In Pakistan’s noisy tech streets freelancers doing midnight sprints around power cuts, startups scrimping to keep servers alive, founders flying to meet clients because local procurement rarely buys from them. The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) sits like an institutional fossil. Founded in the dial up era to “promote Pakistan’s IT industry,” it still evaluates … Read more
The writing is on the wall. We just got bail out funds from Xi, its not a bad thing. Who else would underwrite the plundering of all our combined leadership or the lack thereof. “China comes with a lot of money and says you can borrow this money,” Dr. Mahathir said in an interview before the … Read more
Before you start reading. I urge you to watch the above first to get the context. If you cant relate to it. Dont read further. In the summer of 2017 I put out a survey based on the request from all those friends, colleagues, family members professional acquaintances and aspirants from the Pakistani diaspora who … Read more
There’s a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame But it’s written in the scriptures And it’s not some idle claim Every month, every week, every day, someone is hell bent on asking, probing or claiming something to do with a payments play. I say “stop it.” The answer is self evident. Like … Read more
Pakistan has many internal and external aggressors. We cant blame every thing on external elements, as we are, ourselves to blame for letting things get out of hand. A strange thing is happening in Pakistan, in the race to the top of Tech stardom. Before we dive in to the details, to understand what’s going … Read more