Spotify and Coke Studio Pakistan partner to celebrate the nation’s voices through an official destination

The world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service joins forces with the sound of the nation, Coke Studio Pakistan, to launch an official Coke Studio: Pakistan destination dedicated to 2022’s much-awaited music show.

Under this partnership, Spotify is now the official music streaming partner for Coke Studio Pakistan this year. With this inked in, the artists of Coke Studio Pakistan will have a place to share their music with Spotify’s 381 million users and connect with a global audience across 184 markets.

Starting today, Spotify will be home to an immersive musical experience celebrating Season 14 of Coke Studio Pakistan coupled with all previous seasons. Available for Free and Premium users on mobile and desktop Spotify app, the collaboration between the two music culture powerhouses brings users the content they love, making it easier than ever to listen to their favorite tracks from the wildly popular format. The destination features a variety of playlists including: Coke Studio Pakistan,Women of: Coke Studio Pakistan, Best of: Coke Studio Fusion, Best of: Coke Studio Sufi, Best of: Coke Studio Pakistan and more.

Khan FM, Artists and Label Partnerships for Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at Spotify said, “We are extremely excited to be a partner on the journey of Coke Studio Pakistan’s latest season. Coke Studio is a household name across Pakistan and has cultivated the love for different genres at a regional level year after year. As their official music streaming partner, we look forward to creating a memorable and enhanced listening experience for our Pakistani and South Asian listeners as they browse through our collaborative destination.”

Fahad Ashraf, VP Coca-Cola Pakistan and Afghanistan said: “This season, Coke Studio is coming back in a brand new avatar, celebrating Pakistani culture synced with Gen-Z. We see the Spotify partnership as the perfect medium to bring this fresh Pakistan fusion to listeners globally.”

The season is set to air from 14th January on television channels in Pakistan and you can check out the destination here, which is available in the United Kingdom, United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan Railways launches Pakistan’s first ever ‘Reefer Freight Train’

As a major breakthrough in national logistics & cargo infrastructure, Pakistan Railways successfully launches country’s first ever Reefer Freight Train aiming to provide more economical and environment friendly freight solutions.

According to details, Marine Group of Companies in collaboration with Pakistan Railways achieved the milestone by operating Pakistan’s first ever containerized refrigerated train in Dec 2021 which departed from dry port of Marine International Container Terminal (MICT) Prem Nagar, Lahore and arrived at Wazir Mansion Karachi.

This intermodal cold chain solution enabled by ‘Pakistan Railways Freight Transportation Company (PRFTC) who facilitates the rail infrastructure operated by ‘Pakistan Intermodal Limited’ (PIL) and CMA CGM Pakistan providing commercial support for this new cold chain corridor.

From the past 05 years Pakistan Intermodal Ltd is playing a pivotal role in operating containerized freight trains in Pakistan and realizing the potential of Reefer containers, operated Pakistan’s first ever reefer block train carrying 24 Units – 40 feet reefers of CMA CGM Pakistan from MICT – Dry port at Prem Nagar – Lahore to Wazir Mansion Karachi and transported the Reefer boxed through PakGo trucking short haul services to Karachi Port completing the journey successfully.

The new operational phase begins with one train a week with plans for this service to operate twelve trains in a month. Freight trains can minimize the delivery time and reduce emissions to the atmosphere of greenhouse gasses. On average, railroads are three to four times more fuel efficient than trucks. That means moving freight by rail instead of truck lowers greenhouse gas emissions by up to 75%, on average.

As more and more road-based reefer cargo finds its way to more economically and environmentally viable options. Pakistan Intermodal Limited (PIL) reefer block train system can generate billions of rupees annually in revenue for Pakistan Railways if the containerized freight trains are operated on schedule.

Ziauddin University celebrate its 25 years by inviting alumni across the globe to Grand Alumni Reunion

The year 2021 marked the 25th Anniversary of Ziauddin University founded in 1996 by Dr. Asim Hussain and the family, who extended the legacy of their great grandfather, Sir Ziauddin Ahmad in Pakistan.

On the auspicious occasion of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations, Ziauddin Alumni from across the globe united from 18th to 25th December for a 25th Grand Alumni Reunion. The event featured a range of exciting talks from the senior alumni including the Scientific Session on Research, Education, and the Way Forward. Over 250 alumni registered for the hybrid event of Gala Dinner on Saturday 25th December at a local Hotel and received a wide appreciation and response. The event opened with a Recitation from Holy Quran, played the national anthem and ZU Anthem, and the welcome address by the Dean Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Abbas Zafar. Alumni members paid a tribute to the deceased alumni, students, faculty, and Ziauddin Family members.

