Zeeshan Shafqat, also known as Bites85, a writer at ProPakistani, a Social Media and Internet Marketing specialist completed his century for getting front page on Digg.Com last night. Islamabad based this 18 year teen made this history when one of his submission about Pakistan’s World Cup champs’ news hit the front page. For those who are not familiar with Digg.Com, it is a news sharing [...]

Mobilink emerged as the only telecom operator to have won two Superbrands Awards at a ceremony organized by Superbrands Pakistan. Mobilink’s flagship brands, Jazz and Indigo were both recipients of the First Annual Superbrands Award 2008-09.  Mobilink Jazz, acknowledged for singularly defining the set of rules that every other prepaid subscriber follows, has been dubbed as Pakistan’s flagship telecom brand in the 1st edition of [...]

Mobile money is the next big thing in finance models of cellular networks. It has been around for a while but not really implemented in this part of the world. We are short of Trust on these finance models. We suspect every other online model as a Trap to mince money. Mobilink has been  around with Mobile Money Order (MMO) which helps sending and receiving [...]

The recent ranking of Pakistan by Businessweek whether it continues to be a popular Outsourcing Destination has portrayed an improvement from last year but is this something to celebrate or is it a wake-up call from the global markets to the Pakistani IT Industry? Businessweek reviews Pakistan as an Outsourcing hub. Pakistan’s standing in the list is definitely an appreciative improvement but when observes the [...]

Pakistan is likely to join Information Technology Agreement of World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to accelerate its software and hardware exports abroad. According to official sources foreign IT experts have recommended Pakistan to join WTO ITA for zero duty binding for import of IT hardware and software under this agreement, which could have significant impact on Pakistan’s snail-pace IT exports. Pakistan is yet to [...]

After 17 years Pakistan has made the history in the world cricket. Pakistan has won the ICC T-20 world cup final and gifted a great gift to the nation. Shahid Afridi has once again rocked as he did in the semifinal. After the slow start of this world cup and lots of disappointments, finally Pakistani team was able to accumulate their full strength and put [...]

Here is this positive news from capital that Prime Minister has agreed to withdraw 20 paisas tax on each SMS, reported various newspapers today, citing Farooq Sattar of MQM, who met Mr. Yousaf Raza Gillani at PM House Islamabad. Here is the excerpt from Daily Times During a meeting with an MQM delegation led by Overseas Pakistanis’ Minister Farooq Sattar, the prime minister is said [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with Federal investigation Agency (FIA) officials has busted five illegal international gateway exchanges in residential areas of Islamabad and Karachi in the last few weeks. This initiative is a part of the pursuance of its efforts against illegal telecom traffic. PTA detected illegal set-ups through the technical facility installed to monitor the illegal business of telecom throughout the country. [...]

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., today unveiled the latest innovation, Samsung Jet, at a series of ‘Samsung Mobile UNPACKED’ events in London, Dubai and Singapore. Samsung Jet brings a brand new ‘Smarter than a smartphone’ concept, that supports latest smartphone features like multi-task manager and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, with user-friendly menu navigations. Steve Han, Country Manager Samsung Pakistan explained, Jet contains technological breakthroughs, revolutionizing display technology [...]

Students from Pakistan took top honors in the 2009 ThinkQuest Competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation (OEF). ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills. The competition includes a Website Competition that challenges student teams to develop educational websites on topics of their choosing and a Narrative [...]

The Pakistani GSM cellular service operator Ufone recently announced that it will be enhancing its artillery of roaming solutions with the aid of the leading provider telecom solutions, Globitel. In line with an agreement signed between the two parties in the city of Abu Dhabi, Globitel will provide Ufone with an intelligent array of its roaming solutions. ‘Globitel is by far the leader when it [...]

As we had anticipated, Mobilink has re-launched Jazz Octane, with new tariff, which are actually good ones…! Rates are exclusive of taxes Late Night Option will be between 11 pm – 7 am One SMS=160 or less characters. Message longer than 160 characters will be charged additionally Picture Messages get sent as Multiple Messages and are charged accordingly 21% FED on usage and 10% withholding [...]

The recent Federal Budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year 2009-2010 has imposed a set of new rules and fixes for the Pakistani Telecom Industry. Where it makes a flexible opportunity to increase usage of mobile services, it also imposes a threat to the consumption of telecom services. The regulators have applied a 20 Paisa Federal Excise Duty on outgoing Short Message Service (SMS) while [...]

Telenor Pakistan received the First Annual Superbrands Award 2008-09 by Superbrands Pakistan in a ceremony held at a local hotel here at Karachi. The award was presented to a total of 30 brands from various industries in Pakistan. The award was given for Best Quality Services, Consumer Satisfaction and Market Dominance. Superbrands is an international organization functioning in 82 countries. It has local independent bodies [...]

For our valuable readers on Propakistani, We are proud to break the news of Unlimited package for Wateen Wimax users. Its been first time in Wimax history in Pakistan that any wimax operator has launched Un-limited Package. It has been confirmed that users with 15GB quota will convert to Unlimited automatically. Whereas 10 GB users have to pay some minimal charges to go ahead with [...]