TechLahore

A big shout out to Jehanara, President of the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA), and her management team for organizing a brilliant event last night at Karachi’s gorgeous Sheraton Hotel. The 8th Annual P@SHA’s ICT (Information and Communication Technology) awards were wonderfully organized, fairly judged and brilliantly presented. The tremendous momentum and growth of Pakistan’s [...]

After many delays and much hemming and hawing the much awaited Lahore Technology Park is almost complete. The building has now been topped off and work on the facade and interior has been moving forward full steam for a few months now. The parking lot structure, which will also contain some additional commercial space, is [...]

Here’s a piece of happy news we have to share with you: TechLahore won the Best Domestic Blog Award at Pakistan’s first annual Blog awards, held in Karachi! Yay! The show was ably arranged by the CIO Pakistan team with Rabia Garib playing a key role, as she always does. Thanks to everyone who voted [...]

Here’s a piece of trivia for you. Do you know who wrote the very first virus for PCs? (Not anti-virus, but virus) It was a group of Pakistanis. Much of the credit is given to Amjad and Basit Alvi, but those who were connected to the duo say it was actually Ashar Nisar, their friend [...]

There is little doubt in the fact that the UAE and Pakistani economies are increasingly inter-twined. On this very blog, we’ve talked about substantial UAE investments in Pakistan, in particular in real-estate, Banking and Telecommunications. And of course, in one of the most important new projects under construction in Pakistan, the $5BN Khalifa Refinery. This, [...]

The Daily Times reports that the Dow University in Karachi has implemented an Oracle/PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solution. This includes a student portal, access for professors and administration. Some of the more often used features include self-service workflows like registering for classes, checking scores and so on. For more information on this ERP system, you can [...]

Wow, this seems to be a month of infrastructure announcements! The Punjab Internet City, the new EPZA software park in Karachi and now this $200M project to develop a 47 story IT tower in Karachi. The building will provide employment to 40,000 people, with 10,000 call center seats running out of the facility. According to [...]

The Daily Times is running a story on the EPZA’s efforts to augment IT infrastructure in Pakistan. The export processing zone authority (EPZA) has launched a 6.5 acre facility in Karachi specifically for use by export oriented software companies. This comes at the heels of the software park developments taking place in both Islamabad and [...]

If there’s ever been a flurry of news items that shows how ridiculous this media frenzy about the emergency has been, it’s this. In addition to the FDI news item we referenced earlier and the Omantel acquisition of Wordcall, we now have another one: NCR and Teradata held a ceremony in Karachi on the 16th [...]