Pakistan, Feb. 23 -- Over the past decade, the global economy has undergone a structural shift, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as a core industrial infrastructure. While countries like the United States, India, Vietnam, and China invested heavily in AI compute clusters, industrial automation, and digital ecosystems, Pakistan has lagged, focusing predominantly on political disputes and short-term macroeconomic stabilisation.

From 2015 onwards, the rise of OpenAI, the industrial-scale deployment of GPT models, and Nvidia's expansion into AI-optimised computing marked the beginning of an AI-driven capex supercycle. Hyperscalers committed tens of billions to AI infrastructure, while Asian competitors integrated AI into manufactu...