EDITOR’S NOTE

Mr. Muhammad Ijaz

Editor in Cheif

Prioritizing the Priorities

"The important or high priority tasks are the tasks that help us achieve our long-term goals or can have other meaningful and significant long-term consequences."

LEADERSHIP

Leading the way Forward

- Crafting the Future of Defence

- Balancing Tradition and Transformation in KP’s Investment Sphere

- Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

- Harnessing Vision and Policy to Drive Pakistan Forward

- Shaping the Future of Higher Education at LUMS

- Redefining Bilateral Trade Routes

- Empowering Business Connections between China and Pakistan

Crafting the Future of Defence

Agha Masood Akram HI(M)

"Pakistan is a peace loving country with the strength to defeat any enemy designs directed to destabilize it internally, or using external elements."

Balancing Tradition and Transformation in KP’s Investment Sphere

Mohsin Aziz

"Economy must be a common subject of all political stake holders. Once decided the goals, aims and targets to remain unchanged till achieved. Political differences must be kept apart from national economic agenda."

Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

S.M. Munir

"If your systems are systematic, then everything is automatic."

Harnessing Vision and Policy to Drive Pakistan Forward

Ahsan Iqbal

"The best way to predict the future is to create it and better future can only be created through vision."

Shaping the Future of Higher Education at LUMS

Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi

"My belief is that Pakistanis can accomplish anything and everything; our people are as capable, if not more, as those of any other nation. This belief prepares me to take up new challenges every day."

Redefining Bilateral Trade Routes

Shah Faisal Afridi

"The basic recipe to achieve long-term success is the honesty, honesty and honesty. The company should be honest with customers, with employees, with shareholders, with partners and with directors"

Empowering Business Connections between China and Pakistan

Wang Zihai

"Business community of Pakistan must be aware of the fact that this is the right time to shake hands with Chinese companies as China is bringing huge"

WISDOM TALK

Learning Your Hearts Out

"True wisdom lies not only in knowing, but in understanding and applying with compassion."

Gwadar

Future Global Trade Hub

"Gwadar is a district along the sea in south of the Makran. The coastline of Gwadar District is about 600 Kilometers long. Gwadar was notified as a District in July, 1977 with its headquarter in Gwadar Town. Previously it was the part of Makran District."

Investment Opportunities In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

"KP-BOIT in collaboration with concerned Provincial Departments is in process of identification of investment projects in various sectors including Energy & Power, Tourism, Mines and Minerals, Agriculture and Livestock, Transport & Housing etc."

Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Force Behind The Forces

"For about last sixty five (65) years now, POF has been meeting almost 90% requirements of the Pakistan Armed Forces."

PAK - CHINA Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

"Free trade or globalization is a hotly debated phenomenon in the global village of today’s economic system. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are a common type of bilateral arrangement between two or more countries."

Global Cities

Myth Behind China’s Miracle

"The concept of ‘Global city’ or ‘World City’ has widely been used in past by various southern countries including China to achieve the set goals for their economic development."

$100bn - The Asian Infrastructure & Investment (AIIB)

"With major share of China, Asian infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) can galvanize growth in emerging Asia and boost lingering global recovery. The new bank will provide rich resource capital base for infrastructure financing, which is good for the regional development."

One Belt One Road

Shaping Future’s Global Economy

"‘One Belt, One Road’ is a paradigm of regional co-existence. The project firmly focuses on the Continent development goals. This model of shared destiny and cooperation is having a unique three dimensional character engulfing true spirit of reciprocity, kinship and inclusiveness."

PAK - CHINA Economic Corridor - A Road To Prosperity

"China has planned numerous mega projects to be started at Gawadar that would be tremendously beneficial for both countries."

Currency Swap Arrangement

"Economic corridor is not only the road to economic prosperity of Pakistan; it can be termed as future of the world. It is estimated that about 3 billion people from China, South Asia and Central Asia, would be benefited from the economic corridor."

PAKISTAN - CHINA: Areas of Cooperation

"China is also interested in incorporating a Chinese curriculum into Pakistan that will include Chinese language, Chinese work ethics, innovative planning and development, on the priority basis but for this they need cooperation from Pakistan."

Food Safety Certification ‘A Logical Discipline’

"In today's world standardization of system and product has gained very high importance and businesses are not only driven by fancy marketing regimes or aggressive sales but through customer confidence."

Solar Energy Looking Towards State Ownership In Pakistan

"Pakistan, being located in the sunny belt, is lucky to have long sunshine hours and high insolation levels and is ideally located to take advantage of solar energy technologies."

International Commercial & Trade Dispute Resolution & ADR

"With the passage of time, various options regarding international trade and commercial disputes have been introduced at national and international level."

Business Planning & Pakistani Companies

"It is important to realize that a corporate entity cannot come up with a realistic and robust Business Plan unless it is developed through a process instead of finalized by one or few persons only."