{"id":79371,"date":"2025-07-03T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79371"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:31:16","slug":"microsoft-reportedly-shuts-down-operations-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/microsoft-reportedly-shuts-down-operations-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reportedly shuts down operations in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented development, Jawwad Rehman, the founding Country Manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/microsoft-banned-the-word-palestine-in-internal-emails\/\">Microsoft Pakistan<\/a>, has said that Microsoft is reportedly closing its operations in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on LinkedIn, Rehman said that the employees at Microsoft Pakistan were formally informed of the closure, signaling an end to a journey that began in June 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;End of an Era\u2026 Microsoft Pakistan,&#8221; he wrote, announcing that the technology conglomerate has ended its operations in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/activity-7346194356552228864--kOc?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADRx_noBEb2U0A212etvCv_GoflfvuHRs4E\">services<\/a> to facilitate the company&#8217;s operations in Pakistan, Jawwad said he spent &#8220;seven years building Microsoft\u2019s presence, assembling a talented team, serving customers, and working hand-in-hand with amazing partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the reason for the company&#8217;s exit, he mentioned the country&#8217;s current business environment, which made global giants like Microsoft operate. &#8220;It also reflects on what was done (or not done) with the strong foundation we left behind by the subsequent team and regional management of Microsoft,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s latest end to operations in Pakistan is part of its massive worldwide layoff.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Microsoft confirmed that it\u2019s laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in yet another round of cuts this year in June, as part of a broad restructuring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented development, Jawwad Rehman, the founding Country Manager of Microsoft Pakistan, has said that Microsoft is reportedly closing its operations in Pakistan. In a post on LinkedIn, Rehman said that the employees at Microsoft Pakistan were formally informed of the closure, signaling an end to a journey that began in June 2000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29872],"class_list":["post-79371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79380,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371\/revisions\/79380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}