{"id":34104,"date":"2024-04-24T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34104"},"modified":"2024-04-24T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:06:01","slug":"pm-shehbaz-appoints-pti-govts-digital-aide-tania-aidrus-to-head-digital-nation-pakistan-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-appoints-pti-govts-digital-aide-tania-aidrus-to-head-digital-nation-pakistan-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz appoints PTI govt\u2019s digital aide Tania Aidrus to head \u2018Digital Nation Pakistan Initiative\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:<\/span>\u00a0Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted an interim Digital Committee for\u00a0the Digital\u00a0Nation Pakistan initiative, it emerged on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a notification dated April 17, the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Federal Ministry for Information Technology and Telecommunication appointed Tania S. Aidrus, a<\/span> digital<\/span>\u00a0expert,<\/span>\u00a0as the convener of an\u00a0interim Digital Committee. The notification has\u00a0<\/span>been issued<\/span>\u00a0with the approval of the Prime Minister of Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, it notified that the State Minister of IT & Telecom will be Chair of the committee, and Tania S. Aidrus will act as convener.\u00a0Other members include the Secretary of IT & Telecom, Dr. Sohail Munir, Salman Ahmed, Muhammad Ali Raza, and a member Co-opted by the Chair.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>objective of the committee<\/span>\u00a0is to provide transitional leadership and lay the groundwork for\u00a0the formal\u00a0establishment of the National Digital Commission (NDC) and Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA), the notification reads. Regarding digital vision, the committee will make its recommendations to the government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earlier, Tania Adirus served as former Head of PM Imran\u00a0<\/span>Khan\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0Digital Pakistan\u00a0<\/span>Initiative,<\/span>\u00a0but resigned\u00a0<\/span>from her position<\/span>\u00a0on June 29, 2020, following extreme criticism from the establishment and the opposition for having dual nationality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A senior\u00a0<\/span>official of the ministry<\/span>\u00a0has said that a similar committee\u00a0<\/span>was formed<\/span>\u00a0during former premier Imran\u00a0<\/span>Khan’s<\/span>\u00a0tenure\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0efforts\u00a0<\/span>were made<\/span>\u00a0for Digital Pakistan. Now a new committee has been formed\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0Tania has been re-appointed\u00a0<\/span>to it<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources told Daily Ausaf that Tania was then appointed as Special Assistant to PM Khan on the recommendation of Jahangir Tareen. However, under opposition pressure and law enforcement agencies reports, she was removed for having a foreign passport.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:\u00a0Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted an interim Digital Committee for\u00a0the Digital\u00a0Nation Pakistan initiative, it emerged on Wednesday. In a notification dated April 17, the\u00a0Federal Ministry for Information Technology and Telecommunication appointed Tania S. Aidrus, a digital\u00a0expert,\u00a0as the convener of an\u00a0interim Digital Committee. The notification has\u00a0been issued\u00a0with the approval of the Prime Minister of Pakistan.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15669,15668,15670],"class_list":["post-34104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-digital-nation-pakistan-initiative","tag-tania-aidrus","tag-tania-aidrus-as-head-of-digital-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}