PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to transfer the administrative control of the Directorate of Information Technology from the science and technology department to the autonomous KP Information Technology Board...
The department has prepared the draft KP Establishment of Information Technology Board (Amendment) Act 2017 to ensure the smooth execution of the plan, say the officials concerned...
Information and Technology (IT) has turned the world into a global village and is also playing a crucial role in our society...
60 billion is export of software and IT-enabled services...
ISLAMABAD: Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood on Wednesday invited Chinese investors to explore opportunities in the Information Technology (IT) sector...
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Sunday announced that he was resigning from his post as Minister for Information Technology but that his party was not abandoning the PTI government despite its reservations...
Addressing a press conference in Karachi, Siddiqui said that holding the post in the federal ministry was "raising a lot of questions"...
LAHORE: Punjab Information Technology Board chairman Dr Umar Saif said 21 projects had been initiated to improve health services in Punjab by using android and internet applications...
“The technology has brought real-time change in the decades-old governance and public service delivery in our basic health units (BHUs), rural health centres (RHCs), tehsil and district headquarters hospitals across the province,” Dr Saif said...
LAHORE: A $25 million anti-fog system recently installed at the Lahore airport after a hard work of five months has failed to benefit passengers as either the aeroplanes lack a corresponding system or pilots are not trained to utilise it...
On Tuesday, none other than Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had had the first-hand experience of the ‘failed’ system when he, along with other passengers, was aboard a plane that could not land at...
In February 2015, Peshawar journalist Aziz Buneri submitted a request to the KP's Right to Information Commission (RTIC) to access information on budget expenditure in Rescue 1122...
Under the Right to Information Act (RTI) Act, which was passed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly in October 2013 to better facilitate citizens’ access to public documents and records, Buneri should have received the relevant data within 20 days of...
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday formally notified the Federal Information Commission with an aim to expedite the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act across the country...
Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Chaudhry said that if departments failed to provide information sought from them under the law, citizens can approach the commission, which will ensure that the requested data is released within a...
Flight operations at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport were restored on Sunday following a temporary suspension earlier due to fault in a submarine internet cable, which has since been repaired, DawnNews reported...
Internet services were restored after a 38-hour-long disruption caused by a fault in the India-Middle East-Western Europe submarine cable...
RAWALPINDI: Following a directive by the federal government, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has decided not to cease providing airport services to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) after the latter submitted a plan for the payment of the former’s dues...
The authority has also asked all the airport managers not to collect airport charges from the passengers...
KARACHI: To acquaint schoolchildren of Orangi with a sound technological base, a new media art workshop titled ‘Technology for Life’ was organised by the Karachi Biennale 2017, in collaboration with the Orangi Pilot Project and Goethe Institut, Karachi...
They shared their experiences of working with technology in various capacities and how teaching children about energy could help them apply the knowledge acquired to their personal...
Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that an important clue had been found in relation to the knife attacks on women in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi, and that police had reason to believe that two suspects were involved in the attacks...
Three First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered ? two at the Sharea Faisal police station and one at the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station ? on the complaint of three...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan told US officials that access to peaceful nuclear technology was a socio-economic priority for the energy-starved nation, says a joint statement issued on Wednesday...
At the meeting “Pakistan stressed the need for access to peaceful nuclear technology as a socio-economic imperative,” said a statement issued by the US State Department...
The role of information and communications technology in bringing up real stories about the humanitarian crises unfolding in different parts of the world has been the subject of much discussion in recent times...
A new term coined to address this emergent field of technology —“humanitarian technology” — is now being used by the rights activists, aid workers, social and political activists, scientists and researchers, and applied to a...
KARACHI: North Korea’s nuclear technology is much better than Pakistan’s, nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan said on Monday, but ruled out any assistance from Islamabad to Pyongyang in this regard...
In February 2004, Mr Khan confessed to having supplied nuclear technology and expertise to North Korea, Libya and Iran...