Majeed, A. (2026). Why Most Pakistani Software Houses Are Still Stuck in Body-Shop Mode: Scroll through any ranking of Pakistan’s top software houses and the same phrase keeps appearing: staff augmentation. Seventeen thousand-plus IT companies later, most of Pakistan’s software industry is still selling engineering hours at a discount rather than building anything it owns — and the incentives keeping it there are stronger than most founders, myself included, like to admit. PakTech Today, 1(18), i-ii. Retrieved from https://pakjournals.com/ojs/index.php/ptt/article/view/652