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‘Govt ready to spur local production’

APCA’s Chairman and founder Munawar Iqbal led the visiting delegation while members of the FBR were also present

APP December 20, 2017

File photo: Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan speaking at a seminar organised by traders and the Federal Board of Revenue. PHOTO: EXPRESS

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan said on Tuesday that the government was ready to incentivise the local computer industry in view of the growing demand and use of computers, laptops and notebooks in the country.

“The computer industry is the future of Pakistan and the government is committed to providing all possible incentives to it so that every person in the country can afford to buy a computer at affordable rates,” he said while talking to a delegation of All Pakistan Computer Association (APCA) at the FBR House here.

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APCA’s Chairman and founder Munawar Iqbal led the visiting delegation while senior members of the FBR were also present. The delegation briefed the special assistant on the current state of local computer industry.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20^th, 2017.

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