Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visits Hripur, a city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, on January 17, 2022, where he inaugurated the Pakistan Digital City Special Technology Zone project, the country's first such projects. It is reported that the Prime Minister of Pakistan will hold the unveiling ceremony in the company of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmoud Khan and federal and provincial ministers.

It is reported that the Pakistan Digital City project will cost 1.31 billion rupees and will be distributed over 86 parcels of land. The Pakistani digital city Haripur is a flagship project being launched by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government to provide the IT industry with all the required facilities in one place. The project aims to build a state-of-the-art facility in Herepur as a burgeoning city capable of fostering collaboration and innovation between academia, research institutes, industry and planners at home and abroad.

The project will benefit other related industries in Cape Province, such as electronics, software engineering, mobile phone industry, technology incubator, computer industry, etc. In August 2021, the Cape provincial government gave the first approval for the "Digital City" project in Hripur, which is expected to cost around Rs 1.3 billion to build.

On the other hand, last month, Prime Minister Im Ranhan also inaugurated Lahore Technopolis, a special tech zone designed to boost Pakistan’s tech exports and create a lot for Pakistani youth job opportunity. Editor/Sang Xiaomei