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PAKISTAN, impressed with the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), has invited Malaysian companies to take part in the development of a US$50 million (US$1 = RM3.80) intelligent city project in Islamabad. Pakistan’s Board of Investment (BOI) investment counsellor Datuk Salim Fateh Din said Islamabad is developing a 6ha site into an intelligent city like Cyberjaya, but [...]

Why is Pakistan the hot new offshore information technology (IT) destination? This is because of a combination of favorable economic circumstances. Just when many Western managers are finally becoming comfortable with the idea of working closely with Indian IT firms, along comes Pakistan. Pakistan is shaking off decades of “also ran” status. Funds invested into [...]

Paktel, founder of the cellular industry in Pakistan, Thursday launched its GSM service throughout the country. Launching the 0304-code GSM service at a press conference here, he said, Paktel has 350,000 subscribers in its existing network and the company, starting with about a million connection capacity aims at around two million capacity in more than [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company on Wednesday launched the “Apna Des” calling card for Pakistanis travelling abroad. Though the Apna prepaid calling card is available in Pakistani currency but will help the users in a foreign country to make a call to Pakistan, said Shahid Haq, executive vice-president marketing. Initially, the service of the card will [...]

NetSol Technologies, Inc. announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, NetSol-Akhter has expanded it corporate client list to fifty companies located in Karachi, Pakistan. These corporate clients include Reuters Ltd., Fuji Films, the Textile Institute of Pakistan, Sigma Motors Ltd. (Land Rover) and the Institute of Business Management and Technology. The rollout of the company’s broadband services [...]

The deregulation of Pakistan’s telecom industry is fast gaining momentum with dozens more communications providers and millions of customers entering both the fixed line and mobile markets. Before the government announced the opening of its fixed line telephone sector to private investors in July last year, the landline penetration rate was just 2.5 percent of [...]

The issuance of Machine Readable Passports is commencing from Five Regional Passport Offices across the country to the applicants, from Monday 25th October 2004. It is announced that applicants for getting new Passports will no longer be required to fill forms and bring photographs with them. The requirements for the Machine Readable Passport will be [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is going to launch its Wireless Local Loop (WLL) service in the remote areas of the country this month. PTCL Senior Executive Vice President, Sales and Human Resource, Shahzad Sadan, said this at an Iftar-cum-dinner hosted by PTCL, here on Wednesday. He said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will inaugurate the [...]

The Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) has decided to start subsidized diploma courses in civil, electrical, mechanical and computer technology with admission fee as low as Rs500 per semester. The subsidized courses are aimed at providing an opportunity to people belonging to lower middle and middle class to improve their skills as per the demands [...]

The National College of Arts (NCA) has started new of six-month courses in animation and video production in collaboration with French art institution Ecole-d’ Art. A German and an American teacher have been hired for the course. TV producer Shaukat Zainul Abidin, writer Asghar Nadeem Syed, former Ptv Lahore general manager SM Anwar and Faryal [...]