Showing posts with label PAKISTAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PAKISTAN. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 May 2022

Shawwal moon not sighted, Pakistan to celebrate Eidul Fitr on Tuesday

 

Shawwal moon not sighted, Pakistan to celebrate Eidul Fitr on Tuesday

ISLAMABAD: The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee on Sunday announced that the Shawwal moon has not been sighted, hence Eidul Fitr will fall on Tuesday, May 3.

The committee’s chairman, Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad, made the announcement while addressing a press conference in Islamabad. “No authentic testimony of the moon being sighted was received therefore it was agreed with the consensus that Eidul Fitr will be on May 3,” he said.

Maulana Azad said it was the committee’s effort to further strengthen itself as a platform for “unity” and spread that message to households.

“Our effort in the future as well will be that we move forward together,” he said.

The committee had convened the meeting this evening to sight the moon for Eidul Fitr in Karachi, whereas zonal bodies of the committee also met in Islamabad, Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore.

Meanwhile, the Shawwal moon has been sighted in several other countries, including Saudi Arabia and Oman, where the first day of Eid will fall on Monday (tomorrow).

Earlier, the committee members in Karachi said the moon had not been sighted anywhere in the city, adding the final decision would be announced by the committee chairman from Islamabad.

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Courtesy Dawn News

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Zong brings Special IDD Saudi Arabia Mobily Bundle on Eid Ul Fitr

 

Zong brings Special IDD Saudi Arabia Mobily Bundle on Eid Ul Fitr

 

Islamabad, MAY 1: Zong 4G, Pakistan's premier mobile connectivity partner, continues its legacy of bringing best calling offers for its International Callers on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.- IDD Saudi Arabia Mobily Bundles. 


Under these special IDD Saudi Arabia Mobily Bundles, customers from different walks of life may subscribe to a package of their choice according to their budget and requirements. Zong 4G’s prepaid customers can subscribe to Bundles for PKR 100+taxes and PKR 250+taxes to get 15 and 40 call minutes respectively for one week. 

Zong brings Special IDD Saudi Arabia Mobily Bundle on Eid Ul Fitr


While both postpaid and prepaid customers of Zong 4G can get 90 and 250 call minutes for one month by subscribing to special Monthly Bundles for PKR 500+taxes and PKR 1000+taxes respectively.


For activation of these special IDD bundles, Zong subscribers can dial *6911#. Alternatively, the bundles can also be subscribed by visiting the official website https://www.zong.com.pk/international/saudi-arabia-mobily-bundles while customers may get the bundles on Zong Online-Shop https://www.zong.com.pk/onlineshop/idd-bundles as well.


"The offer will assist Pakistanis to stay in touch with their loved ones living in Saudi Arabia. Continuing to address the needs of our customers, we will continue to expand our International Dialing portfolio for our clients by offering more innovative products and services,” Shared the spokesperson of Zong 4G.


Zong's unrivalled international dialing have allowed Pakistanis to stay in touch with friends and family living abroad. These bundles have been a major help to Pakistani in cross-border communication, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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Thursday, 28 April 2022

Huawei Holds Forum on Converging Technologies to Facilitate Digital Transformation in Industries

 

Huawei Holds Forum on Converging Technologies to Facilitate Digital Transformation in Industries


Islamabad, APR 28: During the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Summit, Huawei held a forum titled "Dive into Industrial Digitalization, Creating New Value Together" to address the challenges of digital transformation faced by different industries, such as mining, electric power, port, and highway. Huawei discussed how to innovate ICT infrastructure and integrate digital technologies with industry scenarios, and work with partners to create value for customers and build a prosperous ecosystem.

Chen Banghua, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, delivered a keynote speech, saying, "Huawei has set up integrated teams to dive into industries and seek technologies for industries, provide ICT products that adapt to scenarios, and converge a wide range of technologies to develop product portfolios and solutions to facilitate digital transformation in industries." 

Industries have entered a new stage of diving into digitalization, which requires digital infrastructure to be highly secure, reliable, and deterministic with efficient data flow and computing. To further facilitate digital transformation of industries and understand customers' business requirements, Huawei continues to launch new scenario-specific products and solutions through technological innovation.

Intelligent mining: Huawei innovatively introduces passive optical network technologies to coal mines. At the aggregation layer, passive optical components are used to replace active switches, minimizing the risk of electrical sparks caused by network devices. On the device side, the industry's first intrinsically safe optical device is launched to build an intrinsically safe industrial optical ring network, improving production efficiency, strengthening safe production and improving the working environment for workers.

High-speed urban rail: Huawei provides a train-to-ground communication solution powered by its highly reliable Wi-Fi 6 series products. An integrated chassis makes this solution easier to install. It provides up to 1.4 Gbit/s bandwidth and 30 ms latency at 160 km/h, enabling real-time service backhaul and ensuring stable operation of urban rail.

Massive edge computing: Huawei solutions also help enterprises quickly process data in real time to meet ever-increasing computing requirements. Traditional equipment rooms at the edge use all kinds of software and hardware devices from different vendors, such as UPS, air conditioners, and computing, storage, and network devices and application software, resulting in complex installation, configuration, and O&M. To address this, Huawei builds hyper-converged data center solutions by applying its All-in-One design philosophy. FusionModule uses a cabinet to replace the traditional power converter, UPS, power control module, and air conditioning unit. FusionCube uses a hyper-converged, out-of-the-box module to integrate computing, storage, network, and security functions, which works immediately after power-on, achieving cloud-edge synergy. 

At the same time, Huawei converges a wide range of technologies to develop innovative product portfolios such as data centers, campus networks, wide area networks, and digital sites to adapt to industry scenarios.

