ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday urged the Federal Board of Revenue to stop illegal imports of GSM boosters that cause interference in frequency bands of mobile companies and deteriorates quality of cellular services in the area where these amplifiers are installed...
“However, it has been observed through field experience, complaints from the operators and subsequent field monitoring by the...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked the interior ministry to stop the jails in Punjab and Sindh from increasing the frequency of jammers that results in ‘congestion’ in mobile phone service in adjoining areas...
“The officials of prisons enhance the blocking frequency of jammers that cause blockade of mobile phone signals to big surrounding areas...
A more anxious request came from a young Afghan stranded across the Pakistan border, which Pakistan closed after charging that militias were attacking from the Afghan side...
BEIJING: Police in western China detained 11 people after a crowd of angry customers in early May smashed a halal shop suspected of mishandling food prepared according to Islamic custom, state media said...
A group of “law-breakers” in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, broke into a store on May 1 and vandalised it after discovering that non-halal foods had been transported along with halal products, a violation of...
ISLAMABAD: The government introduced a bill in the National Assembly on Thursday to set up an authority to help Pakistan take a due share in what a minister put at trillions of dollars worth of world trade in halal food and other products...
The Pakistan Halal Authority Bill envisions the establishment of an Islamabad-based authority, with a high-powered board of governors, headed by the minister for science and technology, to develop...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology approved on Monday the ‘Pakistan Halal Authority Bill, 2015’, paving way for the up-gradation of food laws in the country...
He emphasised the need for a strong body to keep vigil on food items...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority’s expansion to 15 districts of the province has hit a roadblock as its management puts the hiring of over 200 staff on indefinite hold...
The authority, which was established under the KP Food Safety and Halal Food Authority Act, 2014, began operation in March 2018 and is currently working in the provincial capital and seven divisional headquarters, Kohat, Mardan,...
LAHORE: Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd (Mobilink) and Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd announced on Thursday their agreement to combine, in first telecommunication merger in Pakistan...
Mobilink CEO Jeffrey Hedberg and CFO Andrew Kemp will assume the same positions of the new entity, whose name has yet to be announced...
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has approved the proposed merger of Mobilink and Warid...
The assessment has been undertaken on the basis of extensive consultation with the merger parties, competitors and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)...
ISLAMABAD: Mobilink parent company VimpelCom has said it will invest $1 billion in Pakistan over the next five years, creating 5,000 jobs...
“We are excited about business prospects in Pakistan...
It’s official – Pakistan’s telecom industry is about to witness a massive consolidation as the parent companies of Mobilink and Warid Telecom announced on Thursday that they had reached a merger agreement...
A joint press release issued by both companies says Mobilink will first acquire 100 per cent of Warid’s shares in consideration for the Dhabi Group (Warid’s parent company) shareholders acquiring approximately 15pc of Mobilink...
KARACHI: The much-hyped merger of two telecommunication giants Mobilink and Warid last year was the first in Pakistan...
But beyond the amalgamation of 50 million customers for both telcos, what is in it for subscribers?“Over 50 million customers in Pakistan will benefit from high-speed mobile telecommunications and digital mobile network,” reads a statement by Amsterdam-based Vimplecom, the international communications and technology...
Mobilink took its time to board the budget smartphone bandwagon...
And so we got our hands on a Jazz X JS700, the top of the line Android Smartphone from Mobilink, to see what all the fuss is about...
ISLAMABAD: Cellular service provider, Mobilink, told a parliamentary panel on Wednesday that it has closed off several dozen franchises and laid off employees following all the regulatory approvals for its merger with Warid Telecom...
The secretary general of the All Pakistan Telecom Franchises Association, Naeemul Haq, told the committee that Mobilink discriminated against Warid franchises by retaining the vast majority of Mobilink...
ISLAMABAD: Fruity sweets and packets of chicken soup that fall foul of halal laws are disappearing from shop counters as Pakistan looks to clean up its Islamic food credentials to boost exports to Gulf states...
At the start of the year the government published a list of around 20 imported food products it said were not halal, or permitted under Islamic law...