The growth, driven by the efforts of the Special Investment Facilitation Council, includes key sectors such as textiles, leather, garments, sports goods, and surgical instruments. In October 2023, the European Parliament approved the extension of Pakistan’s GSP Plus status until 2027. The GSP Plus scheme provides preferential market access and exemptions from duties on certain […]
The modern cable is expected to be connected in the coming days, the sources said, and the cable, which is part of a larger program, will stretch 45,000 kilometers and have a capacity of 180 terabits per second. The installation process is currently in its final stages. Once connected, the cable is expected to increase […]
As per details, it has so far blocked over one hundred thousand blasphemous URLs and 844,008 obscene websites. In a separate development, the government of Pakistan started blocking unregistered Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a firewall trial. The unregistered VPNs were blocked temporarily for white-listing. The sources within the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) termed unregistered […]
As per details, PTA Chairman, Hafiz Rahman, briefed the Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Syed Aminul Haque, on the matter. Syed Aminul Haq asked the PTA chairman to inform the public about the reasons for the disruption and whether a firewall system was in place. The PTA chairman explained that 7.5 terabits of […]
Speaking at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, the PTA Chairman Hafeezur Rehman said that only approved VPNs would function in Pakistan once the policy is implemented. This move comes after a significant surge in Virtual Private Networks usage in 2024, primarily to access the blocked social media platform X (formerly Twitter). […]
