No firm willing to invest in Pakistan unless grey traffic controlled: National Assembly body on IT informed
Anusha Rehman Khan Convenor of the Sub-Committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) said that due to grey traffic, Etisalat has not invested a single penny in the country, since it took over major shares of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL).
This, she said, while chairing a meeting of the committee here on Tuesday, where the body declared grey traffic as offense. Until and unless, the grey traffic is controlled, no company is willing to invest in Pakistan. The Committee also recommended two major amendments in the “Pakistan Telecommunications (Re-Organisation) Amendment Bill 2010” moved by Humayun Saif Ullah Khan and four other MNAs.
The committee recommended that “in order to avoid any conflict of interests, the federal government should not nominate any secretary as Member to the Board of PTCL”. The Amendment was supported by the Ministry of Information Technology (IT) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
The committee observed that how a person could protect the interest of the government, when he/she taking salary and other remuneration from private company. The committee further recommended that the PTA Board should be consists of five members at least one member from each province. The member should be a person of integrity, expertise, competence and eminence in any field of telecom engineer, law, economist and finance. The federal government should appoint the member for similar terms.
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