{"id":945181,"date":"2025-07-10T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945181"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:06:50","slug":"microsoft-packs-up-in-pakistan-a-25-year-chapter-ends-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/10\/microsoft-packs-up-in-pakistan-a-25-year-chapter-ends-but-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft packs up in Pakistan: A 25-year chapter ends, but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years on the ground, Microsoft has wrapped up its local presence in Pakistan. The news first broke on LinkedIn through Jawwad Rehman, who led the company\u2019s launch in the country back in June 2000. He wrote, \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\u2026 Exactly 25 years ago, in June 2000, I had the honour of launching and leading Microsoft Pakistan.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The closure did not come as a sudden shock. Microsoft had been quietly scaling down for some time, with just a liaison office and five employees left on the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years on the ground, Microsoft has wrapped up its local presence in Pakistan. The news first broke on LinkedIn through Jawwad Rehman, who led the company\u2019s launch in the country back in June 2000. He wrote, \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\u2026 Exactly 25 years ago, in June 2000, I had the honour of launching and leading Microsoft Pakistan.\u201d The closure did not come as a sudden shock. Microsoft had been quietly scaling down for some time, [&hellip;]<\/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-945181","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\/945181","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=945181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}