Strategically located in South Asia, Pakistan is at the crossroads between Eastern and Western Asia. With three major international airports and thirty-eight domestic airports, Pakistan is accessible via fifty international airlines. Pakistan’s geographical location, a rapidly expanding transportation and communications infrastructure and an environment conducive to business makes it an attractive destination for investors.
Pakistan is emerging as the destination of choice for IT outsourcing in Pakistan for the following reasons:
- An IT workforce of 133,000 with good English language and people skills growing at a phenomenal rate of almost 20,000 a year.
- A hundred and ten ISO-certified IT companies, with over 25 undergoing CMMI rating.
- A reliable digital telecommunications infrastructure with backup and reliable energy and transport networks.
- An ambitious program of world-class IT Parks, with a rental rate of approx. US$1 per sq ft /month.
- A prosperous economy that offers lucrative domestic opportunities and is attracting increasing amounts of international investment.
- A steadily improving risk rating and a tightening environment for intellectual property protection.
- A streamlined government regulatory process of one of the most attractive incentive programs anywhere, which includes tax exemptions, 100% foreign equity and earnings repatriation.
- International leaders such as BearingPoint, NCR Teradata, Mentor Graphics and ZTE have chosen to locate their development and consultancy center in Pakistan.
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