VimpelCom, Global Telecom Holding (GTH), together with Warid Telecom Pakistan and Bank Alfalah (Dhabi Group shareholders), have received the approvals from Islamabad High Court to merge Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink) and Warid Telecom (Warid). Earlier this year Mobilink and Warid had received approvals from Pakistan Telecom Authority, Competition Commission of Pakistan, Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan, local and international creditors and State Bank of Pakistan.

Pakistan’s premier telecom and digital services provider, Telenor Pakistan’s mobile-agriculture service ‘Khushaal Zamindar’ has bagged the prestigious Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF) Award in the ‘Agri & Rural Innovation’ category at the 3rd Annual Pakistan Innovation Forum 2016. Poised to be Pakistan’s first mobile-agri service, ‘Khushaal Zamindar’ offers a host of solution-focused and ground-breaking advisory services which aim to facilitate increase in agricultural yield and trigger robust growth in the agriculture sector of Pakistan.

In order to sell 40% equity stake held by existing shareholders of Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited (Formerly: Karachi Stock Exchange Limited) [“PSX”] under Stock Exchanges (Corporatization, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 and Regulations framed there under, the Divestment Committee of PSX, under the chairmanship of Mr.

A one-day Seminar on “Hepatitis” was held yesterday in continuation of a series on ‘education and training of Tibb-i-Unani’s physicians’ at Bait al-Hikmah auditorium, Madinat al-Hikmah, Karachi. Speaking on the occasion Dr. Navaid ul Zafar, Managing Direcator, Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan said, if we wanted to get Tibb-i-Unani recognized on world level there was no other way than to adopt research culture in this system of medicine.

Recently, JazzCash entered in to a strategic alliance with MicroEnsure Pakistan, a leading provider of mass market insurance worldwide, whereby innovative small ticket insurance products and solutions were to be offered JazzCash customers. Understanding the scarcity of financial issues related to healthcare matters and scarcity of health insurance products for the common person in Pakistan, the two organizations worked together and developed an innovative solution in partnership with a leading local insurance company.

Senior vice president of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) Ghazanfar Ali Khan has taken over the charge of Acting President of the association. The president of Korangi Association, Masood Naqi is on a foreign trip, in his absence Ghazanfar Ali Khan will perform the responsibilities of this office.

In an initiative to fund education for children across Pakistan, Adamjee Life donated PKR 2 million to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) through their #Ensure A Smile digital campaign.

Keeping up to date with the rise of social media and the digital uprising, Adamjee Life introduced the #Ensure A Smile digital campaign, in which the company donated PKR 10 to TCF each time the hashtag was retweeted or shared on Twitter and Facebook.

In order to promote motor sports in the country, Pakistan State Oil is sponsoring the country’s most thrilling motor sports event at Jhal Magsi from December 16 to 18, 2016. The exciting event was introduced in 2005 and since then it has become a key attraction to thousands of motor sports enthusiasts from all over the country.

Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry would like to place on record the relentless services rendered by Allah Dino Khawaja Inspector General of Police Sind in improving law and order situation in Sind specially in collaboration with Rangers. His actions against the corrupt police officers, since he was posted as Inspector General of Police Sind in March 2016 were hailed by all concerned.

President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Shamim Ahmed Firpo has urged K-Electric to avoid charging peak hour rate all day and implement the concept of Time of Use (ToU) across-the-board which would substantially reduce the electricity bills for industrial, commercial and domestic consumers.