Anusha Rahman Khan, a former minister of state for information technology and telecommunications, has been nominated by the Pakistani government and the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) to run in the elections for the position of Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Syed Amin-Ul-Haque, the federal minister for IT and telecom, has declared that the government will assist her wholeheartedly in order for her to achieve historic triumph in the elections.
Rahman has served as an Advocate of the High Court. She was nominated as Regional Advisor to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization, UK, for the East and South Asia region in 2018. She has also served as the Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication and as an Information Communication Technology (ICT) professional.
Rehman graduated in Law and has a Master’s in Law from University College London, with a specialization in law and economics of regulated industries, networks, and markets.
As a Federal Minister, she successfully oversaw three rounds of auctions of spectrum for the Next Generation Mobile Services (3G / 4G). Consequently, broadband penetration increased from less than three percent in 2013 to 40 percent by 2018 and is over 53 percent today.