Multi-service data center: In online banking, stock trading, and other critical data transactions, in the event of failure in the primary system, it is crucial to ensure fast switchover to backup systems without interrupting services. To address this, Huawei launches the Storage + Optical Connection Coordination solution, which enables storage to quickly detect network jitter, and implements fast I/O handover between the primary and backup systems within 1 second and fast switching of network links within 5 ms. This ensures zero failed transactions in financial services and greatly improves service experience.

Digital sites for smart highways: With industry-leading 5G wireless and millimeter wave technologies, Huawei innovatively develops a next-generation ultra-long-range high-precision radar, which doubles the detection distance to more than 1000 meters and reduces the number of high-speed sensing pole sites by 50%. In addition, Huawei uses its powerful edge computing platform to develop AI-based sensing engine software that forms an innovative intelligent traffic sensing solution of "radar and video fusion". This further simplifies radar deployment, achieving automatic positioning and optimization with up to 95% precision.

At the Analyst Summit, Huawei shared its industry practices for digital transformation, such as the Mine Team, Electric Power Digitalization Team, Customs & Port Team, and Smart Road Team. Huawei collaborated with partners to dive into the industries faster and more efficiently, focusing on industrial scenarios to facilitate customers' digital transformation and achieve win-win results.

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Japanese PM extends congratulations on 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan

 

Japanese PM extends congratulations on 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan


Islamabad, APR 28: On the auspicious occasion of the anniversary day when Japan and Pakistan officially established diplomatic relations on April 28 seventy years ago, Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio conveyed his congratulatory remarks to celebrate the 70 years of bilateral diplomatic relations.


In the message, Honorable KISHIDA Fumio, the Prime Minister of Japan has extended his congratulations to Honorable Shehbaz Sharif on his assumption of office as Prime Minister. PM KISHIDA also congratulates the people of both Japan and Pakistan for successful seventy years of their bilateral relations.


Japan established diplomatic relations with Pakistan on 28th April, 1952, the very day when the San Francisco Peace Treaty went into effect and Japan regained its independence. Today marks exactly 70 years since then, and I am very pleased to celebrate this milestone with all of you. Japan and Pakistan have nurtured friendly relations over the years, extending support to each other when in need, said PM Kishida.


The PM mentioned that in the postwar period, cotton exported from Pakistan to Japan backed its textile industry and greatly encouraged Japan's postwar reconstruction. In turn, Japan has continuously provided Pakistan with assistance mainly in its areas of expertise, such as water, healthcare, education and disaster management.


"Both Japan and Pakistan are disaster-prone countries, and we have supported each other through the years. When Pakistan was struck by a massive earthquake in 2005 and by severe floods in 2010, Japan dispatched its disaster relief team and provided yen loans and grant aid. When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011, Pakistan not only delivered relief goods, such as milk and biscuits, but Pakistani people residing in Japan traveled to the affected areas to serve hot meals to disaster victims" he added.


He also mentioned that recently, when the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated last August, Pakistan extended generous support to Japan to facilitate the safe departure from Afghanistan of Japanese nationals and Afghan staffs working in the Japanese Embassy and the JICA office.


He said Pakistan is located in a strategic place that connects Asia and the Middle East. It is, therefore, one of the most important countries not only for the stability of the region but also for international counter-terrorism efforts. In this context, we would like to cooperate with Pakistan to realize a "Free and Open Indo-Pacific".


PM Kishida said that "In this milestone year, I wish to elevate our bilateral relations to new heights. I am determined to work with PM Shehbaz Sharif and the people of Pakistan even more closely for that purpose".


He expressed his sincere wishes for the prosperity of our two countries and the further deepening of the friendship between the peoples of Japan and Pakistan.


JICA also celebrates this important day with the video titled "A story of Friendship and Assistance". Among diverse ties between the two countries, development cooperation is a major factor to bear witness to the solid foundation underpinning the relations.


This short animated film is the story of a girl named Areeba Saleha, born to a family hailing from Abbottabad, Pakistan. Her lifelong friendship with JICA started with her birth at the Children's Hospital in Islamabad. Areeba's parents raised her through thick and thin, but JICA's assistance in health, disaster management, education, and water and sanitation, at every step of the way, did befriend her. Today, Areeba has set up her own fashion apparel brand and is a role model for many children like her who deserve a good life. Her story embodies JICA's vision and mission of decades of partnership with the people of Pakistan.


You will find the link to this video on the FB of both Japanese Embassy and JICA.

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Zong offers discounted International Roaming Bundle for Saudi Arabia

 

Zong offers discounted International Roaming Bundle for Saudi Arabia

 

Islamabad, APR 28: Zong 4G, Pakistan's premier mobile connectivity partner, has launched a discounted Saudi Arabia roaming offer, adding to its industry-leading international roaming offering that includes the majority of nations across all major continents.


Under this special Saudi Arabia international roaming offer, customers will get 35 call minutes and 1GB of data with a validity of 90 days for PKR 999+tax only. For activation, Zong subscribers can dial *4255#. 


Alternatively, they can also visit Zong’s online shop to avail the offer.

"Saudi Arabia is one of the most travelled destinations by Pakistanis for a variety of reasons. The offer will enable Pakistanis travelling Saudi Arabia to stay in touch with their loved ones back home. We will continue to expand our roaming portfolio for our clients by offering more innovative products and services,” Zong's official spokesperson explained

Zong has created the international roaming bundle to provide smooth connectivity and an unrivalled experience at competitive price while travelling abroad. 

Zong's industry-leading international roaming plans have allowed Pakistanis to stay in touch with friends and family when travelling internationally. These bundles have been a major help to Pakistani travelers in cross-border communication, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Prior to the Saudi Arabia bundles, Zong had launched industry-leading foreign roaming packages for China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and a number of other countries.

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