Get EVO, Nitro, EVO Wi-Fi Cloud Free Against Advance Line Rent: ProPakistani

Get EVO, Nitro, EVO Wi-Fi Cloud Free Against Advance Line Rent
MARCON Marketing Conference to be Held on March 21st
Geek Week Planned in Lahore on March 30th
Shahbaz Claims Better Government through E-Governance

Get EVO, Nitro, EVO Wi-Fi Cloud Free Against Advance Line Rent

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 11:20 PM PDT

If you ever planned to buy EVO, EVO Nitro, or Evo WiFi cloud, probably this is the best time to grab the deal from PTCL

Company is offering EVO, Evo Nitro and WiFi Cloud devices absolutely free against just the line rent in advance for specified time period.

Offer Details:

EVO: Pay 3 months line Rent in advance to get free Evo device
EVO Nitro: Pay 3 months line Rent in advance to get free Evo Nitro device
Evo WiFi Cloud: Pay 4 months line Rent in advance to get free Evo WiFi Cloud

Terms:

Customer has to make advance payment of 3 months line rent for EVO and Nitro, amounting to Rs. 6000 & Rs. 9000 respectively to avail this offer.
For EVO Wi-Fi Cloud, customer has to make advance payment of 4 months line rent amounting to Rs. 8000.
The offer is applicable for postpaid customers only.
Offer is valid for new sales only.
Offer is not valid for EVO prepaid, EVO Tab and EVO Smartphone users.
For PSTN billing package, customer will have to pay 3 months advance line rent for EVO & Nitro and 4 Months Advance line rent for Wi-Fi Cloud at the time of purchase (unlike normal PSTN packages).
For PSTN billing package, the customer shall not be billed EVO charges in his PSTN bill for the first 3 months; billing shall start from the fourth month.
Promotion is valid for sales made through PTCL In-house(OSS) and National distributors only.
Promotion is not valid for sales made through franchises and other in-direct sales channels.
Promotion is valid for Evo , Nitro & Wi-Fi Cloud Commercial Promo packages only.
Promotion is not valid for Employee & other discounted packages.

MARCON Marketing Conference to be Held on March 21st

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 11:15 PM PDT

MARCON 2012, the flagship Marketing Conference is all set to be held on Wednesday, March 21 in Karachi.

Official statement, citing Mr. Masood Hashmi, President of Marketing Association of Pakistan, said that MARCON conference will be attended by over 400 senior executives from all over the country.

Prominent speakers from Pakistan and overseas will be making their presentations. The impressive lineup of speakers include, Ehsan Malik, Chairman, Unilever Pakistan, Afnan Ahsan, CEO, Engro Foods, Javed Jabbar, Global VP,IUCN, Tarek Miknas, CEO, Fortune Promoseven, Richard Pope, Country Head, MSN and many others.

The Chairman of Marcon, Mr. Imran Ahmad announced that the theme of this year's conference is: "New trends & insight in creating & sustaining competitive advantage". There will also be a special emphasis on digital and social media which is a growing phenomenon in today's world.

Marketing Association of Pakistan with close to 2000 member all across Pakistan is the apex body of Pakistani professionals involved in the marketing industry. It was established in Karachi in 1970. The event is being managed by Terrabiz.

Visit http://www.facebook.com/marconbymap for more details on the event.

Geek Week Planned in Lahore on March 30th

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 09:53 PM PDT

The ACM Society of FAST-NU, Lahore is organizing the 1st International Geek Week from 30^th March to 1^st April, 2012 with prize money of more than Rs. 450,000.

Geek Week is likely to be one of the biggest Computer Science and Information Technology extravaganzas in South Asia.

It is the 1^st Indo-Pak event being organized by the collaboration of Pakistani and Indian students in the field of IT.

The Pakistani and Indian chapters of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) are conducting this event simultaneously in five different universities. Students and professionals will bring forth their work and well-known researchers and academicians have been invited to judge the competition.

This session has many competitions. These 3 being its biggest highlights:

Asia Cup: An International Distributed Programming Competition
DevFest: 24hr App Development Contest (being held for the first time in Pakistan).
Custom PC: Opportunity to exhibit the customized machines.

GEEK WEEK would be held in collaboration with 3 Pakistani ACM chapters in different institutions in Pakistan including Fast-NUCES and 2 Indian ACM Student Chapters. The institutions collaborating for GEEK WEEK 2012 are:

NUCES ACM Lahore, Pakistan
PUCIT-ACM Lahore, Pakistan
GCU-ACM Lahore, Pakistan
Indian Inst. of Tech/ New Delhi ACM , India
SVCE-ACM, Chennai, India

The occasion will consist of the following competitions.

Asia Cup
Gaming contest
Development Fest
Custom PC
Technology showcase
ACM Logo Designs

Complete details on Geek Week are available here: http://www.nuces-acm.org/

Shahbaz Claims Better Government through E-Governance

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 09:29 PM PDT

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Chief Minister Punjab Mian Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif has claimed of implementing better government through E-governance in the province, which has benefited the masses.

Talking to a four-member delegation led by Zong Chief Executive Officer in Pakistan Mr. Fan Yunjun, CM said Punjab government is working on a comprehensive program to boost Information Technology (IT) industry in the province.

He further outlined that a world class IT university is being established in Lahore where the students would be given world class education in various departments of Information Technology (IT) which would fulfill the required demand for IT professionals in the country.

Shahbaz Sharif said there is a lot of room for development and expansion for IT industry in Punjab and investment in this department is appealing as well as safe.

Zong Chief Executive officer in Pakistan Mr. Fan Yunjun appreciated the Punjab government steps to boost IT industry in the province and said his company would continue co-operation in this regard.

Mr. Fan Yunjun outlined that his company is setting up branch less banking in the province and an endowment fund for the students as well.

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