ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s No.1 Data Network, Zong 4G kicked off its first blood donation initiative in cooperation with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital & Cancer Research Center (SKMCH&RC).The blood drive took place in Zong 4G’s Headquarters encouraging staff members to donate blood to save lives for people fighting cancer. A large number of volunteers from Zong 4G, comprising staff and management employees …

KARACHI:  Easypaisa, as part of its commitment towards a more financially inclusive Pakistan, in collaboration with a third party service provider is working to ensure customer wellbeing at affordable prices. This health service will be available for mobile users and will help increase access to healthcare while reducing healthcare costs. Through this service, a safe and reliable online health interface …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, will feature United Nations’ award-winning series of short feature stories – ‘UN in Action’, that reports on the organization’s peacekeeping efforts as well as United Nations’ projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The main objective of this agreement …

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Airlines Group, Africa’s Largest Airline Group and SKYTRAX Certified Four Star Global Airline, has signed a partnership agreement valued at $500 million with Collins Aerospace, one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products based in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The 25-year agreement covers maintenance of heat exchangers, air management systems and fuel metering units …

By Rafiq Vayani KARACHI: The Crafter’s Guild recently took the initiative to host the Meet the Maker series to bring together individuals from varying creative fields such as artists, designers, crafters, project heads, and more over hi-tea. The events have taken place in Islamabad, Lahore, recently in Peshawar and due to happen in Karachi soon. The mandate was to interact, …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, announces the appointment of Mr. Esam Abdulhameed Al Hammadi as a Country Manager for its Dubai station. With a vast experience in airline sales and having managed Gulf Air’s hub station in Bahrain, Mr. Al Hammadi will transfer his years of knowledge and practice to manage one of the …

KARACHI: Jaffer Business Systems (JBS) and 1LINK have partnered to enhance the overall infrastructure of banking sector with modern technology transformation. JBS solution will support 1LINK to maximize its security, enhance service availability and bring agility in network operations for all applications and services being offered to its client. With this collaboration, 1LINK security posture will be upgraded via micro-segmentation …

KARACHI: Former Finance Minister, Dr. Miftah Ismail said over the past five decades Pakistan’s exports to the world trade has been shrinked from 2 per cent in 1950 to less than 1 per cent today, largely due to lack of a strong industrial base. He said Pakistan’s economy needs to rebuild towards export-led growth model, which is the only future …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: Careem, the leading online platform in the Middle East, to launch Free unlimited WiFi in all Careem cars from mid-July this year. The service is a result of a recent partnership with Etisalat, the UAE’s leading telecommunications operator, and Snapit Digital, a Media Tech company driving digital transformation, to provide free, high-speed Wi-Fi to all Careem …

DUBAI: Emirates SkyCargo has announced the appointment of Alyazeya Saeed and Fatma Ahli to the key positions of Cargo Managers of Oman and Kuwait respectively. The two appointees, who graduated from Emirates SkyCargo’s Commercial Management Programme, will manage the airline’s cargo operations in the two countries. With the new appointments, Emirates SkyCargo will be utilising UAE talent to oversee operations …