Pakistan’s services exports recorded growth of 18.38 percent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, reaching 6.46 billion dollars in the July to February period of fiscal year 2026, compared to 5.46 billion dollars in the same period a year earlier, according to data compiled by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The expansion has been driven primarily by the information technology sector, which has maintained uninterrupted upward momentum since the start of the fiscal year, offering a stable and growing source of foreign exchange earnings at a time when commodity export trends have remained more mixed.
The telecommunications, computer, and information services category, which represents the core of Pakistan’s digital export base, has been the main contributor to the overall rise throughout the period. According to data compiled by the State Bank of Pakistan, exports from this category reached 2.97 billion dollars in July to February of fiscal year 2026, up from 2.48 billion dollars in the corresponding months of the previous year, reflecting growth of 19.75 percent. In rupee terms, the broader services export figure climbed 19.66 percent to PKR 1.818 trillion in the eight-month period, compared to PKR 1.519 trillion in the same interval last year, indicating that the trend holds in local currency terms as well and is not simply a product of exchange rate movement.
For the month of February 2026 in isolation, services exports stood at 812.25 million dollars, up from 694.90 million dollars in February 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of 16.89 percent. On a month-on-month basis, however, exports declined by 7.3 percent compared to January 2026, suggesting some seasonal or cyclical softening within an otherwise positive annual trajectory. The data also notes that services exports have registered positive year-on-year growth consistently since February 2024, with the only notable exception being a 6.50 percent contraction recorded in August 2024. The sustained performance of the information technology and business services segment points to the growing maturity of Pakistan’s digital export industry and its increasing integration into global technology supply chains, even as the country continues to work on removing structural barriers to further scaling its services trade.
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