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As the new pro-business government begins its tenure, P@SHA, the trade association representing the IT & BPO sector, is hopeful that some key initiatives will be taken to ensure that the tech industry has the facilitation it needs to achieve phenomenal growth.

Experts on Thursday observed Pakistan can meet the modern day fast rising challenges with attaining technological development in telecom and IT fields. Speaking at the 6th Annual Pakistan Telecommunications Conference 2013 (TeleCON 2013), experts said the country has the opportunity to shift to new telecom technologies such as 3G or 4G.
Minister of State for IT Ms Anusha Rahman chaired briefings with various attached departments and organisations working under the Ministry of Information Technology, which included National Telecommunication Corporation, Universal Services Fund, Virtual University, Pakistan Software Export Board and National ICT R&D Fund.
Wacom is all set to launch its latest offering in pen tablets, the Cintiq13HD in Pakistan via its distributor-partner of 13 years, Texitech. In this time period, Texitech has already introduced the Wacom 22HD, 24HD and 24HD Touch. The brand is a popular one amongst the local creative professionals and designers in particular who use the Wacom series for their art work, image editing; graphic designing, animation, fashion designing and textile media designing.
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA data mining tool, called Boundless Informant that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks. Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14bn reports in that period, followed by 13.5bn from Pakistan.
The newly-appointed State Minister for Information Technology (IT) Anusha Rehman on Saturday took notice of the Youtube blockage and directed the authorities concerned to inform her about the progress on installation of filters for quickly restoring public access to the website. "Installation of filters is necessary for reopening the social (media) website," told this correspondent after taking formal charge of her office here on Saturday.
Intel Corporation on Saturday took the wraps off its brand new, low-power, high-performance micro-architecture named Silvermont. The technology is aimed squarely at low-power requirements in market segments from smartphones to the data center.

 



 
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Banking Review 2012

Annual2011/12
Foreign Debt $65.562bn
Per Cap Income $1,372
GDP Growth 3.7%
Average CPI 10.08%
MonthlyMay
Trade Balance $-2.171 bln
Exports $2.175 bln
Imports $4.346 bln
WeeklyJune 17, 2013
Reserves $11.446 bln