Include Pakistan 🇵🇰 country into GitHub Sponsors program

[ossamamehmood]

The GitHub Sponsors program should be available in Pakistan. There're millions of users registered on GitHub and good stuff (contribution).

[jfullstackdev]

yup, the plan for them is worldwide, I think so. Back then, Philippines was not included but it's worth the wait. Maybe requesting it here might help also, as I did the same thing in the past.

[ossamamehmood]

Sounds Good : )

[Zeeshan11222]

Good

[ossamamehmood]

@jfullstackdev We're still waiting it's 2026!

[anjuan]

I'm the Engineering Manager for GitHub Sponsors. I'll add that we definitely want GitHub Sponsors to be available everywhere we can. Thanks for the suggestion, @ossamamehmood.

[ossamamehmood]

Great to hear : )

[affan-ch]

@anjuan Any Idea, How long it will take from now?

[mzherx]

yeah Same

[ossamamehmood]

@anjuan Any update?

[ammarahm-ed]

Still wondering if this will be possible soon. I work in oss and it's really a shame that although i can sponsor people on Github, they can't sponsor me for my work since I am from Pakistan. If the banking systems in these countries are difficult, something like payoneer or other payment options should be available. Many services have figured this out already so I don't understand what's taking so long to support more countries and why the wait.

[Najeeb-Idrees]

Any estimated time to add Pakistan to the Github country list for SMS?

[msaeedsaeedi]

Still waiting for this feature !!!

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[HK321]

Guys its 2025, please do something about it!

[msaeedsaeedi]

We have to gather as much Pakistanis as possible. In that way, they might include Pakistan.

[umar-anzar]

Any updates?

[ANoXShadow]

2026 still nothing

[asaddon]

Me Waiting :)

[axtheon]

@ossamamehmood It's July of 2026, Half way through the year. But we still don't have any updates on the required feature. As a Pakistani
developer, I think that Github should consider on adding support for Pakistan to get sponsors!

[ossamamehmood]

@axtheon Rightly so, I raised the concern in 2022 and we still stays where! Let's have more people here!

[axtheon]

We surely need to get more people, specifically Pakistanis here.

[Wasif-Shahzad]

any update?

[axtheon]

No updates till now!