Tag: Information technology
Telecom Sector to Spend Rs 2.3bn on Infrastructure
Landline and cellular operators’ expenses to repair damaged infrastructure are likely to cross Rs 2.3 billion in flood-hit areas across the country. Heavy rains and flash floods have destructed the network infrastructure of telecom operators unprecedentedly in different telecom regions of the country. The initial assessment report prepared by Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication [...]
International Telecommunication Union Appeal For Assistance For Pakistan Flood Relief
ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré has issued a global appeal for contributions to assist the flood-affected victims in Pakistan. ITU’s emergency telecommunications team is also working with the Government of Pakistan towards rehabilitating the telecommunication infrastructure, which has been rendered inoperative in many parts of the country. The floods ravaging Pakistan are the worst ever in [...]
Govt Losing Rights Over Expensive E-Office Software
The federal government is losing its proprietary and intellectual rights over a multi-billion-rupee project for electronic office (E-Office) software and application to private vendors because of poor monitoring of project implementation, resulting in huge payments for automation of government departments and line ministries. Informed sources told Dawn that under the “E-Office at MOIT”, the government [...]
Grey Telecom Traffic Causing $25m to National Treasure
PTA made shocking revelations before Economic Co-ordination Committee of Cabinet in its last session about the massive loss on account of grey or illegal telecom traffic. Estimates suggest authority has to bear a total of $25 million on this account. But all is not that negative as authorities believe this grey traffic can be brought [...]
Khosa to Expose Scams of Billions at Right Time
Sardar Latif Khosa, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information Technology who resigned recently and wrote in detail to the PM that he would reveal billions of rupees scams to President Asif Ali Zardari at the right time. “At this stage I will offer no comment, however, I confirm that I have written letters to [...]
Atlas Selects Oracle E-Business Suite 12 For Streamline Business Processes
Atlas Battery Limited, the pioneer of battery manufacturing in Pakistan, has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to streamline business processes across the organization and enhance productivity and operational efficiency. This will help the company reduce the overall cost of its business processes. Atlas Battery Limited was previously managing its information through an enterprise [...]
Inside Story of Khosa’s Second Disgraceful Ouster
Prime Minister’s Adviser Sardar Latif Khosa, who on Tuesday had to quit office in disgrace for the second time during this government, was trying to rewrite government rules and if he had succeeded, present and future advisers to the premier would have become more powerful than their respective ministers. But Prime Minister Gilani stopped Khosa [...]
Zardari Rejects Khosa’s Resignation
The PM’s Adviser on Information Technology, Sardar Latif Khosa, on Tuesday tendered his resignation in protest against clipping of his powers as the In-charge Minister for Information Technology (IT) but President Asif Ali Zardari rejected the resignation while directing him to continue his job of Adviser to the PM on IT. Sardar Abdul Latif Khosa, [...]
