Pakistan Software Export Board Chief Executive Officer Faisal Jeddy held a high-level meeting with Sindh Governor Nehal Hashmi to advance a coordinated agenda for expanding the province’s information technology infrastructure and building digital skills among Sindh’s youth, in what both sides described as a meaningful step toward a unified federal and provincial approach to the digital economy. The meeting reflected a shared recognition that Sindh, home to Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and primary commercial hub, represents a critical geography for the country’s technology sector ambitions and that accelerating its digital development requires active collaboration between the federal government and the provincial administration.
The discussion centred on four concrete areas of focus. The first was equipping young people across the province with in-demand freelancing skills, addressing the growing global market for independent digital work and ensuring that Sindh’s large youth population can meaningfully participate in it. The second was bridging the structural gap between academic institutions and industry, a challenge that has long limited the employability of technology graduates and reduced the pipeline of talent available to both local and export-oriented technology firms. The third priority was expanding the footprint of Software Technology Parks across Sindh, building on existing infrastructure to create more geographically distributed hubs that can serve technology companies and entrepreneurs outside of Karachi. The fourth and most immediately impactful area discussed was the fast-tracking of a world-class IT Park in Karachi, a project that has been long anticipated as a facility that could meaningfully concentrate technology investment, talent, and enterprise activity in Pakistan’s largest metropolitan economy.
The meeting was facilitated by Babar Sheikh, and PSEB Chief Executive Officer Faisal Jeddy described the session as genuinely productive, signalling that substantive alignment was achieved on the key priorities discussed. The engagement between PSEB and the Sindh government reflects the broader strategy under the Tech Destination Pakistan and Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication’s framework of working through provincial partnerships to ensure that the benefits of Pakistan’s digital economy reach beyond Islamabad and the major Punjab cities and are anchored in every corner of the country.
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