 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I am very pleased to be joined by Mr Tarik Sultan who is a member of Finance for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Mr Sultan, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you. Now, this conference happens every four years, it is a very important conference in the telecommunication development calendar. I wanted to find out from you why is this conference important to you? Well, first of all it is my first time that I am attending any ITU event. So it was very, very informative for me and it is so exciting to see that there is an opportunity of meeting so many people from so many different countries in one place. Then I think the WTDC is important because it gives an opportunity to the representatives from all the member countries to raise various issues that they are facing in their countries on various telecom matters and even make suggestions, comments and the working papers that are there to be discussed in the WTDC. They have an opportunity to contribute to that and the WTDC 14 is particularly important because the theme it has selected this time, the sustainable development, broadband for sustainable development. I think it is very important for those countries which have not yet achieved significant proliferation in the broadband segment that they can learn from the experiences of other countries and from the outcomes of WTDC and also for those countries which have achieved significant growth in broadband but still they are facing various issues on which they want the deliberation to be taken place at WTDC. What kind of challenges and opportunities are there in Pakistan at the moment with regards to broadband? In the broadband segment of Pakistan although we have achieved very good growth in the last two, three years but the absolute number is still very little but with the auction of 3G and 4G spectrum or the spectrum for next generation mobile services that Pakistan is currently in the process of doing. The auction is scheduled to be held on the 23rd of April and the last date for receiving applications for that from the prospective bidders is 14th of April. More spectrum will be available to the operators and mobile broadband will be available and new services will be offered and with that I think the growth will take place, a lot of growth will take place. I was reading a paper TD 43 for this particular conference and in that paper the Arab states have made a proposal to WTDC to add three items in the next one of the resolution 9 which included one of the three items was spectrum, efficient use of spectrum and in there they mentioned two items one was spectrum trading and the other was dynamic spectrum access. Now I think it's a very important topic that should be deliberated at the WTDC level that whether spectrum trading would be beneficial overall for the telecom companies and the governments all over the world because it might also offer an arbitrage opportunity to an investor who may not be into the telecom business and may not be really looking to roll out networks and offer services but may just want to you know get the spectrum and trade it because it will be suboptimal use of the spectrum because in that case the roll out of the services, offering of services will be delayed. The real objective of the efficient use of the spectrum is to provide services to the public and who I think in my view are the real owners of the spectrum, it's a public resource. And finally very briefly what outcomes you hope will come from this conference? My understanding is that the WTDC does not come out with any final acts, its conclusions are in the form of resolutions and submissions or decisions which then you know are used in the development of a program, work programs of WTDC for the next four years for the development of the telecom sector. So I although I didn't have any specific expectation in mind but I am hoping and I am sure that from these deliberations and this conference all these issues that have been raised by various countries and which I mentioned in the working papers that certain solutions will come out which will help the member countries resolve some of their issues. Sultana, thank you very much and you have been with us today. Thank you. And thank you for watching too.