Day: June 28, 2020

Whenever an investor approaches a new industry, it is good to know what the risks are that a company in that sector must face to be successful. General risks apply to every stock, such as management risk, but there are also more concentrated risks that affect that specific industry. In this article, we’ll look at the biggest risks faced by oil and gas companies. Political Risk The primary way that politics can affect oil is in the regulatory sense, but it’s not necessarily the only way. Typically, an oil and gas company is…

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This is in reference to analysis by Dr. Farrukh Saleem on petrol prices in Pakistan through his vlog on social media which states that the prices of petrol have gone up only 17 percent internationally in the last one month. The contents are misleading and ignore the 30-45 days pricing cycle used in Pakistan as per regulation. The base price of Petrol in Pakistan is fixed on the basis of PSO’s actual imports, which are linked with international Arab Gulf Platts. All cargoes imported since the last cargo used in…

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A local court in Islamabad on Saturday directed the capital police to submit its response by July 9 on US blogger Cynthia D Ritchie’s application for registration of first information report (FIR) against former interior minister Rehman Malik over rape and harassment allegations. The US blogger on Tuesday had submitted her application to an additional district and sessions judge under Section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code. Separately, the capital police in its report submitted in Islamabad High Court on Saturday said that allegations against Malik are “suspicious, unsubstantiated and…

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Facebook said Friday it would ban a “wider category of hateful content” in ads as the embattled social media giant moved to respond to growing protests over its handling of inflammatory posts. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook also would add tags to posts that are “newsworthy” but violate platform rules following the lead of Twitter, which has used such labels on tweets from President Donald Trump. The initiative comes with the leading social network facing a growing boycott by advertisers — with soft drink behemoth Coca-Cola and Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever joining Friday…

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Pakistan International Airlines has written to foreign missions and global regulatory and safety bodies, assuring them it has grounded all 141 pilots suspected of obtaining licenses through unfair means, the carrier’s spokesman said on Saturday. The move looks to assuage safety concerns after Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan said on Friday that the government had asked various commercial airlines, flying clubs and charter companies to ground a total of 262 pilots until investigations into their qualifications are completed. The action was prompted by a preliminary report on the crash of a PIA aircraft in…

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