ISLAMABAD: Korean Eximbank’s team who have conducted a feasibility study for the first purpose built IT park in Islamabad, called on the Minister of State for IT Anusha Rehman here in Islamabad today and shared in detail the salient features, models and proposed designs along with other technical aspects for the building of the park. Federal Secretary IT Rizwan Bashir Khan and senior officials from Ministry of IT and PSEB were also present in the meeting. The minister welcomed the Korean delegation to MoIT and shared with them the ministry’s vision to provide good infrastructure to the IT industry to leverage the full potential of Pakistan’s IT talent. She said that the IT park would provide a whole ecosystem including affordable space to IT companies along with power, bandwidth, and linkages between industry and academia. The IT park in Islamabad will be followed by two more parks in Lahore and Karachi subsequently. Anusha, while talking to the delegates, said that it was the government’s vision and mission to launch state-of-the-art IT parks in Pakistan at the earliest to provide an ecosystem for the IT industry of Pakistan. Therefore, she stressed the Korean team to expedite the work on establishment of the first state of the art IT Park. Moreover, there is a huge requirement for state-of-the-art infrastructure in Pakistan from the IT industry so that companies can upscale their resources and capacity and Pakistan can achieve its real potential in the global IT industry, the minister added.