{"id":101341,"date":"2025-11-17T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistans-it-sector-maintains-upward-momentum-with-17-annual-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:56:06","slug":"pakistans-it-sector-maintains-upward-momentum-with-17-annual-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistans-it-sector-maintains-upward-momentum-with-17-annual-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s IT sector maintains upward momentum with 17% annual growth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pakistan\u2019s IT exports reached 386 million dollars in October 2025, according to the State Bank of Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As per report shared by the State Bank IT exports recorded a 17 per cent year-on-year increase, along with a 5 per cent rise compared with the previous month. The average monthly IT exports over the past year stood at 332 million dollars.<\/p>\n

In Karachi, the central bank\u2019s data indicated that total IT exports from July to October surged by 20 pe rcent, reaching 1.4 billion dollars.<\/p>\n

For the current fiscal year, the government has set an IT export target of 5 billion dollars, while the previous year\u2019s IT exports amounted to 3.8 billion dollars.<\/p>\n

Industry experts described the figure as the highest monthly performance in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

In September 2025 alone, monthly IT exports hit a record $366 million, the SBP reported.<\/p>\n

Industry experts said that Pakistani IT firms are increasingly focusing on enterprise resource planning (ERP), automation systems, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, contributing to higher global demand.<\/p>\n

Freelancers from Pakistan are also playing a key role, earning valuable foreign exchange by completing international projects through major global platforms.<\/p>\n

The training of young IT professionals and institutional capacity-building programs are creating new employment opportunities and helping sustain export growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan\u2019s IT exports reached 386 million dollars in October 2025, according to the State Bank of Pakistan. As per report shared by the State Bank IT exports recorded a 17 per cent year-on-year increase, along with a 5 per cent rise compared with the previous month. The average monthly IT exports over the past year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PK-1.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t