Minister calls for using information technology as compulsory tool for trade activities

Provincial Information Technology Minister Mustafa Kamal has stressed the need to use information technology as a compulsory business tool for carrying out trade and business activities.
He said, "For sustainable economic development, we will have to modernise all the sectors of trade and industry. Without this initiative, we can neither increase our productivity nor establish business relations at international level."
He said Pakistan has enormous talent in IT sector and software developed by our companies were of international standard. It was the need of the hour that this talent should be marketed at the right place and at the right time, he said.
He appreciated the business agreement of a local leading software house Kalsoft, with the famous IT development firm "Indus Software" of Poona, India.
Mustafa said, "Our industry is in the take-off stage and we can establish our position in the international market for software export."
He said India entered into the IT sector much earlier than Pakistan and have developed itself with focused approach and objectivity. Business agreement with any Indian software company was a healthy start and it would certainly result in dissemination of IT trade between the two countries.
All the trade bodies and financial organisations of developed countries were carrying out their day-to-day jobs with electronic transactions and in near future this system would dominate the world, he said, adding that all Pakistani trade organisations would have to adopt it on priority basis, otherwise they would be out of the international market.