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DWP Care, the customer service department of DWP Group, successfully hosted the Customer Support Annual Awards 2025, honoring the outstanding achievements, dedication, and service excellence of its nationwide technicians and service professionals. The annual event brought together nearly 100 participants from across Pakistan, serving as a platform to recognize high-performing individuals and branches whose commitment to quality customer service continues to elevate DWP Care’s standards. Senior leadership, including Muhammad Farooq Naseem, Chairman & CEO of DWP Group, and Rizwan Butt, COO of the Consumer Electronics (CE) Division, graced the event and applauded the relentless efforts of the CS and field…
As 2026 approaches, it’s time to rethink and upgrade your home gear, especially if you want to stay ahead in entertainment, comfort, and convenience. If you’re aiming for a future-ready home, here are three standout products from TCL that should be on your radar: the QD Mini LED C6K, the T5 Smart series, and the C2110WDG washer-dryer. TCL QD Mini LED C6K – Redefine Your Home CinemaThe TCL C6K QD Mini LED TV brings advanced display technology to your living room. With QD-Mini LED (Quantum Dot + Mini-LED) backlighting, it delivers deep blacks, rich contrast, and vivid, lifelike colours for…
Spotify’s biggest global moment is back — more captivating, more layered, and more revealing than ever before. And this year, Pakistan made sure its voice was heard. 2025 Wrapped reveals that Talha Anjum has once again emerged as Top Pakistani Artist for the second year in a row. His continued rise reflects a year in which love for local music surged, with Pakistani music consumption up 70%. Top Artists Joining Anjum at the top are Umair and Hasan Raheem, while icons Atif Aslam and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan continue to hold strong. Listeners also showed love to Maanu, Bayaan, Afusic,…
Daraz Pakistan’s 11.11 campaign, the country’s biggest online sale of the year, closed with record-breaking results driven by brand performance on DarazMall. As millions of customers shopped across the platform, DarazMall, the authenticity guaranteed channel for leading brands, emerged as the standout growth engine, with its brands recording 50X growth during the campaign and setting a new benchmark for trusted online shopping in Pakistan. Household names such as Knorr, Lipton, Pond’s, Rivaj, Saeed Ghani, Zellbury, J., Stylo, Haier and Meclay ranked among the most loved brands, while Haier, Tecno, Samsung, Asim Jofa, JC Buckman, Zero, Nestlé, TCL, Mezan and Cherry…
The leading Sindh-based educational charity, Green Crescent Trust (GCT), is set to hold consecutive get-togethers in Lahore and Islamabad, seeking philanthropic support from prominent businessmen and industrialists in Punjab and the federal capital to accelerate its mission of enrolling out-of-school children across Sindh. GCT CEO Zahid Saeed will deliver a compelling presentation highlighting key facts and figures related to the current education crisis in Pakistan. He will also outline a practical and impactful way forward, proposing sustainable solutions to address the serious challenges facing school education—particularly for underprivileged children—through GCT’s proven and scalable model. For the past 31 years, GCT…
Yango Pakistan, part of the global tech company Yango Group, has launched a winter safety initiative aimed at protecting the health and well-being of its partner drivers. The effort includes distributing warm jackets, anti-smog kits, and protective face masks to help drivers and couriers stay safe and comfortable during colder months. The ride-hailing platform shared that the initiative is part of its ongoing commitment to driver welfare, recognizing the increased health challenges faced by those who spend long hours on the road, particularly during peak smog season. The winter kits have been designed to offer both warmth and protection, helping…
Unilever Pakistan, in collaboration with NOWPDP and the Pakistan Business Council (PBC), hosted UpliftingU – a Roundtable conversation on Mainstreaming Education & Capabilities with Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). This was a focused multi-stakeholder dialogue aimed at accelerating inclusive education, skills development, and employment pathways for PWDs across Pakistan. The session took place at Unilever Pakistan’s Head Office where participants explored solutions to integrate PWD capabilities into the country’s future workforce and examined the systemic reforms required to expand equitable access across academic and professional environments. The roundtable included a context-setting segment followed by an open discussion where participants identified structural…
Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the global financial technology company powering business growth across borders, hosted the 5th edition of its XBorder Excellence Awards in Karachi on November 28, 2025. Supported by JazzCash and Faysal Bank as award sponsors, the event brought together more than 100 attendees to celebrate the achievements of top-performing exporters, digital entrepreneurs, creators, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) contributing to Pakistan’s expanding global economy. Participants represented the breadth of Pakistan’s export ecosystem, from software development and gaming studios to eCommerce and direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, business-to-business (B2B) service-export companies, digital marketing agencies, and the freelance community. The XBorder…
Faysal Bank Limited (FBL), in partnership with PayPak and Mastercard, has unveiled Pakistan’s first PayPak–Mastercard Co-Badge Debit Card, a landmark development for the country’s payments ecosystem. The new card brings together the global acceptance and security of Mastercard with the reliability and cost-efficiency of PayPak, supporting the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) vision of a robust and self-reliant domestic payments infrastructure. The launch underscores Faysal Bank’s commitment to advancing digital transformation and financial inclusion by offering customers seamless payment capabilities at home and abroad. Powered by PayPak’s homegrown infrastructure and Mastercard’s international network, the co-badge card provides secure, interoperable, and…
Pakistan’s business sentiment has strengthened notably, with the OICCI Business Confidence Index (BCI) – Wave 28 showing an 11 percentage-point rise, pushing the overall confidence level to +22 percent. The latest survey, covering businesses that represent nearly 80 percent of the country’s GDP, also highlights a significant shift towards innovation, with 43 percent of OICCI members already adopting generative AI technologies and 81 percent expecting AI to take over key business functions in the near future. In a development not seen in nearly a decade, the services sector has posted its highest sectoral score since 2017, registering a record uplift…
