Former Chief of Staff at Google headquarters, Pakistani Tania Aidrus quits top job to lead Digital Pakistan initiative

*KARACHI – **Former Chief of Staff at Google headquarters, Pakistani TaniaAidrus quits top job to lead ‘Digital Pakistan’ initiative.*

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday launched ‘Digital Pakistan’ aimed atintroducing the latest technology for public welfare.

The project will be headed by former Chief of Staff and Head of StrategicInitiatives on the Next Billion Users (NBU) team at Google Tania Aidrus,who left her very well-paying job and has come to Pakistan to head DigitalPakistan on the request of the premier.

Thank you PM @ImranKhanPTIlink and @JahangirKTareenlink for giving me theopportunity to contribute back to Pakistan. With everyone’s support we willinshallah make #DigitalPakistanlinkvisiona reality.

As the PM says “ghabrana naheen hai” ????

— Tania Aidrus (@taidrus) December 5, 2019link

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Before her appointment at Google, Aidrus co-founded ClickDiagnostics— amobile health diagnostics company that connects patients in rural areas todoctors around the world.

“A person I knew told the prime minister about me and forwarded an email tohis reform team to contact me. Over the next course of months, I was incontact with Jahangir Tareen and members of the federal cabinet. I even metthe president before I met Prime Minister Imran and discussed the project,”Aidrus said during the launch ceremony.

She stated that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government was taking *roti,kapra aur makaan *a step forward to *roti, kapra, makaan aur *internetconsidering access to internet a right of every Pakistani.