Constitution of the Task Force on Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), has announced its new board and team members. We are proud to say that Mr. Ghias Khan, CEO of Inbox Business Technologies has been selected as Co-Chairman of the Task Force team. This selection is based on mutual consensus of steering committee of Government of Pakistan Planning Commission, and Planning & Development Division.

Further to this Mr. Saleem Ghouri, President of Netsol Technologies has been elected as the Chairman. Ms. Jehan Ara, President of Pakistan Software House Association; Mr. Atif Rais Khan, Chairman & CEO of LMKR; Mr. Wahaj-us-Siraj, CEO of Micronet Broadband; Mr. Waleed Sophie, Head of Pakistan Office Products; Dr, Junaid Mughal, Dean Faculty of Electronics Engineering of G.I.K. Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology; Dr, Sarmad Hussain, CRULP of NU-FAST; Dr. Atash Durrani, Center of Excellence in Urdu Informatics of National Language Authority Islamabad have been selected as Members; Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, Member of Planning Commission Division of Islamabad has been elected as Convenor; and Mr. Qaiser Sohail, Director General of Planning & Development Division Islamabad as Member/Secretary of the committee.

Along with other major activities, the sole purpose of Task Force constituted on ICT is to review, plan, estimate, identify and recommend key decisions over current IT policy of the country; changing trends of software, hardware, and BPO markets;  expansion of IT exports; IT quality and security gaps; and their respective action plans. ICT’s focus is not only identification and classification of the gaps currently present in the local IT industry but also to focus on its enhancement and evolvement within the country.