Day: January 14, 2021

Vivo Y12s Debuts in Pakistan with 5000mAh Battery and Side-Mounted Fingerprint

Lahore, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): Vivo, the leading global smartphone brand today announced the launch of the newest member in the Y series, vivo Y12s in Pakistan. With the launch of the Y12s, vivo furthers its vision of catering the youth with ‘feature-rich smartphones’ and deliver meaningful innovation across different price ranges. Y12s features a super powerful, long-lasting 5000 mAh battery, an Ultra-Swift Side-Mounted Fingerprint Technology and AI Dual Camera.

The Y12s ensures a seamless entertainment experience by being armed with an immersive 6.51-inch Halo FullView™ Display with HD+ resolution. The all new vivo Y12s has been crafted to match up to the lifestyles of the young consumers who are always ‘On the Go’.

“The vivo Y series has been welcomed as one of the most popular smartphone line-ups in Pakistan. The Y Series smartphones have been crafted keeping in mind the day to day needs of the millennials. Equipped with a massive 5000mAh battery, the vivo Y12s sports a bounty of several spectacular features like Side-Mounted Fingerprint Technology, Powerful AI Dual Camera and stylish design” said Zohair Chohan, Sr. Manager Brand Strategy vivo Pakistan.

Camera to Suit All Your Needs

The brand new vivo Y12s elevates photography experience by offering Powerful AI Dual Camera on the rear. It is supported by a wide range of features designed for everyday shooting, including Face Beauty and Filters. With a 13MP rear main camera and a f/2.2 large aperture, every detail shines with the Y12s.

The vivo Y12s also comes studded with a 2MP Bokeh camera that delivers intrinsic and eye – pleasing shots, thanks to vivo’s updated bokeh algorithm. With the Y12s, portraits not only look more alive, they also boast a greater depth.

It comes with an 8MP Front Camera for great selfies.

Long Lasting Battery

Taking a leap in ensuring a strong battery life, vivo’sY12s boasts a 5,000mAh battery that is supported by AI power saving technology; ensuring plenty of battery life every day. A single full charge can provide up to 16.3 hours of online HD movie streaming, or 8.9 hours of resource-intensive game play. It is also engineered with 5V/1A Reverse Charging, so your Y12s can be used to charge other devices like mobile power banks.

Immersive Display

Y12s comes sporting a 6.51-inch Halo FullView™ Display with HD+ providing a wide and immersive display and enhances one’s viewing experience while streaming videos and streaming games. What’s cool about the display is that it carries a special Eye Protection Mode that when switched on, filters out harmful blue light to prevent eye strain for the user.

Dazzling Colours

Vivo Y12s comes in two vivid hues to choose from: Phantom Black and Glacier Blue.

Phantom Black is inspired by the sense of high fashion and has a gem-like finish.

Glacier Blue represents subtle rainbow hues and the pale blue surface of a glacier.

Elevated Experience

Being a youth centric brand, vivo has integrated several features to augment and enhance the youth’s experience with the smartphone and customised it for the ‘On the Go’ generation.

Side-Mounted Fingerprint Scanner: vivo’s Side-Mounted Fingerprint design integrates the fingerprint scanner with the power button – so you can power on and unlock your phone at the same time. This design makes Y12s look sleek and classy, while making the user interaction near effortless. The time it takes to unlock from a bright screen is a staggering 0.23 seconds – almost too fast to see.

Face Wake: vivo’s Face Wake unlocks your phone the moment it recognizes your face. When paired with Side-Mounted Fingerprint, accessing your phone has never been so smart and easy.

Multi Turbo 3.0: The exclusive Multi-Turbo 3.0 can focus on optimizing core scenes to reduce stuttering and lag in games. It is also engineered to allocate and prioritize CPU and internal storage resources – especially when too many applications are running simultaneously in the background.

Large storage: The vivo Y12s comes with 3GB + 32GB RAM and ROM for the users to download and run heavy games and store a large number of files.

Other Features:

The vivo Y12s runs on FunTouch OS 11 and comes with some other special features that come in handy for day-to-day use:

AI Album: This helps you group your photos by time, location, event. Discover which of your photos fit together in new and innovative ways; creating even more moments and memories.

iManager: The attentive iManager frees vivo users from boring everyday tasks. Set it up to take care of tasks such as cleaning up your phone or scanning for issues at night. iManager keeps your phone in good shape while you enjoy a good night’s sleep.

