{
  "id": 10930703,
  "title": "Pakistan assembles 18.66m mobile handsets in 8 months of 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/pakistan-assembles-18-66m-mobile-handsets-in-8-months-of-2026",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-30T11:48:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40441993/pakistan-assembles-1866m-mobile-handsets-in-8-months-of-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}