Category: Karachi

KARACHI: Pakistani mobile company, Ufone 4G is set to transform its customers’ user experience through provision of convenient mobile top-up facility on 10,000 OPay Point-of-Sale (POS) machines.

Ufone 4G customers will be able to access these machines at petrol stations, convenient stores, pharmacies, shopping malls and other public places countrywide to recharge their mobile phones with greater ease and OPay is a fast-growing mobile payment Fintech Company that offers advance payment facilitates including contemporary mobile top-up solutions.

Deploying Ufone’s Top-up on OPay’s current active footprint of 10,000 POS machines will enable consumers with a secure and user-friendly method to process top-up payments at frequently visited public places. Additionally, top-ups can be purchased from OPay’s POS-merchants and will be printed on the bill invoice to verify transaction.

Commenting on the collaboration, Shahbaz Khan, Head of Product Portfolio Management (Wireless), Ufone, said, “Ufone 4G establishes synergies within telecom and Fintech industries to usher in greater ease and enablement to its customers. Our partnership with OPay will expand our service footprint to 10,000 additional points of sale. Enhanced accessibility is one of the key focus areas for Ufone in its continued quest to improve its services quality to provide a superior user experience to its customers.”

OPay Pakistan’s Vice President, Zeb Khan said, “This alliance with Ufone means increased customer engagement and traffic, resulting in spike in revenue of merchants’ business. I am very excited to bring to the table an innovative offering to Pakistani consumers as the accessibility of topping-up at anytime and anywhere will provide an experience of unmatched convenience, which is the aim of OPay as a company”.

The nationwide network of POS machines will be secure, simple and modern for mobile top-ups to further Ufone 4G’s long-term commitment to improve the user experience of its customers.

KARACHI: The price of gold on Monday witnessed a slight surge, despite the Pak rupee continuing its upward trajectory against the greenback.

According to the details, the price of pure gold of 24 karats per tola has increased by Rs600. This takes the price of gold per tola to Rs151,800.

The Sindh Sarafa Bazar Association informed that the price of 10-gram also popped by Rs514 and now it is available at Rs130,144.

In the international market, the price of gold per ounce has decreased by $5. The gold per ounce reached $1,676. The price of pure Silver of 24 karats remained unchanged at Rs1,610 per tola.

KARACHI: Governor Sindh Kamran Khan Tessori has said that Naya Nazimabad is a fast developing gated community and promotion of sports activities here is a welcome step.

He expressed these views at an exhibition cricket match between Pakistan Stars XI and Cricketers XI Naya Nazimabad Gymkhana ground. He further said that the establishment of football ground and hockey, badminton and tennis courts along will give an opportunity to new talent to emerge.

Sports activities can play an important role in eliminating environment of mental stress, Tessori added and said that he congratulate all the organizers for providing such a good and healthy environment to the citizens, and assured Arif Habib that he will always find him standing by hid side in all such activities.

The Governor Sindh said that we want to develop Karachi on modern lines and bring it into to the list of modern cities. Kamran Khan Tessori said that the development of Sindh is the development of Pakistan, we are aware of this fact and also believe in it.

KARACHI: Provincial Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon on Sunday announced electric bus service for Karachi and added that its test drive will start on Monday (today).

On his twitter account, the minister said that Sindh government of Pakistan Peoples Party had fulfilled another promise made with the citizens of Karachi. The world’s most modern electric buses will now be seen on the roads of Karachi. He said that the Transport Department, Government of Sindh was going to launch a new bus service in Karachi which is the first electric bus service in Pakistan and completely eco-friendly.

KARACHI: PM special aide Ata Tarar has paid a visit to the residence of Sameer on Sunday. Reportedly Sameer died after his bike had a head-on collision with the march container.

Witnesses said the container was on the wrong way and collided head-on with his motorbike, leaving him dead on the spot. Last Sunday, journalist Sadaf Naeem was crushed to death as she skidded off PTI chief Imran Khan’s container during the long march.

Ata Tarar expressed sympathies with the bereaved family and handed over a Rs5 million cheque to the father of Sameer on behalf of the Prime Minister. Sameer’s father expressed his gratitude to former premier Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Talking to the media, Ata Tarar said the political march took another life. He came down hard on the PTI chief Imran Khan who started the long march to the capital to mount pressure on the coalition government to hold snap polls and his other demands.

The bullet that hit Muzam Gondal was shot by Imran Khan’s guard, the PM aide said adding that Imran Khan was shot in one leg and had bandages on both legs. No case of shooting has so far been registered, he said, stressing that the PTI leadership has been showing stubbornness in getting a case registered against the army.

