{"id":944304,"date":"2025-07-07T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944304"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:02:14","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-office-as-global-firms-lose-faith-in-local-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-office-as-global-firms-lose-faith-in-local-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down Pakistan office as global firms lose faith in local market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially shut down its office in Pakistan and laid off five employees, marking a significant development in the country&#8217;s tech sector, as reported by Dawn. <\/p>\n<p>The move, which sparked speculation on social media, was first brought to public attention by a LinkedIn post from Jawad Rehman, the former head of Microsoft Pakistan. <\/p>\n<p>Citing insider information, he claimed the tech giant had &#8220;officially closed its operations&#8221; in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially shut down its office in Pakistan and laid off five employees, marking a significant development in the country&#8217;s tech sector, as reported by Dawn. The move, which sparked speculation on social media, was first brought to public attention by a LinkedIn post from Jawad Rehman, the former head of Microsoft Pakistan. Citing insider information, he claimed the tech giant had &#8220;officially closed its operations&#8221; in the country.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944304","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=944304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}