Pakistan Jumps 10 Spots on Attractive Outsourcing Countries Index
Pakistan has been ranked at number 20 on the 2009 A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index of the most attractive outsourcing destinations in the world. Pakistan went from 30th in …
Continue reading »Pakistani Boy Becomes World’s Youngest Cisco Expert
Irtiza Haider, a Pakistani student of class 8 from Faisalabad has been crowned to be the world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He did it by answering 80 …
Continue reading »Pakistan Gets the World’s Largest WiMAX Network
Wateen Telecom and Motorola together rolled out the largest and the first in the world WiMAX 802.16e network nationwide in 22 cities of Pakistan. Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went …
Continue reading »Pakistani Firm the First Customer for Futuristic Supersonic Jet
U.S. based Aerion announced its first customer, Pakistan-based Princely Jets, after opening its order book at the Dubai Airshow. The futuristic supersonic business jet appears to be gaining altitude, with …
Continue reading »Pakistan’s First DNA Forensic Lab Launched
The DNA laboratory has been established by the National Police Bureau under its National Forensic Science Programme (NFSP) at a cost of Rs8 million. Pakistan established its first DNA test …
Continue reading »First Biotech Cotton Grown in Pakistan
Biotechnology offers tremendous benefits to the agriculture in Pakistan. Agriculture biotechnology is helping today to provide people with more and better crops, food and holds even greater promise for the …
Continue reading »Karachi Papers of Scientist Who ‘Modified’ Newton Theories
The collection of papers includes original theories of ‘New Relativity’ and ‘Rotational Theory of Light’ presented by Sir Sulaiman in British India. An exhibition of the research papers of …
Continue reading »Pakistan IP Telephony Thriving in Rural Sindh
According to locals, it also remains the cheapest compared to the newly introduced wireless phone services by PTCL and V Wireless. Most major cellphone companies of the country have yet …
Continue reading »Pakistan’s Machine Readable Currency Notes
Pakistan will soon replace its notes of all denominations with machine-readable currency to combat forgery and counterfeiting. Rs 20 notes had already been introduced in August last year with …
Continue reading »Lahore’s Humble Superhero for Bomb Disposal
This technician is the BDS’ only regular employee for two 12 hours shifts, to respond to all Lahore’s calls. One Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) technician responds to up to 35 …
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