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LAHORE: The Punjab Government issues instruction Monday to disburse pay, allowance and pension for the month of July 2021 in advance on 16th July 2021 due to Eidul Azha to all its employees and pensioners in the light of Punjab Government financial rules.
To implement the above decision, Secretary Faineance has issued written instructions to Accountant General Punjab and all District Account Officers in Punjab including Treasury Officer-I, Lahore.
Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and CISCO have announced a strategic partnership to deliver services to businesses in Pakistan through signing a Service Provider Partnership agreement.
The signing ceremony was held at PTCL HQ, Islamabad. Zarrar Hasham Khan, Chief Business Services Officer, PTCL and Kashif Ul Haque, Country General Manager, Cisco, signed the agreement, along with senior officials from both the organizations.
Under this partnership, both companies aim to work collectively and modernize the IT infrastructure by offering cost-effective and innovative services. This will, not only be limited to technology, but will also include providing strategic guidance and roadmap to successfully navigate the customer’s digital transformation journey.
On the occasion, Zarrar Hasham Khan, Chief Business Services Officer, PTCL, said: “This partnership with Cisco will allow PTCL to serve our customers across the geographic and demographic boundaries to exceed their expectations. It will also be instrumental in supporting Pakistan in the digital transformation journey, as it will be facilitating the creation of a holistic digital workspace and lifestyle. We will be able to provide our corporate customers with a technological foundation that is secure and integrates connectivity, automation and analytics for better collaboration across the entire business value-chain.”
On the occasion, Kashif Ul Haque, Country General Manager, Cisco, said, “Together Cisco and PTCL will be able to transform the way businesses are carried out in Pakistan. Our focus is on being the catalyst for change through SPaaCH (Service Provider as a Channel) that will be utilized in the most optimized and efficient manner. We truly appreciate this partnership that will enable us to transform our customers’ networks into a software-based and more agile platform.”
PTCL remains at the forefront to take such initiatives that will pave the way for latest Cloud-based solutions and managed services, enabling our corporate customers across Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways was set to receive Rs 9891.685 million as payable amount on account of providing different services to federal and provincial departments, autonomous and private bodies. In this regard, Pakistan Railways has approached the departments to recover outstanding billion of rupees as early as possible, an official of the Ministry of Railways told media on Wednesday. Giving details, he said the federal departments has to pay an amount of Rs1172.180 million while provincial departments would pay Rs 2,444.220 million besides autonomous and private bodies with an amount of Rs 6,275.285 million. On the directives of Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati, he said the Ministry has approached the federal and provincial departments for recovering this outstanding amount. He said the federal departments were included Defence, National Highway Authority, AGPR, Pakistan Post Office, Works Department, State Bank of Pakistan and Post Master General (Freight). The provincial institutions were included Food department, provincial highways, irrigation, police and Town municipal authorities while the autonomous and private bodies were included Pakistan State Oil, WAPDA, Oil Companies (Shell Shevron), Public Private Partnership (Business Express and Shalimar Express Night Coach, Bolan Express, he added. To a question, he said Pakistan Railways has retrieved around 452 acres precious land worth billion of rupees from private individuals under its anti-encroachment operation across the country. The official said the encroachment operation has been launched with the assistance of railway police and district administrations. He said the government was taking several steps to retrieve encroached land from the land grabbers including detailed survey was being carried out to identify the encroached land, occupied by the individuals and under illegal occupation of various government departments. The official said the campaign was being monitored by the Divisional Superintendents, Headquarters office and Ministry of Railways.
Telenor Pakistan is unwavering in its commitment to ensuring a future where every Pakistani is empowered to live out to their full potential through its services, products and contributions to society. The Digital Birth Registration is one of its several innovative initiatives aimed at uplifting the lives of Pakistanis in areas such as agriculture, education and digital rights.
LAHORE: :When Pakistan women’s historic tour of the West Indies kicks off with the first of the three T20Is against West Indies Women at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on June 30, the national side’s star all-rounder, Nida Dar, will be eying to achieve a historic landmark of her own. The 34-year-old Gujranwala-born needs one wicket to become the first Pakistan cricketer to join the club of women cricketers with 100 T20I wickets. As of now, only four bowlers – Anisa Mohammed (120), Ellyse Perry (115), Shabnum Ismail (110) and Anya Shrubsole (102) – have crossed the 100-wicket mark at this level, and Nida, who is Pakistan’s most successful bowler with 99 scalps at 18.35 runs per dismissal, is eager to be the fifth. What further promises to add flavour to the occasion is the fact that she will be the first Pakistan cricketer – across both men and women – to achieve the milestone. “Cricket is a funny game. It gives you more sad days than happy ones, but still one cannot stop being passionate about it,” Nida said on Monday. “Definitely, the day I achieve the milestone of becoming the first Pakistan bowler with 100 T20I wickets, it would be one of the happy ones. Certainly, I am excited to be nearing a milestone. The aim, however, remains to make it special for my teammates, coaches and the whole country by winning that match. ”Nida’s international cricket career began in ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2010 with a T20I against Sri Lanka Women. It was a close contest which the opposition won by just one run, but Nida showed glimpses of her potential with the figures of two for 10 from two overs, which included the wicket of Inoka Galagedara, Sri Lanka’s top-scorer in the innings. Nida has since played 105 T20Is.
