Pakistan’s technology exports rose 17 percent year-on-year in August 2026, reaching $394 million, according to data compiled by Arif Habib Limited (AHL) Research based on State Bank of Pakistan figures. On a month-on-month basis, however, technology exports declined 6 percent from July’s $417 million, reflecting the kind of short-term fluctuation that has become a recurring feature of Pakistan’s monthly IT export data even as the broader year-on-year trend remains positive. Technology exports contributed 45 percent of total services exports for the month, underscoring the sector’s position as the single largest category within Pakistan’s overall services export basket, ahead of other business services, government goods and services, travel, and transport.
Total services exports for August 2026 stood at $872 million, up 29 percent year-on-year from $677 million in August 2025, though also down 7 percent month-on-month from July’s $939 million. Other Business Services posted the second largest category after technology, coming in at $209 million with 36 percent year-on-year growth, while Travel exports saw the sharpest annual increase among all categories at 156 percent, rising from $43 million to $110 million, likely reflecting seasonal travel patterns or a low base effect from the prior year. Government Goods and Services remained flat year-on-year at $53 million, while Transport exports grew 28 percent to $86 million, and the Others category declined 13 percent to $20 million.
Looking at the cumulative two-month picture for fiscal year 2027, technology exports reached $811 million, up 17 percent from $691 million during the same period last fiscal year, while total services exports for 2MFY27 climbed to $1,811 million, a 29 percent increase from $1,405 million in 2MFY26. This cumulative growth rate mirrors the strong annual trajectory Pakistan’s IT sector has maintained over the past several fiscal years, following a record $4.6 billion in full year IT and IT-enabled services exports for FY2025-26, a roughly 21 percent increase from the previous year’s $3.814 billion, though still short of the government’s $5 billion target for that fiscal year.
The August figures fit into a broader monthly trend line for technology exports that has shown notable volatility over the past 20 months, ranging from a low of $307 million in February 2025 to a peak of $437 million in December 2025, with August 2026’s $394 million sitting comfortably within the higher end of that range even after the month-on-month dip from July. With Pakistan’s longer-term ambition under the Uraan Pakistan framework targeting $10 billion in IT exports by FY2028-29, sustaining this kind of double-digit annual growth rate across monthly and cumulative fiscal year figures will remain essential for the sector to close the gap between its current trajectory and the government’s more ambitious multi-year export targets.
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