{"id":943957,"date":"2025-07-05T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943957"},"modified":"2025-07-05T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:47:24","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-operations-after-25-years-claims-founding-ceo-ex-pak-president-calls-it-a-troubling-sign-for-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-operations-after-25-years-claims-founding-ceo-ex-pak-president-calls-it-a-troubling-sign-for-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down Pakistan operations after 25 years, claims founding CEO; Ex-Pak President calls it a troubling sign for economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially exited Pakistan after 25 years of operations, according to the CEO who launched the tech giant\u2019s presence in the country in 2000. The company, which entered Pakistan on March 7, 2000, ended its operations without a formal announcement. \u201cToday, I learned that Microsoft is officially closing its operations in Pakistan. The last few remaining employees were formally informed and just like that, an era ends&#8230;\u201d said Jawwad Rehman, Microsoft\u2019s founding country head in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially exited Pakistan after 25 years of operations, according to the CEO who launched the tech giant\u2019s presence in the country in 2000. The company, which entered Pakistan on March 7, 2000, ended its operations without a formal announcement. \u201cToday, I learned that Microsoft is officially closing its operations in Pakistan. The last few remaining employees were formally informed and just like that, an era ends&#8230;\u201d said Jawwad Rehman, Microsoft\u2019s founding country head in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}