Pakistan buys about 55,000 tons white sugar in tender, traders say

A laborer unloads bags of sugar from a delivery truck to a market in Karachi October 15, 2009. (REUTERS/File)
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Updated 14 August 2025
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Pakistan buys about 55,000 tons white sugar in tender, traders say

  • Pakistan buys about 55,000 tons white sugar in tender, traders say
  • 25,000 tons of fine grade bought from Dreyfus at around $580 a ton cost and freight included

HAMBURG, Aug 13 : Pakistan’s state trading agency TCP is believed to have purchased about 55,000 metric tons of white sugar in an international tender seeking up to 100,000 tons which closed this week, European traders said on Wednesday.

Some 30,000 tons of medium-grade sugar was said to have been purchased from Al Khaleej Sugar at $586.00 a ton cost and freight included (c&f) while 25,000 tons of fine grade was bought from Dreyfus at around $580 a ton c&f.

One other tender participant has been asked to modify its offer and another award is still possible this week, traders said.

Pakistan’s government has approved plans to import 500,000 tons of sugar to help to maintain price stability after retail sugar prices rose sharply. Offers in the tender were reported on Monday.


Pakistan’s Babar fined 10 percent of match fee for breaking own stumps

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Pakistan’s Babar fined 10 percent of match fee for breaking own stumps

  • Babar Azam hit stumps in frustration after he was bowled on 34 in third PDI against Sri Lanka
  • Azam scored 165 runs in series to equal Saeed Anwar’s Pakistan record of 20 centuries in ODIs

RAWALPINDI: Star batter Babar Azam has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for breaking his own stumps during Pakistan’s clean sweep of Sri Lanka in the recent home one-day international series.

Babar hit the stumps in frustration after he was clean bowled by Sri Lanka leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay for 34 in the third ODI on Sunday. Pakistan won by six wickets and completed a 3-0 whitewash.

He admitted to the offense.

Babar scored 165 runs in the series and equaled Saeed Anwar’s Pakistan record of 20 centuries in ODIs. It was Babar’s first international hundred in any format since an Asia Cup game against Nepal in August 2023.