KARACHI: Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, federal minister for IT and telecom, said on Thursday ensuring a regulated environment and level playing fields for investors would be focus of the government during next two years. “The government has proved its intention through transparent telecom policy, which attracted largest ever local and foreign investment within a year,” he told a tele-conference on 2005 outlook for telecom and banking sectors organized by BMA Capital. He said the telecom ministry is optimistic of achieving all set targets within next two years due to inspiring response of the world’s leading telecom stakeholders in Pakistan’s deregulated sector. Farrukh Khan, CEO BMA Capital, said the tele-conference is aimed to bring together the top investors in Pakistan and from around the region to discuss and analyse investment scope within and outside the country. —Staff Report.

Daily Times (28 Jan 2005)