NARAN: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said with an eco-friendly infrastructure in place, Pakistan’s northern areas with their captivating natural beauty could become the world’s top tourist destination. “A strict implementation of bylaws to ensure preservation of green cover and cleanliness of tourist spots can help Pakistan capitalize the true potential of tourism,” the prime minister said in his address to Tiger Force, the volunteer youth of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for community service. The prime minister this afternoon arrived in Naran, a tourist destination of the Kaghan valley of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, on a day-long trip to launch several tourism and environmental protection projects. The projects included launch of emergency response service for tourists, tree plantation along the bank of Kunhar River besides breeding of Trout fish, distribution of 550,000 biodegradable bags, setting up a waste collection system and delivery of motorbikes to Community River Rangers. Imran Khan said promotion of sustainable tourism through laws to check littering and damage to trees in areas with increased influx of visitors could secure the fragile ecosystem.
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan, Monday, released its Quarterly Payment System Review (QPSR) for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020-21, which showed that value of mobile banking, internet banking and e-commerce transactions, all, more than doubled. The QSPR for January-March 2021 depicts strong growth in the space of digital financial transactions in the country while the numbers of internet and mobile banking users have also been increasing significantly, up 30.5 percent and 20.3 percent respectively during Q3FY21 over the same period last year. During Q3FY21, bank customers performed 309.5 million e-Banking transactions, valuing Rs22.5 trillion and registering growth rates of 31 percent by volume and 29 percent by value over the same quarter last year, the report said adding that most of the uptake in e-banking transactions was seen in internet banking and mobile banking transactions. The report further indicated that the volume of mobile banking transactions reached 51.7 million, (up 144 percent) valuing Rs1.3 trillion up 178 percent compared to 21.2 million transactions valuing 467.5 billion in the same quarter, last year. The number of registered mobile phone banking users reached 9.8 million showing an increase of 20% from the same period last year. Similarly, 24.5 million internet banking transactions valuing Rs 1.5 trillion were recorded during this period compared to Rs 0.75 trillion in the same quarter last year, registering a growth of 74% by volume and 109% by value, it said.
NUT Desk- ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan Tuesday said that Pakistanis travelling to Saudi Arabia can get the AstraZeneca vaccine after showing documents at the mass vaccination centres.
The country’s top health official shared that the government has decided to revise guidelines for AstraZeneca vaccines and will allow citizens who are 18 or older to get the jab which was earlier restricted to those aged over 40.
Protests had erupted across the country asking the government to allow the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The SAPM said that Pakistanis who are travelling to Saudi Arabia can get the Oxford vaccine after showing their documents, adding that the government is in talks with Saudi health officials to allow Chinese vaccines.
Earlier, in May, the Pakistani health authorities had restricted the use of Oxford for people under 40.“(On the recommendations of an expert committee), we have updated the interim guidelines (for the use of vaccine AZD1222) today. There are two key changes: Use among less than 40 years be restricted irrespective of gender (till the availability of further data). 2. Interval between doses fixed 12 weeks instead of range of 8-12 weeks mentioned in an earlier version,” Director General Health Pakistan Dr Rana Muhammad Safdar had told the English Newspaper.
He had maintained that both above changes will lead to operational ease and added that guidelines remain interim as new data from around the world keeps pouring.
NUT Desk- BRUSSELS: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed a new trilateral mechanism involving Turkey, Pakistan and Hungary for the security of Kabul airport after the withdrawal of foreign troops.
According to international media, Turkey is reported to have offered to guard the airport amid concerns over the security along major transport routes and at the airport, which is the main gateway to Kabul.
“If they don’t want us to leave Afghanistan, if they want a (Turkish) support there, then the diplomatic, logistic, and financial support that the United States will give us will be of great importance,” Erdogan said. Turkey currently has some 500 soldiers in the war-torn country.
(NUT Desk) ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Imran Khan lamented on Monday that political and religious parties in Pakistan “misused” Islam to deal damage to the country and said he had started a campaign with heads of other Muslim countries to present the case of the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) honour on international forums.
Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for the Margalla Highway in Islamabad, the prime minister said: “ln our country it is a great misfortune that many times our political parties and religious parties use Islam wrongly and use it such that they deal damage to their own country.”
He said that the people of Pakistan loved the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and nowhere in any country had he seen “the kind of attachment with religion and love for Prophet (PBUH) as in our country”.
“So I am saddened that many times this love is misused. Does the government not worry about this? That when there is disrespect of Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) honour then aren’t we pained?” he questioned, adding that who could decide how much or how less someone loved the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
The premier’s comments come after recent violence in the country by the now proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) against the arrest of their leader Saad Hussain Rizvi.
