Pakistan offers a large pool of highly skilled and educated workforce, proficient in the English language and IT literate. The constantly increasing number of college graduates and the hugely successful private training industry will ensure that these resources continue to grow every year.

A 12-hour time difference with North America enables overnight delivery of services. This unique advantage helps American organizations achieve true 24*7 internal operations and customer service. The "time zone" advantage provided by Pakistan can also become a strategic enabler for many West Europe and Asia Pacific based organizations.

The Government of Pakistan has committed its support to this activity by establishing a task force for developing a world class knowledge based outsourcing industry (IT Enabled Services), allowing duty free imports of capital goods and providing tax exemption on export of IT enabled services. Software Technology Parks (STPs) with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and telecom facilities providing a "single window clearance" for all regulatory compliances have helped Pakistan emerge as a prominent outsourcing hub.

With privatization and drastic reduction in the tariff of basic telecom, paging, cellular and internet services, Pakistan enjoys an infrastructural advantage like never before. And it's getting better with every day.

The relatively low cost of manpower makes Pakistan a very attractive base for sourcing cross-border IT-enabled services . Pakistan has been the largest provider of software engineers to silicon valley, West Europe and the Asian Pacific IT industry and will now be the most cost effective location for off-shore Business Process and Customer Contact services outsourcing.

Large global corporations have already begun to outsource from Pakistan. Organizations such as General Electric, American Express, British Airways and Microsoft have demonstrated the advantages of outsourcing from Pakistan facilities.