KARACHI: Indus Motor Company has bagged the Consumer Choice Award 2021, for the highest selling sedan in Pakistan, Toyota Yaris and, for showing outstanding results throughout the year, a statement.
By Dave Powner
Cybersecurity. Supply chains. Archaic legacy systems. High-risk acquisitions. Outdated infrastructure. The federal government faces significant challenges when it comes to delivering secure information technology operations and mission outcomes.
As the new administration begins to implement its policies, the leadership of the federal chief information officer and agency CIOs will be critical for delivering better business results and building trust with citizens.
The Federal Information Technology and Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), passed in 2014, increasingly brought more visibility to the CIO role and helped achieve considerable savings by eliminating inefficient and duplicative infrastructure and business systems.
Take for example data center optimization: Agencies have reported nearly $5 billion of cost savings on this initiative alone. This past year, agency CIOs have dealt with the federal response to the pandemic, demonstrating tremendous agility in e
PTI delegation meets MQM-P, GDA stalwarts, coalition parties on same page
PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The Senate polls are not a competition between individuals but rather two political alliances, said Federal Finance and Revenue Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Sunday, after a delegation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders, led by Federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, visited the offices of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and the Grand Democratic Alliance on Sunday, to discuss the coalition’s strategy for the upcoming Senate elections.
Speaking to the media after the PTI delegation’s meeting at the MQM-P’s temporary head office in Bahadrabad, Umar said that the coalition partners in the federal government discussed matters of mutual interest and all issues can be resolved with unity.
‘Federal cabinet unlawfully approved a partisan census’
No one fought Sindh s case; Zaidi has no right to question CM, says Wahab
Murtaza Wahab PHOTO: TWITTER
The federal cabinet unlawfully approved a partisan census, said Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference in the Sindh Assembly building, Wahab maintained that Prime Minister Imran Khan neither follows the law nor listens to the opposition. Even then, added Wahab, the premier should at least be a man of his words.
The premier had himself decided that the committee formed on the census would reach a decision after hearing the position of the provinces, but the committee presented its report without doing so, said Wahab, who is also the provincial advisor on law, coastal development and environment. And eventually that partisan report was unlawfully approved by the federal cabinet, he added.
Nine IT parks to be set up in K-P
CM Mahmood termed the promotion of the IT sector in the province as one of the top priority areas of his government
PESHAWAR:
To promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the province, the provincial information technology body and the national software export board on Monday signed an accord to build software parks across the province
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard was inked between the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board (K-PITB) at the Chief Minister Secretariat on Monday.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan attended the event along with the Federal Information Technology minister Aminul Haq, Advisor to Chief Minister on Information Technology Ziaullah Bangash, Special Assistant to CM on Information Kamran Bangash and other relevant officials.