ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted an advisory council on IT and digital economy in order to enhance the digital economic activities in the country, said a handout issued from the PM’s Secretariat on Tuesday. The council will advise the government on how to enhance the digital economy of Pakistan by identifying the key areas of growth, their challenges and way forward to overcome these challenges.
It will also suggest measures to enhance IT and IT-enabled services exports to $15 billion over the next 2 to 3 years The forum will identify capacity gaps in the public and private sectors and suggest measures to bridge these gaps.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be the chairman of the advisory council and its members are the federal minister for IT, federal minister for finance, MNA Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmad, FBR chairman, SBP governor, MoIT&Telecom secretary, Pakistan Software Export Board secretary/managing director, head of PM’s Strategic Reforms Salman Sufi, CEO Cybernet Danish Lakhani, CEO Jazz Amir Ibrahim, P@SHA chairman Badar Khushnood, CEO AZZ Creators Muhammad Zohaib Khan, CEO Katalyst Jehan Ara, CEO/ MD Cure Bilal Hashmat, CEO/ MD Systems Limited Asif Peer, CEO InfoTech (pvt) Limited Naseer Akhtar, CEO S&P Mujeeb Zahoor, Netsol Technology chairman Saleem Ghori, Group CEO TPS Shahzad Shahid, CEO Enablers Saqib Azhar, content writer/ freelancer Sharoon Shahid, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Umer Saif, Dr Syed Ismail Shah, Associate Professor BUITEMS Dr Faisal Khan, MD KPK IT Board Sahibzada Ali Mahmood, Pakistan Fintech Network chairman Nadeem Hussain, Balochistan Commission on the Status of Women chairperson Fauzia Shaheen, CEO/director Evamp & Saanga Ilum Khan, Microsoft Pakistan ex-country manager Nadeem Malik and member Board of Advisors Katalyst Labs Faizan Ali Siddiqui.
Nisar Ahmed Khan, an officer of Police Service in Grade 20, has been transferred from FIA to KP government
Formal office order has been issued with approval of federal secretary Science and Technology
Punjab Charities Commission has organized an open discussion between NGOs and students of various universities
Significant change is reduction of KE’s US dollar-based ROE from 15% to 14% in line with other IPPs
This growth is anticipated to have a positive impact on the unemployment rate, albeit a slight one