Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally inaugurated the office in Islamabad on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, hosting a Google delegation led by VP Wilson L. White.
- Google announced it will offer a free one-year Google Gemini subscription to students in Pakistan to widen access to AI-powered learning tools.
- The company said it has upskilled about one million Pakistanis through career certificates and school programs and claimed it contributed roughly Rs3.9 trillion in economic activity and supported about 960,000 jobs over the past decade.
- Pakistan’s government says Chromebook manufacturing has begun in Haripur in partnership with Google, the Ministry of Defence Production and NRTC, with a planned output of about 600,000 units a year.
- Officials framed the opening as a step toward Pakistan’s $30 billion IT export goal and a push to connect young people with global tech work, while noting Google had registered a non-operational liaison office in 2022 and is now establishing a functional local presence.