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As always the Karachi Race Club will be commemorating the Independence Day in a befitting manner this afternoon. For this purpose a card of eight races, including three cup events, has been drawn, with Independence Cup being the star attraction. The action starts at 1300 hours. The Independence Day Cup has eight runners and almost [...]

MORE than 1,000 Pakistani bachelors attended a musical and cultural programme at the Pakistan Club last night to mark their country’s 57th independence day. Leading Pakistani artistes, specially flown in for the event, presented live entertainment to the audience…

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTWK), a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced it has been recognized by the Pakistan government for its efforts in spearheading the country’s IT growth, part of Pakistan’s global multi-billion dollar foreign investment program. “We are honored to be recognized by Pakistan’s government [...]

The PTCL subscribers will heave a sigh of relief as the package announced by the company last month to exploit untapped potential of the telecom market would come into force fully on Friday (today). Under the package, the PTCL domestic and commercial consumers will enjoy free-of-cost local calls during late night hours, reduced international and [...]

Six countries will control the global cotton industry within 10 years, with Brazil rising to be the third biggest exporter, leading cotton merchant Bill Dunavant said on Thursday. Dunavant, president of Dunavant Enterprises, the world’s biggest cotton trader, said cotton consumption and production would consolidate to China, the United States, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Brazil, [...]

Farhan, Alizah, Junaid and Sonia were declared the winners of their respective categories in an art contest held among students of various institutes for handicapped children. The contest, organized jointly by the Ida Rieu School for the Deaf and Blind and a social worker Jimmy Engineer, in connection with the independence day celebrations, was held [...]

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTWK), a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology services, today announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, NetSol-Akhter, has substantially completed the roll out of it wireless broadband infrastructure in Karachi, Pakistan. The company plans to offer wireless broadband services for domestic and corporate customers at speeds up to [...]

A senior Chinese official said that Pakistan will have ample opportunities to expand its trade with China and other regional countries through the proposed new silk route. ‘It would open new avenues of cooperation and ‘people-to-people’ contact at bilateral and regional level, he said while talking to APP here Wednesday. The new Silk Road has [...]

In his role as ambassador, Ahmad, a trained doctor, is trying to create culture specific messages for the subcontinent to promote better awareness. “A slogan that works in the US doesn’t work in Pakistan or India,” said the pony-tailed singer and lead guitarist. “In our culture, lots of people still don’t talk openly about sex, [...]

The Urdu version of Microsoft Windows would be introduced in Pakistan soon as a majority of its people have a problem understanding and writing English, said Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari. The move was aimed at improving the literacy rate in the country, The News quoted him as saying…