 Thanks for joining us at WSIS Forum 2018. I am very pleased to be joined by Mr. Ahmed Shamim Pezada of the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. So, to start with, can we talk about the role and the important, the key role of ICTs in Pakistan to deliver the sustainable development goals? Yeah, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here on behalf of our minister, her Excellency Honourable Anusha Rahman Khan, who has directly deputed me to give the interview and she was busy somewhere in other bilateral meetings. Pakistan is a very important country with a view that the population is 200 million and our tele-density is approximately 76 percent. That's all state of art technologies, especially the ICTs has gained a lot of appreciation and adoptability among the people. The first thing comes with the policy that the Government of Pakistan has issued a policy, which I would say is a forward-looking policy and its major objective is to provide reliable, affordable and sustainable telecommunications services, ICT services to the public. We have very good broadband penetration at the moment. You would say that the travel, we started in 2014 for the 3G4G services. Now, we have 53 million subscribers for the broadband and which is, I think, that good sign for a country, a big country like Pakistan. Similarly, the minister is leading so many projects, especially what I would put on this forum that we have Universal Service Fund and we have ICT R&D fund with the name of Ignite. With this policy, with the current policy, the Government has established 226 schools for the women and Bethel Mall, which is an institution with the help of the Microsoft. We are offering marginalized girls and women with the IT training program and it's basically working on forces, communication, computing, coaching. This is, you know, is the vision by the minister to the same way, incubation centers. Three incubation centers has been developed and more are under process in the major cities of Pakistan. And 30% quota has been allocated to the women entrepreneurs in this incubation centers. Further, there are other projects, Government has also announced digital Pakistan policy. That's for especially the ICT services, IT enabled. There is no taxation on it and the major aim is to make Pakistan an international hub or international level IT export country for the in the future. So, this policy is also very good from the Government of Pakistan. Similarly, there is another project under the Universal Service. The Government is, you know, aiming to provide broadband services to the project has been laid. It's it would cover almost 8 million people in the far-flung areas and serving almost 3G services to them. Then the optical fiber has been laid for connectivity of approximately 5200 kilometer for rural and far-flung areas. This is 6000 villages, you can say the 6000 counties. So, by using the ICT and these kind of technologies, Pakistan is, you know, is the heaven for these kind of services. Another important or good thing for Pakistan, our youth is 65% of total population and they are very much prone to the adoption towards the technology. Yes. So, you've just explained that basically ICTs have, you know, very powerful tool for inclusion and connectivity in Pakistan. Now, let's talk about social media. You have many users across Pakistan and I know it's done a lot to help connect people, but I think the Pakistani government would have liked to see a bit more regulation as well possibly. So, tell me about that. Yes. Social media is a very good platform for connectivity, for making Pakistan as a, you know, what we say, this is now old word, global village, you are connected to your friends, old friends, you are getting on the Facebook and YouTube, you can have, it's a tons of knowledge there and most of the time we use it, but in the country as Pakistan is involved in the war against terrorism. So, some, you know, the criminals or some wrong people are also using the technology. Similarly, the socioeconomic, social culture of societal behavior in Pakistan is different. So, there are some time issues with the women's that their images, wrong images are put on the Facebook and people are black men. So, criminal activity is there. Government has, in 2016, has introduced a very new law, which is PICA, Pakistan Electronic Crime Act 2016. So, I think that we should, instead of we may have a lot of regulation, we should have some interaction with the, with social media people, that the regulator or the government, when they say something, they should listen to them. Okay. Yeah. And that's why it's important to come here to WSIS Forum to meet all the stakeholders. Yes, yes, that's, that's, that is the, there are so many aspects, one of them was this one as well. Okay. Mr. Piazzante, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, madam.