{"id":945400,"date":"2025-07-10T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945400"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:08:49","slug":"what-pakistan-government-said-on-microsoft-closing-operations-in-the-country-full-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/10\/what-pakistan-government-said-on-microsoft-closing-operations-in-the-country-full-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"What Pakistan government said on Microsoft closing operations in the country: Full Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently completely shut down its operations in Pakistan. Microsoft had set up its operations in Pakistan in June 2000. Shutting down of Microsoft Pakistan after 25 years &#8216;marked end of an era&#8217; as the company&#8217;s first country head Jawwad Rehman said in a post on LinkedIn. \u201cThis is more than a corporate exit. It\u2019s a sobering signal of the environment our country has created \u2026 one where even global giants like Microsoft find it unsustainable to stay. It also reflects on what was done (or not done) with the strong foundation we left behind by the subsequent team and regional management of Microsoft,\u201d Rehman wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p>The Redmond-based too has confirmed closing down its office in Pakistan. \u201cOur customer agreements and service will not be affected by this change,\u201d a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently completely shut down its operations in Pakistan. Microsoft had set up its operations in Pakistan in June 2000. Shutting down of Microsoft Pakistan after 25 years &#8216;marked end of an era&#8217; as the company&#8217;s first country head Jawwad Rehman said in a post on LinkedIn. \u201cThis is more than a corporate exit. It\u2019s a sobering signal of the environment our country has created \u2026 one where even global giants like Microsoft find it unsustainable to stay. It also reflects on what was done (or not done) with the strong foundation we left behind by the subsequent team and [&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-945400","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\/945400","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=945400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}