TechLahore

  Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, talking to the press during the Punjab Information Technology Board meeting in Lahore, said that the Punjab Government had finalized plans to establish an “Internet City” near Kalashah Kaku. The image above shows the KSK M2 Motorway Interchange. The site of this new Internet City will be somewhere around here. [...]

News.com reports that iPod prices in Pakistan are amongst the most competitive in the world and in fact, the cheapest in South Asia. Why does this have to do with the price of tea in China, you ask? Well, it’s an indication that the import regime for electronics and technology products is pretty favourable in [...]

Mukesh Ambani is one of two sons of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Group in India. Conde Naste’s Portfolio magazine reports this month that Mukesh has been busily building a personal residence for himself worth one billion dollars. Yes, $1 BN. That’s US, by the way, not the somewhat discounted Australian or Canadian variety. How [...]

No, I’m not going to launch into political discourse here. My aim is only to share with you the real impact of this so-called “emergency” on IT businesses in Pakistan, and their international customers. I have been fielding dozens of questions from partners based mostly in the US since the imposition of the emergency and [...]