The ancient city of Pakistan

Thatta is an ancient city located around 100 km from Karachi. With approximately 250,000 inhabitants, the city has a lot of historical monuments and is considered as a tourist spot for those wanting to learn about the history of Pakistan. In fact historians say Thatta may have been the main port on the Indus during the time of Alexander the Great’s invasion. A lot of schools and universities take their students to Thatta to learn about the history of Pakistan.

The poverty rate in Thatta is very high, and a lot of people live in small tent houses. Thatta is extremely hot, and it wouldn’t be advisable to travel there during the summer seasons. In 2010 there were severe floods that hit Thatta, which caused a lot of damaged crops, cattle deaths and approximately 175,000 people were displaced.

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1 – Makli hills

The necropolis of Thatta is considered as a UN World Heritage site. With a diameter of approximately 8km, the necropolis has over 125,000 rulers buried over there,

including Sufi saints.

2 – Shah Jahan Mosque

The mosque was built in 1647, as a gift for the people of Sindh by Mughal King, Shah Jahan, as a gift for the people for their hospitality. The structure is beautiful with 93 domes and beautiful tiles. Since 1993, it has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list.

ACCA organises workshop on Project Management

LAHORE: ACCA Pakistan’s initiative on providing opportunities to accounting professionals for professional development is continuing with full verve. Two consecutive days of a very interactive workshop on Project Management including concept building and hands-on experience of setting up Microsoft Project was held on 8-9 May 2015. Members from various cities working for different organisations participated in the workshop.
All participants greatly enjoyed the two days and termed it as a great learning experience.
The intention of hosting a workshop on Project Management was that with the ever increasing workloads and deadlines, the ability to manage our time has become critically important. In this scenario, project management has become a very important and powerful tool. Such workshops will equip our members with competitive skills, which can be leveraged by businesses in helping them grow.

UC Browser Online Survey finds 25% Mothers in Pakistan are active on Internet through Mobile

• The survey finds that more than 57% of respondents from Pakistan think Mother's Day is more important than Father's Day 
• 42.1% of the participants have never celebrated Mother's Day and more than 75% expressed love with their mothers

Lahore, 11 May 2015: UC Browser, Pakistan’s number one mobile browser with over 28% market share as of the end of April 2015 as per StatCounter, has released results of their special online survey held on the Mother’s Day. UCWeb conducted the survey using its flagship product UC Browser along with other social media channels. Here are the key findings:

·         42.1% never celebrated Mother's Day before

·        Over 75% said “I love you” to their mom

·         34.6% give their mother a gift on Mother‘s Day

·         More than 57% of respondents think Mother's Day is more important than Father's Day

·         32% people give flowers to their mothers

According to this survey, approximately 42% of the respondents believe the importance of Mother’s Day but eventually never participated in any way. A massive 57% of respondents believe that Mother's Day is more important than Father's Day. The surveys also found approximately 25% of surveyed Mothers have the know-how to use mobile internet, whereas a big 40% showed willingness to teach their mothers how to use mobile internet using UC Browser. It also revealed that almost 35% of respondents presented their mothers with a gift, out of which 32% opt for flowers to express.

UC Browser chose to conduct the survey on Mother’s Day to find out the mobile netizen’s opinion on Pakistani Women, specifically of their role as a mother. The survey drew insights from over twenty thousand respondents from Pakistan’s mobile population, where 91% of respondents were under 30 years of age.

Warid Offers Free Minutes/SMSs/MBs for every Recharge

Lahore, May, 2015: Warid Telecom, in its tradition of bringing new and exciting offers for its customers, has introduced another promotion whereby all prepaid customers can seamlessly stay connected to their friends and family via free calls and SMS across all networks in Pakistan and can also enjoy free MBs as well. Subscribers who have verified their SIMs can avail these free resources by dialing *277# before every recharge of Rs. 50 or more. Upon recharge, subscribers will be entitled for 20 free minutes, 2000 local SMS or 200MBs of internet, valid for one day. In addition to this, local calls across all networks will be charged at only 2 paisas per second for 7 days.

Warid has always excelled with their customer centric approach and aimed to provide offers and packages for their customers’ convenience. With a growing customer base, a variety of offers have been introduced to suit the needs of each customer. For prepaid customers who make frequent phone calls, our new recharge offer is ideal.

Terms & conditions:

·         To avail this offer, subscriber has to dial *277# before every recharge of Rs.50 or more

·         Free resources can be checked by dialing *200*505#

·         Free minutes, SMS and MBs are valid for one day

·         Offer can be availed from anywhere in Pakistan

·         After free resources are consumed all calls, SMS and MBs will be charged as per package plan

·         Customers can avail other SMS bundles and internet buckets     

·         Balance share amount will NOT be considered against recharge of Rs. 50

ACCA Pakistan links with INJAZ

Lahore: ACCA-The global body for professional accountants and INJAZ Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaboratively work towards achieving prime work readiness quality in the ACCA students.

According to this MoU, students of ACCA will undergo training which would develop their work readiness skills and hence increase the chances of their employability.

The ceremony was attended by Rehan Uddin, Head of Education MENASA, Assad Hameed Khan, Head of ACCA South, Almas Abbas Ali, Head of Education South and Khurram Iqbal, BRM-Learning. The MoU was signed by HyderAwan, Acting CEO INJAZ Pakistan and Head of Education MENASA, Rehan Uddin

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Rehan Uddin, Head of Education MENASA stated, “This surely is an excellent opportunity for the ACCA fraternity to upgrade their employability skills as we have now stepped in a highly competitive market. With this relationship we want to work closely with our Approved Learning Partners and employers to build capacity of our students and help them become well rounded professionals.

HyderAwan, Acting CEO INJAZ Pakistan added that, ‘The employment opportunities in Pakistan are in abundance and with this MoU,we hope to minimize the expectancy gap between employers and candidates by enhancing their financial literacy, entrepreneurial skills  and work readiness conduct.”