ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja has described exports of digital services to international markets as “exports without shipping containers,” model.

During a visit to the Huawei’s Global Support Centre (GSC) here on Monday, the minister interacted with young Pakistani engineers and technology professionals supporting global ICT operations.

Recalling Huawei-Pakistan training partnership agreed during the Prime Minister’s visit to China, Ms Fatima appreciated Huawei’s commitment to train 300,000 young Pakistanis in ICT skills.

She stressed stronger collaboration among government, industry and academia to build a sustainable technology talent pipeline and connect young Pakistanis with international opportunities.

The minister appreciated Huawei’s contribution to technical capacity building through its ICT Academies and encouraged the company to further expand investment, knowledge transfer, mentoring and explore opportunities for establishing an R&D centre in Pakistan.

She said that Huawei GSC demonstrated Pakistan’s growing potential as a global hub for technology and IT-enabled services, and also mentioned the women engineers at the Centre by praising their contributions to Pakistan’s digital economy and underscored the importance of creating greater opportunities for women in the technology sector.

The minister was briefed by Ethan Sun, CEO Huawei Pakistan and Ahmed Bilal Masud, CEO AI & Cloud, Huawei Pakistan.

Mr. Sun said Huawei was proud to contribute to Pakistan’s digital development by strengthening local technical expertise and creating opportunities for Pakistani professionals to participate in the global digital economy.

The Huawei Global Support Centre in Islamabad serves as a hub for global technology operations, providing remote technical support, network operations, service assurance and other advanced ICT services to international customers.

The Centre provides Pakistani engineers and technical professionals with opportunities to contribute to global technology operations from within Pakistan.

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2026