Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally inaugurated Google’s Islamabad office on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, in a ceremony attended by a nine-member Google delegation and the US chargé d’affaires.
- Google named Fasieh Mehta as the first head of its Pakistan mission to run the new local operation and provide on-the-ground leadership for partnerships with government and industry.
- The company said it will back Pakistan’s $30 billion IT export target by investing in people, local hardware manufacturing and export infrastructure and by working with local businesses.
- Google reported it has driven about Rs3.9 trillion in economic activity and helped support roughly 960,000 jobs in Pakistan over the past decade, and it plans to expand training programmes that have already reached more than one million people.
- Google announced plans to offer Pakistani students a free one-year Google Gemini subscription with a formal rollout expected soon, and it is supporting local Chromebook assembly projects that aim to produce several hundred thousand devices for education and possible export.