Lahore: Pakistan Software Export Board to establish new IT park

[Naveed Yaseen]

KARACHI: Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has joined hands with Shaheen Foundation for the establishment of a new IT park spread over 360,000 square feet in Lahore.

Operational from November this year, it will be one of the largest IT parks in the country with redundant connectivity, power back-ups and top-of-the-line civic amenities, said a PSEB press release. The park will be used for international branding of Pakistan’s IT industry and can house more than 30 medium-sized IT companies at affordable rents. PTCL, being the strategic partner of PSEB, will provide networking and communication infrastructure facilities for the park.Talib Baloch, MD PSEB and Air Vice-Marshal (retd) Arshad Rashid Sethi, MD Shaheen Foundation, signed the MoU to this effect at PSEB head office, Islamabad.

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