The Seventh Wave - Pakistan’s Chance to Achieve Escape Velocity

A good area where an Indo- Pak joint venture can wipe out the competition from the rest of the world.

Too bad it won`t happen...

Brother,

Not to disappoint you, I dont think laggards like Pakistan and India can do something great in the field of Electronics and Semiconductors, particularly manufacturing.

There are many reasons to it. The technology of E&S changes very fast therefore the whole system should be geared up to change very fast. Then, it needs state-of-the-art world class infrastructure including roads, ports, cargo handling points etc. which is very capital intensive.

India could do something in IT because creation of infrastructure for IT was relatively easy. You need only wires to connect. You can do away with roads,ports and other such physical infrastructure.

Pakistan missed the IT bus because it thought that some business would nevertheless spill over to Pakistan and therefore did not try very hard. It waited for lady luck to smile on it. That did not happen. Apart from India, other centres like Ireland picked up whatever was available.