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Media announcements from all the industries in Pakistan can be found in this section to help you stay up-to-date with recent tidings.

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U Microfinance Bank Islamic Banking receives international recognition during the 8th Islamic Retail Banking Awards

The award honors U Bank’s recent introduction of Shari’ah-compliant financial solutions in

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MoIT Secretary, SAPM on Youth Affairs perform groundbreaking of Jazz 5G Innovation Lab at NUST

(MoITT) performed the groundbreaking of Pakistan’s first 5G Innovation Lab at NUST

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Turkcell, VEON Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance BiP in Pakistan

BiP is an easy-to-use instant communication app that offers fast and secure

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Jazz collaborates with Ericsson to impart digital skills among entrepreneurs to boost local innovation

Ericsson and Jazz’s mission is to enhance the nation's digital skills and

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Google announces top trending searches of Pakistan for the Year 2022

This year, cricket continued to be the major search trend, with the

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Jazz partners with LUMS to launch EMPOWER, Women’s Leadership Program

Through this program, Jazz intends to instill valuable leadership skills among women

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NADRA Achieves ISO 27001 Certification

A seal of approval from a third party that NADRA is governed

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SEDF & U Bank up for Institutional Collaboration for Provision of Subsidized Credit to MSMEs in Sindh

The agreement aims to foster economic development through the provision of subsidized

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Jazz Business showcases Garaj, AdTech at Connect 2022

Jazz provides seamless cloud services for its operations through Jazz-powered Garaj.

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Sevak, The Confessions, web series releases on Vidly.tv

Sevak, The Confessions is built on eight stories woven around one crime

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Jazz and Sprite Collaborate for a new exciting offer “Thand Rakh Aur Bann Super”

Under this partnership, Sprite and Fanta bottles (500ML, 1L, and 1.5L packaging),

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Pakistanis say YouTube is the no.1 online video and music platform

YouTube is the most popular online video platform in Pakistan with 62%

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U Microfinance Bank Receives Commercial license for Extending Nationwide Islamic Banking Services

U Bank commenced its pilot Islamic Banking operations earlier this year, starting

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SHPL Appoints Azam Jamil as Country Head for Pakistan

Azam Jamil brings with him forty years of experience in the fields

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Jazz recognized for its Gender Inclusive Workplace at UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards

Jazz incorporated policies and global best practices to pave the way for

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Spotify Brings Pakistan’s First Masterclass for Artists Community in Pakistan

Spotify hosted its first Masterclass in Pakistan, exclusive to artists and labels,

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Jazz Brings SoulFest’22 to Lahore

JazzCash offers a 40% cashback on all food items and tickets purchased

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Gripping ‘Sevak: The Confessions’ Trailer has People Talking

The series 'Sevak' is a gripping adaptation of real-life events wagging from

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KSBL Celebrates its 6th Commencement Ceremony

KSBL celebrated its Commencement Ceremony in the backdrop of 10 Year Celebration

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GameBird Edition hackathon highlights the potential of Esports

This edition of the Game Jam received more than 200 applications.

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NADRA Collaborates with Chhipa Welfare Association for Identification of Unidentified Dead Bodies

NADRA has so far completed the identification process of 6673 unidentified dead

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Khushhali Microfinance Bank Repairs Wacha-Wana Bridge in Tirah Valley

This project is a part of “Khushhali for Everyone” – an exemplary

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TikTok Concluded T20 World Cup Campaign with Over 1 Billion Views

In this campaign celebrities and content creators took part in the vibrant,

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Jazz, JazzCash and MMBL Achieve D&I wins at VEON Ignite Top 200

Jazz is dedicated to enhancing diversity and women’s empowerment within its business

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Sevak, The Confessions Teaser Released

The series is a story of resilience and courage of the heroes

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Descon Oxychem Production Increased by 23.57%

The company achieved record H2O2 production to keep up with the growing

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Jazz and UN Women to Digitally Empower 10,000 Women Micro-Entrepreneurs

The idea behind this collaboration is to close the digital gender gap

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Spotify Supports Hasnain Raza & Hani Taha’s ‘Na Mukammal’ as Title Sponsor

The soundtrack of the play is available on Spotify.

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Telenor Pakistan and UNICEF Partner to Strengthen Child Online Protection

The program promotes safe and responsible internet usage among children, caregivers and

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Telenor Pakistan Hosted an event on “Safety in Supply Chain”

Telenor’s Supplier Conduct Principles (SCP) are based on internationally recognised standards, including

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Khushhali Microfinance Bank Continues to Support the Flood Affectees in Pakistan

Khushhali Microfinance Bank is fully committed to helping the flood affectees of

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Jazz partners with NFRCC to develop Seed Distribution App for farmers affected by floods

Key features of this app include farmer registration, claim submission, stock maintenance,

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Spotify Celebrates Wedding Season in Pakistan with Guaranteed Dhoom Dhaam

With Spotify’s ‘Dhoom Dhaam Guaranteed’ campaign, the audio streaming platform is introducing

