Muhammad Umar argues Pakistan's systems engineers and mathematicians can fill the talent gap India alone cannot meet for U.S. tech competition with China. His company Code Ninja started in Pakistan and expanded globally. He sees a model where multinationals run Global Capability Centers across Bangalore, Lahore, and Romania to deploy AI into American workplaces.
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So India is great, I think, but I think the kind of transformation the world needs, especially the America, what America needs, especially, I mean, if you are going to compete with China, India alone, I doubt India alone can serve that much demand. And I think, I mean, we've built Code Ninja out of Pakistan. Now, of course, we've grown to other parts of the world in America and Chile and all that. But I, I think when I see Pakistan's systems engineers, mathematical and simulation talent, culture of working under constraints, I mean, I think this is a huge opportunity and that which we are trying to achieve and what we're trying to do and is like, how can we help some of the most important businesses in America to have this unfair advantage of bringing Pakistan into the picture? Setting up the GCCs in Pakistan for Frontier Tech. And we have already set up global community centers in Pakistan where we're serving both, where the same business has its GCC in Bangalore, they have another GCC in Lahore, then another GCC in Romania. So I think the kind of software, the kind of software people we need in the next five to seven years to transform our workplace in factory floors, to transform to integrate AI systems into American workplaces and factory floors and the kind of problem we're trying to solve is absolute. And especially to compete with China. Absolutely. I think Pakistan can play an incredibly important role and that's what we are trying to do and what we are doing already.
