KARACHI, June 4: The Karachi Stock Exchange announced on Monday that the following (19) companies had not so far removed the cause of suspension of trading in their shares. It was, therefore, decided "in the interest of trade and public" and in exercise of the powers vested in the Exchange under sub-section (7) of Section 9 of the Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969 and Listing Regulations, to suspend trading in the shares of those companies for a further period of 60 days, effective June 6, 2012:

The companies included: Fazal Vegetable Ghee Mills; Exraction (Pakistan); Medi Glass; Mineral Grinding Mills; Abson Industries; Saif Nadeem Kawasaki Motors; Prudential Stocks Fund, Quality Steel Works, English Leasing; Sunshine Cotton Mills; Sadoon Textile Ind-ustries; Taxila Engineering; Hakim Textile Mills; Suraj Ghee Industries; MacDonald Layton & Company; Hallmark Insurance Company; Ittefaq General Insurance Company; Prudential Discount & Gua-rantee House and Kashmir Polytex.