Pakistan: The Next Electronics Manufacturing Hub?

[Ghazwa-e-Hind]

every business opportunity, prime land, solar panel businessess, fertilizers etc.

All is eaten by DHA, sharif/zardari mafia.

Investors are tired of this, and are running away.

Tech startups are losing millions, cant make profit.

Roads are broken. Loadshedding destroyed textile industry. Thousands of workers/labourers fired.


It takes eons to get paper work and business registered in Pakistan, stupid high taxes with no benefit/necessities.

Also, retards are increasing the prices of internet in already developing nation. idiots

60% of population is youth, majority of it is clueless or unskilled. Education system is in ruins. Raising low iq tiktokers instead of teaching them about programming, lifeskills, operating machinery etc, CAD modelling etc

Which clown wrote this article?

 

[Ghazwa-e-Hind]

Ontopic: forget about manufacturing electronics. China and other asian countries are doing it already.

Concentrate 100% energy on agriculture and water conservation.

Lower food prices, increase output. And start exporting excess.

Allah has given us all kinds of fertile lands. Use it.

 

[Areesh]

Ontopic: forget about manufacturing electronics

???

 

[Ghazwa-e-Hind]

???

Anay walay waqton mein sirf food/agriculture hi matter karega sir. jis raftaar se chezein ho rahi hain. us pe focus kiya jaye toe behtar hai

 

[Areesh]

Anay walay waqton mein sirf food/agriculture hi matter karega sir. jis raftaar se chezein ho rahi hain. us pe focus kiya jaye toe behtar hai

No country became a developed nation selling rice and wheat

Pakistan needs to focus on both. Manufacturing and agriculture for food security

 

[Ghazwa-e-Hind]

No country became a developed nation selling rice and wheat

Pakistan needs to focus on both. Manufacturing and agriculture for food security

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[Areesh]

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Even these two have a very good manufacturing base along with a strong agriculture sector

 

[Ghazwa-e-Hind]

Even these two have a very good manufacturing base along with a strong agriculture sector

You're right.

Literacy rate mein bhi bahut fark hai.
Compare their manufactured cars quality and ours.

Our main problem is education, 10-15 saal lageingay aik generation ko build karnay ke liye.

Humay ye nahi pata ke next 6 months mein kiya hoga.. Wheat kahan se le ke ayeingay? Oil etc.

Abhi baat survival ki chal rahi hai, development phase door hai.

China started stocking food long before Russia-Ukraine war, they predicted hyperinflation and its effects, long term planning helped.

Aur yahan IMF ki bheek mangtay phir rahy, aur property business bana rahy, khanay ki jagha cement khayeingay ye loog.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Ghazwa-e-Hind

Bhai,

Anay walay waqton mein sirf food/agriculture hi matter karega

Food grow karne ke liye bhi fertilisers aur chemicals chahiye jo imported hai. For transporting food from farms to consumers in cities too you will need transportation fuels.

Areeshbhai (@Areesh) is right, you need both industries and agriculture to survive, you will have to export manufactured goods to import fuel and fertilisers.

Regards

 

[James David]

Pakistan: The Next Electronics Manufacturing Hub?

Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. ...

www.southasiainvestor.com

Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. In 2021, local manufacturers produced 25 million handsets, up a whopping 88% increase from 13 million produced in 2020. A key factor credited for this rapid production ramp-up is the new Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy announced and implemented by former Prime Minister Imran Khan's government in 2020. It imposes high tariffs on the import of mobile phone sets and offers tax rebates for local manufacturing. The policy set a 49% localization target by June 2023, including 10% localization of components on the motherboard and 10% localization of batteries. Pakistan is forecast to be the world's 7th largest consumer market by 2030. The key to attracting more manufacturing in Pakistan lies in continuation of policies and a measure of political stability.

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Pakistan Going From Imports to Exports of Mobile Handsets. Source: PIDE

The local manufacturing plants have assembled 14.08 million mobile phone handsets in the first six months (January-June) of 2022, while imports declined to 1.14 million handsets, according to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Implementation of Device Identification Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) and conducive government policies including the Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy 2020 have created a favorable environment for mobile device manufacturing in Pakistan.

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Pakistan Mobile Phone Market. Source: PIDE

In addition to Samsung, a number of Chinese mobile handset manufacturers are investing in Pakistan to ramp up local production. Itel has manufactured 3.91 million mobile devices followed by VGO Tel's 2.97 million, Infinix 2.65 million, Vivo 2.45 million, Techno 1.87 million, QQMEE 0.86 million and Oppo 0.67 million. After the export of the first lot of 4G smartphones to the UAE in 2022, Pakistan has now set $1 billion target for mobile phone exports for the current fiscal year.

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Pakistan Telecom Indicators. Source: PTA

Pakistan wants to emulate Vietnam which has emerged as one of the leading countries in the assembly and export of smartphones and other consumer electronics devices in the past decade. Apple has recently moved part of its iPad manufacturing to Vietnam from China, where Covid lockdowns have disrupted supply chains. TRT World has recently quoted Quentin D’Silva, the head of Lucky's smartphone division in Pakistan, as saying, “It’s only in the last five to seven years that the smartphone business has mushroomed in developing countries like ours".

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Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. ...

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ain't gonna happen. period. NEXT!

