
Masood Textile / Mar 27 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	49.06 ▼ -4.27 (-8.01%)
Universal Ins. / Mar 27 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	9.57 ▼ -0.73 (-7.09%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Mar 27 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	42 ▼ -3.1 (-6.87%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Mar 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	45,325,056 ▲ 0.31
Pak Elektron / Mar 27 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	29,179,304 ▲ 0.67
P.S.O. / Mar 27 Pakistan State Oil Company Limited(PSO)	26,879,128 ▲ 1.58
Arif Habib Corp / Mar 27 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	20,499,919 ▼ -98.09
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	16,191,931 ▼ -0.03
B.O.Punjab / Mar 27 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	16,148,304 ▼ -0.2
Pak Petroleum / Mar 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	15,934,134 ▼ -1.85
Engro Fert. / Mar 27 Engro Fertilizers Limited(EFERT)	14,419,464 ▲ 0.5
Fauji Cement / Mar 27 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	14,194,696 ▲ 0.53
Maple Leaf Cement / Mar 27 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	11,282,647 ▲ 0.09

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