I don't think its a good idea at all.
How India gonna benefit from it????????????
We are one of the world's leading center of excellence for IT and Bio Tech and are decades ahead of them.
pakistan may have its own industry and they may be gonna a take over the world in IT as many have claimed in previous threads, Best of luck for that.
But there is nothing India can get from pakistan specially in these two fields of IT and bio tech.
IT is all about collaborations and some affinities between India and Pakistan would make the collaboration more fruitful...Pakistan can offer a lot to India in the form of talented pool of Manpower, joint development and exploiting each other advantages. This is not what I am saying
This is said by Naryana Murty, one of doyens of Indian IT industry.
Huge potential if India and Pakistan collaborate: Narayana Murthy
NEW DELHI: Troubled past does not mean we should have a troubled future. Yet for business to flourish, we must ensure security of lives and livelihoods in both countries.
That was Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy addressing the Indo-Pak business meet organised by CII in cooperation with Times Group, Pakistani media house Jang Group and the Pakistan- India CEOs Business Forum on Tuesday.
Mr Murthy said he sees a huge potential in India and Pakistan collaborating on businesses spanning technology to healthcare, provided peace and security prevails between the two countries.
Drawing attention to the fact that the political is yet to infringe into the personal when it comes to Indo-Pak relationships, Mr Murthy said his son Rohan a PhD scholar at Harvard University has a Pakistani friend and both yearn for peace.
Rohan envisages a future where both countries collaborate for a cricket team, bringing together the best of Indian and Pakistani talent to beat every other nation in the world, Mr Murthy said.
Extend this collaboration to other areas and you can have best brains in both countries collaborating to develop cures for TB and malaria.
Mr Murthy pointed to Indias growth story where IT exports have increased 5,000 times in the last 17 years to touch $50 billion. Pakistans technology services exports were about $300 million a few years ago.
They can gain a lot from our expertise in delivering global technology and business services. Pakistan can offer a talented pool of IT-BPO workers, developing the region as a destination of choice for global companies, he said.
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he two countries need to look to the European Union, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), and even China, which is now seeking closer economic ties with Japan and Korea to compensate for its own economic deficiencies, he said.
Today, France and Germany going to war is inconceivable as both have built strong economic relationship with each other, he added, citing that in 2008, France sent 14.4% of its exports to Germany and the latter in turn had exports worth E18 billion to France.
European Union extended economic cooperation and within one generation, centuries of conflict have become a distant reality in Europe. If Europe can overcome history, war and genocide to achieve economic development and prosperity, surely we can do that, Mr Murthy said.
