{"id":11473,"date":"2025-09-20T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/20\/driving-pakistan-digital-economy-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:59:47","slug":"driving-pakistan-digital-economy-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/20\/driving-pakistan-digital-economy-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Pakistan Toward a Digital Economy Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is entering a new era of technology where initiatives such as Quantum Valley, artificial intelligence programs and strengthened global collaborations are reshaping the country\u2019s tech trajectory. These projects aim to move Pakistan beyond a low-cost outsourcing model and position it as a leader in IT innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Ahsan Iqbal<\/strong>, speaking at the annual Pasha Awards, reiterated the government\u2019s commitment under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s vision to build a strong, export-led digital economy. He said the aim is to transform Pakistan into a one trillion dollar economy by 2035 and highlighted the role of digital sectors in reaching that goal.<\/p>\n<p>The national priorities driving this transition include promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships, creating new jobs while boosting exports, attracting long-term investment, and building a secure and sustainable digital ecosystem. These priorities are central to expanding Pakistan\u2019s technology base and scaling companies that can compete globally.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ahsan Iqbal congratulated Pasha, HBL and all award winners for their contributions, noting that their efforts will serve as important milestones in establishing Pakistan as a genuine digital power. Continued collaboration between government, industry and financial partners will be critical to sustaining momentum and realizing the promise of a robust digital economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore how Quantum Valley, AI and partnerships are driving Pakistan&#8217;s digital economy toward a $1 trillion target by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}