Tap semiconductor sector, says Tarar
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Thursday stressed enhanced collaboration between the public and private sectors to accelerate the country’s economic development. Speaking at the First Pakistan Semiconductor Summit, he highlighted the establishment of the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) to attract investment and ensure ‘ease of doing business’. The minister underscored the government’s main policy thrust of encouraging innovation and investment.
He noted that Pakistan, as the world’s fifth-largest democracy, boasted abundant natural resources, with its human resource being the most significant. “We are blessed with a huge youth population, constituting 68% of our total,” he added, emphasising the enormous potential this demographic represents. Tarar pointed out Pakistan’s strategic location at the crossroads of the world, a source of national pride, and reiterated the government’s encouragement of innovation and investment, as demonstrated by the summit’s focus on public-private collaboration.
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