There is a real industrial base behind this argument. Nasscom’s FY2024 GCC report identified more than 1,700 GCCs, approximately $64.6 billion in revenue and over 1.9 million employees. Those numbers establish scale, not the future relocation of every job now caught in a visa dispute. They also explain Pakistan’s task: buyers choose functioning ecosystems, and patriotism has to become reliable delivery if it is to win contracts.
The insult campaign cannot erase Pakistan’s record
The reply corpus includes repeated demands that Pakistanis stop commenting because they supposedly produce only terrorists, beggars or cleaners. This is national contempt dressed up as an economic argument. Honest discussion of Pakistan’s institutional failures is necessary; a stranger’s slur is not analysis, and dignified service work is not evidence of an entire nation’s inability to engineer.
The June 2026 NFAP study, frequently invoked for its 96 US billion-dollar companies founded or co-founded by Indian immigrants, also lists 10 with Pakistani immigrant founders. The Pakistan Software Export Board reports $3.8 billion in IT and IT-enabled-services exports for FY2024–25. Neither statistic makes Pakistan India’s equal in industrial scale; both demolish the claim that Pakistani technical enterprise does not exist.
The same standard applies to anti-Indian abuse in American replies. Accusations that all Indians are scammers, declarations that an entire nationality deserves hatred, and demands to expel everyone of one origin are not additional payroll evidence. We can document the language and expose its double standards without adopting it. Pakistan’s answer is strongest when it refuses the very collective degradation being used against Pakistanis.
What Pakistan should do next
The commercial opening is not a vacant visa quota waiting to be gifted to Pakistan. It is a buyer’s demand for verifiable talent, dependable infrastructure, transparent subcontracting and accountable delivery. Pakistani firms should offer a defined pilot, disclose who will do the work, demonstrate the product in operation and make compliance part of the sale. A government announcing ambitions while tolerating unreliable connectivity or chaotic payment access is asking exporters to compete with one hand tied.
This continues the argument in Pakistani Freelancers Are Exporters, the distinction between access and commercial execution in Google’s Pakistan Office, and the policy questions raised in Pakistan’s YouTube Income Benchmark. The common issue is whether Pakistan turns capability into durable export receipts instead of exhausting its people with preventable institutional friction.
