Pak ranks 4th world IT service provider to overseas clients

[Neo]

Pakistan ranks fourth in world as IT service provider to overseas clients


ISLAMABAD - Services Trade Development Council (STDC) during its maiden meeting noted that Pakistan is the fourth largest IT service provider to the overseas clients ranked only behind US, India and Philippines with over 200,000 Pakistani professionals working in this field.

First meeting of the Services Trade Development Council took place in the Ministry of Commerce, which was chaired by the Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan, Minister for Commerce. The Minister said that Ministry of Commerce would put in place the regulatory framework necessary for enhancing the exports of services from Pakistan. The Council will consult the State Bank of Pakistan to devise a suitable mechanism to facilitate these IT professionals to bring the wages of their work to Pakistan directly.

In order to effectively market the Pakistani Technology industry, the Ministry of Commerce will enhance the participation of Pakistani IT companies in the international trade fares and exhibitions. The Government will also take measures to enhance the capacity of the free lancers working from their homes and small offices providing IT services to foreign clients. The Minister said that the Ministry will train its trade officers abroad to effectively market the Pakistani Technology industry.

The meeting also agreed to take necessary steps to enhance tourism especially religious tourism in the country as Pakistan hosts remains of various ancient civilisations and religions for example Indus Valley Civilisation, Gandhara, pertaining to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions. The Council suggested taking measures to enhance intra-SAARC trade of services which is currently very low.

Meeting was also attended by the representative of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, Secretary Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, representatives of Pakistan Software Houses Association for Information Technology, Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association, Travel Agents Association of Pakistan, Insurance Association of Pakistan and Constructors Association of Pakistan.

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[blueblood]

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Pakistan ranks fourth in world as IT service provider to overseas clients


ISLAMABAD - Services Trade Development Council (STDC) during its maiden meeting noted that Pakistan is the fourth largest IT service provider to the overseas clients ranked only behind US, India and Philippines with over 200,000 Pakistani professionals working in this field.

First meeting of the Services Trade Development Council took place in the Ministry of Commerce, which was chaired by the Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan, Minister for Commerce. The Minister said that Ministry of Commerce would put in place the regulatory framework necessary for enhancing the exports of services from Pakistan. The Council will consult the State Bank of Pakistan to devise a suitable mechanism to facilitate these IT professionals to bring the wages of their work to Pakistan directly.

In order to effectively market the Pakistani Technology industry, the Ministry of Commerce will enhance the participation of Pakistani IT companies in the international trade fares and exhibitions. The Government will also take measures to enhance the capacity of the free lancers working from their homes and small offices providing IT services to foreign clients. The Minister said that the Ministry will train its trade officers abroad to effectively market the Pakistani Technology industry.

The meeting also agreed to take necessary steps to enhance tourism especially religious tourism in the country as Pakistan hosts remains of various ancient civilisations and religions for example Indus Valley Civilisation, Gandhara, pertaining to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions. The Council suggested taking measures to enhance intra-SAARC trade of services which is currently very low.

Meeting was also attended by the representative of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, Secretary Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, representatives of Pakistan Software Houses Association for Information Technology, Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association, Travel Agents Association of Pakistan, Insurance Association of Pakistan and Constructors Association of Pakistan.

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Any non Pakistani source would be appreciated.

 

[Sambha ka Boss]

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The meeting also agreed to take necessary steps to enhance tourism especially religious tourism in the country as Pakistan hosts remains of various ancient civilisations and religions for example Indus Valley Civilisation, Gandhara, pertaining to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions. The Council suggested taking measures to enhance intra-SAARC trade of services which is currently very low.

Gandhara was a region, not a civilization.

 

[Sambha ka Boss]

Re: Pakistan ranks fourth in world as IT service provider to overseas

The meeting also agreed to take necessary steps to enhance tourism especially religious tourism in the country as Pakistan hosts remains of various ancient civilisations and religions for example Indus Valley Civilisation, Gandhara, pertaining to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions. The Council suggested taking measures to enhance intra-SAARC trade of services which is currently very low.