Launch Details

The all-new Y12s is currently available in the market for the price of Rs. 20,999 in two brilliant colours; Phantom Black and Glacier Blue.

Vivo offers one-year warranty for Y12s along with 15 days free replacement and 6 months warranty for accessories.

Vivo Y12s is duly approved by Pakistan Telecommunications Authority and supports all mobile networks in Pakistan on both SIM slots over 4G LTE, 3G and 2G modes. Zong customers can also get 12GB Free Mobile Internet by using their 4G SIM card in Slot 1 (2GB Internet / month for 6 months).

For more information, contact:
Manager Digital Marketing and PR,
Vivo Mobile Pakistan
Tel: +92-321-4045601
Email: zohair@vivo.pk
Website: https://www.vivo.com/pk/

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Orientation session with leading textile companies of Pakistan and sponsors of First Virtual Texpo-2021

Karachi, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) Karachi arranged an orientation session with leading Textile companies of Pakistan and sponsors of the first Virtual Texpo scheduled to be held from 1st to 5th February, 2021. Introductory session was attended by representatives of Gul Ahmed Textile Ltd (Platinum category sponsor), Interloop Textile Mills Ltd (Gold category sponsor), Chen One Ltd, Soorty Enterprises and Masood Textile Ltd (Silver categories sponsor).

Texpo-2021 team of the TDAP has informed the participant that the online registration for the exhibitors will start tomorrow 15th January, 2021. Sponsors were given orientation about Virtual Texpo-2021 platform, how it works and what are distinguished features to interact with international buyers invited by Trade and Investment Officers of Pakistan from different countries in the world. Team Texpo-2021 informed the sponsor companies, how they can register themselves for the Texpo, how they can manage online stall, how they can interact with international buyers and arrange B2B meetings.

During meeting trends gallery and fashion show segment of the first ever Virtual Texpo-2021 ware discussed, participants showed utter satisfaction and appreciated the efforts taken by the team TDAP to make this event successful amid covid-19 situation. They said that the Virtual Texpo-2021 platform is very user friendly and convenient for both the exhibitors and international buyers.

It is providing real time data to all stakeholder such as exhibitors, buyers, TDAP and trade mission abroad for materializing business deals. Tomorrow on 15th January, 2021 orientation to general category of exhibitors will be given and registration for exhibitors will be open and simultaneous test running of the Texpo-2021 Platform will be started.

For more information, contact:
Director
Information and Communication Division
Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP)
3rd Floor, Block A, Finance and Trade Centre,
P.O. Box No. 1293, Shahrah-e-Faisal,
Karachi 75200, Pakistan
UAN: +92-21-111-444-111
Tel: +92-21-99206487-90, +92-21-99201526
Fax: +92-21-99206461, +92-21-99201526
Email: tdap@tdap.gov.pk, farooque.memon@tdap.gov.pk
Website: www.tdap.gov.pk

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Need stressed for tapping African region to promote Pakistan’s exports

Islamabad, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): Amir Muhammad Khan, High Commissioner-designate of Pakistan to Rwanda said that Africa offered huge potential to Pakistan for exports and stressed that the private sector should focus on African region for promoting trade. He said this while exchanging views with Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry during his visit to ICCI. Fatma Azim Senior Vice President, Abdul Rehman Khan Vice President ICCI, M. Ejaz Abbasi, M. Saeed Khan, Usman Khalid, Shaukat Hayat Khan, M. Javed Iqbal, Umar Hussain, Muhammad Shakir, M. Omais Khattak, Rana Qaiser Shahzad, Raja Hassan Akhtar, Khalid Chaudhry, Ashfaq Chatha, and Naveed Malik were also present at the occasion.

Amir Muhammad Khan said that Rwanda was enjoying an important location in the African region and by developing close business cooperation with it, Pakistan could get easy access to huge African market. He stressed for developing government-to-government and business-to-business level relations between the two countries to take trade and economic relations to higher levels.

He said that he remained posted in Tanzania as Ambassador of Pakistan and it also offered great opportunities to Pakistan, therefore, the business community to explore its market. He said China and India have increased their presence in the African region to tap its business potential and urged that Pakistan should make strenuous efforts to create space for it in Africa. He assured that he would cooperate with the private sector of Pakistan in exploring African market through Rwanda for the promotion of trade and exports.

