Musk-owned Starlink gets registered with Pakistan's SECP

• Space board authority looking into various technical aspects: minister.
• Starlink communicated about the progress, she says.
• Musk confirms awaiting govt’s approval to launch Starlink.

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Monday confirmed that the satellite-based internet-providing company Starlink, owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, was registered with the Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).

"[Following the approval] the space board authority is looking into various technical aspects and we have communicated [about this] to Starlink," she said while speaking to Geo.tv.  

Furthermore, the IT minister said, a regulatory regime was being worked out so that all low earth orbit (LEO) satellite companies including Starlink "is open to all international companies". 

The development came two days after Musk confirmed that he was awaiting Islamabad’s approval to launch Starlink in Pakistan.

He made the remarks while responding to messages on social media platform X by a Pakistani social media activist.