Pakistan assembles 18.66m mobile handsets in 8 months of 2026
ISLAMABAD: The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 18.66 million mobile handsets during the first eight months of calendar year 2026 compared to 2.74 million imported commercially. Official data revealed that Pakistan assembled 134,501, 5G enabled mobile handsets during August 2026, compared to 553,079 during 20025. The local manufacturing/ assembling plants…
Pakistan's local manufacturing and assembling plants produced 18.66 million mobile handsets, including 8 million smartphones and 11 million 2G phones, during the first eight months of 2026, according to Business Recorder. This figure contrasts with 2.74 million imported commercially during the same period. The country's mobile phone imports declined by 8.85 percent to $274.129 million in the first two months of the current fiscal year, compared to $300.741 million in the same period of the previous year.
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