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Data card: Pakistan's 5G rollout has reached 1.3 million users across 23 cities on more than 1,200 activated sites four months after the March 2026 spectrum auction, still under 1% of about 200 million mobile connections

Pakistan Has 1.3 Million 5G Users. Plenty of People Still Cannot Get 4G.

Pakistan's 5G rollout has reached 1.3 million users across 23 cities on 1,200 sites, four months after the March spectrum auction — as the government rules out further service quality fines.
20 Aug
Data card: Google has opened a registered office in Islamabad, estimating Rs3.9 trillion in enabled economic activity and 960,000 jobs supported over a decade, with one year of free Gemini for students and no stated investment figure

Google Opened an Office in Islamabad. The Ceremony Was Bigger Than the Commitments.

Google has opened a registered office in Islamabad, inaugurated by PM Shehbaz Sharif. A legal presence changes tax, employment and regulatory exposure — the investment figures are less clear.
19 Aug
Data card: Zong and Zindigi launch Z-Wallet inside the My Zong App for 22 million monthly active users, with 22,000 verified wallets in the soft launch, JS Bank holding the licence and nano lending on the roadmap

Zong Just Put a Bank Inside Its Own App. 22 Million Users Are Already There.

Zong and Zindigi have launched Z-Wallet inside the My Zong App, putting JS Bank-powered financial services in front of 22 million monthly active users without a separate download.
18 Aug
Data card: Pakistan will review eleven digital institutions including PTA, NADRA, PSEB, STZA, NITB, USF and NTC, with a six-month consultancy starting October 2026 under World Bank funding

Pakistan Is Reviewing Eleven Digital Institutions at Once. One of Them Is the Regulator.

MoITT is commissioning a six-month review of eleven digital institutions including PTA, NADRA, PSEB and STZA, funded under the World Bank's Digital Economy Enhancement Project.
17 Aug
Data card: Pak Datacom moves satellite backup for over 400 National Bank of Pakistan branches from PakSat to UAE-based Yahsat, with the Telecom Foundation holding 55% of the company and OGDCL and AGPR networks also affected

The National Bank’s Satellite Backup Now Runs Through the UAE.

Pak Datacom has moved the satellite backup for 400+ National Bank branches from PakSat to UAE-based Yahsat, with the ground hubs relocated abroad. A former CEO has objected.
16 Aug
Pakistan's digital economy turns profitable at 2–3% of retail, with Daraz reaching group-level profit in July 2026 and digital transactions rising from 10 billion to 12 billion in FY26

Pakistan’s Digital Economy Finally Makes Money. It Also Reaches 2% of Retail.

Daraz reached group-level profitability in July 2026 and Pakistan's digital economy has stopped burning capital for growth. Online still accounts for just 2-3% of retail.
15 Aug
Data card: Pakistan weighs an asset tokenisation framework for real estate, with Rs68.3 trillion moved through retail digital payment channels in January to March 2026, 92% of transactions digital and 742 million Raast transfers

Pakistan Wants to Tokenise Real Estate. The Land Records Aren’t Ready.

Pakistan's finance ministry is weighing a framework to tokenise real estate and other assets. The technology is the easy part — provincial land records, contested title and four overlapping regulators are not.
14 Aug
Data card: Pakistan's first NVIDIA H200 GPU cluster, launched by Indus Cloud with Cisco, showing 141GB HBM3e memory and 4.8TB/s bandwidth per GPU, with cluster size undisclosed

Pakistan Just Got Its First NVIDIA H200 GPU Cluster. Here’s Why That Matters.

Master Group's Indus Cloud has launched Pakistan's first Cisco AI GPU cluster running NVIDIA H200 GPUs. What sovereign AI compute means for local startups, universities and enterprises.
13 Aug

Motorola Is Officially Back in Pakistan — Moto G77 5G Lands at Rs 92,999

Motorola is officially back in Pakistan through a CoreTECH distribution deal. Here is the Moto G77 5G price in Pakistan (Rs 92,999), full specs and what it means for buyers.
10 Aug

Local-language models are getting good enough for government service desks

Four provincial helplines are piloting speech systems trained on regional dialects. The accuracy numbers are not the interesting part; the procurement terms are.
5 Aug
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Kernel Labs raises $14m to build local-language speech models

The round was led by a regional fund, with two strategic investors taking small positions on the same terms.
5 Aug
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Cloud residency rules would force a rebuild for most SaaS vendors

The consultation draft sets a twelve-month compliance window. Vendors say the migration alone takes longer than that.
5 Aug
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