Category: News

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has finally moved the Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, against Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) verdict on slashing bandwidth prices…

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday announced fresh decision about reduction in different categories of PTCL bandwidth tariffs in line with the directions of the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan governments web portal — www.pakistan.gov.pk — along with a dozen other official websites of various departments and ministries is finally accessible after an outage since Thursday…

ISLAMABAD: Deregulation regime coupled with investment of billions of rupees notwithstanding, high speed internet, broadband (HSI-B) has failed to earn the same market appeal as witnessed in case of mobile telephony, top...

ISLAMABAD: The country’s IT-enabled industry continued to suffer financial losses while users struggled for access to some leading business-critical websites for the fifth consecutive day. The PTCL had failed to unblock...

ISLAMABAD: PTCL was sold to Etisalat UAE at a loss of Rs23.64 billion ($394 million) with the share price reduced from the original bid of $1.96 per share to $1.66, according to documents of the re-negotiated Share-Purchase...

ISLAMABAD: Referring a news report in the daily “NEWS” dated 31st August 2006 regarding privatisation of PTCL, a Spokesman of the Privatisation Commission (PC) said that as per the terms of the Share Purchase...

The Jung – 21st of April, 2008. Article by Irshad Ahmed Haqani

The News – 18th of April, 2008 Article By Imran Ayub

ISLAMABAD: Opposition political parties on Friday resolved to table an adjournment motion in parliament against the privatisation of the PTCL. Opposition leaders in separate statements criticised the government for selling out...