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China is already one of Pakistan’s key trading partners. The current volume of trade is around US $5BN. However, the governments of the two countries, in the spirit of friendship and cooperation that has existed for over 4 decades now, have decided to form a Pak-China Investment company that will invest billions in Pakistan and [...]

This story caught our eye because we’ve experienced something very similar in Lahore. If you are in the Bedian, Mughalpura, Harbanspura or other areas close to the border with India, you will find that your GSM cell phone will pick up at least a couple of Indian cell phone networks! In particular, AirTel seems to [...]

Indian call centers expanded in the late 90s and early 2000s and since then have served as a social laboratory of sorts… a few years ago a stream of articles covered Dell’s outsourcing of their tech support to India. Apparently the accents – despite the neutralization training – were not tolerable to customers in the US, [...]

“We told you so!”. And if you’re asking, YES, that felt very good to say! When rumor mongers and Mountain-out-of-a-molehill specialists were running wild spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about the country’s economy, we asked our readers to invest in the KSE. We predicted on this very news site about 6 weeks ago, that the [...]

News has reached us from Beijing that several Chinese companies are bidding for the Lahore Software Park project on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis. China has done a wonderful job in many of its own provinces by rapidly upgrading infrastructure and building out very impressive software parks and special IT and export zones. Making use of the [...]

This is possibly the largest WiMax network currently operational, in the world. After much poking and prodding, it seems Wateen has listened to us and delivered the goods. While I don’t yet have a personal experience to report to our readers, suffice to say the Wateen website is proclaiming general availability. Moreover, this piece of [...]

Two interesting financial news items just appeared in the press. First, once again, foreign remittances coming into Pakistan (forex) have registered a 23.6% increase over the same period last year. Second, the KSE has continued its bullish rise to 14600 from 13100 in Nov when the PCO was passed. We have been encouraging our readers [...]

The OLPC’s XO (or “Sugar”) is really getting flattened. They’ve gone from catastrophe to catastrophe. Initially, they weren’t able to meet the $100 target and ended up being close to $200. Then some key countries that Mr. Negroponte was trying to win over – including Pakistan – decided to abandon the XO since it didn’t [...]

Click here to see a 3-D walkthrough of the new airport This is a huge step for infrastructure development in Pakistan. Not only does the country have a great new airport at Sialkot, which will undoubtedly ease exports, we have also taken a very important step towards encouraging large scale private sector infrastructure projects. “SIAL”, [...]

The wireless industry has made great strides in Pakistan, and the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) is planning to build on this momentum by pushing aggressively for 3G deployments through multiple carriers currently operating in the country. An article that appeared in The News outlines the PTA’s plan to hold a spectrum auction for 3G and [...]