Google Maps introduce voice navigation in Pakistan
After enabling live traffic updates last year, Google has introduced voice-guided navigation for major cities of Pakistan, reported ProPakistani...
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TechPakistan, Afghanistan to use Google Maps to settle border row
Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both sides said Monday...
On Friday, Pakistan closed the border after attacks by Afghan forces on census staff and security personnel escorting them left 12 people dead and 40 others injured...
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PakistanPakistan expresses concern over India's controversial 'maps bill'
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed serious concern to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General and the President of the UN Security Council (UNSC) over efforts to pass into law the controversial Geospatial Information Regulation Bill which aims to restrict geographical depictions of India and disputed Kashmir to those that are government-approved...
New Delhi already imposes tight restrictions on maps but if it becomes law, the bill...
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PakistanPakistan first country to benefit from high-quality solar maps: World Bank
Pakistan has become the first country to benefit from duly validated, high-quality solar maps under a global initiative, allowing it to tap into its renewable energy resources more effectively, the World Bank said in a press release on Tuesday...
The new solar maps for Pakistan were unveiled today at a workshop hosted by the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) and the World Bank in Islamabad...
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ArchivePakistan rejects 'incorrect, legally untenable' political maps issued by India
Pakistan rejects the political maps of India "displaying the Jammu and Kashmir region and seeking to depict parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir within the territorial jurisdiction of India", said a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Sunday...
The statement by the Foreign Office on Sunday said the maps issued by India on November 2 were "incorrect, legally untenable, void and in complete violation of the...
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PakistanGovernor’s houses, rest houses burden on kitty: Imran
ABBOTTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Friday said after forming government in the centre, his party would hand over the country’s all governor’s houses and rest houses to the people instead of reserving them for the ruling class only to reduce burden on the public exchequer...
“It seems this is a small thing but in reality, this is the philosophy that will pave the way for making Naya (new) Pakistan by generating...
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ArchiveMaps of skin and spirit opens
The kind of work that the country’s artists are doing can be bracketed with the artworks produced in any other part of the world, simply because the bulk of their work is influenced and inspired by the sociopolitical strife that Pakistan has had to experience in the last two decades...
It is in this context that a two-person show titled Maps of skin and spirit, which opened at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday, should be analysed......
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ArchiveYahoo to shut down maps and other sections
NEW YORK: Yahoo will close its maps page, and several other sites, as it focuses on its search business, communication tools and content...
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PakistanPolling stations to be linked with Google Maps, says ECP
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that it has linked polling stations with Google Maps...
In a press release issued on Saturday, the ECP stated that it had linked more than 70,000 polling stations to Google Maps for the upcoming 2018 elections, enabling voters to locate polling stations near their homes...
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ArchiveIn Japan, maps find new life as fans
FOLDING fans made out of discarded old maps made by the Japan Map Centre (JMC) have proved to be enormously popular...
The JMC is a general incorporated foundation based in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, that prints and sells topographical maps from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)...
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WorldIndian maps bill a travesty of history, international law: Pak's UN envoy
UNITED NATIONS: Indian tactics to depict Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as part of India cannot change the fundamental fact that the state is 'disputed territory', Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Dr Maleeha Lodhi said on Wednesday...
Voicing Pakistan's "serious concern" over the draft bill, Ambassador Lodhi termed India's claim over AJK as an integral part of its territory "untenable" and hit out at the "travesty of...
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WorldIndia seeks to impose billion-rupee fine for 'false' maps
Maps are a highly sensitive issue in India, which has long-running border disputes with several of its neighbours, most famously over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir...
New Delhi already imposes tight restrictions on maps but if it becomes law, the bill would impose specific penalties for the first time...
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ArchiveOman Air disables in-flight maps naming Gulf ‘Persian’
“Our crew have been notified to disable the disturbing maps,” the sultanate’s national carrier said in a statement on Twitter...
Two Boeing Dreamliners hired from Kenya Airways used a different map system to its own, it said, adding that it had asked Panasonic, which runs the system, to change the maps “without delay”...
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BusinessTPL Maps becomes official navigation partner for Travly's transportation service
TPL Maps, a local mapping service, has signed an agreement to be Travly services' official navigation partner...
“Local startups embracing home-grown technology is a positive sign for the country, and we are pleased to be part of this change,” said Adeel Hashmi, head of TPL Maps...
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WorldGoogle Maps already tracks you; now other people can, too
Google Maps users will now be able to broadcast their movements to friends and family — the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing...
The location-monitoring feature was rolled out on Wednesday as an update to the Google Maps mobile app, which is already installed on most of the world's smartphones...
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