‘Meet Jinnah’ campaign uses Innovative Tech to Promote Peace, Harmony, and Inclusion
This Quaid Day, Islamabad’s Fatima Jinnah Park hosted an innovative and award-winning campaign for promoting inclusivity, pluralism, and interfaith harmony in line with the vision and teachings of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Hive Pakistan – a social impact organization working to address issues of extremism and marginalization in the country organized…
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Ericsson Pakistan discusses digitalization and skill development in a meeting with the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication
Ericsson Pakistan and the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications held a meeting yesterday to discuss digitalization, skill development and training for engineers in line with the vision of Digital Pakistan. Ericsson Pakistan showed keen interest to deploy advanced networks as well as scaling up the Near Shore Centre to create job opportunities for engineers…
SIUC recommends use of modern technologies for promotion of education in Sindh
The meeting of the Sindh Inter-University Consortium held on Thursday recommended the use of modern technologies for the promotion of education across the province. The members also emphasized adopting up-to-date teaching techniques in higher education institutions to produce better results. The SIUC members hoped that with collective efforts they would be able to address the…
Pak-Qatar General Takaful (PQGTL) Signs Agreement with Hifazah
Pak-Qatar General Takaful Limited (PQGTL) came into an agreement with Hifazah.com, a brand of Hifazah Technologies Private Limited (HTPL) to promote Takaful products through digital medium. Muhammad Raza, Head of Operations, PQGTL and Mr. Aboo Baker Mohammedi (Founder and CEO, HTPL) signed the agreement along with senior officials of both companies. While expressing his views…
Stakeholders Seek Revised Fertilizer Policy to Maximize Urea Production
Industry stakeholders are seeking a revised fertilizer policy to improve agricultural standards, an emendation that should eliminate the sector’s gas subsidies and allow for a much-needed shift to WACOG (weighted average cost of gas). They argue that the new fertilizer policy should prioritize utilizing excess capacity by permitting the business to export urea. To ensure…
realme Kicks-off 2022 with a Night full of Music, Fun and Glamour ft. Hasan Raheem
The realme New Year Party featured a spectacular performance by Hasan Raheem along with guests who were part of realme’s journey since the very beginning For the fastest-growing smartphone brand realme, 2022 holds a special place. While a new beginning is just around the corner, realme gathered all its favourite media associates, technology reviewers and…
AstraZeneca supplied with over 8.6 million doses to Pakistan during 2021
AstraZeneca has delivered over 8.6 million doses of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1-S [Recombinant]) to Pakistan during 2021 to help boost the vaccination programme. These doses were supplied to Pakistan via the COVAX global initiative and through donations from various countries, with more expected in the coming months. Sameh El Fangary, Country President for GCC and…
Pakistan’s loans surge to $4.68B in first five months of Current FY
ISLAMABAD: Foreign loan disbursements surged to $4.69 billion in the past five months (July-November) of the current fiscal year The loan details have been made public two days after Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry highlighted the gravity of the situation, saying that the government was taking new loans to pay off the old…
Minister proposes tax-free zone at Port Qasim
Says it will help boost investment, benefit Pakistan and Japan Pakistan possesses a massive potential in the fields of human resources, fisheries, cheap labour and agriculture, remarked Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Syed Ali Haider Zaidi. In a meeting with Japanese Ambassador Wada Mitsuhiro at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs on Wednesday, he proposed the…
PM Imran Khan Inaugurates special Technology Zone ‘TECHNOPOLIS’ in Lahore
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday inaugurated Special Technology Zone, Technopolis, in Lahore and signed agreements for bringing investments worth US$300 million for its construction While inaugurating the project, the prime minister lauded Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar and Higher Education Commission (HEC) team for paving way for building a special technology zone at…