Source: Bloomberg
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — The Karachi Stock Exchange may end rules barring investors from selling equities once the government puts in place a $252 million fund to support share prices and the economy improves, the bourse’s managing director said.
“It would be irresponsible to remove the curbs without the necessary stabilization measures,” Adnan Afridi, managing […]

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Source: Bloomberg
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s benchmark index closed little changed as emergency trading limits continued for the third day to halt a slide in stocks that sent the benchmark index down 42 percent since April.
The Karachi Stock Exchange 100 index rose 1.89 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 9,210.15 at the close. Sixty-eight […]

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Source: The Hindu

Growing economic and political uncertainty pushed Pakistani shares to new depths on Thursday and triggered violent protests at the Karachi Stock Exchange.
By Thursday afternoon, the exchange’s benchmark 100-share index was down 4.2 percent at 10,056 points. The index is at an 18-month low and has fallen about 36 percent from an all-time high […]

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Source: BBC
Pakistan’s main stock index has surged after its owner, the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), announced measures to stabilise the market.
The KSE’s 100 share index gained 782.74 points, or 7%, to 11,944.91 after reaching a 15-month low on Monday.
A crisis of confidence in Pakistan’s economy and uncertainty about its ruling party have hit shares recently.
The […]

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Source: Daily Times
KARACHI: US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W Patterson, Thursday visited Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and held a meeting with its management and board of directors.
US Consul General Kay L Anske and Press Attache Elizabeth O Colton were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on this occasion, she said that Pakistan stock market has a […]

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Source: Forbes
KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Financial) - Pakistan shares closed 3.19 percent higher Tuesday after a relatively peaceful election with the former ruling party conceding defeat.
The Karachi Stock Exchange’s main index finished 458 points higher at 14,812.
Trading was closed Monday during a public holiday for the national parliamentary elections.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s political allies conceded defeat […]

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Source: VOA
Assassination, riots and bombings hardly make Pakistan an investor’s dream. But as VOA’s Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong Kong, some stock analysts say Pakistan offers opportunities as well as risk.
At a time when Western magazine covers call Pakistan the world’s most dangerous country, Mark Matthews, Asia stock strategist at […]

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Source: Reuters
By Mark Bendeich
KARACHI (Reuters) - A little more than six years ago, immediately after the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities, few sane investment advisers would have recommended Pakistani stocks.
They should have. Their clients could have made a fortune.

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