He reiterated the federal government’s call for holding a free and fair investigation to ascertain the facts and publicize the report so that the people could get to know about the reality. The person who confessed to the crime should have been prosecuted, he said. The aide added since the incident occurred in Punjab the chief minister should be held accountable.

Cases against the federal interior minister, prime minister or an army officer are out of the question, he stressed, adding that the case should be investigated as the march is leaving a trail of destruction. Regarding the march entry into the federal capital, he said the lawmen have adopted the measures as the federal government will not let the mobs enter Islamabad.

KARACHI: Youths of Karachi are now fed up with the growing lawlessness in the megacity and they would put a strong resistance if the authorities concerned failed to improve the law and order, said the speakers of a protest demo of youth against the street crime, organized by Alternate, a youth organization, in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) here Sunday. It was led by Alternate organizer Aqib Hussain and Shaima Baloch.

The speakers National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) general secretary Nasir Mansoor, SITE Labour Forum leader Riaz Abbasi, Progressive Writers Association Joint Secretary Comrade Sajjad Zaheer and Home Based Women Workers Federation HBWWF leaders Zehra Khan and Saira Feroze Khuhro, Qazi Khizar from HRCP, and Saeed Baloch form PFF asked the government to get returned all snatched cars, bikes and mobile phones or their compensation.

They said an independent commission comprising respectable citizens should be formed to review the performance of law enforcers and forward recommendations regarding their future course of action. They asked for better training of police and raising awareness amongst them for human rights. They said citizens committees should be formed at police station level to help improving law and order.

Aqib Hussain said that the provincial government has left the millions of Karachiites at the mercy of criminals and killers. He said powerful mafias have been targeting citizens’ life and property. He said roads and streets of Karachi have virtually become killing fields for the Karachiites. He said the law enforcement agencies being paid from the taxpayers’ money have become powerless before the criminals. He said the citizens are compelled to think that the criminals are being patronized by the law enforcers.

He said thousands of policemen are deputed in Karachi and for their assistance, rangers have also been deployed here for decades, but despite this more than 6000 street crimes, murders of 365 citizens, snatching of 20000 mobile phones and 37000 motorcycles is a big question mark on the performance of these law enforcers. In some cases, innocent citizens were killed by vested interests due to negligence of police and administration. Its recent example is lynching of two young men in Machhar Colony and target killing of a youth in Manghopir area, he said.

Young YouTuber Sajid Afridi said that the doors of education and employment were closed for the youth, the powerful classes had overpowered the society, especially the youth, on the basis of beliefs, language and ethnicity. The state was imposing anti-democratic reactionary ideas on the society in a planned manner due to which fascist thought was being embedded in every sphere of life.

Labor leader Himmat Phulpoto said that in these worst economic and social conditions, armed street criminals were roaming around Karachi fearlessly and playing with the lives of citizens. This situation had made the citizens mentally ill.

Young garment worker and leader of Alternate, Iqbal, said the Karachiites are being deprived of the basic facilities of life. Education, healthcare and public transport have been commercialized. Half of the megacity is deprived of clean potable water. The KE has plunged the megacity into darkness. Due to lack of planning the megacity is being converted into ruins. Price hike and inflammation have made the life of the poor masses miserable. In these circumstances, roaming of armed criminals freely in City Street was alarming.

The demo participants demanded that the killers of citizens and their patrons should be immediately arrested and punished as per law. They asked compensation of Rs5 million each for every slain citizen. They said the locals should be recruited in police and it should be linked to elected local government institutions. They asked to form a Public Safety Committee to improve liaison between them. They demanded free education and healthcare and affordable public transport and potable water for the Karachiites.

They asked for nationalization of the KE and giving it under the control of city government. They asked to give employment to jobless youth and reinstate the forcibly sacked workers. They asked to develop parks and playgrounds to give healthy recreational facilities to the youth.

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Sunday strongly condemned an attack on police officers by criminal elements in Kacha area near Rawanti town in Ghotki district.

In a statement issued from Media Cell Bilawal House, the Chairman of the PPP expressed deep grief and sorrow over the martyrdom of five police officials, including the DSP and two SHOs in the incident.

“I salute Shaheed DSP Abdul Malik Bhutto, Shaheed SHOs Deen Muhammad Laghari and Abdul Malik Kamangar and two policemen, Shaheed Salim Chachar and Shaheed Jatoi, for sacrificing their lives in the line of duty, and my heart goes out to the families of martyrs”, he added.

The Foreign Minister also prayed for the speedy recovery of SHO Ghulam Ali Brohi and other officials, who were injured in the attack. Bilawal said that the sacrifices of the Sindh Police to protect the lives and property of the people and maintain law and order are unparalleled. “I am sure that the criminals involved in this heinous crime will meet their logical fate,” he said.