These days PakSat-I in space is promoting telecommunication developments in Pakistan.
It has. Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, started the space agency in 1961 in Pakistan, with the help of military dictator Ayub Khan. The agency tried sounding rockets, just like India did. Because India is a democracy, our space development moved up by leaps and bounds. We progressed in satellite and launch vehicle development, hand in hand. But in Pakistan, armed forces have been having a upper hand, right from 1947. How many military dictators did Pakistan have! Everyone of them had one aim and one enemy: how to trouble India, its fundamental enemy. Military got the best funding while education and space research received much less funds. Again, the space program had military officers as the directors, pushing civilian scientists to second and third positions. As a result, indigenous space research has been compelled to be low key in Pakistan. It has launched satellites with Chinese help. Launch vehicles are for missile applications and for military use of atomic energy work-atom bomb.
One assessment by experts is that while it had head start in comparison with India, it it perhaps 30–40 years behind, overall today, to reach where India has reached today.