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The Chai Tattle - 19th March 2026

Reversal from yesterday as the war escalates with energy infrastructure on the firing line. Equities reacted negatively.

A reversal took place on the market from yesterday as war escalation went into targeting oil infrastructure and ships creating jitters in the market as Pakistan has a very passive role. Additionally, Pakistan's war with Afghanistan has been generating negative headlines and that was reflected in the market.

The market delta was skewed positively but with very low liquidity - 30% more than 100k and 56% more then 10k implies there is little to extract from this.

Top News

Usman Javed has purchased more than 8mn additional shares to hold more than 14mn shares which represents more than 10% of total ownership of the company.

Earnings

MARI energies announced discovery of gas condensate at Shams-1 well in Ghotki district Pakistan.

279.65 PKR
498,000 PKR