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PAKISTAN Inc

On April 25, 2010 By

A country in more than many ways is like a multinational company. For it to be successful, the company or the country should first of all have a world-class executive management team, i.e. a visionary, dedicated and a very capable team with diverse set of experiences. Besides a solid management team, a country should have a good business model based on its intrinsic advantages, its natural resources, etc. It should deliver serious economic value to it’s shareholders, i.e. the citizens of that country. It should protect the long-term economic interests of its citizens, and provide them with opportunities to exploit their talents and get compensated fairly for them. The system should be based on meritocracy and fair rules for long-term survival and growth of this company and to retain its good employees. Within the company, there must be basic systems, infrastructure and processes in place such that the workforce is able to spend time on productive tasks, rather than wasting away time on unproductive tasks.

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The expatriate Pakistani community remits foreign currency worth U.S. $8 – $9 billion every year via official money transfers / banking channels to Pakistan.  More or less the same amount is sent via the unofficial / hundi / hawala channels.  Just to put things in perspective, the entire [...]

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You, the talented, educated and resourceful Pakistanis, are the change this country needs.  We definitely don’t need foreign loans, nor any foreign countries or institutions telling us how to fix our own country’s issues and problems, and in some cases, we don’t even need expensive foreign technology and [...]

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Pakistan is not really the land of the pure, although we’d like it to be and may be someday, Inshallah, it will be; however, for now it’s definitely not the land of the pure. In fact it’s quite far from being the land of the pure. In 2009, I can safely say, it’s really a land of the brave – Bahaduristan.

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