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. […]
The rules governing H-1B visas and the green card pathway for skilled workers in America changed more in the twelve months between September 2025 and June 2026 than in the previous decade combined. A $100,000 employer fee, a new salary-weighted lottery system, and a reinterpretation of the adjustment of status process have collectively reshaped what […]
Pakistan’s technology sector has a well-documented talent export problem. The country produces world-class engineers who build global products from Karachi and Lahore, typically for companies headquartered elsewhere. It produces services firms that execute brilliantly for Fortune 500 clients. What it has struggled to produce, with one significant exception, is a Pakistani product that competes globally […]
Pakistan has spent the better part of a decade treating cryptocurrency as something between a regulatory blind spot and an unofficial prohibition. That era is ending. In March 2026, Parliament passed the Virtual Assets Act 2026, creating the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) and formally legalizing crypto under a structured regulatory framework. Now, ahead […]
