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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Pakistan's Tech Future Takes Centre Stage at London Tech Week 2025
LONDON, June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies, Pakistan is making a bold statement at London Tech Week 2025. Represented by Tech Destination Pakistan, the country showcases a dynamic, English-speaking, and tech-savvy youth population. Pakistan offers a powerful blend of talent, innovation, and global readiness, positioning it among the most promising emerging tech hubs worldwide. Backed by a rapidly expanding IT industry, a thriving startup ecosystem, and increasing integration into global markets, Pakistan's presence at London Tech Week signals more than participation; it reflects a strategic commitment to innovation, trade, and tech diplomacy. With the United Kingdom as Pakistan's second-largest destination for IT and ITeS exports, accounting for nearly 10% of the total, this engagement presents a timely opportunity to strengthen partnerships, attract investment, and showcase the country's transformation into a future-ready, globally connected tech destination. Spearheaded by the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) in collaboration with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), Pakistan's national presence at the event will feature a dedicated Pakistan Pavilion at Olympia London, showcasing 14 leading technology companies across emerging and high-demand verticals. 'Pakistan's tech talent is truly world-class, with a skilled workforce of over 600,000 Tech services professionals,' said Abu Bakar, CEO of PSEB. 'This positions Pakistan exceptionally well to meet the demands of the global digital economy. Moreover, the country boasts the third-largest English-speaking population worldwide and a dynamic, tech-savvy youth demographic.' The exhibiting companies reflect the forefront of Pakistan's technology landscape, offering innovative solutions across AI, SaaS, fintech, cloud services, CRM, mobile applications, and business process outsourcing. The official lineup at the Pakistan Pavilion includes: Ashlar, Devfied (SMC-Private) Ltd, Geek Solutions Pvt Ltd, Jade, KoderLabs, Maanz AI (Private) Ltd, Nexvis Tech, Pointofit Private Limited, Teamo, TechImplement Private Limited, Teresol Private Limited, Tkxel, Visionary Computer Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, and Yuztech Private Limited. Complementing the pavilion showcase, a delegation of companies will also engage in curated B2B meetings and high-impact networking sessions, aimed at building international partnerships and unlocking investment opportunities. As part of the 'Tech Destination Pakistan' campaign, branded taxis are circulating around Olympia London, the Pakistan High Commission, and other high-traffic areas across the city. Designed to turn heads and spark curiosity, these mobile billboards aim to spotlight Pakistan's growing tech sector and invite global audiences to engage with the innovation emerging from one of the world's youngest digital economies. Social media users can participate in the campaign by snapping a photo of a branded taxi, sharing it online, and tagging #TechDestinationPakistan for a chance to win exclusive giveaways. To sustain momentum beyond the exhibition floor, PSEB is organizing a Networking Event on June 12, 2025, in collaboration with the Pakistan High Commission UK, TDAP, OPEN London, and the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA). The event will convene investors, global tech firms, diaspora leaders, and Pakistani tech stakeholders for a high-impact evening of discussion, deal-making, and community building. As Pakistan deepens its global footprint, London Tech Week 2025 serves as a strategic platform to unlock new markets, forge high-value partnerships, and fuel sustainable tech growth. For updates, behind-the-scenes content, and live coverage from London, follow Tech Destination Pakistan on social media: Media Contact: Amir AnzurChief Marketing OfficerPakistan Software Export BoardPhone: +447733003930Email: cmo@ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Express Tribune
24-05-2025
- General
- Express Tribune
Pakistan's highlights climate change at Venice architecture exhibit
At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Pakistan Pavilion is presenting its installation (Fr)Agile Systems, which seeks to explore the drastic impact of climate change. As per a press release, Pakistan continues to occupy a paradoxical and precarious position along with many other countries of the Global South. Despite contributing less than one percent to global carbon emissions, the South Asian country bears the disproportionate weight of climate-induced disasters ranging from rising temperatures to melting glaciers, intense downpours to savage floods, unusually low precipitation to severe droughts, heatwaves to wildfires. The 2022 floods alone affected over 30 million people across the country, resulting in a dramatic loss of human life, livestock, crops, infrastructure, and land, while further straining an already strained economy. (Fr)Agile Systems not only highlights the severity of Pakistan's vulnerability to climate-induced disasters, but also serves as a reminder of the stark inequity of the climate crisis—one that keeps weighing down hardest on regions that have historically had the least to do with causing it. In the presence of such severity and inequity, it also reiterates the imperative to rethink climate resilience as an adaptation process attuned to the asymmetries and imbalances of an interconnected world. At the heart of the Pavilion is rock salt — a material deeply rooted in Pakistan's geological and cultural heritage. Concentrated in large quantities in the Northern Punjab region of the country, Pakistani rock salt embodies a temporal depth formed over hundreds of millions of years. With its rather distinct pink hue and unmatched purity, it also embodies aesthetic and spiritual values besides lending itself to other uses. Here in the ambient humidity of Venice, however, it serves a different purpose. By constantly dissolving, rehardening, and reshaping itself, it becomes a powerful metaphor, reflecting on the one hand the adaptive and enduring qualities inherent in natural elements and processes, and on the other the vulnerability of natural systems and cycles under the strain of profit-driven human activities. In other words, it reflects both agility and fragility. This phenomenon, where an indigenous material is brought into an unfamiliar environment and subjected to conditions that alter its very nature, also suggests that climate resilience does not rest in universal solutions dictated by regions primarily responsible for the climate crisis, but in localised and nature-based acts of adaptation that resist colonial and capitalist structures of extraction and