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Market watch: Weak investor interest pulls KSE-100 down Photo/KSE-down/tribune.com.pk KARACHI: Stock exchanging remained range-bound at the Pakistan bourse on Thursday and the benchmark record lost 81 focuses in the midst of frail financial backer assumption.  Financial backer spirits were hosed by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) declaration of stricter limitations the nation over in the wake of rising Covid-19 cases.  Market players turned to benefit booking as new Covid-19 contamination cases contacted a record high on Wednesday.  Besides, remarks by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) country agent on the government's obligation to control tax climb added to the bearish assessment.  Selling pressure hurt file substantial concrete, steel, banking, and auto areas, which recorded unassuming misfortunes.  In spite of a short-term ascend in worldwide oil costs, the greater part of the nearby oil area stocks shut in the red. Notwithstanding, the ...

  Today’s outlook: PM Khan to visit Karachi, Sukkur Photo: Imran Khan/Facebook Here are some news stories we are expecting to follow today (Friday). Executive Imran Khan is relied upon to visit Karachi and Sukkur for a day. He will introduce the Kamyab Jawan Program in Sukkur, and afterward hold gatherings with PTI and GDA individuals. The PM will at that point show up in Karachi and go to a raising money iftaar for Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital. He will make a short visit to Governor House and afterward travel to Islamabad.  The government has officially restricted the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan for participating in illegal intimidation and making a feeling of dread and uncertainty in the country. The public authority has sensible grounds to accept that the TLP "occupied with psychological warfare, acted in a way biased to the harmony and security of the country", the Interior Ministry said in a warning. The strict gathering "scared people in general, caused h...

Pakistan: 7 injured in blast at football ground in Karachi image is taken from   @catchnews.com Seven individuals were harmed in a blast during a football match on Tuesday at a game's ground in Karachi's Hub territory.  As per the police, the last of a football competition was occurring at a ground in Hub's Allahabad neighborhood when the blast happened, detailed Geo News. The injured were taken to Government Jam Ghulam Qadir Hospital, said police, adding that a bomb removal crew had been called to the site and the region cordoned off.  The police said an underlying test shows that a distant controlled gadget was utilized to explore the hazardous that was covered up where onlookers were situated, detailed Geo News.  Prior to Tuesday, 14 individuals were harmed in a blast during a football match in Balochistan.  The neighborhood police educated that unidentified scoundrels planted an ad-libbed hazardous gadget (IED) close to the mass of the football ground which ...

  Sindh extends Covid-19 lockdown till May 16 The Sindh home division gave another notice on Tuesday with a halfway change, broadening the Covid-19 lockdown till May 16. The notice peruses, "In continuation and fractional alteration of this present office's request for many numbers dated March 31, 2021, and incompatibility of the choices at the NCOC discussion conveyed vide letters, the Government of Sindh, in the exercise of the forces under Section 3 (1) of Sindh Epidemic Diseases Act 2014 (The Sindh Act VIII of 2015), is satisfied to re-immediate as under with quick impact and till sixteenth May 2021, except if changed or corrected before."  It says there will be more extensive lockdowns in territories having more than an eight percent inspiration rate with tough authorization conventions dependent on hazard evaluation, and no versatility will be permitted besides in crisis by magistrates and agent officials under the Sindh Epidemic Diseases Act 2014.  As per the warni...