Samina Baig and Mirza Ali Baig pose with the Pakistani flag at Mount Everest. File photo
GILGIT: Renowned Pakistani woman mountaineer Samina Baig will attempt K2 summit in the upcoming summer season as a sign of women empowerment and to raise awareness about global warming and climate change.
The Special Communications Organisation (SCO) is sponsoring Ms Baig’s expedition.
A signing ceremony of the sponsor agreement between the SCO officials and Ms Baig was held at the organisation’s headquarters in Rawalpindi on Friday, according to a press release issued on Friday.
DG SCO Maj-Gen Ali Farhan and other officials were also present.
Pakistan’s Second Software Technology Park Inaugurated in Islamabad
Fazal Software Technology Park was inaugurated under Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), a department under the Ministry of IT & Telecommunication, in Islamabad on Thursday.
Fazal Software Technology Park is a great example of public and private sector cooperation with 10 IT companies already having occupied 40,000 square feet of space in the technology park.
This is the second Software Technology Park (STP) inaugurated in Pakistan in less than three months. The Gilgit STP, set up in collaboration with Special Communications Organization (SCO), was inaugurated in October last year.
In his statement for this occasion, Federal Minister for IT & Telecom, Syed Amin Ul Haque, said that Pakistan’s IT Industry is the top priority of the present government, which has been working diligently to improve the state of Pakistan’s economy, create employment, and uplift the overall quality of life.
Pakistan’s love for military now has Chinese money and will soon have legislative power
Sun Online Desk
11th December, 2020 11:57:27
An interesting new legislation has recently been passed in the Pakistan National Assembly. This law proposes to create a China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority that would essentially take control of the billion dollar CPEC away from the civilian bureaucracy to the Pakistan Army. Most democracies would have a virtual army of bureaucrats and auditors to handle such a project. But not in Pakistan, where the creation of an army-run supranational authority is in line with other actions, which have put the country so close to army rule that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference.