Paymob, a leading Egyptian payment solutions facilitator announces the appointment of Mr. Fawad Abdul Kader as the Country Head for their Pakistan operations, effective April 2022. Mr. Kader is a fin-tech project specialist with extensive in-depth knowledge and implementation experience in the financial services industry. He has played a key strategic role in the development and deployment of financial services …

British Council is partnering with PoliNations on the Pakistan-UK New Perspectives Season to mark the 75th anniversary of Pakistan. The partnership seeks to create an artistic response to the themes of PoliNations, including celebrating diversity and the cross-pollination of culture, exploring the influence of journeys along the silk road and the history of tea. New Perspectives showcases the cultural wealth …

RIYADH?DUBAI: Given the new Universities Bylaw, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education (MoE) has envisioned a substantial change in the higher education system by granting disciplined autonomy to universities in framing their academic, financial, and administrative regulations. Universities will need to be ready for this significant level of change as they have been granted the opportunity to set their own strategic …

By Rafiq Vayani Rider, Pakistan’s first-ever logistics start-up to be backed by YC, is building modern logistics for online sellers across the country. In doing so, the start-up has attracted the attention of investors and is today announcing a $3.1M funding with participation from YCombinator and new investors i2i Ventures, Flexport, Soma Capital and Rebel Fund. Existing investors Global Founders …

Test for admission to the internationally famous MPhil & Ph.D. Degree Programme-2022 of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi (UoK) was held at the premises of the ICCBS on Sunday. Spokesman of the ICCBS – University of Karachi on Sunday said that hundreds of candidates appeared in the test that started at 10:00am and …

The International Schools Partnership (ISP) has launched ISP Educates ME, an initiative that educates its community of families, students, and staff through free webinars, training, and talks. The Educates ME initiative provides the ISP school community with information and advice on key topics focusing on learning and wellbeing. Abigail Fishbourne, Director of Learning at ISP Middle East, spoke about the …

Tara Uzra Dawood, President, Dawood Global Foundation LADIESFUND, paid an official courtesy visit to Dr. Murtaza Syed, Acting Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, and Sima Kamil, Deputy Governor. They discussed their collaborations for facilitating loans for women SMEs and the handicapable. LADIESFUND®, an initiative by Dawood Global Foundation, has grown tremendously and has become the leading resource in …

As travel rebounds from the impact of the pandemic, Emirates is busy preparing for its busiest period yet, with over 550,000 customers expected to fly out from the UAE between June and July on over 2,400 weekly network-wide departures. The airline continues to add flights and frequencies where possible as it ramps up its summer schedule, and will be operating …

The 15th edition of PrintPak, the printing, packaging, and graphic arts exhibition, is to be held at Karachi Expo Center from September 3-5. The soft launch of the exhibition was held at a local hotel here in which acting President of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Shabbir Hassan Mansha was the chief guest. The biggest print …

The premiere of one of the most awaited movie of the year “Peechay Tou Dekho” took place on 16th June at The Arena Cinema, Karachi amongst the glitz and glam of Pakistani media and was attended by the creme de la creme of showbiz, socialites from K Town and the loving fans with the whole front yard of The Arena …