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 […]
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 […]
