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The state-run Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has hired a Chinese firm to computerise its billing and customer care operations at the cost of Rs 1.8 billion. Officials at the company said the Chinese firm — ZTE Technologies – will be responsible to automate the whole system within 18 months and complete the task in [...]

An inauguration ceremony was on Tuesday to name the bridge ‘Youyi’ to commemorate Chinese and Pakistani workers who devoted their life to the construction of the bridge between 1966 and 1978. The bridge across Indus River is located in Thakolt, the end of Sino-Pakistan Karakorum Highway.

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat this week to accept an offer of free mobile phone connections, a sign of the pent-up demand in a country where cell phone usage has remained low. But that may soon change. While only about 4.5 million of Pakistan’s 150 million people currently have mobile [...]

Hop-on.com, Inc. (OTC: HPON – News) today announced that it has shipped an initial order of its tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) Model 1806 GSM handsets to a distributor in Karachi, Pakistan. Located in Southern Asia between India on the east, Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north, Pakistan is a country of [...]

AKD Trade.Com, Pakistan’s first stock trading website, has introduced AKD Research, said a press release issued by Aqeel Karim Dhedhi Securities (Pvt) Ltd, on Wednesday…

The US-based International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in its recent report has placed Pakistan as the third largest consumer of cotton this year amid predictions that world’s textile industry would consume over 98 million bales during 2004-05. The ICAC, which represents 42 cotton producing and consuming countries, has however kept the world cotton forecast below [...]

The order for Siemens mobile comprises turnkey delivery and installation of switching technology, mobile transmission and receiving stations (base stations), Intelligent Networks (IN) and GPRS hardware and software components for the Telenor network in southern Pakistan. “The order from Telenor as a new customer is a further success for us as a mobile equipment provider [...]

Satcomm (Pvt) Ltd said on Tuesday it would invest more than Rs1 billion in broadband Internet cable network and digital TV cable services in Karachi. Satcomm is a sister firm of Habib Oil Mills (Pvt) Ltd. Tanveer Hassan, Chairman Satcomm and Moid-ul-Hassan, Chief Executive Officer made a joint announcement during a press briefing. They claimed [...]

Shafaq has established herself as the leading jewellery designer for 22k gold jewellery. In fact many jewellery lovers and fashion gurus call her “the designer”. Her ensembles were a treat to watch. They were a piece after piece of stunning beauty. Some pieces had a magical flow of colours with unique precious and semiprecious stones. [...]

Hundreds of thousands of cell phone users in the country stood in long queues to lay their hands on free pre-paid connections offered by Ufone from Aug 14 to Aug 16. At present, there are over 5.5 million cell phone users in Pakistan. A senior official of Ufone, a subsidiary of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company, [...]