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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 [...]

Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry has started preparations for organising Pakistan’s Solo Exhibition in Colombo, Sri Lanka in next three months. Sri Lanka Tea Association’s trade delegation will visit Pakistan next month to meet the local businessmen for exploring trade potential available here. This was announced in a meeting of Consul General [...]

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…

Three Pakistan cricketers are among the 29 players who have been nominated for Cricket Oscar awards. Openers Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed and fast bowler Umar Gul have joined six Australians, five Indians and four West Indians in the list of players contending for the awards. A five-man ICC Awards selection panel comprising Richie Benaud [...]

What was billed as a press conference turned out to be a film launch that descended into pure farce here on Wednesday night Reporters received invites for a ‘Meet the Press’ for film Koi Pyar Na Karey, but the function was anything but a press briefing. The official opening of the film project took place [...]

The Mall and what it meant to the city and it, successive generations. My most abiding memories of the historic city, as a tiny toddler, apart from its monuments, its typical way of life, has been the grandeur of The Mall. That The Mall left a lasting impression on my mind with its cleanliness, disciplined [...]

Going by the tremendous response to the CNN Young Journalist Award (YJA) last year, which was launched to recognise quality journalism among media professionals between the age of 22 to 26 from the electronic, online and print media; CNN today announced the second edition of the awards. This year the awards will be extended to [...]

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 [...]