Call Centres to create 15,000 jobs in Karachi

Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]:

KARACHI (February 01 2005): Various foreign and local investors would set up call centres in different parts of Karachi as part of their investment here in the first phase which would help provide jobs to up to 15,000 people. This was announced in an official statement issued here on Monday. It said the foreign and local investors met with the Sindh Minister for Information Technology Syed Mustafa Kamal in his office here on Monday.

They informed the Minister they would sat up call centres in different parts of Karachi within three months' time as first phase of their investment here. This would create job opportunities for 10,000 to 15,000 people.