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“Fly Jinnah” Takes off with First Flight to Islamabad

Fly Jinnah now operates direct daily flights from Karachi to Islamabad, Lahore,

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TikTok, Zindagi Trust hold Digital Safety workshops at Government Schools

Workshops have so far impacted nearly 1800 students, teachers and parents who

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Jazz Supports the Nationwide Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign

Pakistan has the highest incidence of breast cancer among Asian countries; one

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Standard Chartered Pakistan delivers record operating profit for Q3-2022

Standard Chartered Bank delivers a record profit before tax of PKR 36.4

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U Microfinance Bank and Shahid Afridi Foundation Collaborate to Uplift Pakistan’s Education Sector

This collaboration is aimed towards uplifting the education sector in Pakistan and

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Mortein and Indus Hospital Raise Awareness Against Dengue

The joint efforts between the organizations to combat the fight against dengue

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Tamasha brings ad-free live streaming of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

Tamasha is live streaming all the matches from the ICC Men’s T20

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Ordercall makes virtual healthcare coverage accessible to retailers with medIQ

Pakistan’s first integrated virtual-care platform, to provide healthcare solutions to Pakistan’s retailers.

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DEL Wins Multiple Awards for Its Benchmark HSE Initiatives

Pakistan’s leading large-scale engineering company, Descon Engineering Ltd. (DEL), has worked towards

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US Government, Khushhali Bank Sign $25 Million Commitment to Empower Women and MSMEs

The partnership will enable MSMEs to access finance with enhanced credit history

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“Fly Jinnah” Introduces Their Domestic Network and Launch Plans

The airline will commence its commercial operations with 4domestic routes starting from

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Zong Awards Its Network Heros

Zong has shown remarkable resilience and will in the face of adversity,

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Think Before You Invest Series for All Crypto Questions by KuCoin

#ThinkBeforeYouInvest education series is dedicated to educating users and investors about the

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Shell Pakistan announces financial results for Q3 2022

The Company posted a loss after tax of PKR 4,644 million for

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Peek Freans Sooper Celebrates Pakistanis and their love for their Cricketers

Peek Freans Sooper aims to foster the tradition of honoring the cricket

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Daraz inaugurates Pakistan’s first Smart Distribution Centres

Daraz Pakistan in partnership with Cainiao Network introduces the country’s first automated

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Jazz Provides Flood Assistance to Flood Affected Families with Edhi Foundation

This collaboration is a part of Jazz's PKR 1 billion flood relief

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Ordercall Signs MoU with ICMAP to Optimize Talent Acquisition

The partnership will strengthen Ordercall’s talent acquisition and management capabilities, create strategic

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Jazz Launch e-Pins on POS Machines

The goal of this strategic collaboration between Jazz and OPay is to

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Daraz Pakistan Hosts Seller Summit 2022

Daraz is preparing to make this year’s 11.11 bigger and better than

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Al-Ghazi Tractors Launches 2023 Models on its 40th Anniversary

The new 2023 models will be offered for the following models: 480s,

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Beaconhouse Group, PCB Sign an MoU for Pathway Scholarship Programme

Through this alliance, Beaconhouse will provide 100 academic scholarships annually, to aspiring

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Jazz Reinforces its Data Security with ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 Certification

Certification by ISO/IEC ensures that stringent measures and controls are incorporated within

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Google is launching Google for Startups Accelerator

The program will select organizations that use technology to solve circularity challenges

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Jazz Employees Contribute PKR 10 Million for Flood-Relief Program

As a part of the company’s PKR 1 billion pledge towards flood

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TikTok Reinforces Commitment to Safety with its Family Pairing Feature

The Family Pairing feature allows parents and teens to customize their safety

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PSO Cards, JazzCash Signed Digital Payment Partnership Agreement

JazzCash to provide DIGICASH users payment gateway and card top-up facility via

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Homebridge by Beaconhouse to Launch Pakistan’s First Hybrid A Level School

Beaconhouse offers students an opportunity to study their Cambridge program with online

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State Life Insurance, JazzCash Collaborate to Digitize Payment Collection

This strategic partnership will enable State Life to provide a digitized collection

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InspecTest Conducts 3rd AMPP Pakistan Chapter: Corrosion Conference

The conference provides networking opportunities and highlights the most effective strategies, concepts,

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FREE FIRE Pledged to Contribute 25,000 Kg Rice Via JDC to Flood Victims

This 25,000 kg of rice was then donated to the trusted JDC

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Khushhali Microfinance Bank Provides Educational Support to the Students of Haripur & Lala Musa

Khushhali Bank launched two separate initiatives, its volunteers visited the Government Primary

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Google launches Career Certificates, including 15,000 scholarships to provide digital training opportunities for all Pakistanis

Today Google is proud to announce the launch of Google Career Certificates,

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YouTube Announced the Expansion of its Monetisation System with YPP

YouTube now offers ways for over 2M partners to make money, The

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Daraz & Alibaba Cloud Forges Partnership to Drive Digitalisation in Pakistan

The companies aim to build up the local technology ecosystem together!

