Technology
Fawad Chaudhary asks Google and Facebook to build offices in Pakistan.
Google, Facebook, and other technology corporations have been encouraged to create offices in Pakistan by Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain.
He expressed his admiration for Google, Facebook, and other digital businesses on the BBC's "Hard Talk" show. He stated, "I want them to come to Pakistan to open offices."
“We want to do business with technology companies, and we acknowledge their contribution for the world,” he added while rejecting the notion that Pakistan has passed laws aimed at curbing social media freedom. “I welcome all the IT companies in Pakistan, we want to do businesses with them and we will listen to them if they have any concerns about proposed regulations,” he added.
For quite some time, major initiatives to build offices of known social media businesses in Pakistan, including Facebook, have been underway. In April, Zia Ullah Khan Bangash, the KPK government advisor, reported that a conference had been arranged between Facebook's management, representatives from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and IT specialists to discuss the subject.
The prevalence of harsh measures in Pakistan, such as frequent banning and filtering of social media, has been cited as a key impediment to the admission of social media behemoths.
