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ABOUT PAKISTAN
History
- Republic established in 1956
- Ex region of British India (independence in 1947)
- Today English is the official language, while Urdu is the national language
- Cultures influenced by: Vedic, Persian, Indo-Greek, Turco-Mongol, Islamic, and Sikh
Country short overview
- Capital: Islamabad (1,7 m)
- Largest cities: Karachi (12 to 18 m), Lahore (10 m)
- Population: 172 m
- Time zone: Central European Time (CET) + 4:00
- Religion: 96% Islam; ≈ 2% Hinduism
- About 500,000 tourists annually
- Society is largely hierarchical, with high regard for traditional Islamic values
What you didn’t know about Pakistan
- Contrary to popular misconception in the West: politicaly stable republic with free media and independent judiciary system
- Semi-industrialized tiger economy
- Government reforms over the past years have revitalized economic performance
- Crime rate in Pakistan is low compared to industrialized countries
- INTERPOL All Offences Combined Index 2007: 48.07 for Pakistan, compared with 1709.88 for Japan and 4123.97 for USA (figures per 100,000 population)
- Taliban population is less than 1%, concentrated only in North-West close to the border with Afghanistan
- BIG MISCONCEPTION that Pakistan is a really backward country where people lock up women and there are Taliban all over the place
Pakistan IT Industry
- Proactive Government development of IT sector in the last few years
- Tax Exemption till 2016, 100% foreign equity and earnings repatriation, establishment of world-class IT Parks
- IT Associations/Bodies
- Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) – Government body to promote the Pakistan IT Industry
- Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) – Pakistan Software Industry representative body
- Other Associations: CSP, OPEN, TIE , ACCO, PCA
- Recognized as one of the Top 5 most popular outsourcing destinations
- $2b Industry including $1b exports
- Software development Cost Index is 25% to 45% less that of India
- Tightening Intellectual Property Protection
- IT sector growth: more than 15% per year
- 954 Registered IT Companies
- IT workforce of 133,000
Sources of subsection Pakistan IT Industry: PSEB & PASHA
- 110 IT Universities/Colleges locally
- 20,000 IT graduates annually
- Good English language
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