ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has met senior officials of the Ministry of Information Technology and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to discuss the ministry’s proposals for budget 2015-16.
Secretary IT Azmat Ali Ranjha briefed the Finance Minister about the current profile of the IT sector in Pakistan. He said there was vast scope of expansion in the cell phone service, as 120 million people in the country still didn’t have access to mobile phones.
Ranjha said that encouragement by the government would help further promote the cell phone usage in the country. He also told the Minister that concerted efforts had been made to check grey traffic which had a healthy impact for growth of regular phone service.
The Minister said IT sector had attracted healthy investment in the past and undoubtedly had further scope of expansion. He appreciated budget proposals of the IT Ministry and said these would be reflected in the forthcoming budget.
FBR Chairman Tariq Bajwa, Advisor Finance Division, Rana Assad Amin and other senior officials of the FBR and Ministry of IT attended the meeting.
