Friday, September 18, 2009 KARACHI: Stock market investors would be enjoying double Eid, as the prices of their shares purchased during Ramazan have jumped up by over 13 percent.Rhe investors of the stock market this year would be celebrating double Eid—one, which everyone celebrates at the end of the month of Ramazan, while the other exclusively for having earned significant profit on their purchased shares during Ramazan leading to over 13 percent on the average increase in the value of their investments.Karachi stock Exchange KSE-100 index today after a long time breached the psychological barriers of 9400, while from the advent of Ramazan thus far KSE-100 index swelled up by 16 percent i.e. by 1300 points.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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