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 […]
Pakistan’s large-scale manufacturing (LSM) grew 6.48% in the first nine months of FY2025-26, the strongest performance in four years. Growth was recorded in 16 of 22 tracked industrial sectors. The automobile sector led with a 61% surge. The economy expanded 3.7% for the full year, falling short of the government’s 4.2% target but recovering measurably […]
Pakistan’s FY2026-27 budget, presented on June 10 by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, drew a divided verdict from the technology industry. IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja called it a “massive win” for the sector. Former P@SHA Chairman Syed Ahmed called it a failure. The truth sits somewhere in between: the budget delivered on a handful of […]
Pakistan signed more artificial intelligence and technology agreements in 2025 and the first half of 2026 than in the previous five years combined. The pace reflects a shift in how the country is positioning itself: less as a cheap outsourcing destination, more as a market for AI infrastructure, talent pipelines, and regional technology partnerships. The […]
Women hold a fraction of the visible leadership positions in Pakistan’s technology sector relative to their presence in its talent base. The gap is structural, documented, and closing — slowly. Female-founded and co-founded startups accounted for 31 percent of disclosed funding deals in 2025, up from 13 percent the year before. That shift is not […]
Pakistan has built more fintech infrastructure in the past decade than most people realise. JazzCash serves 48 million registered users. Easypaisa became the country’s first licensed digital retail bank in January 2025. RAAST, the State Bank’s instant payment rail, processed 89 percent of all retail transactions by early 2025. The country has 450 fintech companies, […]
Budget 2026 failed to address the major demands of the IT sector. It seems the government is perfectly happy with 20% annual export growth, which could be 200% with the right policies. That verdict comes from Syed Ahmed, former Chairman of P@SHA, the Pakistan Software Houses Association, speaking to TechJuice after the budget was presented. […]
