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About 90 per cent of IT industry of Pakistan has been completely destroyed at the Evacuee Trust Building following suicide bombing at Hotel Marriott, reflecting total collapse of the computer industry.
Pakistan Computer Association (PCA) on Tuesday disclosed that the most of the leading computer companies and software houses were operating at the Evacuee Trust Building, which has been declared as dangerous. Resultantly, not a single company was saved from the deadly bomb blast in Islamabad.
The PCA has expresses deep grief over the loss of precious human lives as a result of cowardly act of suicide bombing. The association has also expressed its solidarity with the aggrieved families of several IT professionals, who lost their lives while working in their offices located in adjacent Evacuee Trust Building.
President PCA, Munawar Iqbal opined that many of the IT professionals have lost their lives and every single IT-related set up in the building has been destroyed completely. He urged the government to immediately help out the industry so that the hapless effectees of the incident may be able to revive their businesses.
He said that the tragic incident has marred the possibilities of streamlining national economy and the government ought to deal with situation by helping out business community. He said that 90 per cent of local IT industry was based in Evacuee Trust Building, which has been destroyed completely and the collapse of industry would damage further the other sectors.
He reiterated that government should not only help the families of those, who have been martyred in the incident but also help the IT community to the extent that they might be able to restart their businesses without any delay as the sector is providing thousand of IT professionals who are confronting with the menace of joblessness as result of tragic suicide bomb-blast.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008

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