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ISLAMABAD: Major General Hafeezur Rehman (retd) has assumed the charge of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman.

The federal government last week appointed Rehman, Member (Administration) PTA, as the chairman of the authority.

Business Recorder was the first to report the expected appointment of Rehman as Member PTA and later, chairman of the authority on May 9, 2023. The chairman will have MP-1 scale.

PTA: Govt likely to appoint Hafeezur Rehman as member admin

Rehman is a technology professional with experience of over 37 years in national security, ICT development, spectrum management, digital transformation, cyber security and policy-making.

Rehman holds BE (Telecom) and MS (War Studies) from the National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad.

He has served at key leadership positions dealing with ICTs strategy and transformation. He has vast experience in the deployment of state-of-the-art telecom infrastructures, enhancing the redundancy and efficiency of networks, fiberization, RoW management, and data centres design and architecture.

He has also served with the United Nations (UN) at key appointments in member countries.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2023

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Pakistani1 May 31, 2023 09:17am
Are there no civilians available in the country to do these jobs?
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Pawwa May 31, 2023 10:15am
Seems only (retd) officers are the best qualified to be the top honcho - no wonder they have destroyed everything. Wonder if his billions from this appointment will be used to buy Pizza Hut or Little Ceasers??
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