Gandhara was a region, not a civilization.

 

[Bangalorean]

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How many people want to bet that this will end up in the "Pakistani lies and denial thread" soon?

 

[thethinker]

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An observation :

Searching the news headlines brings up only these 2 websites :

Pakistan ranks fourth in world as IT service provider to overseas clients

Pakistan ranks fourth in world as IT service provider to overseas clients

More interestingly, the exact same article is found on both of them. And no other news sources outside Pakistan seem to carry such information.

Must be a RAW-CIA-Mossad conspiracy you see!

 

[sydsnyper]

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Magar ismein toh pakistan nahi hai??? Al-Bakistan ke naam se bhi kuchh nahi....

http://www.tholons.com/TholonsTop100/pdf/Tholons Top 100 2013_Rankings and Report Overview.pdf

 

[Free Karma]

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LOL?

20pc decline in export of services - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

4 billion $ is the whole services Industry....IT would be much smaller, hard to believe Pak is the 4th largest.

http://www.sbp.org.pk/ecodata/ExportsImports-Goods.pdf

Exports of Services : US$ 5,261 Million

9. Telecommunications, computer, and information services : US$ 817 Million

4th world wide with 817 million export?

 

[thethinker]

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ISLAMABAD - Services Trade Development Council (STDC) during its maiden meeting noted that Pakistan is the fourth largest IT service provider to the overseas clients ranked only behind US, India and Philippines with over 200,000 Pakistani professionals working in this field.

@Neo -

Noted from where exactly? Please provide the factual sources behind such notings.

If you can claim a specific number like 4 in rankings and that too globally, then the source from which it is derived should also be mentioned.

 

[Redhawk]

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The meeting also agreed to take necessary steps to enhance tourism especially religious tourism in the country as Pakistan hosts remains of various ancient civilisations and religions for example Indus Valley Civilisation, Gandhara, pertaining to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions.

They want to enhance religious tourism in Pakistan to include Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and other religions ? Seriously? The Taliban slaughters 145 people, including 132 children, all Muslim, in Peshawar and they are going to "enhance" religious tourism from other religions, including Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists. I don't know what they are going to do to "enhance" religious tourism to Pakistan, but it is very doubtful that it will be successful as long as the place remains infested with fanatical Muslim terrorists. I can just see the headlines now: "200 Japanese Buddhists Massacred on Bus Trip to Gandhara: Taliban claim responsibility: Attack was on idol-worshipping infidels". Yeah, lots of luck with "enhancing" religious tourism to Pakistan!

 

[Bangalorean]

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If further proof and reliable data is not forthcoming within 24 hours, this is going into the "Pakistani lies and denial thread".

 

[dastan]

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LOL guys give the poor chap some rest

 

[sorcerer]

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What brought me to this thread was...I meant IT means International Terrorism for Pakistan.. My first concern was how the heck they dropped 4 points on the rank?

The article itself looks like written by a journalist with 12 year old vocabulary smoking Afghan weed.

Services Trade Development Council (STDC) during its maiden meeting noted that Pakistan is the fourth largest IT service provider to the overseas clients ranked only behind US, India and Philippines with over 200,000 Pakistani professionals working in this field.

Over 2 00 000 Professionals working and the industry is 4th largest. Defenitely weed!!

Reality Check

Global IT ranking: Pakistan drops 14 places in a year

KARACHI:

Pakistan's ranking dropped 14 places to 102 in a year out of the 142 countries in the Global Information Technology Report 2012 of the World Economic Forum with most pillars deteriorating.

The ranking shows the government's lack of efficiency and poor governance, reads a statement released by WEF's local partner Mishal Pakistan.

The report indicates challenges and opportunities on 10 different pillars, where Pakistan has not been able to show any remarkable improvements in the previous year.

The only positive from the report was that Pakistan stood the fourth cheapest mobile cellular tariffs, showing the cut-throat competition in the telecom sector.