Speaking at the occasion, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that Pakistan neglected Africa since long for business relations due to which other countries were capturing its market. However, he said that the current government was focusing on a Look Africa policy, which would help the private sector to get better penetration in African region. He said that the overall trade volume of the African region stood at US$ 1 trillion, out of which Pakistan’s share was only $3 billion mainly due to lack of connectivity. He urged that Pakistan should open more embassies and commercial sections in African countries to explore all untapped areas of exports promotion.

Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan said that Pakistan could export many products to Africa including textiles, readymade garments, pharmaceuticals, agricultural, cement, surgical goods and emphasized that the government should facilitate the private sector in promoting business linkages with African counterparts. He said that a delegation of the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce and Industry had visited our Chamber and ICCI was planning to take its delegation to Tanzania and other countries to explore untapped business opportunities in African region.

Fatma Azim Senior Vice President, Abdul Rehman Khan Vice President ICCI and other members of the business community stressed that top level government dignitaries of Pakistan should visit Africa along with trade delegations that would help and help in improving Pakistan’s trade and exports with African region.

For more information, contact:
Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)
Chamber House, Aiwan-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat Road,
Mauve Area, G-8/1, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-2250526, 2253145, 8432676
Fax: +92-51-2252950
Email: icci@brain.net.pk, info@icci.com.pk
Website: www.icci.com.pk

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SMEDA is going to implement Government recommended e-commerce regulatory framework to incentivize establishment of Digital Platforms for facilitating SMEs

Lahore, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) is going to implement the Government recommended e-commerce regulatory framework to incentivize the establishment of Digital Platforms for facilitating SMEs in accessing online markets both at local and international level. It was disclosed by CEO SMEDA Mr. Hashim Raza, while addressing a joint meeting of SMEDA and TDAP officials. Secretary TDAP Ahsan Ali Mangi headed the TDAP team on this occasion.

CEO SMEDA briefed TDAP team about SMEDA current initiatives and regular activities for facilitation of SMEs and assured to share a proposal for development of E-Commerce sector in Pakistan. He further said that both TDAP and SMEDA should work hands in gloves to fill the marketing gap created duet to Corona pandemic for Pakistani exports and suggested to arrange online platforms for SMEs dealing in exports. In this regard SMEDA is busy in developing the Government recommended e-commerce regulatory framework to incentivize the establishment of ‘Online Market Places for SMEs, he said.

Secretary TDAP Ahsan Mangi informed CEO SMEDA that TDAP was actively working for improving local market access of small businesses and cottage industries in remote areas, for which regular trade fairs and exhibitions in all the major cities of Pakistan would be arranged. For instance, exhibition for Light Engineering sector is planned for October 2021, he said and requested, SMEDA CEO to share the information among SMEs in Light Engineering sector.

He assured to organize and facilitate the participation of small firms in international fairs and exhibitions on subsidized rates. The SME firms can also be hired for organizing, marketing and exhibiting products at international trade fairs, he added. Secretary TDAP also requested SMEDA CEO to share training areas and identify SMEs with a potential to grow. TDAP will work on providing customized training and handholding service for them for a duration of up to 03 years until they graduate.

For more information, contact:
DGM (Admin. and PR)
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA)
4th Floor, Building No.3, Aiwan-e-Iqbal Complex,
Egerton Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-111-111-456
Fax: +92-42-36304926-7
Email: aligohar@smeda.org.pk, helpdesk@smeda.org.pk
Website: www.smeda.org.pk

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Four exciting ways to boost your productivity with Huawei EMUI 11

Islamabad, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): Living in a century were surrounded by technology, we often wonder if the predominance of these tech gadgets in our daily lives helps to improve our productivity, or on the contrary, are responsible for its decline?

While some people think that banning technology will lead to a better focus and productivity, the truth is the same technology, when used successfully, can help to get things done easier and faster.

Simultaneously, multitasking has also become increasingly common in our society, we often attempt to perform multiple tasks such as texting, browsing social media, streaming videos, reading emails, all at the same time. For that, we are constantly switching devices and apps which can be a real source of stress and frustration.

Huawei’s customer-centric vision places the user at the focal point of its strategy and works continuously to enhance Huawei’s user experience. The latest update of its operating system EMUI 11, is the perfect example how technology serves productivity. In fact, the new EMUI 11 includes new human factors-based experience, new privacy, and security features, and improved all-scenario experiences.

