Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator and a part of VEON Group, is extending its Digital Pakistan Fellowship Program to the students of Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), the country’s first public women university. The Fellowship is designed to engage the youth in a meaningful discourse around tech-based innovation. It will equip participants with tech insights, […]

Building on the success of their #ExamReady campaign launched last year, TikTok and edtech startup Edkasa have announced a scholarship programme that will reward online study grants to 18,000 deserving students from across Pakistan, as they look to expand access to quality education. In September, TikTok partnered with Edkasa and LUMS for a first-of-its-kind year-long […]

Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator and a part of the VEON Group, bagged 7 awards at the Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) Awards 2023. The company received the ‘Best Practices’ award for its visionary efforts in implementing DEI as a strategy when it comes to learning and development, communications, community integration, government relations […]

State Bank Pakistan (SBP) has issued an Islamic banking license to Faysal Bank Limited (FBL) making it the second-largest full-fledged Islamic bank in Pakistan. Commenting on the momentous occasion, Mr. Jameel Ahmed, Governor State Bank of Pakistan said, “Conversion of Faysal Bank is first of its kind in the banking history of Pakistan. This is […]

JazzCash, Pakistan’s leading Fintech, and Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS), Pakistan’s largest investment and financial institution, signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Disbursement and Collection solutions. Through this partnership JazzCash, a subsidiary of Jazz, and a part of VEON Group and CDNS will ease payment solutions for more than four million people, including […]

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Khazana Enterprise, a cloud-native technology provider for Government of Pakistan, in a strategic step towards driving digital transformation across the government sector in support of Pakistan’s cashless future agenda. The MoU included a number of offerings including best practices between […]

Turkey and Pakistan’s leading digital operators, Turkcell and Jazz, part of VEON Group, collaborated to spread the latter’s instant free communication and life platform BiP in Pakistan. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed today by Aamer Ejaz, Chief Digital Officer, Jazz and Gökhan Yüksektepe, BiP CEO. BiP is an easy-to-use instant […]

Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator, has partnered with Ericsson to boost digital skills for their entrepreneurial community in Pakistan through the Ericsson Educate program with an aim to accelerate local innovation. This year long partnership comes under Jazz xlr8, Pakistan’s premier accelerator program for startups, and aims to solidify Ericsson and Jazz’s mission to enhance […]

Recognized as the Oscars of the Asian IT industry. Popularly called the APICTA Awards, the 2022 edition is taking place in Islamabad, from December 7-11. The 21st APICTA Awards of the regional economies are being held in Pakistan for the first time since the inception of the alliance. They are being organized by the Pakistan […]

Iftikhar Arif, General Manager, IT at Muller & Phipps Pakistan, outlines how we can protect customer data, maximize the potential of growth and ensure customer satisfaction by implementing the right data strategy. Q. How crucial is setting up a data strategy for the growth of an organization? And how are you using data to accelerate […]