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Muhammad Aslam Hayat
Muhammad Aslam Hayat

The writer is chief corporate affairs and strategy officer at Telenor Pakistan.

  • April 08, 2026

    Pakistan’s hyperscale moment

    Khanza Data Center UAE. —Khanza Data Center website/FileThe Gulf region...

  • March 10, 2026

    This AI moment needs data governance

    AI letters and robot hand are placed on computer motherboard in this...

  • January 26, 2026

    Power, privacy and governance

    A representational image of a person using coding for data purposes. —...

  • September 06, 2021

    Additional frequencies

    The government issued a policy directive last month for auctioning of additional spectrum for Next Generation Mobile Services . The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority efficiently issued an...

  • April 19, 2021

    A bad policy

    The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has issued a draft National Broadband Policy 2021 for consultation. The past policies, coming out of the ministry, were of high quality...

  • March 22, 2021

    Time to rethink

    The licenses of three mobile cellular operators are under process for renewal and it is an opportunity to correct some anomalies in the cellular framework to make the sector more efficient and...

  • March 08, 2021

    Along way to go

    The government has recently issued a policy directive on the long-awaited issue of Right of Way . This was one of the pillars of the deregulation of telecom sector in Pakistan and single most...