If you are interested to boost your productivity while working, exercising, or completing your daily tasks here are four exciting ways to do so, all thanks to Huawei’s latest EMUI 11 features.

1. Multi-screen collaboration

The multiscreen collaboration is a signature feature of Huawei’s recent EMUI generations and must be the most effective in terms of productivity. This innovative technology enables devices to virtualize and share their software capabilities with each other. For instance, if you are at a business meeting and need to share a picture or show an email from your smartphone, you can easily project it to your tablet. If you are working on your PC and receiving a video call from your smartphone, you can easily answer your call directly from your PC. If you are working out and wish to stream a video of a workout tutorial from your smartphone to your PC or tablet, you can also do so. The multi-screen collaboration enables better synergy between PCs and tablets and smartphones. EMUI 11 breaks down the hardware barriers between devices through distributed technology, allowing users to easily work across multiple screens. Bringing together the user’s devices in one place allows tasks to flow naturally across different devices for both a consistently controlled experience and a boosted productivity.

2. Smartphone multi-windows

Are you always on your phone, using different applications at the same time? How much time do you spend searching and swapping between apps on your phone? Do you dream of a new way to see all your favourite apps on one screen? Well, with Huawei’s updated EMUI 11 features, multitasking is now easier than ever, you can use the multi-window feature on your Huawei smartphone and multitask with zero hassle!

Multi-Window allows for three apps to be displayed side by side and interact with each other. Text, images, and documents can be transferred as easily as dragging and dropping the content from one app to the other. Also, there is an ingeniously designed dock to incorporate your favourite apps in a shortcut menu so you can activate a floating window for quick action. If you are gaming and receive a message, no need for you to disconnect from your favourite game, in fact, never waste time switching app with the multi-window feature. Student can also benefit from this feature, they can use the multiscreen collaboration as it also supports up to three active windows. For instance, they can use the first window to watch the stream, the second window for a notetaking app, and discuss lecture materials with fellow classmates on the third. This will help to gather their focus on one screen and multitask easily to enhance their productivity in classes.

3. Smart AI gestures

EMUI 11’s Smart Gesture Control builds upon Gesture Control features first introduced on EMUI 10. Through the gesture sensors, users can perform a variety of functions on-screen without having to touch the device, creating a new way to interact with your device. For instance, if you are running on the treadmill or doing your morning workout, or even enjoying a swim, you can easily answer your incoming call by performing a simple press gesture in the air to answer it. Now, on EMUI 11, not only can you use gestures to answer calls but you can perform a myriad of AI gestures: Hover your palm over the screen to wake up the display, Gesture up, down, left, and right to navigate with ease, pressing gesture in the air to pause the music, decrease brightness or ringtone volume. All these innovative smart AI gestures enable you with more freedom while enjoying your daily activities leads to better productivity.

4. Share the enjoyment while keeping your data private

We have all become more and more accustomed to documenting our lives through photography, but our cameras now save not only the beauty of a cherished moment but the exact location in which it took place. With EMUI 11, Huawei has introduced a new privacy protection feature for photo sharing, giving you the option to wipe your photos of any location, time, or device details relating to the moment the image was captured. This means that you don’t have to waste your time anymore on deleting any sensitive information while sharing the picture.

The new EMUI 11 offers existing users an interactive and all-scenario experiences supported by distributed technology, as well as Huawei’s latest thoughtful privacy and security features. All these features have brought ease and efficiency to our daily activities and by consequence reduce stress and improve productivity. EMUI 11’s upgrade is part of Huawei’s AI seamless life strategy and is now integrated within most popular Huawei smartphones for a better user experience.

For more information, contact:
ME Brand Manager
Huawei
8th Floor, Saudi-Pak Tower, Blue Area,
Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-2800000-20
Fax: +92-51-2800008
Mobile: +92-333-5240632
E-mail: qazi@huawei.com
Website: www.huawei.com

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BankIslami signs up with NIFT ePay for Digital Commerce Payments

Karachi, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): BankIslami, in line with its vision to enable and promote cash-less and digital payments, becomes the first Islamic bank to go live with NIFT ePay. National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT), one of the largest payment processors in Pakistan launched its services for enabling digital commerce payments (Mobile / Electronic Commerce Payments) through NIFT’s DFS platform under the brand name “NIFT ePay” last year. The partnership would allow BankIslami’s accountholders, access to digital merchants available under NIFT’s ePay platform, as well as enable the merchants, businesses and institutions with BankIslami to collect digital/online payments from accountholders of other institutions.

