Islamabad: The US investors will take part in the Privatisation Program of Pakistan under new Privatisation Policy of Public Private Partnership (PPP). Ms. Anne Paterson US envoy to Pakistan expressed these views during a meeting with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatisation here today. Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatisation said that the [...]
Lahore: Having pioneered m-commerce in Pakistan, Mobilink, the country’s market leader in cellular communications and a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom, shared its learnings at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Banking to encourage other players in the banking and telecom to follow its lead.
Addressing the gathering Aniqa Afzal Sandhu, Head of M-Commerce, Mobilink shared, “With [...]
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti Thursday urged the lawyers’ community to adopt the course of dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues instead of resorting to long march or sit-in. “I call upon all those political parties who are aiming to join the lawyers’ Long March to remain calm and let the government [...]
Karachi: The two-day workshop turned out to be a grand success. On the first day, Mr. Humayun Aziz Kurd, Federal Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development inaugurated the workshop along with Mr. Muhammad Ali Afridi, Secretary Livestock & Dairy Development.
Dignitaries like Dr. Muhammad Afzal, Chief Executive, Livestock & Dairy Development Board, Dr. R.H. Usmani, Animal [...]
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs & Northern Areas, Mr. Qamar Zaman Kaira has emphasized upon the students to explore new horizons of education so that they could steer the country out of confronting challenges in a befitting manner. He was addressing at the 6th convocation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad here today.
The Minister [...]
London, UK: On March 11 2009, Mohammad Sarwar MP held a gathering of British Pakistanis comprising of councillors, members of parliament, the business community, lawyers, political party representatives, civil society, media such as Councillor Mustaque Lasharie, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, QC Sibgat ullah Kadri, Naseem Ahmed Bajwa and many others. The meeting was very [...]
KARACHI, MARCH 12 – Philips Pakistan will not promote any lighting products in Pakistan which are not energy efficient or do not comply with our global sustainability standards. This was stated by the new chairman and CEO of Philips Pakistan Asad Jaffer while speaking at a press briefing on “energy efficient lighting” at a local [...]
Karachi: Nokia has unveiled two new additions to its Eseries range, the Nokia E75 and Nokia E55, which are the first to ship with the company’s new email user interface. Both devices also come standard with Nokia Messaging that, when added to the company’s corporate email clients, gives people the most efficient solution for accessing [...]
PTI UK strongly condemns the arrest of innocent PTI workers in Islamabad. We have been told that the police raised PTI offices in Islamabad and arrested our workers – namely Tahir and Waseem. The rest are trying to evade arrests. They have also twice raided Mr. Khan’s residence. The dictator’s government [...]
Karachi: 5th Health Asia 2009 Int’l “Conference on Updates in Vaccination” held today at Karachi Expo Centre.
The Chair & Co-Chair were Prof. Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Billoo, Ex- Chairman, Dept of Pediatrics, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) and Prof. Dr. D. S. Akram, Ex-Director Health Education & Literacy Program Karachi.
The key notes of the speeches were [...]
