Microsoft is closing its local operations in Pakistan

Microsoft closes the end of a 25-year existence in the South Asian nation in Pakistan.

On Friday, the main company in Redmond has changed the operating model in Pakistan and will now serve its customers via sellers and “closely Microsoft offices.

“Our customer agreements and service will not be affected by this change,” said Microsoft spokesman e-mail.

“We are successfully monitoring this model in a number of other countries around the world. Our customers can expect our priority and wait for the same high level of service” words.

The decision will affect the five Microsoft employees, technologically in Pakistan; They add that Microsoft has no engineering sources in Pakistan India Other growing markets and employees sold Azure and office products in the country.

The closure comes in a wide company reconstruction. Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry described Redmond company “as part of a wider laboratory-optimization program.” This week ago, company reduced the workforce from 4% or about 9,000 roles globally scale.

To prepare for this transition, Microsoft has transferred a licensing and commercial contract for Pakistan in recent years to the European Center in recent years, transferring to the European Center for the day-to-day service.

“We will continue to strengthen Microsoft’s regional and global management, Microsoft’s Pakistani customers, developers and any structural changes to channel partners, developers and channel partners,” he said.

Former Microsoft Executive and First Lead Rehman in Pakistan declare The company’s leaving a post on LinkedIn on Thursday.

“This is more than a corporate speech. This is a favorable signal of the environment created by our country.

The output is coming in a few days later the federal government of Pakistan Plan to submit dog certificates Technological companies from Google and Microsoft to half a million young people. The action stops in a tighter than Google disclosed $ 10.5 million Investment Last year, he considers the country’s public education sector and Pakistan as a Market to produce a half million chrome books on the market By 2026.

Microsoft’s speech reflects the wide range of problems in the technological sector of Pakistan. Unlike India and other regional markets, Pakistan has not established itself as a basic engineering job for Western technological giants. Instead, the country’s technological ecosystem is dominated by two main players: local companies that develop their engineering or developing Chinese companies HuaweiEarn an important market share by providing enterprise-class infrastructure to enterprise companies and ATM.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of Pakistan did not meet the desires of comment.