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Korea Eximbank team shares feasibility study report

Korea Eximbank team shares feasibility study report of the first State-Of-The-Art IT Park with Anusha Rehman

Korean Eximbank’s team conducting the feasibility study for the first purpose built IT park in Islamabad, called on the Minister of State for IT Mrs. Anusha Rehman Khan here in Islamabad today and shared in detail the salient features, models and proposed designs along with other technical aspects of the building of first IT park in Pakistan. Minister of State for IT Mrs. Anusha Rehman, Federal Secretary IT Mr. Rizwan Bashir Khan and senior officials from Ministry of IT and PSEB had a very fruitful discussion with the Korean experts regarding different aspects of feasibility study report. The 13 members’ Korean team was lead by Dr. Yim Deok Soon and Prof. Park Hung Kook.

Minister of IT welcomed the Korean delegation to MoIT and shared with the ministry’s vision to provide good infrastructure to the IT industry to leverage the full potential of Pakistan’s IT talent. She said that IT park will provide a whole ecosystem including affordable space to IT companies along with power, bandwidth, and linkages between industry and academia. IT park in Islamabad will be followed by two more parks at Lahore and Karachi subsequently.

Minister said that we have an abundant IT talent and IT parks would be a good way of leveraging that talent to boost Pakistan’s IT exports which have already grown over 40% since last year. She appreciated the passion and spirit of Korean team and their constant support in IT park project and hoped that the IT Park will further augment the long lasting and strong relationship between Pakistan and Korea.

Minister requested the Korean team to fast track its efforts and try to submit their final report by next week so that we could enter into an implementation phase of the project at the earliest. She urged all stakeholders to collectively work to positively achieve the milestones.

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