Pakistan wants IT cooperation with India
Friday, 17 December 2004, 20:30 IST
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan assured all help to promote partnerships between its IT companies and those in India for mutually beneficial growth in the sector. "We recognize Indian successes in the IT sector and would like to benefit from the Indian experience and its strategy to become a leading IT player in the world," Pakistan Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari told the Pakistan-India ICT Summit 2004 here. Calling for a strategic partnership between India and Pakistan in IT, he said: "It is the spirit of competition alongside the spirit of cooperation, that can help further this relationship." He pointed out that about 3 to 4 million jobs in business process outsourcing in the West were set to move offshore in the next few years and the number was much more than Pakistan and India together could absorb in their respective IT sectors. "IT and IT-enabled services are absolutely close our heart and the government will do all it can to facilitate the industry," he told the summit jointly organised by Pakistan Software Houses Association and India's National Association of Software and Service Companies. Addressing the conference, NASSCOM chairman Jerry Rao called for a win-win relationship between Indian and Pakistani IT industries.
Source: IANS
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