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Telenor Q3 results saved by SIM tax reversal in Pakistan

October 26, 2022 News Centre 0

Telenor says its Q3 core earnings came in higher than expected due to a one-off gain in Pakistan following a court-directed reversal of the SIM tax provision. Read more…

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Pakistan calls on UN to investigate if India used Pegasus to spy on leaders

July 24, 2021 News Centre 0

Pakistan called on the UN to investigate whether India used Pegasus spyware to spy on public figures including Prime Minister Imran Khan. Read more…

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Pakistan moves to bring cryptocurrency boom into the open

July 16, 2021 News Centre 0

Pakistan has seen a boom in trading and mining cryptocurrency, with thousands of views of related videos on social media, online exchanges. Read more…

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Pakistan online fake ID merchant allegedly helped Russian operatives

April 17, 2021 News Centre 0

Pakistani one of two founders of an online fake ID business that prosecutors say helped Russian operatives get a toehold in the US. Read more…

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Pakistan to block popular social media app TikTok after court order

March 12, 2021 News Centre 0

Pakistan will block popular social media app TikTok after a court order, a spokesman for the country’s telecoms regulator said. Read more…

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Pakistani student’s five-second ‘Pawri’ video promoting dialogue goes viral

March 2, 2021 News Centre 0

Pakistani student hopes her five-second ‘Pawri’ video went viral on social media will translate into more dialogue between India and Pakistan. Read more…

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Pakistan offers faster mobile download speeds than India

October 30, 2020 Staff Writer 0

India may have a wider network footprint but mobile users in Pakistan get faster download speed, as per Ookla’s latest speedtest report. Read more…

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Pakistan blocks TikTok for failing to block ‘immoral and indecent’ content

October 11, 2020 News Centre 0

Pakistan’s telecom regulator blocked TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, another blow to the social media app. Read more…

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Pakistan blocks Tinder, Grindr for disseminating ‘immoral content’

September 2, 2020 News Centre 0

Pakistan has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, deemed to be disseminating “immoral content”. Read more…

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Pakistan issues ‘final warning’ to TikTok over ‘immoral content’

July 21, 2020 News Centre 0

Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator issued a “final warning” to short-form video app TikTok over explicit content posted on the platform. Read more…

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Young women in Pakistan riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs

April 29, 2020 News Centre 1

Joining a women-friendly technology boot camp is completely changing the lives and views on how women can work in conservative Pakistan. Read more…

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Now Pakistan aims to send astronaut into space

July 26, 2019 News Centre 0

Pakistan said on Thursday it aims to send its first astronaut into space by 2022 and will begin selecting candidates next year. Read more…

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Inauthentic Facebook accounts in Pakistan and India removed

April 2, 2019 News Centre 0

Facebook has removed 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan because of “inauthentic behaviour” and spamming. Read more…

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AI chatbot ‘Raaji” offers health advice to rural women in Pakistan

October 18, 2018 News Centre 0

To mark the UN’s International Day of Rural Women – which took place on Oct 15 – this article looks at the work of a female entrepreneur using AI technology in Pakistan to make a Read more…

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Central banks in India and Pakistan have had it with cryptocurrencies

April 9, 2018 News Centre 0

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s central bank barred banks on Friday from having any links to virtual currency dealers, slashing the prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on local exchanges. Pakistan’s central bank said in a Read more…

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Telenor partners with Ant to expand financial services in Pakistan

March 15, 2018 News Centre 0

Telenor Group announced it has reached a strategic partnership agreement with Ant Financial Services Group in Pakistan, under which Ant Financial will invest $184.5 million for a 45% stake in Telenor Microfinance Bank (TMB) to Read more…

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Edotco and DH Corp buy 13,000 towers in Pakistan for $940 million

August 31, 2017 News Centre 0

Axiata Group subsidiary edotco has landed a deal to acquire approximately 13,000 towers in Pakistan from Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (PMCL) for $940 million in partnership with local investment conglomerate Dawood Hercules Corp (DH Corp). Read more…

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India and Pakistan targeted by sustained cyber espionage: Symantec

August 29, 2017 News Centre 0

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Symantec, a digital security company, says it has identified a sustained cyber spying campaign, likely state-sponsored, against Indian and Pakistani entities involved in regional security issues. In a threat intelligence report that Read more…

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Facebook meets Pakistan minister to discuss blasphemy

July 10, 2017 News Centre 0

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A senior Facebook official met with Pakistan‘s interior minister on Friday to discuss a demand the company prevent blasphemous content or be blocked. The meeting comes after a Pakistani counter-terrorism court sentenced Read more…

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Careem employs women drivers for its taxi-hailing service in Pakistan

December 8, 2016 News Centre 0

KARACHI/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taxi-hailing service Careem introduced women drivers in Pakistan on Wednesday, a rare initiative in a deeply conservative Muslim country where women account for only 22% of the workforce. Careem has a Read more…

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