exploitation. Inside the Pavilion, a suspended structure, both fragile and agile, dominates and articulates the front space, holding the rock salt in a rather complex system that through its asymmetry and imbalance recalls the paradoxes, precarities, and inequities of the climate crisis, while urging a more proactive, equitable, and locally-led response. This central installation is lined by a series of maps that explore Pakistan's climate crisis through the interplay of geology, resilience, and vulnerability. Titled Mapping Pakistan's Fragility and comprising 12 copper-etched plates with colour overlays, the series presents the profound impacts of climate change on Pakistan's diverse landscapes. At once a reflection and a call to action, the Pavilion also envisions a future in which architecture takes a radical turn and becomes deeply re-rooted in cultural heritage and critically re-engaged with ecological realities. It is here that we invite visitors to a place we imagine — a place embedded in a mountain range that extends from a plateau to a river in Pakistan's Punjab province, a quiet place that speaks loudly for change in how we design and build as architects. In addition, the Pavilion presents a pamphlet titled Climate Inequity: A Closer Look that offers a more detailed study of global climate inequity by tallying the historical carbon footprints of the Global North and the Global South. The Pavilion also presents a framework titled Decolonsing Design: Toward Mutualist Practice that calls on architects to conscientiously value and support diversity, locality, and interdependence in architecture. Organised by Coalesce Design Studio (Karachi) and MAS/Architects (Lahore), the Pavilion is curated by Anique Azhar (MAS/Architects), Sami Chohan (Studio 4Pai; Navigating Noplace; GCAS-Jehan), Salman Jawed (Coalesce Design Studio), Bilal Kapadia (Coalesce Design Studio), Mustafa Mehdi (Coalesce Design Studio), Madeeha Merchant (DOT; Urban Justice League; Columbia University), Arsalan Rafique (The Urban Research Frontier; Revolving Games), and Ayesha Sarfraz (MAS/Architects; Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture). The Pavilion is housed in Spazio 996/A, a gallery space managed by Exhibition Care and situated between the key entrances of the Biennale. Have something to add? Share it in the comments below.
Business Recorder
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
SIAL Canada agri show
Recently SIAL Canada Agri Business Exhibition was held on April/29 thru May/1, in Canada's major trade & finance hub, Toronto. Pakistan Pavilion had a formidable presence with several Pakistani producers of agri food. The quality of edibles on display appeared to be excellent. If only the private sector exporters can maintain the quality in their actual export shipments, there is absolutely no reason for Pakistan not to be in the forefront of agri export. The Consul General of Pakistan, Toronto and Trade and Investment Counsellor, in particular, must be congratulated and commended for doing such a sterling job in arranging and facilitating Pakistani producers for the exhibition. Abdul Malik (Toronto, Canada) Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Business Recorder
02-05-2025
- Automotive
- Business Recorder
TDAP to participate in Automechanika Frankfurt 2026
KARACHI: Pakistani manufacturers will participate in the four-day exhibition Automechanika Frankfurt 2026, while the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) will also take part with the Pakistan Pavilion. TDAP is offering subsidised stalls to promote the export of automotive parts, tyres, systems, and technologies related to the repair and maintenance of cars and trucks. Automechanika Frankfurt will be from September 8 to 12, 2026, bringing together global experts from the automotive industry to explore the latest innovations and technologies. This year's fair will feature a new forum titled 'HighTech4Mobility' focusing on software-defined vehicles. Other key topics will include sustainability, transformation, and workforce development. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Arab News
14-04-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Pakistan's pink-salt themed pavilion ‘global crowd-puller' at Osaka Expo
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Pavilion is a 'global crowd-puller' at the World Expo 2025 that opened in Osaka, Japan, on Sunday, with an official statement saying crowds were lining up to visit ''one of the most unique pavilions' on site. Expo 2025 Osaka was officially inaugurated by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday with the theme of life, world and the future, with Tokyo hoping that the event will help restore global unity in a world plagued by conflicts and trade wars. Pakistan's national pavilion features a design inspired by the country's iconic salt mines amid a broader effort to promote exports of the globally popular pink salt. During the six-month event on the reclaimed island and industrial waste burial site of Yumeshima, which means dream island, in the Osaka Bay, the city is hosting some 180 countries, regions and organizations showcasing their futuristic exhibits inside of about 80 pavilions of unique designs. It is Osaka's second world expo after the 1970 event that scored a huge success and attracted 64 million visitors — a record until Shanghai in 2010. 'Pakistan offers something refreshingly grounded. Here, visitors don't just look— they run their hands across majestic pink rock salt formations, feel the textures, and reconnect with nature in a way that's rare in today's fast-paced world,' the official Instagram page for the Pakistan Pavilion said. A post shared by Pakistan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka (@pakatworldexpo) Aligned with the Expo's theme, 'Designing Future Society for Our Lives,' the Pakistan pavilion 'reimagines progress through the lens of harmony with the earth.' The pavilion's design, inspired by the Khewra Salt Mines in Pakistan's Punjab province, incorporates a tranquil 'salt garden' meant to offer visitors a multi-sensory experience reflecting both the country's natural beauty and economic potential. The Pakistani salt mines are among the oldest and largest in the world, renowned for producing pink Himalayan salt, which is prized worldwide for its distinctive color and health benefits. Pakistan also seeks to export more of its products by leveraging platforms such as the Osaka Expo. 'This pavilion belongs to all of you,' Muhammad Naseer, Project Director of the Pakistan Pavilion, said while addressing the soft launch of the pavilion earlier this month. 'Your stories, contributions, and connection to Pakistan are part of this journey.' 'Over the next months, this space will be a place of discovery, dialogue, and celebration, where we invite the world to experience Pakistan's culture, innovation, and aspirations.'
