Pakistan Stock Exchange

A fire broke out at the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi city of Sindh province on Monday, leading to the suspension of operations at PSX, police said.

The Pakistan Stock Exchange plunged by more than 2,000 points or nearly 5 per cent in just 22 minutes of manic trade at noon on Friday after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a new "super tax" on large-scale industries that spooked investors.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday rejected "absurd comments" by Pakistan accusing India of instigating attacks on Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi early this week and said Islamabad cannot shift the blame on New Delhi for its domestic problems.

India on Monday slammed Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for his "absurd comments" linking India to the terror attack at the Pakistan stock exchange building in Karachi.

Two people were killed this morningas four terrorists attacked thePakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi, news agency ANI reported quoting local media.

The rupee depreciated by 17 paise to settle at 71.24 against the dollar on Wednesday amid a flare up of tensions between India and Pakistan, reported news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). The firming crude oil prices, month-end dollar demand from oil importers and a weak sentiment at domestic stock markets weighed on the local currency, traders w...

India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau or IB and the Thane Police's crime branch, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Thane Police arrested Kaskar on September 19 in Mumbai in an alleged extortion case

Chinese companies are in talks to snap up more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months, a sign of deepening ties after Beijing vowed to plough $57 billion into a new trade route across the South Asian nation.

Pakistan's benchmark index briefly touched a record high level of 50,050.19 on Tuesday, before edging down, underpinned by buying in cement sector.

Pakistan's stock exchange could see initial public offerings of power sector projects amounting to some $1 billion in 2017 and 2018, the bourse's managing director said on Monday.

The Supreme Court has begun delivering its verdict in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. It has upheld the death sentence for Yakub Memon and commuted the death sentence of 10 others to life. It will also decide if actor Sanjay Dutt, who was convicted in an arms case, will go to jail or be freed.

Stock markets in Pakistan on Monday crashed with the KSE 100 index of the Karachi Stock Exchange losing 2.5 per cent, or 441.62 points, as the ground-breaking ceremony of $7.5 billion gas pipeline project with Iran triggered fears of possible US sanctions.

The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described how he and an al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. "We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theaters, I believe buses were mentioned too...

A fire broke out at the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi city of Sindh province on Monday, leading to the suspension of operations at PSX, police said.

The Pakistan Stock Exchange plunged by more than 2,000 points or nearly 5 per cent in just 22 minutes of manic trade at noon on Friday after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a new "super tax" on large-scale industries that spooked investors.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday rejected "absurd comments" by Pakistan accusing India of instigating attacks on Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi early this week and said Islamabad cannot shift the blame on New Delhi for its domestic problems.

India on Monday slammed Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for his "absurd comments" linking India to the terror attack at the Pakistan stock exchange building in Karachi.

Two people were killed this morningas four terrorists attacked thePakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi, news agency ANI reported quoting local media.

The rupee depreciated by 17 paise to settle at 71.24 against the dollar on Wednesday amid a flare up of tensions between India and Pakistan, reported news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). The firming crude oil prices, month-end dollar demand from oil importers and a weak sentiment at domestic stock markets weighed on the local currency, traders w...

India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau or IB and the Thane Police's crime branch, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Thane Police arrested Kaskar on September 19 in Mumbai in an alleged extortion case

Chinese companies are in talks to snap up more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months, a sign of deepening ties after Beijing vowed to plough $57 billion into a new trade route across the South Asian nation.

Pakistan's benchmark index briefly touched a record high level of 50,050.19 on Tuesday, before edging down, underpinned by buying in cement sector.

Pakistan's stock exchange could see initial public offerings of power sector projects amounting to some $1 billion in 2017 and 2018, the bourse's managing director said on Monday.

The Supreme Court has begun delivering its verdict in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. It has upheld the death sentence for Yakub Memon and commuted the death sentence of 10 others to life. It will also decide if actor Sanjay Dutt, who was convicted in an arms case, will go to jail or be freed.

Stock markets in Pakistan on Monday crashed with the KSE 100 index of the Karachi Stock Exchange losing 2.5 per cent, or 441.62 points, as the ground-breaking ceremony of $7.5 billion gas pipeline project with Iran triggered fears of possible US sanctions.

The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described how he and an al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. "We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theaters, I believe buses were mentioned too...