Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s first and largest Islamic bank, has recently introduced mobile-based contactless payment service for its customers through its Mobile Banking App. Based on the Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the service, named – ‘Meezan Mobile Tap & Go’ enables customers to pay by simply tapping their NFC enabled Android smartphones at POS (Point […]

edotco Towers Pakistan Pvt. Ltd (edotco Pakistan), an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, has become the first Tower Company in Pakistan to achieve the ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems Certification. ISO 45001:2018 is a globally recognized occupational health and safety standard developed by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) that guides organizations […]

The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and co-founder of Malala Fund, Malala Yousafzai visited the Pakistan Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai.  Accompanied by Malala Fund co-founder Ziauddin Yousafzai, education activist and Malala Fund partner Shehzad Roy, Director General of Pakistan Pavilion Rizwan Tariq, Lead Programming and Marketing for Pakistan Pavilion Afroz Abro and Expo […]

Mondelēz Pakistan, one of Pakistan’s and global leading snacking companies, announces the appointment of Sami Wahid as the new Managing Director (MD) effective January 2022. Wahid will be responsible for the overall business strategy and commercial offerings. As an expert in the snack and beverage industry, Wahid brings over 17 years of experience in the […]

Beaconhouse, the country’s largest network of private educational institutions, successfully hosted its third Learner Agency Paradigm (LAP) Conference, at Beaconhouse’s Defence Campus in the south region, Karachi. This LAP Conference 2022 was attended by Beaconhouse School System’s (BSS) learners, teachers, and employees and is the third installment from its series of conferences that were introduced […]

While celebrating the success of empowering 3000 women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on employable digital skills under the Women Empowerment Through Digital Skills Program, a graduation ceremony was held at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IT Board, Peshawar, which was attended by hundreds of females from seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The event included employers and other notable dignitaries […]

foodpanda, Pakistan’s leading online food delivery platform, has always been a step ahead to uplift home-based businesses in the country. Just recently, the photo of a young boy selling macaroni on the streets of Islamabad went viral on the internet. The young chef named Zaheer has been taken on board by foodpanda and is now […]

More than two-thirds of 3,930 youths surveyed from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand agreed that online bullying is a serious problem for young people today. Of the 1,350 youth surveyed in Pakistan, 42 percent said they were bullied before the pandemic began and in terms of intensity, over 40 percent said they experienced more online […]

The onset of the pandemic saw, Bilquis and Abdul Razak Dawood (BARD) Foundation conducting a fundraising campaign, aiming to aid the affectees from marginalized communities through the distribution of ration packs, PPEs & sanitizers. With Covid 19 wreaking havoc on the economy, more and more people have been pushed below the poverty line. Keeping that […]

Pakistani Telecom Company, Ufone has secured its largest syndicated financing facility jointly led by MCB Bank Limited (MCB) (Agent bank), Allied Bank Limited (ABL), Bank of Punjab (BoP), National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), and United Bank Limited (UBL) to fund the acquisition and rollout of its 4G services across Pakistan. President and Group CEO, PTCL […]