The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) maintained its bullish momentum on Wednesday, driven by strong institutional liquidity, remittance incentive payouts, and positive investor sentiment, particularly in the oil and gas sector. The benchmark KSE-100 Index surged to an intraday high of 144,285.74 points, marking a gain of 1,248.58 points, or 0.87%. The index’s low for the day was 143,409.59, still up by 372.43 points, or 0.26%, from its previous close of 143,037.16. Ahfaz Mustafa, CEO of Ismail Iqbal Securities, noted, “There’s been a flurry of good news and the index has broken out from technical resistance of 140. This has induced…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
After five rounds of trade talks, Indian officials were so confident of a favorable deal with the United States that they had even briefed the media on a potential 15% tariff cap. They expected US President Donald Trump to announce the deal himself weeks before the August 1 deadline, but the announcement never came. Instead, New Delhi is now facing a surprise imposition of a 25% tariff on Indian goods, along with unspecified penalties for its oil imports from Russia. Meanwhile, Trump has finalized larger deals with Japan and the European Union and offered more favorable terms to Pakistan. Interviews…
Jamie Lee Curtis recently opened up about her experience filming Freakier Friday. In an interview with ComicBook.com, the actress spoke candidly about the challenges she faced while working on the sequel. “In Freaky Friday, it’s really easy – adult, teenager. Adults stand up like this, teenagers slump. It was so black-and-white, so clear,” she noted. Reflecting on the difficulties of the new film, she said, “In this, it’s a much more subtle shift. we had to find it with words, and language, and body behavior, and mannerisms and stuff.” Curtis added that this made it “way more challenging because it’s…
Singer and pianist Alexa Ray Joel has recently shared her emotional reaction to the new HBO documentary about her father, Billy Joel, and his past relationship with her mother, Christie Brinkley. The two-part documentary, titled Billy Joel: And So It Goes, premiered on HBO on July 18 and July 25. In an interview with People Magazine, Alexa described watching the film as “moving, beyond belief” and an “emotional whirlwind” for her and her mother. “There was people messaging me saying that they were in tears. So let alone, for me, reliving my childhood years,” she said. The “Ultimate Dream…
Actor Finn Wolfhard, 22, has confirmed that he is not currently in a relationship. The star of the hit series Stranger Things shared details about his love life in a recent interview with Variety as he prepares for the final season’s release. “I’m single,” Finn confessed. “I feel like that’s something that I’m also kind of thinking about right now is just like…This is the time kind of where I have been doing the most work kind of in my life.” The actor also told the publication that he doesn’t “really want to put” his focus on dating at the…
Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers have openly discussed their close friendship, which blossomed while they were working together on the series Wednesday. In an interview with Seventeen, the two actresses candidly shared what they admire about each other. Myers began by saying, “I love her so much. We have such a fun time together.” She highlighted the support she received from Ortega, who is also a producer for the show’s next season. “She’s producing this next season so she had a lot more creative input and was always telling me, ‘If there’s something you don’t like or something you’re not…
Joe Jonas recently shared his thoughts on what it’s like to raise daughters, a significant contrast to his own childhood with only brothers. Appearing on the Good Hang podcast alongside his brothers Kevin and Nick Jonas, Joe told host Amy Poehler that raising daughters with his ex-wife Sophie Turner is a vastly different experience from his upbringing. “Boys are so different than girls,” Joe said. “I’ll watch my kids on the playground and it’s, like, delicate. And then this kid will be like, ‘Ahh!’ And dive off the top of the slide. And you’re just like, ‘That is a boy,’”…
According to producer Jon Landau, the sole reason Matthew McConaughey was not cast as Jack Dawson in the blockbuster romance-disaster film “Titanic” has been revealed. In a posthumously published memoir, The Bigger Picture: My Blockbuster Life & Lessons Learned Along the Way, Landau offers a candid account of McConaughey’s audition. A teaser from the memoir, obtained by Matthew Belloni’s What I’m Hearing, discloses that Kate Winslet, who played Rose, was “taken with Matthew, his presence and charm.” During the initial screen test, however, the actor delivered his lines with a distinct drawl that didn’t sit well with director James Cameron.…
Rapper Nicki Minaj is embroiled in a legal battle after the man who killed her father in a 2021 hit-and-run hired private investigators to track her down. According to RadarOnline, Charles Polevich, who served a year in prison for fleeing the scene after striking Robert Maraj, is now attempting to depose Nicki as part of a $150 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by her mother, Carol Maraj. It has been alleged that Nicki has become difficult to locate, with her $20 million Hidden Hills mansion appearing “abandoned.” Despite several attempts, the rapper has not received the court-ordered deposition notice. In…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the rap mogul convicted two months ago on prostitution-related charges, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon from US President Donald Trump. Nicole Westmoreland, a member of Combs’ defense team, confirmed that they have reached out to the Trump administration to discuss the possibility of a pardon. In an interview with CNN on August 5, Westmoreland said, “It’s my understanding that we’ve reached out and had conversations about a pardon.” When asked about Combs’ outlook, she stated that the father of seven “is a very hopeful person and I believe that he remains hopeful.” A White House official,…
