Buying activity continued at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index posting gains of over 2,600 points in the morning trading session.
At 11:10am, the benchmark index was trading at 177,890.27 points, an increase of 2.604.49 points, or 1.49%.
Investor interest was witnessed across several major sectors, including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, oil and gas exploration companies, oil marketing companies (OMCs), power generation, and refineries. Several index-heavy stocks, including HUBCO, Mari, OGDC, POL, PPL, KML and UBL, traded in positive territory.
The market’s upward momentum followed a strong recovery on Wednesday, when bargain hunters returned after a sharp sell-off in the previous session. However, investor sentiment remained cautious due to ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
The KSE-100 Index gained 1,766.97 points, or 1.02%, to close Wednesday’s session at 175,285.78 points.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s textile exports recorded a marginal increase of 0.26% during July–June 2025-26, reaching $17.93 billion compared with $17.88 billion in the previous fiscal year, according to provisional data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday.