NIFT ePay provides an opportunity to BankIslami’s customers to conduct e-commerce transactions directly through their accounts. BankIslami and NIFT together will be creating various e-commerce activities using interoperable account based digital commerce being offered by NIFT ePayment Gateway. The agreement opens up new opportunities for both organizations to build new digital e-commerce activities.

‘BankIslami’ is a prominent Islamic bank in Pakistan with branch network of over 340+ branches operating in 114+cities nationwide, working in the Corporate, Retail and Consumer Banking segments. BankIslami is focused in providing digital channels to both its retail and business customers for making digital payments and has been taking lead in providing digital solutions to businesses. The agreement was signed by Mr. Haider Wahab, CEO – NIFT and Mr. Bilal Fiaz, Group Head – Consumer Banking, BankIslami.

Mr. Haider Wahab, CEO – NIFT added, “We are pleased to sign up with BankIslami on NIFT ePay to provide innovative digital banking products to account holders and also help their business relationships in availing digital collection solutions. We are confident that the partnership between BankIslami and NIFT will create innovative digital e-commerce activities under Islamic Banking services.”

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Bilal Fiaz, Group Head – Consumer Banking, BankIslami welcomed the initiative by NIFT to promote e-commerce transactions. He further added “BankIslami is focused on providing innovative digital solutions for its customers by adding new technology platforms; this partnership with NIFT will provide secure digital payments to BankIslami Customers through their bank accounts on various e-Commerce websites in Pakistan.”

For more information, contact:
BankIslami Pakistan Limited
11th floor, Executive Tower, Dolmen city, Marine Drive,
Block-4 Clifton, Karachi
Tel: +92-21-35839906, +92-21-111-247-111
Fax: +92-21-35378373
Website: https://bankislami.com.pk/

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VIS Assigns Initial Entity Ratings to Engro Enfrashare (Private) Limited

Karachi, January 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): VIS Credit Rating Company Limited has assigned initial entity ratings of A-/A-2 (Single A Minus/Single A Two) to Engro Enfrashare (Private) Limited. Outlook on the assigned ratings is ‘Stable’. The assigned ratings reflect Engro Enfrashare’s low business risk, modest financial risk profile and strong sponsor support. Enfrashare is a wholly owned subsidiary of Engro Infiniti (Private) Limited.

The ultimate parent company is Engro Corporation Limited which is a subsidiary of Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited (DH Corp). Enfrashare has a tower portfolio of over a 1,250 towers which is geographically distributed into three regions: North (20%), Central (50%), and South (30%). The Company operates under two models, acquisition of existing towers and Built-To-Suit (BTS). Major chunk of the towers are constructed under the BTS model, while others are acquired. The Company plans to aggressively grow its tower portfolio to around 5,000 towers by 2025.

The assigned ratings incorporate Enfrashare’s low business risk and its position as a growing independent TowerCo. The overall business risk profile of the company is considered low given the rising demand of towers due growing 3G/4G usage and sizeable potential for coverage and capacity expansion. Moreover, introduction of 5G in Pakistan will significantly increase the demand for towers in the country over the long-term given that towers are required over shorter distances for 5G roll out.

Furthermore, Enfrashare benefits from high customer loyalty given extensive lock-in periods, limited scope for termination, and an escalation clause which is part of the Service Agreement. The mentioned factors are expected to improve the tenancy ratio through increase in tenants on existing and new towers which remains a key rating driver.

Assessment of financial risk profile incorporates secured cash flows from all major telecom operators in Pakistan. Capitalization levels are expected to be strengthened through conversion of current loan from sponsors and injection of additional equity. However, ratings are constrained by stretched cash flows with sizeable capital expenditure plans and limited cushion in debt servicing. Continued sponsor support is required to achieve the planned growth. Strong explicit sponsor support over the rating horizon is a key rating driver.

For more information, contact:
Director Compliance and Rating Analytics,
VIS Credit Rating Company Limited
VIS House, 128/C, 25th Lane off Khayaban-e-Ittehad,
Phase VII, DHA, Karachi, Pakistan
Tel: +92-21-35311861-72
Fax: +92-21-35311873
Email: bilal@jcrvis.com.pk
Website: https://www.vis.com.pk/

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