Government aims to increase ICT industry to $20 billion in few years: PM

Sergi Herrero, Co-Chief Executive Officer of VEON (parent company of Jazz Pakistan) called on Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday. Chief Executive Officer of Jazz Pakistan Aamir Ibrahim, Chief of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Syed Fakhar Ahmed and Head of Digital Financial Services of Jazz Elias Yazbeck accompanied Herrero.

Chairman Board of Investment Syed Zubair Haider Gilani, Chairman PTA Major General Aamir Azeem Bajwa (retired), Prime Minister's Focal Person for Digital Pakistan Tania Aidrus and senior officials were also present during the meeting.

The prime minister appreciated the long association of VEON with Pakistan having $9 billion investment and serving 60 million subscribers with multitude of services.

Prime Minister Imran Khan highlighted that Pakistan had great investment potential in communication and energy sector.

The government is focused on providing ease-of-doing-business with liberal investment policy, which has been acknowledged by the international financial institutions.

The prime minister stated that his government had launched "Digital Pakistan" initiative with the aim at providing a platform to the Pakistani youth to become independent and drivers of economic growth.

PM Khan stated that under the digital policy, the government had aimed at increasing the size of Pakistani ICT industry to $ 20 billion in the next few years. -PR