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.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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