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Prof Dr Akram Shaikh: Man behind the task to digitize information resources at PASTIC
By Technology Times at April 10, 2013 | 8:30 pm | 2 Comments
By Team Technology Times Prof Dr M Akram Shaikh is the Director General of PASTIC National Centre, Pakistan Science Foundation. He did his MS in Software Engineering in 2000 from University of Huddersfield (UK), and PhD in 2008 on HEC scholarship from Tsinghua University Beijing, China. Dr Akram is also a member of HEC National Curriculum Committee, PEC more...
Tapping telecom sector potential is our aim: Fan
By Technology Times at March 13, 2013 | 7:38 pm | 0 Comment
Fan Yunjun, CEO, CMPak Ltd., has emerged as an established brand in telecom networking besides proving his mettle in marketing and executive management. Holding a Ph.D. degree in engineering and carrying a 12-year rich diverse experience, Fan believes in team work as he realises that an individual can contribute a lot, but cannot build a great organisation. He plans to more...
Front-runner Wateen sets high hopes
By Technology Times at February 20, 2013 | 5:58 pm | 0 Comment
Sohaib Sheikh, presently associated with Wateen Telecom as Head of Marketing, has proved his professional skills and set new horizons especially in marketing sector. Before joining Wateen Telecom, Sohaib successfully established his diversified skills while working on key executive and management positions in a couple of local cellular companies. He has in his credit more...
Professional commitment key to success: Dr. Iqbal
By Technology Times at February 10, 2013 | 8:10 pm | 0 Comment
It all started with Dr. Iqbal Choudhary’s joining at HEJ Institute of Chemistry in 1983, when eminent scientist Dr. Attaur Rahman was his supervisor for PhD. Dr. Iqbal always takes pride of being the student of Dr. Attaur Rahman. Later, he moved to Pennsylvania State University where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. There he had the honour of working more...
Entrepreneurship a major driver of innovations: Faran
By Technology Times at February 5, 2013 | 1:40 pm | 0 Comment
Entrepreneurship is a panacea for a third-world and energy deficit country like Pakistan. Historically, growth in GDP is dependent on industry which in turn depends on energy infrastructure, but entrepreneurship is the magic portion which decouples growth from industrialisation. In current scenario, when industry is shutting down, it is the entrepreneurs who can more...
Pakistan desperately needs to focus on R&D at university level: Dr. Jamil
By Technology Times at February 1, 2013 | 1:58 am | 0 Comment
What was the approach behind inception of Abysan University? JAMIL AHMAD: The Abysan educational institution was founded in 1998. Muhammad Imranullah, the founder of the institution, was basically an industrialist. He quit the business desperately feeling that he was not getting trained human resources, so he decided to set up an institute to train the relevant more...
MovingMinds improving lives
By Technology Times at December 25, 2012 | 8:40 pm | 0 Comment
By Sayyed Paras Ali Human Resource has always been considered a completive edge in any industry, most acknowledge it, few take concrete actions and fewer take the initiate to produce such resources. Syed Iqtidar Zaidi is one of such business leaders in Pakistan, who took the initiative and put his money where he has firm believes. In a recent interview to the more...
Pakistan needs to stand strong on global climate change issues: Dr. Qamar
By Technology Times at October 22, 2012 | 5:16 pm | 0 Comment
Prof. Dr Qamar-Uz-Zaman Chaudhry, a renowned climate scientist, remained Director General of Pakistan Meteorological Department from 1996 and 2010. He is a research scientist in the fields of Global Warming & Climate Change, Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrology and Seismology. He has produced over 70 research papers and articles, published in national and more...
Aptech taking pride of producing skilled IT force: Iqbal Yousuf
By Technology Times at October 1, 2012 | 12:14 am | 0 Comment
Iqbal Yousuf is Managing Director Aptech Pakistan. He carries with him ten years of rich experience of Computer Education programme in the country. Since his joining the Aptech Pakistan he has proved his professional mettle and is successfully taking the institute towards prestigious niche with nurturing expansion projects across Pakistan. Earlier, Iqbal Yousuf had also more...
Mansoor Malik: An innovation policy maker rather than a think tank
By Technology Times at September 23, 2012 | 1:30 pm | 0 Comment
By Mustafa Z Paras & Ata ul Haq Engr. Mansoor A. Malik has been Director General with over 33 years of experience in planning, establishing and managing national level, strategic, high-tech organisations. He has been DG Marketing & Industrial Relations Organization (MIRO), DG Technology Incubation Center, NUST, Commandant, College of Aeronautical Engineering, more...
Dedication key to ultimate success: Nasir
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 4:58 pm | 0 Comment
Syed Nasir Hussain, COO of Advance Business Systems (BS), has an over eight-year rich experience of working on various executive positions in the same company. His habit of taking even small tasks as a challenge and better understanding of Pakistan’s market has led him to the high profile position of COO in a very short span of time. Since his joining in 2003, ABS has more...
Innovations make PTCL stay leader: Naveed
By Technology Times at September 10, 2012 | 6:03 pm | 0 Comment
By Mustafa Z Paras & Ata ul Haq Naveed Saeed, Senior Executive Vice President (Commercial) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, has a rich profile spanning over 20 years in the telecom sector. He has worked at senior management positions in telecom companies in Asia, Africa and Middle East. As Chief Commercial Officer, he is the spearhead of PTCL’s revenue more...
