The IT industry is regarded as a
successful sector of Pakistan. The government of Pakistan has given numerous favours to IT investors in the country since last decade, that resulted in the development of the IT
sector. Information technology in Pakistan is a growing and rising industry
that has a large potential. Matters relating to the IT industry are overseen
and regulated by the Ministry of Information Technology of the Government of
Pakistan.
Pakistan has already become to
contribute a respectable share in the world of Information Technology worldwide.
Especially the last decade has proved very significant in the grooming of IT
industry in our country. The Information Technology burst has provided Pakistan
a dream for future in which IT can be used to improve the standards of our
people. It can help us develop our lives better by tapping the common benefits
of the Internet, and it can also aid to move further than the digital divide to
digital opportunity.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced special initiative of this IT Board to promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.For this purpose a bill for setting up the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board was approved by the Provincial Cabinet and subsequently passed as an Act by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. Earlier there had been no
official support for the call centers and software houses in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. Most of the talent in the ICT field joined the software houses and
IT enabled services at Islamabad and in other Provinces. Concerns had often
been raised about the IT graduates from Universities who had little
professional opportunities once they were out of the Universities. While
hundreds of thousands of skilled workers send back billions in Foreign
exchange, the potential in high Tech jobs such as ICT had not been tapped
before in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
