Six months ago, Pakistan connected almost 100 cities to the internet as part of a new information and technology policy. The move was meant to bring the country into the IT age, after lagging behind the software success of neighbouring India.
Pakistani officials admit that the country is trying to make up for lost time.
This debate is now closed. Read a selection of your comments below. To equal India, Pakistan must first empower their women. From my previous experience of using an Indian software house, I found roughly the same number of male and female engineers working side by side. Over the past year, a lot has been done in the information technology sector of Pakistan.