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Coimbatore , April 7

IDC's quarterly PC tracker on emerging Asian markets shows that the client PC market in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka grew 16 per cent in 2005.

The total shipments in 2005 stood at 8.51 lakh units. Among the them, Pakistan recorded the highest growth at 19 per cent, followed by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at 13 per cent and 12 per cent respectively.

According to IDC, favourable policies and structural liberalisation in the financial and telecommunications sectors helped to lift the PC market mood in Pakistan, while the Sri Lankan market exhibited some resiliency, largely due to public sector and non-government organisation purchases.

The influx of second-hand PCs has had no major impact in Bangladesh.

The total market size of Pakistan, researchers say "could exceed the much more developed Singapore PC market in absolute terms by early 2007Multinational brand such as HP has also made inroads.

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