In August 2026, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission announced the name of Pakistan’s first lunar rover: Jinnah-1. The name was selected from 4,000 proposals submitted in a national competition. The winner was Tayyab Karim, a seventeen-year-old from Bahawalnagar. The rover, weighing 35 kilograms, is scheduled to travel to the Moon in 2029 […]
Senior AI engineers in Pakistan are earning up to $12,000 a month for remote roles. Here are the five skills commanding the highest premiums right now. Pakistan’s technology sector has spent the better part of two decades competing on cost. The 2026 salary landscape for AI-skilled developers suggests that era is over for the professionals […]
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 […]
Pakistan telecom cybersecurity rules under CTDISR-2025 mandate data localisation, CISOs, audits, continuity plans and 24-hour reporting. Pakistan telecom cybersecurity rules have changed significantly under CTDISR-2025, introducing stricter requirements for data localisation, cyber governance, audits, and incident reporting. Pakistan’s telecom sector has been operating under a new cybersecurity and data governance framework since late 2025, and […]
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. […]