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Beaconhouse Group Donates Rs 15 million for Flood Relief through the Mahmud Ali Kasuri Welfare Trust

Beaconhouse has collaborated with Akhuwat Foundation to help flood affectees by distributing

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TikTok Now Introduces More Ways to Create and Connect

If someone under the age of 16 creates an account to use

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Jazz Partners with EVAM as their New Customer Interaction Management Hub

The partnership will enable Jazz to better manage its customer relations through

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Ordercall, Bank Alfalah Partner to Offer Convenient Digital Solutions to Retailers

The collaboration will help grocery storeowners to avoid potential stockouts and make

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ekaterra Pledged Donate 100 tons of tea to the 1M Families Effected by the Flood

ekaterra pledged to donate 100 tons of tea to the 1 million

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Haniya Minhas bags three honors at the Little Mo Internationals 2022

Clean sweep for Pakistan’s tennis prodigy in New York as she claims

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NADRA Gears up to roll out e-payment platform through e-sahulat franchise network

The integration of NADRA platform with 1Link network will usher in era

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Jazz Selected Nokia’s latest Subscriber Data Management (SDM)

has selected Nokia’s latest Subscriber Data Management (SDM) software to enhance HLR/HSS

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Pet Owners are Excited about App that Translates Cat Meows

People can use the MeowTalk app to figure out what their cats

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Jazz’s investment in Pakistan has crossed $10.3 billion: Federal Minister IT Amin Ul Haq

The Federal Minister for IT welcomed the VEON delegation in the meeting

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TikTok launches #BookTok to reignite love of reading in Pakistan

Platform celebrates International Literacy Day with campaign to connect book lovers from

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Standard Chartered announces Winners of #SCWomenInTech Cohort 4

SCWomenInTech is a global programme aimed at supporting gender representation within technology-based

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DESCON and WWF-Pakistan to remove plastic-garbage from Waste-Water Channels of Lahore

DESCON Engineering Limited,  (WWF-Pakistan) will collaborate to clean the plastic garbage, During

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Telenor Pledges PKR 1.1 Billion for Flood Relief efforts in Pakistan

Telenor Group, have pledged PKR 1.1 billion in cash and in-kind services

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Google’s New Phones will be Unveiled on October 06

Google has announced the release dates for its next top-of-the-line phone series,

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High CO2-producing companies to face challenges with new climate-related disclosure requirements

The forthcoming regime on climate-related disclosures ventures into uncharted territory for industries

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Reckitt, Carrefour have teamed up to Donate PKR 2 Million

Reckitt signs MoU with Carrefour and Pakistan Red Crescent Society to donate

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MMBL Wins ‘Utmost Innovative Microfinance Bank’ at the Global Business Outlook Awards 2022

The award highlights MMBL’s nonstop sweats to enhance access to innovative digital and fiscal results across Pakistan.

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Jazz Shines at GSMA Mobile 360 Asia Pacific

The #SuperForChange campaign showcases how digital enablement can positively impact the lives

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Google trained over 800 women developers under its Women Techmaker initiative

Google actively works to recognise the achievements of women in tech and

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UPaisa expands measures to help flood victims across Pakistan

UPaisa customers have the freedom to choose from a list of aid

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Careem and Shahid Afridi join hands for flood relief efforts

The initiative will enable customers to donate an amount of PKR 50/-

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Khushhali Bank Commits to Promote State Bank’s Farmer-Loans & Awareness

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) launched a series of training videos in

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U Microfinance Bank receives global recognition with three prestigious Asian Banking & Finance Awards, 2022

U Microfinance Bank bags three internationally recognized awards by Asian Banking &

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Jazz pledge PKR 1 billion towards flood relief efforts

Jazz will work closely with NGOs and the government for the distribution

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HUAWEI WATCH GT 3 Pro Wins EISA’s Best Smartwatch Product for 2022-2023 Award

The latest in a long line of consumer tech awards, the EISA

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Google for Startups Accelerator launches in Southeast Asia & Pakistan

The latest GFSA is open for applications at startup.google.com/accelerator to startups headquartered

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TikTok, Zindagi Trust launch Digital Safety Workshops in Government Schools

Ongoing partnership aims to educate up to 3,000 students, parents and teachers

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Telenor Pakistan Partners with Roche to Create Nationwide Health Awareness

Telenor Pakistan raises health awareness across the rural and urban areas of

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TechX Pakistan, the official coverage partner of 21st ITCN Asia Karachi

TechX Pakistan will work with 21st ITCN Asia Karachi as their official coverage partner during

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Ordercall and Oware join hands to strengthen Pakistan’s B2B supply-chain

Ordercall & Oware are objectives of streamlining Karachi’s B2B supply-chain networks

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BARD Foundation Celebrating Success of Naila Kiani after summiting K2, Gasherbrum I and II

Naila Kiani Becomes the First Pakistani Woman to Scale 3 Peaks Over

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