Cellular tariffs came under affordability in the ten pillars which had an impressive rank of 26 among the total 142 countries.

Pakistan lost its competitive advantage on the fixed broadband internet tariffs, where it dropped the ranking to 79 in from 36. The extent of information and communications technologies improving access for all citizens to basic services – health, education, financial services – also took a dip to 113, falling back 30 places from last year.

Pakistan also improved its competitiveness in certain areas including, efficiency of the legal system in challenging regulations, where Pakistan improved from 95 in 2011 to 79 in 2012 out of 142 countries. The judicial independence was also highlighted as one of the advantages in Pakistan.

The quality of education system and the capacity for innovation also shows improvement of 7 points each ranking at 79 and 51, respectively.

Sweden stood (1st) and Singapore (2nd) top the rankings in this year's report in leveraging information and communications technologies to boost country competitiveness. Switzerland (5th), the Netherlands (6th), the United States (8th), Canada (9th) and the United Kingdom (10th) also show strong performances in the top 10.

"Despite efforts over the past decade to develop information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, a new digital divide in terms of ICT impacts persists," sums up the report.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2012.

Global IT ranking: Pakistan drops 14 places in a year – The Express Tribune

66 Pakistan $ 25,050,000,000 2013 est.

List of countries by exports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The total export ranking of Pakistan is 66 ..


FROM 102 to 4Th Largest in 2 years time... Must be the Afghan weed.
Quoting Sherlock holmes : "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth"

Spoiler

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The news article posted by @Neo would go into the very famous "Pakistani lies and denial thread".

 

[thethinker]

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Offshore Software Development – Gartner’s Top 30 Countries | CamiApp

Gartner's Top 30 locations for offshore services in 2010, by region, are:

Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Peru.
Asia/Pacific: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Mauritius, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey and Ukraine.

So are we to understand that just within 2-4 short years, Pakistan has improved so much in terms of stability and ease of doing IT offshoring business that out of nowhere it has overtaken Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

 

[cannonfodder]

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Folks I think IT according to them is International Terrorism.

And yes most of us will accept Paki must ranked number 1 in that.

Offshore Software Development – Gartner's Top 30 Countries | CamiApp

Gartner's Top 30 locations for offshore services in 2010, by region, are:

Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Peru.
Asia/Pacific: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Mauritius, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey and Ukraine.

So are we to understand that just within 2-4 short years, Pakistan has improved so much in terms of stability and ease of doing IT offshoring business that out of nowhere it has overtaken Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

 

[rock127]

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The report is not right.

Pakistan should be #1 in IT outsourcing and issuing over Phd/Degree/Diplomas as well.

IT = International Terrorism.

 

[thethinker]

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Stable electricity supply is important for data centers and IT stuff.
You simply can't assume you can power your servers, data centers and office computers out of thin air just because a group of Madrassah mullahs in Pakistan proclaim so. @Neo

Load shedding and the Pakistani professional | Pakistan Today

And still 4th largest IT services provider in the world??

 

[Ray]

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Offshore Software Development – Gartner's Top 30 Countries | CamiApp

Gartner's Top 30 locations for offshore services in 2010, by region, are:

Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Peru.
Asia/Pacific: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Mauritius, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey and Ukraine.

So are we to understand that just within 2-4 short years, Pakistan has improved so much in terms of stability and ease of doing IT offshoring business that out of nowhere it has overtaken Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

What maybe we have missed is that overseas service IT providers maybe right, because a huge many from Pakistan would be the service support for the Overseas Terrorists and that cannot be officially countred.

 

[anupamsurey]

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yeah exactly my thought.

The report is not right.

Pakistan should be #1 in IT outsourcing and issuing over Phd/Degree/Diplomas as well.

IT = International Terrorism.

 

[anupamsurey]

this report looks like, and reeks like the previous report where some fool said that pakistan exports multimillion dollars of weapons to international client.

it sure looks like a propaganda to change the usual paki image in international arena.