The Chancellor, Dr. Asim Hussain appreciated the participation of senior alumni in the Grand Alumni Reunion and invited them to come back and participate in giving back to the country in healthcare research, innovation, and service delivery. He also emphasized the importance of alumni association with the alma mater and highlighted the achievements of Ziauddin University over the years.

Dr. Asim Hussain also shared his early experiences of founding the university and how this curation of legacy was the undertaking that was both personally and professionally important for him and his family’s vision for the future. The event was graced by the speeches of the Vice-Chancellor and founding faculty members, and the presentation by the Founding President Ziauddin University Alumni Association (ZUAA) Dr. Kamran Iqbal, followed by the dinner. The university remembers the contribution of Dr. Aijaz Fatima, Dr. Tajammul Hussain. Professor Naeem A. Jafarey, the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ziauddin Medical College who transformed the culture of the university with his exemplary leadership.

“It was a great event and connected 25 years of journey,” says Prof. Dr. Rubina Hussain Chairperson OB&GY. “Thank you for providing us with these amazing opportunities to connect! I loved the talks and the networking opportunities – and especially the virtual platform! I really enjoyed participating!” commented the alumni member.

A number of overseas alumni also participated via a zoom link reported that they were delighted to come back to their alma mater virtually, “The combination of the platform, inspirational talks and networking has renewed their connection with the university and their enthusiasm for the network. They are all looking forward to the next reunion, which they hope will be in 2022”.

Sir Ziauddin Ahmad was a great polymath, philosopher-scientist, politician, and luminary of the Pakistan Movement and widely considered as the torchbearer of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s mission of education-based reform of the Muslim world which led to the creation of Aligarh Muslim University. Sir Ziauddin was chosen as the first VC and the Rector of the Aligarh Muslim University where he was the longest-serving VC during which Aligarh Muslim University students played a key role in the making of Pakistan. Sir Ziauddin Ahmad’s family in Pakistan embodied his legacy by the creation of Ziauddin University which not only honors his name but also aspires to fulfill his vision and mission in the modern, present, and future context of Pakistan. Ziauddin University currently embodies full-fledged 16 different schools with nursing and medical college the oldest schools and its 7000+ alumni across the world.

‘Meet Jinnah’ campaign uses Innovative Tech to Promote Peace, Harmony, and Inclusion

This Quaid Day, Islamabad’s Fatima Jinnah Park hosted an innovative and award-winning campaign for promoting inclusivity, pluralism, and interfaith harmony in line with the vision and teachings of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Hive Pakistan – a social impact organization working to address issues of extremism and marginalization in the country organized the event- ‘Meet Jinnah’ where a life-size hologram of the Quaid-e-Azam was shown speaking about the principles that should govern social life in the newfound country.

Mobilink Microfinance Bank Limited (MMBL), the largest digital bank of Pakistan, was a supporting partner with Hive Pakistan for the said event. MMBL is working to promote financial and digital inclusion in Pakistan through capacity building and access to finance for all Pakistanis nationwide.

Thousands of people gathered to watch the technological marvel and to draw inspiration on this Quaid Day that coincides with Christmas, thereby reinforcing the need for mutual acceptance and peaceful co-existence.

The unique project by Hive Pakistan has been showcased in multiple cities before its arrival in Islamabad. The project that has already won the prestigious Nelson Mandela- Graça Machel Innovation Award for its successful advocacy for equality in the country was showered with praise by the visitors.

“We congratulate Hive Pakistan for successfully executing this innovative project”, Syed Aizaz Zaidi, Chief Risk Officer at MMBL said on the occasion. “The father of our nation had a clear vision of what he fought for most of his life to achieve – a unified, safe, empathetic, and inclusive Pakistan”, he said. “These ideals are deeply entrenched in our organization’s core philosophy – fueling our struggle to promote inclusivity, as well as equitable growth and development for every Pakistani citizen through access to finance and groundbreaking digital financial solutions”, he added.

The project successfully showcases the potential of digital technology for driving positive social change, besides emphasizing the need to revert to the visionary guidance of our founding father for resurfacing as a successful nation.

