Islamabad: August 13, 2020: Universal Service Fund (USF) BOARD has approved projects to provide Hi-Speed Mobile Broadband In Balochistan and Sindh. Federal Secretary Ministry of IT and Telecommunication Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui chaired 73rd Board of Directors meeting of Universal Service Fund (USF) on Thursday. The Board approved award of contracts to PMCL (Jazz), CMPAK (Zong)…
KARACHI, August 13, 2020: In an effort to further enhance ease of doing business in Pakistan, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has introduced a new mechanism to enable the companies in Pakistan to make instant payments for acquiring digital services from globally recognized digital service provider companies, without any hassle. Now local companies can…
Karachi, August 12, 2020: Civil society, human rights and labour rights activists on Wednesday welcomed the statement by the Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Prof. Dr. Qibla Ayaz who has termed the arrest and keeping detained the Chief of Jang Group Mir Shakeelur Rehman by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as “anti-Shariat and…
Karachi, August 12, 2020: The benchmark KSE-100 index closed in negative territory, making a high and low of +559 and -169 points respectively, to finally close at 40,473 levels, down 86 points. The market remained active in today’s trading session but came under slight pressure in the second half with Cements and E&Ps being the…
Debit cards, virtual cards and QR payments to complement the credit card portfolio Karachi, August 12, 2020: Mastercard has expanded on its existing strong partnership with Faysal Bank through an agreement that will further support the digitization of the payments infrastructure and accelerate the growth of digital transactions in Pakistan – a focus area which…