ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has directed the Ministry of Information Technology and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to sit with Cellular operators and work out a roadmap for verification of all unverified SIMS in the country.
The Prime Minister issued this direction in a meeting with private cellular operators who met him at the PM’s House this afternoon.
During the meeting the cellular operators informed the Prime Minister that the verification of SIMS was taking longer time than visualized and it would not be physically possible for them to verify the SIMS within the deadline.
The Cellular Operators informed the Prime Minister that presently SIMs were only being issued from their Business Offices. Earlier 80,000 outlets were selling SIMs in the Country.
After listening to the operators and representatives of the Ministry of Information Technology, the Prime Minister directed the Ministry of IT to resolve the issue by March 7, 2013.
The meeting was attended by Chief Executive Officers of Cellular Companies as well as senior officials of Ministry of Information Technology.