Fatima Fertilizer celebrates third Kissan Day at the Pakistan Pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai

Fatima Fertilizer took its cause of promoting agriculture of Pakistan and giving tribute to its farmers global by celebrating the National Farmer Day at the Dubai Expo 2020. The week long celebrations, aimed at showcasing the rich agricultural heritage of Pakistan and highlighting the importance of farmers for global food security to global visitors at the Pakistan Pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai.

With the help of Trade Development Authority Pakistan (TDAP), Fatima Fertilizer organized a range of activities, whereby, the entire pavilion was decorated with various agricultural produce from Pakistan, split in to two key seasons of Rabi and Khareef. Complete details of Pakistan’s ranking in crops such as cotton, rice, and fruits were shared with the visitors along with delicious deserts from rural Pakistan, which are famous amongst farmers. Traditional pottery from Pakistan was also showcased where visitors could get their names calligraphed on the pottery to keep as a special memorabilia.

A special cultural show was arranged to showcase all provinces of Pakistan along with their key agricultural produce and national contributions. This cultural show proved to be a major attraction for visitors at the Pakistan Pavilion.

Speaking at the occasion, CEO of Fatima Fertilizer Mr. Fawad Ahmed Mukhtar highlighted the need for Pakistani companies to actively participate in international forums and aggressively work towards promoting Pakistan’s soft image around the world. He said, “Farmers are the backbone of our nation and Fatima Fertilizer is the first company to have come forward to pay a glowing salute to them by coining 18th December as Kissan Day”.

National Marketing Manager for Fatima Fertilizer, Ms. Rabel Sadozai, further added that, “We have been working tirelessly since the last three years for getting the Farmer Day acknowledged as a national event. Apart from its planned official celebrations with the Government of Pakistan, Dubai Expo is an international forum attracting visitors from more than 180 counties, and thereby, serves as an amazing platform to showcase Pakistan’s key strength, being our brave and hardworking farmers.”

The celebration of ‘Kissan Day’ every year serves as a constant reminder about the importance of agriculture for our economic betterment. Sarsabz Fertilizer has long been active on giving due importance and recognition to Pakistan’s underserved farmers in order to curb national food security challenges on the face of constantly increasing population and food demand.

Fatima Fertilizer earns global recognition through Guinness World Record

Fatima Fertilizer became the first company to have clocked 60,220,000 safe man-hours, which the highest accomplishment within the Global fertilizer industry. This landmark achievement was only made possible by demonstrating the highest safety performance through the implementation of world class safety standards and industry best practices.

As the world’s unrivalled authority on record-breaking achievements, the role of Guinness World Record remains to celebrate the worlds very best and inspire others in pursuing the same path to attain global recognition and distinction. This recent achievement by Fatima Fertilizer is testament to the fact that its work operations and quality standards are truly world class, while maintaining a consistent focus on continuous quality improvement.

While speaking about the achievement, Mr. Fawad Ahmed Mukhtar, CEO at Fatima Fertilizer said, “We are extremely delighted at earning this global distinction which projects our utmost priority towards safe guarding the health and safety of our employees and protecting the environment. We also proud of our Pakistani roots and the fact that this achievement helps to positively impact the soft image of Pakistan within the global arena and positions it amongst the World’s leading industrial players.”

Fatima Fertilizer remains committed to becoming an industry benchmark by achieving excellence in achieving a recognized Quality Management System (QMS) and maintaining accreditations of ISO’s Health, Safety and Environment protection standards which help to ensure process safety management and promote a culture of extending responsible care and a behavior based approach to adopting work place safety.

Twin sisters from Pakistan become the most junior to made Azure AI certification

Zara and Zenubia Khan youthful daughters from Pakistan has prosperously done the Azure AI Fundamental Exam. The sisters are apparently the youngest to pass the exam.

Zara and Zenubia were also the teenager twin partners to perform Microsoft Power Platform accreditation.

These young girls have been knowing regarding technology at home for a long time. Their father, a technical man himself, has been leading Zara and Zenubia all the time.

They shared this significant landmark on their Linkedin account. The twin put down that: “This certification has extended us to other new teaching chances and new purposes regarding how to grip Artificial intelligence and interpret problems around us. We actually liked learning about the opportunity of AI and the rules of AI that can enable us to make solutions with evenhandedness, Accountability, Reliability, lucidity and Safety, seclusion and security and most particularly with dimension.

Now that we are near to restart our schools, we can use time exploring with Power Platform and Azure AI and go on our progress to develop for another fundamental exam.

