The west has been forecasting Pakistan’s demise since the 70’s, first when Pakistan’s eastern half seceded to become Bangladesh in 1971, then during the violence that preceded General Zia ul-Haq’s coup in 1977, then again when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, when Zia was killed in 1988, again after 9/11, once more after the 2007 death of Bhutto and now after yet another political crisis.

But Pakistan is still at it, still not a failed state.

KSE’s website has been redesigned.  What were they thinking? Aleem, any comments? 

I can’t make sense of their new daily market feed either, but I did notice a new data portal where they’re selling real-time, historical, level-1 and level-2 market data directly.  They haven’t posted any prices yet, but this looks like a step in the right direction.

Trading in the Karachi Stock Exchange has picked up since the KSE reopened late last year. If you’re trading or investing in the KSE and you want to track your positions then you’ll find a script I created helpful.

Nemo is a Perl script which downloads historical quotes from the Karachi Stock Exchange web site and saves them to a CSV file which you can open in excel, all you have to do is tell the script which month and year to download the quotes for.

Instructions on how to set up and use the script are available on project’s wiki, you can download the initial release from the project download page.

Sorry guys, had to take it down.