KARACHI: Trading in the newly listed Mahaana Islamic Index Exchange Traded Fund (MIIETF), managed by Mahaana Wealth Ltd (MWL), began on Monday. The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) said the ETF was aimed to track the performance of the Mahaana Islamic Index (MII30) whereby the index would be periodically rebalanced and reconstituted to provide long-term appreciation and dividend yield to investors
KARACHI. The selling of dollars to banks fell by $70 million in February, said currency dealers on Monday. The open market had been selling over $300m for most of the months in the current fiscal year. “In January we sold about $320m to the banks but it fell to around $250m in February,” said Malik Bostan, Chairman Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan. “The decline was due to the ma
The stock market managed to close the topsy-turvy week in the green. Heralding political stability after Shehbaz Sharif took oath as the 24th prime minister of Pakistan, the market staged a robust rally of 626 points in the first session of the outgoing week which propelled the benchmark KSE 100-share index briefly above 66,000 points but settled below this level. However, the market in the
Pakistan is one of the worst countries in the world regarding gender parity, ranking 142 out of 146 countries as per the Global Gender Gap Index 2023, released by the World Economic Forum. The ranking is a function of education, health, economic opportunity, and political empowerment. It covers a wide range of economic and social indicators, including a dismal literacy rate, a high school dropo
The ongoing struggle of the world’s second-largest economy against multiple challenges, such as geopolitical tensions with the West, troubled property sector, overcapacity in the manufacturing industry, and local government indebtedness to sustain economic growth, would lead many to believe that it is fading rapidly, even if it is not over yet. However, the dragon country seems to be undertakin