Azure AI Certification

This certification is a scope to evolve perception of basic ML and AI assignments and how to attain them on Azure.

This certification is considered for applicants with both technical and non-technical frameworks. Data science and software engineering confront are not needed; although, some standard programming apprehension or knowledge would be helpful.

Azure AI Fundamentals can be appropriated to evolve for additional Azure role-based certifications such as Azure AI Engineer Associate and Azure Data Scientist Associate. But, it is not imperative for each of them.

Pakistani-American antitrust analyst Lina Khan Formally Becomes Head of US Federal Trade Commission

A Pakistani-American antitrust analyst Lina Khan has been formally promised in as the new Chair of the United States Federal Trade Commission which is described to be a triumph for the continuous pursuing restrictions on a technical corporation who kept a share of the developing industry of the economy.

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Lina was educated at Columbia Law School who already employed as a staffer for the House magistrates Committee’s antitrust panel. The freshly assigned chair performed an important role in archiving reports that emphasized the misuses of market supremacy by major tech jumbo like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

The United States Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted relative Lina’s new part and considered it as huge news and emphasized the fact how Lina would conduct about accurate proficiency in regards to sector and the respective users.

Warren further said that

With Chair Khan responsible, we have a great opportunity to take big, constructional convert by reestablishing antitrust implementation and opposing dominances that endangered our economy, our society, and our democracy.

After Lina’s nominations, the major technical huge companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google did not put any comments.

Pakistan’s First Space Scientist at Cambridge University – Meet Dr Yarjan Abdul Samad

Dr. Yarjan Abdul Samad has formed Pakistan proud to have enhanced the first space scientist at the world’s best and the Britain’s ruling university of Cambridge.

Dr. Yarjan performs at the Cambridge Graphene Center and Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge. His department associates research assignment in link with the gadgets utilized in the interval satellites. The University is working in participation with the European Space Agency and other study institutions.

Dr. Yarjan informed Geo News, we prepare gadgets that are utilized in the space at the department. He belongs to a global village, Buleda, situated off Turbat, Baluchistan. I am the first Pakistani to perform as a space scientist at Cambridge University, I am happy that as a Baloch and a Pakistani.

He revealed that we are using efforts to perform out the gadget that works without any energy and electricity. These gadgets will give assisting to the spacecraft while in space.

The young scientist operated his scientific test many times at zero gravity in space for the last three years.

The young Pakistani scientist stated that he was keening to distribute his technology and evaluations with the Pakistani Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission.

Dr. Yarjan informed that he was also preparing to educate the Pakistani space scientists. We establish flights involving the parabolic ones or sounding rockets, for our research. We can recreate them in Pakistan too, he said. The space scientist told the technology may be initiated in Pakistan as well.

I am managed to struggle very hard like soldiers, he replied to question regarding the problems and restrictions he meets during his space travels. Our task is like that of soldiers, he told. There is no space for any panic when you are determined to your job.

Space technology is moving to establish progress by leaps and bounds in the days to come to assists different objectives as well as developing the environments, he imagines.

US Embassy lauds Pakistani engineer for his contribution to NASA’s Mars 2020 mission

Pakistani engineers and scientists have exactly been forming an influence on the international level. In the newest example of an achievement of heroic percentage, award-winning open-source engineer Ahmed Awais has been acknowledged by the US Embassy for his significant endowment to NASA’s Mars 2020 legation.

Awais has derived a code subscription to the software reliable for working NASA’s inventiveness Helicopter, which formed history this year by becoming the first-ever managed flight mission in a globe outside the Earth.

Since all of the initiators who performed on this historic project accepted an exceptional GitHub emblem for their subscriptions. Although, Awais has also involved the unique club of Pakistanis who have attained a Gold GitHub Stars Award.

The extraordinary god gifted skill engineer described in a blog post that his main inspiration behind granting to the Mars 2020 mission was his fascination for space observation, which is something that he has been attracted by ever since boyhood.

He added that when he was a child, he wanted to become a spaceman and observing space and whatnot. However, he was afraid of heights therefore whenever his mother told him, I had said I will resolve as a scientist who had to discover new things like a rocket.

He wrote more that he has begun to feel how far away, he was becoming a rocket scientist when he heard about the Elon Musk space exploration mission. Recently, Awais superb achievement has been acknowledged by the United State Embassy, which showed to Facebook currently to highlight his effort.

Pakistani developers are really creating their indication on the world. The post is pure appreciation for his subscriptions on the ingenuity Helicopter.