Llama 4, Qwen 3, Mistral, Falcon, and DeepSeek are the open-weight models Pakistani enterprises need to understand in 2026. Here is the practical guide. The most consequential shift in enterprise AI over the past eighteen months has not been the release of any single model. It has been the arrival of open-weight AI at a […]
5G Operators Jazz leads with 689 5G sites, Zong has 338, Ufone 100. Pakistan’s commercial 5G network is live. Here is the enterprise case, honestly assessed. Pakistan entered 2026 with a 5G question and is exiting the year with a 5G network. Jazz, Zong, and Ufone have all received 5G licences and launched commercial services, […]
Top Pakistani engineers educated at home are now building foundational quantum systems, enterprise AI platforms, and the architecture of global cybersecurity. Pakistan’s technology narrative tends to concentrate on export figures, freelancer growth, and unicorn counts. What it rarely interrogates is the depth of technical expertise that has emerged from institutions like NED University of Engineering […]
M Zubair won $250,000 at the Esports World Cup in Paris. But this moment belongs to every Pakistani gamer who came before him too. On 7 August 2026, Muhammad Zubair sat across from South Korea’s LowHigh in the grand final of the Esports World Cup in Paris and won 5–0. He took home $250,000 from […]
Pakistan launched Sky47 Karakoram-01 on 24 July 2026 and is deploying NVIDIA GPUs across public institutions to build national ai infrastructure. Here is how it compares to regional peers. On 24 July 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir jointly inaugurated Sky47 Karakoram-01 in Islamabad, Pakistan’s largest AI-ready sovereign cloud facility. […]
Enterprise compute requirements are being rewritten by AI inference. Where cloud adoption once centered on storage, application hosting, and data pipelines, production AI workloads demand GPU-accelerated compute, high-throughput networking, and the operational discipline to manage systems that fail expensively when under-resourced. According to Goldman Sachs Research, global AI infrastructure investment is projected to approach $200 billion by […]
Pakistani immigrants are behind ten US billion-dollar startups, from a $60B AI code editor to a $5B workflow platform for agentic AI. A 2026 study by the National Foundation for American Policy found that Pakistani immigrants are among the founders or co-founders of ten privately held US companies valued at one billion dollars or more. […]
Pakistan’s BPO exports crossed $322M, up 19%. The same workforce training AI models for frontier labs is indistinguishable from a well-run call centre. Pakistan’s call centre and BPO sector crossed $322 million in export revenue in the first eleven months of FY2025-26, up 19 per cent year on year. More than 1,000 operations are registered […]
Careem Mafia Pakistan produced a new generation of startup founders after Uber acquired Careem for $3.1B, shaping Pakistan’s B2B, fintech, logistics, and commerce ecosystem. Uber’s acquisition of Careem for $3.1 billion in March 2019 was the largest technology exit the Middle East and North Africa had ever produced. The deal generated liquidity for hundreds of […]
Pakistan’s IT sector just recorded its best year. Exports crossed $4 billion for the first time in FY2025-26, reaching $4.184 billion according to State Bank of Pakistan data, with ICT export remittances growing approximately 20 percent year-on-year. Freelancer exports grew 51 percent to $856 million. The PSEB reported a trade surplus of $2.91 billion for […]
