Pakistan, the Next Software Hub?

[Adecypher]

And above 90% of IT guys either work directly with foreign clients

Agree with you on this, but I would also blame the local entities responsible to expose the legitimate companies for the foreign clients. When I was in a position to help get some US clients for the local market I contacted: P@SHA
thinking I'll get some feed back on the available domains we have expertise to exploit...I did not get any response from them and I transitioned to a different field.

The Pakistani's who I know here in US who have the means they normally travel back home and setup their own little outsourced IT support team/group/company; an example is "medical prescription translation and processing".

 

[Mr.Nair]

its his personal achievement, India didnt provide him anything. nonetheless a great achievement.

also Pakistan provides quality IT solutions, comparatively. In my experience. but ofcourse Indians are hard working and offers solutions at cheaper rates.

He studied in IIT and gone further studies abroad and want to say india do not provide any thing ! First of all you have to see some indian IT campuses and if cheaper rates are the criteria, then pakistan should be the leader of IT as it will be more cheaper than india

its his personal achievement, India didnt provide him anything. nonetheless a great achievement.

also Pakistan provides quality IT solutions, comparatively. In my experience. but ofcourse Indians are hard working and offers solutions at cheaper rates.

Google planning for a 2 million sq feet campus in india and that's their 1st campus outside US.Even china or europe do not have google campus.

@Jazzbot @SecularNationalist @Adecypher @Zarvan @Areesh @Atanz @Raja.Pakistani

 

[Faiez]

24 - 48 hours is too much, paypal and skrill transfer payments instantly in your online account. Then it takes a couple of days max to withdraw from your online account to your bank account. But like I've said before, Paypal is not supported (above 90% foreign clients use and prefer Paypal because of its low cost and security) and skrill wire transfers have a lot of issues because of our banking system.

what kind of services do you sell, as in what kind of customers do you have ?

Can't they just wire the money directly to your account ? Or do you have more of a retail level thing ?

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with some guy in the bank...But that rarely happens. And you could have even complained to his manager, such things are very serious and are fixed immediately in Pakistan. This is not where the fault is in pakistani banking system. The faults are that there's not enough banking hours (sat/sun is off, rest of the week 5pm off, wtf right?). And that it's too difficult to open up an account. These are the main problems. Complaints are dealt with very quickly.

 

[SHAMK9]

If Pakistan invests in schools and higher education instead of jihadi madarasas then it's possible.

Will keep that in mind bharti

 

[Metanoia]

Pakistan has the technical expertise in setting up madrassas and jihadi centers. Pakistan's jihad industry is unmatched all over the globe.

Indians need to understand....you might have better businesses, industries, space-programme, human capital etc. but we have Metro buses and more beautiful/handsome faces...therefore we're better.

 

[jamahir]

Pakistan has the technical expertise in setting up madrassas and jihadi centers. Pakistan's jihad industry is unmatched all over the globe.

Indians need to understand....you might have better businesses, industries, space-programme, human capital etc. but we have Metro buses and more beautiful/handsome faces...therefore we're better.

for a moment i thought you were a indian right-wing member.

 

[Metanoia]

for a moment i thought you were a indian right-wing member.

lol...It's just the truth man. What else can I say?

 

[Jazzbot]

what kind of services do you sell, as in what kind of customers do you have ?

Can't they just wire the money directly to your account ? Or do you have more of a retail level thing ?

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with some guy in the bank...But that rarely happens. And you could have even complained to his manager, such things are very serious and are fixed immediately in Pakistan. This is not where the fault is in pakistani banking system. The faults are that there's not enough banking hours (sat/sun is off, rest of the week 5pm off, wtf right?). And that it's too difficult to open up an account. These are the main problems. Complaints are dealt with very quickly.

I'm web developer, so I create websites for my clients who are mostly from europe, US and canada. They can wire to my account, but as per state bank's restrictions, no one can send a direct wire above 100k if he's not my relative. Now most of my clients are Westerners, the bankers start behaving strange after seeing the sender's name i.e. stephen, david, peter etc. Above all, usually my payments are around 100k or above, so getting them cleared is a pain. Asking clients to send multiple payments everytime is a pain for them..

Secondly, the guy who caused the problem was bank manager himself.

 

[Faiez]

I'm web developer, so I create websites for my clients who are mostly from europe, US and canada. They can wire to my account, but as per state bank's restrictions, no one can send a direct wire above 100k if he's not my relative. Now most of my clients are Westerners, the bankers start behaving strange after seeing the sender's name i.e. stephen, david, peter etc. Above all, usually my payments are around 100k or above, so getting them cleared is a pain. Asking clients to send multiple payments everytime is a pain for them..

Secondly, the guy who caused the problem was bank manager himself.

so you're using a personal bank account ? You don't have a company account ?
and 100k = USD 100,000 ?

 

[danger007]

You have sources for those figures?

We are no where even close to India the article is pure rubbish

If we were on a 100 km race , India is at 89 km mark and we are at 12km mark range



------------------Junior School Standard----High School--------University-----POST graduation training

Pakistan--------40% ------------------------------40%----------------41%---------------- 5%

India-------------80%------------------------------ 80%----------------90%----------------70% (Mostly free)



Pakistani Government nor the IT sector have any programs to train the lavel , of training India provides locally

I am not sure about the percentage, but yes plenty Indian states offering free education for poor students.. even there is mandatory to private schools, they should provide 25% free education to poor students in Andhra... Most of students in AP gets free education from KG to PG, as well for girls students they get free pass to travel from home to school...

 

[Jazzbot]

I'm talking about personal account, and 100k = 100,000 but in Pakistani Rupees.

so you're using a personal bank account ? You don't have a company account ?
and 100k = USD 100,000 ?

 

[Faiez]

I'm talking about personal account, and 100k = 100,000 but in Pakistani Rupees.

then obviously you're doing it wrong....

just register a single member company, open an account in the company's name....and use that.

 

[Last Samuri]

Indians need to understand....you might have better businesses, industries, space-programme, human capital etc. but we have Metro buses and more beautiful/handsome faces...therefore we're better.

That is rubbish

 

[Arush]

its his personal achievement, India didnt provide him anything. nonetheless a great achievement.

also Pakistan provides quality IT solutions, comparatively. In my experience. but ofcourse Indians are hard working and offers solutions at cheaper rates.

Indian goverment spends approximately RS 2lakh per annum on every iit,an too bad your country does not have such type of institution

 

[Asian.Century]

The world has started to take strong notice of Pakistan's IT and Software development potential. There are thousands of new IT based projects being developed in Pakistan especially Lahore at the moment. There are now 1,500 registered I.T. companies in Pakistan, and 10,000 I.T. grads enter the IT market every year to give services to local Pakistani businesses as well as world-wide, particularly Middle-east countries.

Enormous future in software, and IT market for Pakistanis.