Digital Pakistan
Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL), Pakistan’s leading microfinance institution recently pioneered another innovative product – ‘Apna Makaan’ – an affordable home-loan that provides low-income households with an opportunity to own formal housing and improve their quality of life. This is a unique opportunity for the low-income segment to avail low markup house building loans of […]
Continuing its mission to empower, enable and facilitate the next generation of problem solvers in Pakistan, National Incubation Center Lahore at LUMS is collaborating with Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business to launch its SPARK program for Pakistani entrepreneurs. An offering of Stanford SEED, this four-month program is for early-stage entrepreneurs in the traction or […]
Bank Alfalah, Pakistan’s premier financial institution providing both Sharia-compliant and conventional banking services, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indus Motor Company Limited (IMC) for a joint launch of a portal Toyota Smart Finance (TSF) to promote Toyota products through the former’s Auto Financing services. In line with the commitment to facilitate customers […]
At the 5th Stakeholders meeting on Digital Financial Services held on Monday, 2nd August 2021, Governor State Bank of Pakistan, Dr. Reza Baqir, announced two new initiatives to facilitate the introduction of digital financial products and services by financial institutions to benefit all segments of society. These initiatives are the introduction of digital cheques clearing […]
The Universal Service Fund (USF) awarded a contract worth approximately PKR 555 million to Telenor for providing High-Speed Mobile Broadband services in Nowshera, MaryAnn, Swabi, and Charsadda districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Federal Minister for Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunication, Syed Amin ul Haque and Federal Minister for Defense, Pervez Khattak witnessed the contract signing […]
Groundbreaking women-led startup CIRCLE is bringing She Loves Tech 2021, a women-centric global technology startup acceleration competition, back to Pakistan for the fifth time. This year CIRCLE will be hosting She Loves Tech Pakistan in 13 cities including Gilgit Baltistan, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, and Faisalabad – while working with different NGOs, academic institutes, incubators, and […]
The pioneer microfinance institution in Pakistan – Khushhali Microfinance Bank is celebrating its 21st year of services for socio-economic uplift of the marginalized & unbanked segments of the market. The anniversary was celebrated with great enthusiasm across the bank’s network both physically and digitally, via virtual conference. Established in the year 2000, Khushhalibank’s success has […]
Like other countries in the world, e-sports will soon be a part of regular sports across Pakistan. Daraz, the country’s leading online company, has partnered with e-Sports Marketing Pakistan, Pakistan’s first e-sports marketing platform. E-Sports Marketing Pakistan is the first company in Pakistan to work for the growth of e-sports in the field of research […]
PSI Pakistan in collaboration with National Incubation Center, Karachi organized the “Make Space Hackathon” – a 48-hour long online competition. The competition began at 6:00 pm PKT on Friday, August 6, 2021, and adjourned at 6:00 pm PKT on Sunday, August 8, 2021. The aim of the competition was to empower people with a passion […]
Sarsabz Fertilizers (Fatima Fertilizers) strived to introduce a dedicated day for farmers through ‘Salam Kissan’ campaign, as a first-ever initiative to elevate their image and importance for national food security. The intention was to let the day serve as a reminder and drive the stakeholders and policymakers towards dialogue to come up with possible […]