{"id":22021,"date":"2025-11-05T14:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:26:51","slug":"google-to-open-office-in-pakistan-announces-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/11\/05\/google-to-open-office-in-pakistan-announces-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to open office in Pakistan, announces finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday announced that Google will open an office in Pakistan, calling it a significant step toward transforming the country into a regional information technology hub.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to industrialists at the Karachi Chamber of Commerce, the minister said he recently met Google executives in Islamabad, who expressed a strong interest in helping Pakistan build a digital ecosystem. \u201cThey want to make Pakistan an IT hub,\u201d Aurangzeb said, adding that the move reflects growing international confidence in Pakistan\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aurangzeb highlighted that over the past one and a half years, the government has been actively implementing reforms in taxation, energy, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), privatization, and public finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that the new $14.5 million investment arriving in Pakistan is particularly significant, sending a message to all stakeholders\u2014including local and international partners\u2014to \u201cstay together\u201d for sustained progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finance minister underscored that population growth and climate change are two major challenges for Pakistan, urging immediate attention to the population issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday announced that Google will open an office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,215,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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