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@James David

ain't gonna happen.

It will. The Indians stole a chunk of your software job- Pakistanis will steal whatever hardware jobs are still there in USA.

Regards

 

[James David]

It will. The Indians stole a chunk of your software job- Pakistanis will steal whatever hardware jobs are still there in

Well we outsource alot of jobs in India. I don't see any outsourced jobs in Pakistan.... oh well I forgot we let them do our dirty business bwahahahahaha!

 

[my2cents]

Pakistan: The Next Electronics Manufacturing Hub?

Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. ...

www.southasiainvestor.com

Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. In 2021, local manufacturers produced 25 million handsets, up a whopping 88% increase from 13 million produced in 2020. A key factor credited for this rapid production ramp-up is the new Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy announced and implemented by former Prime Minister Imran Khan's government in 2020. It imposes high tariffs on the import of mobile phone sets and offers tax rebates for local manufacturing. The policy set a 49% localization target by June 2023, including 10% localization of components on the motherboard and 10% localization of batteries. Pakistan is forecast to be the world's 7th largest consumer market by 2030. The key to attracting more manufacturing in Pakistan lies in continuation of policies and a measure of political stability.

​

Pakistan Going From Imports to Exports of Mobile Handsets. Source: PIDE

The local manufacturing plants have assembled 14.08 million mobile phone handsets in the first six months (January-June) of 2022, while imports declined to 1.14 million handsets, according to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Implementation of Device Identification Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) and conducive government policies including the Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy 2020 have created a favorable environment for mobile device manufacturing in Pakistan.

​

Pakistan Mobile Phone Market. Source: PIDE

In addition to Samsung, a number of Chinese mobile handset manufacturers are investing in Pakistan to ramp up local production. Itel has manufactured 3.91 million mobile devices followed by VGO Tel's 2.97 million, Infinix 2.65 million, Vivo 2.45 million, Techno 1.87 million, QQMEE 0.86 million and Oppo 0.67 million. After the export of the first lot of 4G smartphones to the UAE in 2022, Pakistan has now set $1 billion target for mobile phone exports for the current fiscal year.

​

Pakistan Telecom Indicators. Source: PTA

Pakistan wants to emulate Vietnam which has emerged as one of the leading countries in the assembly and export of smartphones and other consumer electronics devices in the past decade. Apple has recently moved part of its iPad manufacturing to Vietnam from China, where Covid lockdowns have disrupted supply chains. TRT World has recently quoted Quentin D’Silva, the head of Lucky's smartphone division in Pakistan, as saying, “It’s only in the last five to seven years that the smartphone business has mushroomed in developing countries like ours".

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Pakistan Gig Economy Among World's Fastest Growing

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Fintech Revolution in Pakistan

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Riaz Haq's Youtube Channel

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Soaring demand for consumer electronics and low labor costs are attracting major global smartphone manufacturers like Samsung to Pakistan. ...

www.southasiainvestor.com

Only possible with secure business environment. ROI is not the only yardstick for investment to happen. It depends on how sincere is your govt and how stable it can become in due time. You have to forgo your obsession with Kashmir and your enmity you bring to the table.

 

[GriffinsRule]

Pretty sure you need electricity as base necessity for manufacturing. I don't see it happening anytime soon

 

[RiazHaq]

Ontopic: forget about manufacturing electronics. China and other asian countries are doing it already.

Concentrate 100% energy on agriculture and water conservation.

Lower food prices, increase output. And start exporting excess.

Allah has given us all kinds of fertile lands. Use it.

Maersk and SEED Ventures collaborate to improve agricultural exports from Pakistan
July 28, 2022
By Jack Donnelly

Maersk and SEED Ventures collaborate to improve agricultural exports from Pakistan

Maersk Pakistan Private Limited (Maersk) and SEED Ventures have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the Pakistan Agripreneurship

www.porttechnology.org

Maersk Pakistan Private Limited (Maersk) and SEED Ventures have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the Pakistan Agripreneurship Challenge (PAC).

PAC is an Agri-value chain intervention challenge that aims to improve the quality of Pakistan’s agricultural produce and explore new global markets for Pakistan’s agriculture exporters.

In 2020, Pakistan produced 5.6 million metric tons of vegetables, of which the resulting export produce amounted to $4.92 million. In contrast, the Netherlands producing 5.3 million metric tons of vegetables, could export $31 billion worth of produce.

The comparison, Maersk argues, showcases Pakistan is not meeting its export potential for vegetables.

Issues pertaining to storage, transport & distribution are significant roadblocks for the Agri sector, and Maersk claims it is evident that a holistic value chain intervention is required for the post-harvest category.

PAC is an agripreneurship challenge that calls upon Agri ventures, innovators, farmers and agriculture students to participate and develop innovative solutions to solve the post-harvest challenges in Pakistan for vegetable produce.

The shortlisted finalists from the challenge will be given the opportunity to realise their innovative agripreneurship solutions by Maersk and SEED.

The 20 July collaboration signed between SEED Ventures and Maersk aims to identify potential solutions to support Pakistan in meeting its export potential.

Hasan Faraz, Managing Director, Maersk Pakistan, commented: “At Maersk, our purpose is to improve life for all by integrating the world. We are delighted to partner with SEED Ventures and contribute to improving Pakistan’s agricultural sector.”