Fiber optic cable laid across the country under CPEC: Ahsan Iqbal

Islamabad: Pakistanis Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal Tuesday afternoon said that fiber optic cable was laid across the country under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
He maintained that in 2017-18, then government also launched a Digital Pakistan Policy. However he said due to the later government.
Due to fiscal constraints, the minister said the allocation for the current fiscal year was set at Rs 700 billion despite the fact that the demands for the ongoing projects during the current fiscal year was over Rs 2000 billion.
Addressing an event here, he stressed that political stability was key to progress for any country.
Iqbal mentioned that romotion of Information Technology (IT) sector of the country was the top priority of current coalition government.
He said digital revolution was providing equal opportunities to all, therefore the government was giving special focus to this sector to reap maximum benefits out of it.
Ahsan Iqbal underscored that Pakistan had already made a big progress in the IT sector due to better policy intervention by the PML-N government.
“It was our government that decided to privatize the telecom sector, which brought revolution in the sector and created thousands of jobs”, he added.
Similarly, he said “we also issued licenses of 3g and 4g spectrum which were stuck up for over eight years.
Ahsan Iqbal informed that government also provided one million laptops to the youth of the country due to which Pakistan had now become the third largest e-lancing country of the world.