QMobile eying to dominate Pakistani market: Zeeshan
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 5:38 pm | 0 Comment
Zeeshan Akhktar is the founder and CEO of QMobile. Educated from US, he started his career in brand marketing, and worked with LG and Microsoft in Pakistan. Focusing on Pakistani communications industry, Zeeshan founded QMobile in 2008. He dreams about seeing QMobile Pakistan’s most used and appreciated handset brand in every major consumer segment. Talking with more...
Hard times a blessing for Pak IT sector: Farooq Sikander
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:50 am | 0 Comment
Farooq Hasan Sikander carries with him 31 years of successful experience providing fiscal, strategic and operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations. Presently, he has been appointed as Chief Executive, Hascombe Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. He is dynamic results-oriented leader and possesses superior interpersonal skills and capable of resolving complex more...
Water quality, management still a dilemma in Pakistan: Dr. Aslam
By Technology Times at August 6, 2012 | 11:11 pm | 0 Comment
By Mustafa Z Paras & Ata ul Haq Working as Chairman PCRWR, Dr. Aslam is extensively engaged in a number of projects of water quality in Pakistan. He got Ph.D degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He is serving PCRWR for the last over 26 years while remaining on various senior positions. In recognition of his invaluable services, he was conferred the more...
IT revolutionising banking sector services
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 7:22 pm | 0 Comment
Muhammad Munir Ahmad is EVP Askari Bank Ltd, and holds the office of Country Head, Electronic Technology Division. Munir Ahmad is a thorough professional having varied and rich experience of 36 years in the field of Information Technology. He started his career with UBL as Computer Operations Officer in 1976 and afterwards worked with different international and domestic more...
S&T talent, money alone cannot steer Pakistan to progress: Dr. Riazuddin
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 2:18 pm | 1 Comments
Dr. Riazuddin is an eminent scientist specializing in high-energy physics & nuclear physics. He established a first rate Institute of Physics (now called the Department of Physics) at the University of Islamabad (now called Quaid-i-Azam University), which within a short span of four years was on the international map. He is one of the pioneers of Pakistan's atomic more...
Rejuvenating SUPARCO main aim: Chairman
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 5:23 am | 0 Comment
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Bilal, heading SUPARCO as Chairman since Sept. 2010, is utlilising all available national resources to boost the National Space programme. He had a key role in launching the Pakistan’s first communication satellite in August 2011. After being placed at Pak Army’ GHQ, he did pioneering work in developing the structure of Nuclear Command and Control and more...
Research culture pillar to progress
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 12:45 am | 0 Comment
Dr. Muhammad Abbas Choudhary, currently the Vice Chancellor of UET Taxila, holds both Master's and Doctorate degrees from the George Washington University, USA, and over 28 years of high level national and international experience in engineering profession working on high profile projects. He taught at GWU and provided professional services to UNYSIS Corporation, more...
Science research key to survival: Dr. Manzoor H. Soomro
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 9:41 pm | 0 Comment
Dr. Manzoor Hussain Soomro is playing a vibrant role as Chairman PSF with initiating multiple research programmes in collaboration with other organizations. Winner of the Presidential Quaid-i-Azam Scholarship for PhD. and the ‘Overseas Research Students Award’, Dr. Soomro, during his stay at PARC, played a leading role in developing disease management technology to more...
Competition leads to excellence
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 5:10 pm | 0 Comment
Zulfiqar Qazilbash, is the Vice President of Strategy and Commercial Operations at Transworld Associates. He brought with him international experience in the field of operations and strategy making. Working in Transworld, Zulfiqar Qazilbash has earned a stellar reputation for the company as the preferred global connectivity and internet backhaul provider in Pakistan. He more...
Proper funding can make science and technology turnaround in Pakistan: Dr. Qureshi
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 3:49 pm | 0 Comment
By Mustafa Z. Paras and Ata ul Haq Brief our readers about COMSATS? Dr. I.E. Qureshi: COMSATS stands for the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South. The Commission is a high level autonomous inter-governmental organization with 21 Countries in 3 Continents as its Members. There are commissions that work under the United Nations more...
Medicinal plants can cure human diseases
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 12:48 pm | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Coming from a university teaching background, Dr. Mudassir Asrar, has recently joined the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) as Chairperson and wants to take it to new heights. She is an expert on indigenous medicinal plants of Pakistan which hold great potential of holding a cure for various diseases. She has been conferred three of more...
A man of substance
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 11:44 am | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Dr Viqar Uddin Ahmad is a Professor at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi. Amongst several other top awards, he has also received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1996 and the civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 2006. He was also awarded the Kharazmi Prize by the President of more...
InfoTech looking beyond the IT horizons
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 11:40 am | 0 Comment
Asim Haque, Vice President – Country Leader Sales, InfoTech, trails the early days of InfoTech when it came into existence, to the present day. A mark of pride particularly is the list of achievements InfoTech has managed to secure within one-and-a-half decades. Picking up on what is often underestimated in the early years of career-building, Asim Haque shares with more...
