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Indicating a thaw in bilateral relations, Pakistan participated for the first time in the 92-year-old Indian Science Congress, being held in Ahmedabad. The four-member Pakistani delegation will be presenting three papers in the congress, Dr Anwar Nasim, chairman of the Pakistan’s National Commission on Biotechnology and a member of the delegation, told reporters in Ahmedabad…

The U.S. administration has earmarked 75 million dollars under the Full Bright Scholarship Scheme exclusively for the Pakistani students to get state-of-the art exposure and higher educational credentials at the renowned universities of the United States in the field of advanced science and technical education. The ambassador further said that US would further provide the [...]

Rahman, 28, along with Alexander Asseily, 29, set out to take advantage of that fact by improving upon a vital cellphone accessory that doesn’t get much attention: the headset. The pair founded Aliph, a Brisbane, California-based audio and speech technology company, which just released its first product. Called Jawbone, the product is a high-tech headset [...]

The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, will introduce three master’s level programmes from the new session, commencing in 2005. An IBA official said that the new MS programme is being introduced in Computer Science/Information Technology, Accounting, Marketing and Economics. Each programme of two-year duration is planned for which 50 admissions will be offered on [...]

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced to start e-ticketing facility and has thus became the first airline of the country providing the facility. Using this facility, now tickets can be booked at PIA’ s website through credit cards also. Talking to a private TV channel, PIA Chairman Ahmed Saeed on Saturday said PIA would start [...]

Our view of the world around us is often shaped by the latest technology, like the cameras that bring us around-the-clock news about the turbulence in south Asia. A group of Pakistani artists, however, are bucking the trend by using a centuries-old medium to interpret current events in often daring ways that challenge perceptions filtered [...]

Pakistan and India are likely to establish an optic fiber phone link soon to improve telecommunications between the two countries, a Pakistani news channel reported Tuesday. Management control of the company will also be transferred to the buyer of the stake. In the past, Singapore’s SingTel, Egypt’s Orascom Telecom and other Middle Eastern telecom operators [...]

The monopoly of the state-owned telecom giant, Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL), over fixed line telephones, is coming to an end in Karachi with the start of the new year, as two new private telecom operators are ready to provide fixed line as well as wireless connections to new subscribers. The PTA official said that in [...]

Exel, the world famous leader in supply chain management, on Saturday announced a decision to expand its operations in Pakistan with the opening of its new country headquarters. The new office would provide integrated airfreight, sea-freight and contract logistics services for both export and import services supporting customers in complex and time-critical industries such as [...]

Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that TeleCard Limited, a leading facilities based competitive operator in Pakistan, has signed a multi million dollar contract for a Voice over IP (VoIP) solution from Alcatel. TeleCard is committed to providing state-of-the-art wireline and wireless local loop (WLL) services throughout Pakistan. With its services extending to [...]