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Millions of budding, aspiring young individuals graduate from business universities each year, only to end up doing boring and repetitive tasks. Not only does it waste their creative talents, but it is also demeaning to the amount of effort they have put in to get to that point in their life. One Pakistani startup, AItomation, is working to change that by making bots do the tedious, yet necessary, tasks. Meet Saad Ehsan, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at AItomation, and his brother, Umair Ehsan, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Saad, the elder one, is a graduate of the Easter Mediterranean University and soon after his graduation, he joined Nishat— one of Pakistan’s biggest textile giants. However, the job didn’t interest him at all as he was being made to do boring, repetitive work. As a result, he left the job and with the help of his brother— who he referred to as the “smart one” while talking to ProPakistani— started his very own startup called AItomation. Umair,

Ministry of Science and Technology and its allied departments lack capacity to utilize its funds efficiently, which is negatively affecting Research and Development (R&D) sector and hence the country has to rely on huge imports. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Science and Technology witnessed interesting moments when the committee offered its services for raising the issue of meager budget allocation at high fora. A parliamentarian assured the ministry that allocation may be raised from the current Rs 7 billion to Rs 10 billion for the ministry and its allied department. However Secretary Science and Technology Fazal Abbas Maken declined the offer while saying that they lacked the capacity to absorb the funds due to human resources shortage. The committee met with Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema in the chair, and started discussing the performance of Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC). Pakistan Spends Lowest in the World on R&D The committee

Over $8 billion dollars were transferred abroad from Pakistan through foreign currency accounts during the last five years. The money was used for property purchases in London, Dubai and other international cities. This was told by State Bank of Pakistan in a meeting of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on finance. Committee meeting held at Parliament House on Tuesday with MNA Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh as the chair. The committee was apprised that in addition to this amount, a heavy sum was also moved to foreign countries through Hundi, records for which aren’t available with any authority. In India, no citizen is permitted to keep a foreign currency bank account. Those who sent money outside the country would have to provide documentary proofs regarding its usage. At present, Pakistani citizens are not allowed to take more than 10,000 USD at a time while travelling abroad. The high-ups of SBP also told the committee that in 2002, the government had authorised Pakistani com

News regarding a Rs 50,000 maintenance-free Mini electric car have been making the rounds on social media as well as on some online news sites. Amongst all the rumors and misunderstandings the real facts about Mini Car seem to have been lost. Today, we take a look at what are those facts and what are solely based on rumors. Details About the Car Images being shared on social media suggest that a car which does not require any petrol or CNG and requires no maintenance is now available in Pakistan and costs as much as a motorbike. If you have a bit of understanding of such vehicles or have seen them at some local parks etc. these cars are electric vehicles. These small electric cars also called Mini Smart Cars are manufactured in China and are being imported by a company calling itself NK Smart Cars. The name of the company is based on the name given to the vehicle by the Pakistani importer i.e. NK Smart Car. Read More:  Electric Cars and Rickshaws Available in KPK The s

We like our rags-to-riches tales because they highlight how a person goes from nothing to someone who people look up to. And it’s all the more amazing when such a person comes from our part of the world. This is one such tale of an entrepreneur from Multan,  M Tanveer Nandla , an individual made $4,500 in one day by just using internet. Meet M. Tanveer Nandla Tanveer hails from Multan. The youngest son in his family, he studied BS Information Technology from Bahauddin Zakariya University in south Punjab. During his second semester at BZU. he chose to learn some web development since he saw the potential internet held. In those early days, he came across Google Adsense, which he used in combination with YolaSite, Yahoo GeoCities and Blogspot to earn money. He netted $64 via Adsense in his nascent days as on the internet back in 2007. He soon realized that internet publishing is nothing without SEO, and that’s when he learnt SEO optimization and best practices through

Today is the day that most people (including me) have been waiting for since March when Google unexpectedly announced the Developer Preview of Android N. Google completed its five month beta program and is releasing the Android Nougat 7.0 today. The new update will begin rolling out to the following devices: Nexus 6P Nexus 5X Nexus 6 Nexus 9 Nexus Player Pixel C General Mobile 4G Although it is not surprising, it’s still sad to see that the Nexus 5 and the Nexus 7 (2013) are not eligible for the update and won’t be getting it.  Follow Android   ✔ @Android It's official!  # AndroidNougat  starts rolling out today on select # Nexus  devices (5X, 6, 6P, 9 and Pixel C). https:// twitter.com/googlenexus/st atus/767780128873025536  … 11:37 AM - 22 Aug 2016     1,113 1,113 Retweets     1,339 1,339 likes Google has also hinted at the release of the new LG V20 and apparently it will be the first new smartphone that will have N

Third edition of the auto industry survey published by PakWheels.com has revealed new insights into the automotive sector of Pakistan, including people’s buying and selling habits, patterns and preferences. PakWheels said that 11000+ individuals — from all age groups, industry sectors and income level — participated in the survey. The survey revealed that 75% of the drivers on Pakistani roads are breaking the law by not complying with the Provincial Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1965, which mandatorily requires every car in Pakistan to be insured. Drivers without license According to the survey, 24% out of the respondents drive cars without a license in Pakistan with 41% of them being even below the age of 21 years. Cars Without Insurance Survey further revealed that only 25% of Pakistanis have their cars insured, which is primarily because they are bank financed and insurance is mandatory for such cars. The number could go further low if insurance wasn’t mandatory for the

This is a pretty expected script by now. Regardless of its competitors’ phone launches, every quarter the market share of Google’s Android only grows. Latest figures by Gartner put it at 86.2 percent of the entire market. The same quarter of last year, it stood at 82.2 percent share, compared to iOS’s 14.6 percent. As of today, Apple’s OS is further below at 12.9 percent, further brought by its own decline in sales. The remaining players got just 0.9 percent of the market. Windows, which remained third earned just 0.6 percent of the market. BlackBerry which has all but ditched BB10 for Android had 0.1-percent of the market while the “Others” segment recorded 0.2 percent of sales. Smartphone sales grew 4.3 percent in the quarter to a total of 344 million units. When it came to the companies’ table, the story was not different than expected there, either. Samsung continued its domination with 22.3 percent of the market, followed by Apple at 12.9. Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi