{"id":188159,"date":"2021-02-17T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=188159"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:59:16","slug":"some-previous-court-decisions-hinder-technological-progress-in-country-fawad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2021\/02\/some-previous-court-decisions-hinder-technological-progress-in-country-fawad\/","title":{"rendered":"Some previous court decisions hinder technological progress in country: Fawad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-188159-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Federal-Minister-for-Science-and-Technology-Fawad-Chaudhry-chief-guest-at-International-Media-Conference.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Federal-Minister-for-Science-and-Technology-Fawad-Chaudhry-chief-guest-at-International-Media-Conference.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Federal-Minister-for-Science-and-Technology-Fawad-Chaudhry-chief-guest-at-International-Media-Conference.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>RAWALPINDI, Feb 17 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Wednesday said some previous court decisions hindered the technological progress in the country which was unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technological progress received a big blow in our country due to some previous court decisions,&#8221; he said while addressing at the two-day international media conference titled &#8220;Digital Media Ecologies in the New Normal Challenges and Opportunities&#8221; at the Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said Pakistan&#8217;s relations with digital companies had been deteriorated due to some court decisions in the year 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Telecommunication Authority&#8217;s decision to ban TikTok earlier last year also caused damage to these relations, he said and lamented, &#8220;Ban culture in the country has affected every sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plead judges not to hear cases relating to digital media,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to some universities imposing strict dressing codes, Fawad advised against enforcing strict measures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who want to wear jeans should be allowed to wear jeans. Others, who want to take an abaya should be allowed to do so,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister pointed out that Pakistan would not be able to attract foreign investment, if it did not alter its state policies. &#8220;Unemployment will end when foreign investment will come to Pakistan&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state cannot regulate everything; let the individuals decide what to do. Political and economic independence moulds an individual&#8217;s life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fawad advised students to choose the career they desired. &#8220;Those who want to study should study, but others who want to play video games should do that as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gone were the days when a person excelled in life only if they studied hard, he said. &#8220;Nowadays, you find even a 20-year-old a billionaire,&#8221; the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the media industry had witnessed a big change twenty years ago and would change dramatically in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Now the media industry is moving towards digital so educational institutions should also include essays and articles in the syllabus in that regard, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said during the span of two and a half years, our universities had rapidly moved towards channels, Twitter, Facebook etc.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the country&#8217;s power issues, he said Pakistan was generating electricity but encountering problems in its distribution.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan would spend Rs140 billion on electricity transmission systems.<\/p>\n<p>Fawad said he had also asked the energy minister to see if poles and wires would be needed in the next ten years or not.<\/p>\n<p>Around 50 percent of Europe&#8217;s vehicles were running on electricity, he said adding after electric vehicles in Pakistan, the mechanic would be the first to lose his job in the next ten years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI, Feb 17 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Wednesday said some previous court decisions hindered the technological progress in the country which was unfortunate. &#8220;Technological progress received a big blow in our country due to some previous court decisions,&#8221; he said while addressing at the two-day international media conference titled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":188160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Federal-Minister-for-Science-and-Technology-Fawad-Chaudhry-chief-guest-at-International-Media-Conference.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3-184-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188162,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188159\/revisions\/188162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}