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Habib Bank Limited (HBL), Pakistan’s largest bank, launched its branchless banking service ‘HBL Express’. Mr. Kazi Abdul Muktadir, Acting Governor State Bank of Pakistan and Mr. Nauman Dar, President and CEO, HBL were present at the launch. Speaking on the occasion Mr. Nauman Dar said, “HBL Express is another step by HBL towards achieving its vision of supporting...

Raheela Khan Pakistani national and Doha Bank executive Raheela Khan has been named a 2013 Yale World Fellow, announced Yale University President Richard C. Levin. Raheela Khan is Assistant Manager of Treasury and Investments for Doha Bank, a major Qatari financial institution. A Pakistani national born and raised in Dubai, Khan currently manages a portfolio in excess...

North Korea has largely been isolated due to its notorious reputation in the world community and its plans to nuclearize its country. Although, North Korea has said that it will use its nuclear capability for civil purposes, it has also shouted out some clear threats to its enemies, including the United States, which never takes any threat lightly. Regardless of its...

Although Pakistanis living overseas are as much a part of the country’s political scene as the ones who have to see it every day, but never the less, it rarely happens that they participate in the elections. With the politicians trying to make them count for their support to different political parties, e-voting has been thought of as an option to allow them casting...

China officially opened the world’s longest high-speed rail route on December 26, 2012. The date for the commemoration was chosen very carefully, as on December 26 is the birth anniversary of the former Chinese leader, Mao Zedong. The rail route links China’s capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou. That makes some 2,298km of the route with...

NADRA, Pakistan’s federal agency for keeping record of Pakistani citizens, is the country’s largest database and registration authority. NADRA had introduced the Smart National Identity Card (SNIC), which is Pakistan’s first national electronic identity card. Previously, there used be simply the national identity card (NIC), then came their computerized version,...