{"id":944400,"date":"2025-07-07T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944400"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:26:41","slug":"microsoft-quits-pakistan-after-25-years-founding-country-manager-of-microsoft-pakistan-says-this-is-more-than-a-corporate-exit-it-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/microsoft-quits-pakistan-after-25-years-founding-country-manager-of-microsoft-pakistan-says-this-is-more-than-a-corporate-exit-it-is-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft &#8216;quits&#8217; Pakistan after 25 years; founding country manager of Microsoft Pakistan says: This is more than a corporate exit, it is a &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has exited Pakistan. The software giant is quitting Pakistan after 25 years. Microsoft is said to have been reducing its headcount and operations in the country over the last few years, and has now fully pulled out of Pakistan. Microsoft started its operations in Pakistan in June 2000. The news of Microsoft shutting down its operations in Pakistan was first revealed in a LinkedIn post by Jawwad Rehman, the founding head and country manager of Microsoft Pakistan. There has been no formal public announcement from the company itself. However, according to a report by TechRadar, the move was all but confirmed already, with full operations shut down in Pakistan and only a liaison office with around five employees remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has exited Pakistan. The software giant is quitting Pakistan after 25 years. Microsoft is said to have been reducing its headcount and operations in the country over the last few years, and has now fully pulled out of Pakistan. Microsoft started its operations in Pakistan in June 2000. The news of Microsoft shutting down its operations in Pakistan was first revealed in a LinkedIn post by Jawwad Rehman, the founding head and country manager of Microsoft Pakistan. There has been no formal public announcement from the company itself. However, according to a report by TechRadar, the move was all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944400","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}