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A Pakistani software company has been awarded top international quality CMM-Level 4 certification for introducing state-of-the-art business processes in the delivery of its products and services. The Lahore-based NetSol Technologies Ltd which specializes as the developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, is the first-ever local company and the 126th [...]

China announced that it will provide technical assistance to the country of Pakistan in producing electricity through solar energy, said an official of the Jiangsu Solar Energy Resources Institute. “We can help Pakistan manufacture solar collector tubes that could be used to providing cheap electricity,” said the official. “We will also transfer technology to Pakistan [...]

Born in Rawalpindi, I completed my masters in information technology. After my education I worked as manager IT in a private company. Working with the private company for one year gave me enough experience about market trends in IT. With the financial assistance of my father, who works as consultant with a firm, I established [...]

Wide roads like the magnificent Lahore-Islamabad motorway, broad avenues like the ones in Islamabad and modern houses with state-of-the-art furnishings as at Mirpur showed Pakistan in a good light. The encounter opened my eyes to the misconceptions Pakistanis and Indians had about each other, though they had many things in common. When I narrated this [...]

NetSol will design, develop and implement a fully-integrated MTMIS solution, facilitating business processes, enabling information sharing, and streamlining all inter and intra-department communications. The MTMIS will be managed by the Vehicle Registration Authority, along with the local police and constituent districts, including local and provincial police, environmental protection authorities, Highway Safety and Penalty System Management, [...]

Viisage, a Billerica-based provider of identity systems and software, has been chosen by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), an independent corporate organization in Pakistan, to integrate the company’s face recognition technology into Pakistan’s smart passport and national ID program. The new program, headed by NADRA and sponsored by the Pakistani government, is designed [...]

Microsoft Pakistan has launched its global Empower Program for the software industry in Pakistan with active support and participation from the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) at a launching ceremony here today. Jawwad Rehman, Country Manager, Microsoft Pakistan said that the Empower program would provide an extremely cost-effective and [...]

Sweden can extend expertise to Pakistan in the fields of bio-technology, water management, air pollution control and public transport. This was stated by head of visiting Swedish trade delegation Ambassador Jan Palmstierna while speaking at the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) here on Thursday. He said in his meeting with Sindh Governor Dr [...]

China has promised to send 65 new freight wagons to the Pakistan Railways (PR) on November 26 while Germany is providing the PR with state-of-the-art track sensing technology, sources told Daily Times on Monday. The new lot of wagons is part of a shipment of 400 freight wagons to Pakistan from China under an earlier [...]

Pakistan’s Ministry for Information Technology has published draft legislation creating a new foreign data protection regime, which will help European and US companies when outsourcing to the country, according to a report by Islamabad News. EU law in particular restricts businesses transferring data to countries with weak privacy protection, and with the Ministry apparently expecting [...]