Pakistan has all ingredients to tap IT exports worth $25 bln: PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD: According to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the country has all the necessary components to boost its information technology (IT) exports to $25 billion in two to three years.

“Investment in the IT sector can fetch quick rewards and dividends and go a long way in addressing our unemployment problem,” he claimed. The Prime Minister (PM), who had attended the national conference on maximising Pakistan’s IT potential the day before, declared that the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) event was a testament to our shared desire to turn Pakistan into an IT hub. “The seminar laid the foundation for an IT revolution that the country so desperately needs,” he added. “The seminar, attended by all stakeholders from the public & private sectors.”

He said, “The SIFC, which represents the whole-of-the-government approach, will ensure the provision of policy continuity and predictability in the IT, agriculture, mines and minerals, and defense production sectors.”

“Governments may come and go but the economic revival plan will be implemented with the same energy and passion,” he said.

“The IT industry will have all the facilitation, and it needs to grow under a one-window arrangement.”

“It is now on the industry leaders to access the most of the opportunity. I have my full faith in their ability,” he added.