Pakistan Software Export Board has released figures showing that the country’s information and communication technology sector has recorded its strongest eight-month performance in history, with ICT export remittances reaching 2.97 billion United States dollars for the July to February period of financial year 2025-26. This represents a 19.7 percent increase compared to the same period in the previous financial year, when total remittances stood at 2.48 billion dollars, underscoring the sustained upward trajectory of Pakistan’s technology export industry under the Tech Destination 5G Pakistan framework driven by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication.
On a monthly basis, ICT exports for February 2026 alone reached 365 million dollars, reflecting 19.3 percent growth compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. The figures place Pakistan’s information and communication technology sector firmly at the top of the country’s services export landscape, with ICT services at 2.97 billion dollars now more than double the size of the next largest services category, other business services, which stood at 1.3 billion dollars over the same eight-month period. This gap underscores the degree to which the technology sector has pulled ahead of all other services industries to become the undisputed driver of Pakistan’s services export economy, a position that would have been difficult to anticipate even a few years ago.
Equally significant is the trade surplus generated by the sector. Pakistan’s information and communication technology industry produced a trade surplus of 2.55 billion dollars during the July to February period of financial year 2025-26, representing a 20 percent increase over the 2.12 billion dollars recorded in the same period of financial year 2024-25 and setting a new record high for Pakistan’s technology sector. The surplus accounts for 86 percent of total ICT exports for the period, reflecting the capital-light, high-value nature of software and digital services as an export category. The combination of record export volumes, sustained double-digit growth, and a widening trade surplus positions Pakistan’s digital economy as one of the most consequential and rapidly expanding components of the country’s broader economic story, with PSEB and the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication continuing to play a central role in driving and tracking that growth.
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