Railway police trying to keep crime under control: SSP

The Railway Police has caught many thieves who were stealing goods from railway stations, Pakistan Railways Senior Superintendent Police Dr Shehzad Ahmad said on Sunday. He said the PR police had...

Pakistan cricket’s benefactors

What did not kill it, only made it stronger

For its recent unexpected bounce back-with-a bang after a long period of hibernation spread over nearly...

Research before taking the plunge

Flat after the bloodbath over four sessions that brought the KSE-100 benchmark below the psychological 11,000 points, was the good news Wednesday. Though around three points down, this still is...

Dull and indifferent in the new year

The start of New Year has brought no immediate rewards. Dull and indifferent, that is mostly what generally describes Pakistan’s main bourse, the Karachi Stock Exchange these days. That is...

Wait and watch

The trend in volumes has been extremely sluggish day in, day out throughout the last week. And the KSE-100 benchmark has remained singularly one-dimensional – flat. If there was a...

The real powers

Hell hath no fury like the establishment scorned

The battle lines have been drawn. All the usual suspects of the ultra right are in the...

Foreign pullout eases for a bit

The pattern in the last few sessions at Pakistan’s bourses, mainly at Karachi’s KSE-100 index, has been rather predictable. Up a few notches and then slightly down, or down quite...

On the madrassah

Reforms a must

This last one was a kind of happening week. Gen Dempsey holding forth in a vein not too dissimilar from before and...

Carpe diem – Sieze the day

The last few weeks were more of a seesaw at the bourses – a little surge here and there, followed by a small dip or a serious plunge and vice...