Technology - 15

The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology will hold a three-day all Pakistan software, multimedia, quiz and speed programming competition (Soft com 2004) from Sept 23 to 25. A spokesman for the institute told reporters on Sunday that Softcom 2004 would provide opportunities to contestants to exhibit their skills in the field [...]

The University of Sindh will introduce the solar energy system to provide electricity to its departments, teaching institutes, hostels and residential colony. The project, to be prepared by the Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR), will first be implemented at the Marui Hostel and then extended step-by-step to the university’s other facilities. The [...]

Jordan and Pakistan have announced plans to undertake joint science and technology projects. The eight projects will include work in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals. The two countries will also consider additional projects in these and other fields, including nanotechnology. Specific areas of research planned include rainwater harvesting in desert areas, [...]

An Internet Media City would be set up in Karachi on the pattern of one that exists in Dubai. Sindh Minister for Information Technology said this while talking to media here on Tuesday. He pointed out that the government of Pakistan has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the setting up [...]

All arrangements including installation of equipment and setting of required procedures have been finalised and the Authority will start processing MRP applications under the pilot project from today, they said. Initially, the project is being launched from Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, which would be extended to all passport offices across the country, the sources added. [...]

New cellular and fixed-line telephone companies, which are likely to begin operations by December following the deregulation of the telecom sector, are expected to create over 8,000 direct and indirect job opportunities in the country. Pakistan’s official unemployment rate stands at 8.27 percent, but economists estimate the real rate to be much higher. Telecom authorities [...]

The machine-readable passports (MRPs) will be issued from October instead of September because installation of the equipment at a newly established passport office here has been delayed. Official sources said that earlier it was planned that the machine-readable passports would be issued from September, 2004 from Islamabad and Peshawar. The installation of machinery at the [...]

Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) has reared a nursery of seedless kinno and started its sale on commercial basis, said Dr Kausar Abdullah Malik, member Administration and Biosciences, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). He visited the nursery at NIAB here Saturday and lauded the efforts of PAEC scientists, observing that Pakistan could earn [...]

The Central Developmental Working Party (CDWP) of the federal government has approved the Rs180 million project of establishing the Institute of Communication Technologies at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro. This was stated by Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Attaur Rehman at an official meeting held on Wednesday, official sources told Dawn. Dr [...]

In an exclusive interview with The News, [Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority] said the cell phone charges which were currently Rs 3 to Rs 5 per minute would come down to Rs 1.50 to Rs 2 per minute. The PTA chairman said that in the next two years, number of mobile connections would be enhanced from [...]