Maria Imran 
it services inspire 25% growth in export volume from pakistan
The digital economy of Pakistan is visibly flourishing. From July up until February 2024-25, the country has earned $2.481 billion through the export of services from the IT and information sector. This reflects a 25.51% increase from the previous year’s $1.977 billion within the same period, as reported by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
Software and computer services experience robust growth
It was again bright for the computer services industry, which has now seen an increase of 30.47% over exports in this category from $1.616 billion to $2.109 billion this year. Software consultancy services continued to lead, showing a giant leap of 33.91% to $729.065 million from $544.445 million last year.
However, there was a fluctuating growth of particular areas. Hardware consultancy services showed a fall of 20.74%, whereas the computer software services saw a decline of 4.98%, reducing them to $387.658 million. The highest spike is from “other computer services,” which will enjoy a joyful increase of 50.11% at $987.677 million.
Info services and call centers on top
The other aspect of the surge was the information services industry, which reported a phenomenal increase of 540.16%, from $2.945 million to $18.857 million. Most of it belonged to the news agency services category, which alone had a 776.58% increase, while the rest of the other information services had a 27.66% increase.
