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Pakistan manufactures over a million cell phones in early 2024

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KARACHI: Pakistan has made significant progress in mobile phone production, with local manufacturing and assembly plants producing more than 1.3 million mobile phones in the first five months of 2024.

As per the reports, from January to May, local manufacturing and assembly plants in Pakistan produced a total of more than 1.3 million mobile phones.

The country has also seen considerable activity in exports, with 7.6 million mobile phones manufactured and assembled in Pakistan being exported.

In May alone, local production reached 2.023 million mobile handsets, confirming the industry’s ability to scale production effectively.

Additionally, over 100,000 mobile sets were commercially imported in May 2024.

The composition of domestic production includes 4.98 million 2G mobile phones and 8.1 million smartphones.

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