Pakistan's Tech Future: Telecom Bill, AI Revolution & The Bureaucracy | Habibullah Khan | LUBP Ep 6

Habibullah Khan — digital economy expert, founder of Penumbra, ex-Cisco, ex-Levi's — joins Let Us Build Pakistan to break down the Telecom Bill controversy and what Pakistan needs to compete in the AI era: Digital Public Infrastructure, broadband, and sovereign compute. Subscribe: @LetsBuildPK #Pakistan #LUBP #HabibullahKhan #TechPakistan #TelecomBill #AIRevolution #FarhadJarral 0:00 — Introduction 1:00 — Career: Levi's, Cisco, Qatar Foundation 5:21 — "The P in Pakistan stands for Product" 9:55 — Pakistan AI Week — what 80 crore rupees achieved 13:42 — Three things Pakistan needs for digital control 14:05 — Digital Public Infrastructure — India's lead 18:52 — Three pieces: DPI, Super App, Broadband 22:24 — 5G spectrum auction — why pricing backfired 23:31 — "Inference compute is the new oil" 24:42 — GovGPT — Pakistan's sovereign AI in development 27:00 — The Manhattan Project parallel for AI compute 29:13 — Why SIFC instead of empowering existing ministries? 32:11 — The three-layer stack: policy, authorities, execution 37:55 — Right of Way bill — the contested clauses explained 39:46 — Acquisition vs. access — the legal distinction 41:38 — Public sector land now free of charge 45:41 — The 50 crore fine — who it actually targets 48:27 — 5G's real power: density and latency 50:50 — "We missed the industrial revolution. We'll miss AI too" 53:46 — Civil service reform: 1973 rules and a National Economic Charter 57:44 — Shehbaz Sharif's work ethic and the human cost 61:30 — Pakistan's next 10 years