Digital growth is key to good governance: Aminul Haque
IT and Telecommunication Minister Syed Aminul Haque on Wednesday stopped short of criticising the finance ministry and said that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) needed to understand the issues faced by the IT & telecom sector. “Digital growth is not only essential for the overall strengthening of the economy but one of the basic conditions for modernisation of the governance system,” he added. Addressing the launch of the “Smartphone For All” initiative in collaboration with GSMA and a local company KistPay, the minister responded to repeated criticism by all the stakeholders that Pakistan has the highest taxes on mobile calls, internet and mobile sets in the world, while the return on investments was among the lowest. The event marked the sale of mobile phones at easy installments for low-income people under the initiative.