{"id":24432,"date":"2025-01-24T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=24432"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:14:40","slug":"pakistans-monthly-it-exports-hit-record-senator-aurangzeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=24432","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s monthly IT exports hit record, Senator Aurangzeb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250124-WA0017-1024x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250124-WA0017-1024x474.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250124-WA0017-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250124-WA0017-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250124-WA0017.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Davos : Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has termed the role of information technology as vital for the development and stability of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at the high-level discussion on the role of new technologies in promoting trade and investment at the World Economic Forum in Davos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said provision of best ecosystem, strong infrastructure, bandwidth, banking options, policy framework and continuity of policies in the IT sector is the top priority of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Pakistan is the first country to implement the digital FDI initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To fully leverage the benefits of IT, he stressed the importance of ensuring its horizontal expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said that Pakistan is fortunate that it has the third largest population of freelancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhammad Aurangzeb said Pakistan&#8217;s monthly IT exports hit record high of 384 million dollars in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed government&#8217;s commitment that the IT sector will be strengthened with the cooperation and support of the Digital Corporation Organization (DCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Special Technology Zones will be operationalized and the private sector will be made the leader of the country&#8217;s economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davos : Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has termed the role of information technology as vital for the development and stability of Pakistan. He was speaking at the high-level discussion on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[198,711],"class_list":["post-24432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-main-stories","tag-ministry-of-finance-pakistan","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24435,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432\/revisions\/24435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}