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LAHORE:
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has urged the private sector
to invest in information technology industry to benefit
from the opportunities of this fast growing field. He
was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of IT Village,
the software technology park set up by NETSOL Technologies
at Ghazi Road here Friday.
The
inauguration ceremony was attended among others by Punjab
Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool, Federal Minister for
Information Technology and Telecommunications Awais Ahmad
Khan Leghari, State Minister for Information Technology
Ali Asjad Malhi, Chairman NETSOL Technologies Najeeb Ghauri,
President NETSOL Salim Ghauri, senior officials and representatives
of Pakistani and foreign IT companies.
Shaukat
Aziz said that the vision for Pakistan was that of a high
growth country, observing that this could be translated
into reality by investing in non-traditional sectors like
information technology, in addition to the traditional
ones. Referring to his recent meeting with a group of businessmen
representing 30 leading Pakistani companies in Islamabad,
he said the brainstorming session with them focused on
opportunities of investment in the information technology
sector.
The
government, he said, had taken many steps over the last
several years to provide an enabling environment to this
sector. "We have opened the telecom sector besides
developing infrastructure and providing incentives to the
IT sector," he remarked.
He
said that most of the telecom sector was going to be
privatized soon, and expressed the hope that the rates
of telecom services would be further reduced in the wake
of privatization.
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