Investors’ trust: Govt policies revolutionised telecom

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that due to the transparent policies of the government, the confidence of the international business community to invest in Pakistan had been restored. Talking to the chief executive officer of VimpelCom Jean Yves Charlier here at the Prime Minister House, he said the government’s transparent policies had revolutionised the telecom sector and successful launch of 3G and 4G in the recent past was testimony to that. “We are encouraging the telecom companies to expand their outreach to far-flung areas of the country so that a majority of the masses benefit from the technology,” he said. The prime minister said that Pakistan offered an ideal environment for telecom sector as the country had one of the largest cellular phone subscriber bases.  “Our government believes in open and transparent business policies so that both local and foreign investors are further motivated to explore the business opportunities in Pakistan.”

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9^th,  2016.