Tag: Customers

PQFT declares surplus for customers

Pak-Qatar Family Takaful (PQFT) has declared a surplus of 48 percent of takaful donation for its BancaTakaful customers for the outgoing financial year. This was...

104 million cellular subscribers in country

The Cellular industry of Pakistan has matured into a competitive and progressive market and currently there are 104 million subscribers in Pakistan as of...

PTCL Broadband reaches 1,000 cities with over 0.6m customers

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has the unique status in Pakistan of providing broadband services in over 1000 cities across the country to over...

Pleasant winds bring back customers

Pleasant winds with rain on Saturday brought customers back to Sunday Bazaars, which helped sales to increase. The on and off presence of City...

Vendors look for customers in sizzling heat

The prices of vegetables remained stable in the Sunday bazaars despite high petroleum prices; however, the number of customers remained low because of the...

Vendors befool customers by selling less quantity of commodities

LAHORE - Vegetable and fruit vendors at Sunday Bazaars have adopted a technical way of fleecing customers by selling smaller quantities of commodities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The prices of a majority of vegetables remained stable while some decreased. Although the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) fined a number of vendors for overcharging and weight tempering but it was not enough and overcharging continued. Visits of Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahad

LESCO to add customers’ cellular phone numbers in bills

LAHORE - The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has decided to add cellular phone numbers of consumers in electricity bills, Pakistan Today has learnt. The move will help the company to compile data of consumers and serve them efficiently. The consumers will be informed about their complaints' status through cellular phone numbers. LESCO meter readers have started collecting mobile numbers of consumers and during meter reading they will ask every consumer about mobile numbers so

World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

Traders con customers with sullied sugar

LAHORE: Sugar traders and vendors in the city have started plundering customers by mixing substandard sugar with good quality sugar and selling this at higher rates, customers told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
Customers said traders were selling substandard sugar at Rs 90 per kg. The government has fixed imported sugar's price at Rs 72 per kg but its quality and sweetness is far low than the locally produced sugar, which is sold in the market for Rs 90 per kg.
The traders have