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Early AWS "building blocks" logo along a sigmoid curve depicting recession followed by growth. [citation needed]The genesis of AWS came in the early 2000s. After building Merchant.com, Amazon's e-commerce-as-a-service platform that offers third-party retailers a way to build their own web-stores, Amazon pursued service-oriented architecture as a means to scale its engineering operations, [15 ...
In line with its status as a major port and the country's largest metropolis, it accounts for most of Pakistan's revenue generation. According to the Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year-book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 70.75% of direct taxes, 33.65% of federal excise tax, and 23.38% of domestic sales tax. [3]
This is on par with Karachi, Pakistan's economic hub, with Lahore (having half the population) fostering an economy that is 51% of the size of Karachi's ($78 billion in 2008). [180] It is estimated that Lahore contributes 11.5% to the national economy, and 19% to the provincial economy of Punjab. [ 181 ]
The Constitution of Pakistan lays down separate services for the central government and the provincial governments.Although both types of governments are required to regulate their civil services through "Article 240 of Chapter I of Part XII", in case of the central reservation of the government and by the provisional assembly decrees for officers subjected in the legislative list of the ...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) came into existence in January 2016 when the Government of Pakistan decided to merge the three large exchange markets of the country (based in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad) into one combined market. [15] The PSX was launched on 11 January 2016.
Karachi is the largest and most populous city in Pakistan. [ citation needed ] The population and demographic distribution in the megacity has undergone numerous changes over the past 150 years. On 14 August 1947, when it became the capital city of Pakistan , its population was about 450,000 inhabitants However, the population rapidly grew with ...
Allied Bank was established on 3 December 1942, as Australasia Bank at Lahore with an initial capital of Rs 120,000 by Khawaja Bashir Bux, the son of a silk trader. [3] Khawaja Bashir Bux's father, who was originally from Kashmir, had settled in Lahore after being orphaned at a young age. [3]
It serves Lahore, capital of Punjab and second-largest city of Pakistan. It also serves a large portion of the travellers from the other regions of Punjab province . Originally known as Lahore International Airport, it was renamed after the visionary poet and philosopher Dr. Allama Iqbal , one of the pioneers that led to the creation of Pakistan .