EFU Life is the largest life insurance company in the private sector with over 60% of the market share. The company provides life insurance coverage to more than 370,000 lives

Through the Education Plan, by paying a monthly premium, Citibank Credit Card customers can now plan ahead for the education of their children. The plan provides required funds to cover educational expenses of children and ensures that the education plans do not suffer a financial setback in case of premature death of the Cardmember.

TCS ROAD TRANSPORT (PVT) LTD RECEIVES 1ST BATCH OF VEHICLES

TCS received the first batch of Toyota Hilux 2002 for Intra-city Road Transport. TCS Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Jamil Janjua was also present at the ceremony, which was held at Indus Motors Plant in Karachi.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Jamil Janjua said, "After 20 successful years of our mainstay courier business we are now aiming at becoming Complete Express Logistics Solutions Provider, by having at our disposal the best air and surface transport fleet capability.''

TCS is the only multinational Pakistani courier company operating in Middle East under valid license. Its project office in Canada has now been catering to business community needs for over 2 years now.

NCR SERVICES ACHIEVES ADDITIONAL CISCO CERTIFICATIONS

Affirming its position as a leading provider of services for Cisco Systems, Inc. solutions, NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) announced Cisco certifications in areas across the world.

The U.S. heads the list of countries and areas with Cisco Gold Certification, the highest level of qualification in provisioning and supporting Cisco network technologies for service providers and enterprise businesses. Recent additions to the Gold country list include Singapore and Germany.

Services for Cisco-related technologies form the cornerstone of NCR's IT Infrastructure Services offering. The services cover consulting and analysis, implementation, and ongoing support and operational management for networks and systems.

The Cisco certifications demonstrate NCR has met rigorous standards in each of the countries and territories where it provides services, including training a dedicated group of sales and service technology professionals. NCR has received Gold, Silver, and Premier certifications from Cisco, meeting the infrastructure needs of businesses across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Japan, and Europe- Middle East-Africa.

"NCR has long been a trusted services partner to Cisco," said Ralph Simpson, senior director of Advanced Partner Enablement for Cisco Systems. "Their global presence and service excellence are strong attributes for the many businesses across the world that benefit from NCR services. Time and time again, they have proven their capabilities and expertise with Cisco technologies."

In addition to certifications, NCR has received specializations from Cisco for wireless LAN, VPN/security and IP telephony technologies, and is an optical Advanced Technology Provider. NCR has demonstrated multivendor service expertise in the vital components of IT infrastructure, including networks, servers and software.

BOP — PROGRESSIVE BANK

The Bank of Punjab (BOP) is considered to be the fastest growing scheduled bank which has endeavored to remain in the forefront of modern financial institutions and has consistently shown tremendous growth in all areas of its activity. It is a unique example of public-private Sector partnership in which resources of both sectors have been fully utilized to achieve cummulative results. Established in 1989, the BOP has made phenomenal growth.

The bank's credit activity is indeed meant to channelise bank resources for development of the economy through investment in trade, commerce, industry, agriculture and agro based industry. The bank also endeavored to diversify its portfolio in order to avoid concentration of resources on a single or few sectors. After its scheduling, the BOP haq been able to open branches outside the Province of Punjab. The branch network of the bank has expanded and presently it has 242 branches spread all over Pakistan including Azad Kashmir to serve its customers.

Besides commercial banking, the Bank launched a number of following schemes to develop the Agri Sector of the country.

1. Kissan Dost Agriculture Finance Scheme
2. Kissan Dost Tractor Scheme
3. Kissan Dost Transport Scheme
4. Kissan Dost Abiari Scheme
5. Kissan Dost Rehabilitation Scheme
6. Kissan Dost Live Stock Development Scheme
7. Kissan Dost Form Mechanization Support Scheme

The Bank has actively participated in the Lahore Metro Transport Project by providing a credit line. The bank emphasis on improving foreign trade activity in the shape of overall growth in import/export business. The bank is in the process of implementing a fully integrated comprehensive management information system and has so far computerized 60 Branches successfully. The complete network would be fully computerized by the end of year 2003.

The success story of this bank is entirely due to dedicated efforts of its staff, special emphasis on human resource development and quality service provided by professional management. The blending of brilliant youth with experienced professionals has provided a unique team of workers.

In an era of economic revivification, it can be ascertained that the Bank of Punjab would make best of its potential in accomplishing optimum results and would serve the nation with vigor and strength in the days to come.

AWARD FOR TERADATA

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), announced that its customers dominated The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) awards competition by taking eight of the 15 prestigious 2002 Best Practices Awards. The awards are presented annually to companies demonstrating innovative practices in real-world data warehouse implementations.

These Teradata customers were winners in the following categories:

•Travelocity - CRM
•Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad - Business Performance Management
•Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad - Real-time Analytics
•3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) - Integrating Data Marts & Data Warehouses
•Nationwide Insurance - Web Analytics
•Nationwide Insurance - Data Stewardship & Data Quality
•Harrah's Entertainment - Justifying a Data Warehouse
•Anthem, Inc. - Meta Data Management

Teradata recognizes its partners for their contribution in supporting these award-winning customers. Cognos' powerful reporting and analytical capabilities have played an integral role in the success of Harrah's customer relationship management strategy. Hyperion's business performance management solutions are helping Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad improve performance and drive profitability.

According to TDWI, the winners clearly demonstrated that their data warehouse and business intelligence projects were truly innovative solutions to problems commonly faced by data warehousing practitioners, and were practices that could be followed by others. The judges examined six key criteria to determine the winners in each category: impact, relevance, innovation, alignment, maturity and bang for the buck.

Nominations were judged by a panel of experts, including practitioners, consultants, industry analysts, journalists, Journal of Data Warehousing editors, Institute Fellows and TDWI management. For additional information, go to www.dw-institute.com.

EMIRATES SKYCARGO AWARDS TOP STATIONS

At the annual gathering of Emirates Cargo Managers in Dubai, Pakistan topped the poll twice, taking the trophies for the Best Performance Worldwide and the Best E-Business Performance. The other winning stations were: Best Performance in Europe and North America - Italy; Best Performance Middle East and North Africa - Saudi Arabia; Best Performance West Asia and Pacific Rim - Thailand; Best GSA Performance Worldwide - Taiwan; Most Improved Station - Cairo.

The conference, on the theme New Horizons - brought together cargo managers from all points on the network for a review of the past year and an analysis of the year ahead.

KARACHI SHERATON DIPLOMATIC COOKBOOK

The only internationally managed five-star hotel in Pakistan, the Karachi Sheraton Hotel & Towers has found the recipe for helping the underprivileged — a charity cookbook where the authors are all diplomats and their wives.

"From the Diplomat's Kitchen", the brainchlid of the Karachi Sheraton Hotel and Towers, has just rolled off the presses, looms as one of the publishing success stories of the hospitality industry.

The book has been produced and published by the hotel with all royalties going to Karachi's Lourdes Convent, a private school that started 28 years ago and helps poor children from kindergarten to matriculation. The school traditionally struggles for funds in the ultra-poor port city.