Pakistan: Local mobile phone production hits 30.21mn units in 2025
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
- The total value of mobile phone imports stands at Rs417.351bn during FY2024-25
The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 30.21 million mobile handsets during the calendar year (January-December) 2025 compared to 2.37 million imported commercially.
Official data revealed that 2.61 million mobile handsets were manufactured/ assembled in December 2025 against 0.33 million imported commercially.
The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 30.21 million mobile handsets included 15.64 million smartphones and 14.57 million 2G phones.
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Besides, as per the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) data, 71 per cent of mobile devices are smartphones, and 29 per cent are 2G on the Pakistan network.
Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $801.139 million in the first five months (July-November) of the current fiscal year 2025-26 compared to $570.184 million during the same period of last year, registering a growth of over 40.51 percent.
Official data revealed that in terms of rupees, the total value of mobile phone imports stood at Rs226.133 billion during July-November 2025 compared to Rs158.518 billion, registering 42.65 percent growth.
On a Month-on-Month (MoM) basis, Pakistan’s mobile phone imports saw a 8.30 percent growth, totalling $156.565 million in November 2025, compared to $1444.563 million in October 2025. Year on year mobile imports witnessed a negative growth of 4.81 percent when compared to $149.378 million in November 2024.
Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.494 billion in the last fiscal year 2024-25, registering a fall of 21.31 per cent compared to $1.898 billion during the previous year, 2023-24.
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In terms of Pakistani rupees, the total value of mobile phone imports stood at Rs417.351 billion during fiscal year 2024-25. This represents a 22.09 percent decline when compared to Rs535.690 billion in the same period of 2023-24.
Overall telecom imports into Pakistan stood at $2.099 billion during fiscal year 2024-25, reflecting a negative growth of 11.30 percent when compared to $2.366 billion during the same period of 2023-24.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
