TechLahore

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been able to post much here. One of the reasons why – perhaps even the most pleasant one – was that I was away at GITEX in Dubai. GITEX has grown to be one of the largest tech shows on the planet, with attendees and exhibitors from [...]

Let the good times roll! The KSE is rocketing north once more, foreign exchange remittances by Pakistanis abroad are hitting all time highs and property deals are happening left, right and center. The Pakistani economy is booming, baby! I was thrilled to see a recent announcement by the much respected Defence Housing Authority, Lahore, concerning [...]

There is little doubt in the fact that the UAE and Pakistani economies are increasingly inter-twined. On this very blog, we’ve talked about substantial UAE investments in Pakistan, in particular in real-estate, Banking and Telecommunications. And of course, in one of the most important new projects under construction in Pakistan, the $5BN Khalifa Refinery. This, [...]

Mansour Bajwa, Commercial Counselor for Pakistan in Dubai, was quoted in this story highlighting the rapid growth in exports from Pakistan to the UAE. “Pakistan is also increasing exports of [..] IT software products, particularly to the UAE“, he said. Pakistani software shops have been developing solutions for UAE companies for many years now, but [...]

There’s this amazing new building coming up in Dubai. You can write an article a week that starts with that sentence, but be talking about a different structure piercing the heavens above the United Arab Emirates. The amount of architectural innovation stemming from the increasingly audacious projects being pursued in Dubai is staggering. The Burj al [...]

Now this piece of news was interesting to me at multiple levels. First, since I travel quite a bit I’ve always wondered what the next generation of entertainment and business technologies available in-flight would be. Well, we now have an institution in our own neighbourhood that will be dedicated to improving the travel experience by [...]

I’m sorry, Ok!? I know this one is a bit off topic, but I am hostage to my aviation aficionado sensibilities. The Aerion is a private jet which travels at a brisk Mach 1.6 and will get Sheikh Rashid from Dubai to London in a little over 3 hours. The price: a mere $80M. Previously, [...]

DAWN‘s business section carries an interesting story today detailing the growth of the IT market in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and the UAE principally account for both the overall size and the rapid growth. Given Pakistan’s very close relations with both countries, and the easy accessibility of both markets, this bodes well for export [...]