Google has extended its offer to provide 15,000 scholarships to Pakistani youth annually, which can revolutionize the IT sector. This was said by Senator Dr. Afnanullah Khan, a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology, in a special conversation with Daily Jang.
It should be noted that Senator Dr. Afnanullah Khan has a PhD in Information Technology from Oxford University and has experience in completing IT projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
He also said that with modest planning, Pakistan’s IT exports can easily be increased to $10 billion in the next few years. Senator Dr. Afnanullah Khan, the son of former federal minister and close associate of Nawaz Sharif late Senator Mushahidullah Khan, said that South Korea has allocated a loan of one billion dollars for Pakistan’s information technology sector at an interest rate of only 0.1.
He further said that the American company Google wants to invest 3 and a half million dollars in Pakistan, similarly, the sale of 5G license will bring billions of dollars in foreign exchange and then heavy investment, while through venture capital, heavy investment will also be made in the private sector. Investment is possible there are many areas in IT that Pakistan can focus on to become an IT powerhouse in the region very soon.
Dr. Afnanullah Khan said that he is trying to bring revolution in the IT sector in the country along with the government as well as individually. He wants to benefit from his higher education in the field of information technology for the country.
Senator Dr. Afnanullah Khan said that Mian Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have the real pain of the people of the country while they themselves want Pakistan to develop more in the IT sector because compared to any other sector. Investment in IT sector pays off very quickly.
He said that the export of IT manpower in a country like Japan is also an important project which is being worked on. Therefore, every effort will be made to increase the focus of the government on this sector as much as possible so that the obstacles in the way of foreign investment can be removed.
