Azfar Ahsan elected VP MAP
July 9, 2021
KARACHI: Marketing Association of Pakistan (MAP), an apex body of marketing in the country, has elected Corporate Pakistan Group (CPG) Founder Muhammad Azfar Ahsan as its vice president for a one year term, a statement said on Thursday.
Ahsan is a global influencer, business connector, change activist, philanthropist, non-partisan political analyst and entrepreneur based out of Pakistan.
CPG represents the elite of Pakistan s national intelligentsia including corporate and business leaders, ministers, senators, governors, federal secretaries, politicians, distinguished academicians, energy experts, tech entrepreneurs, defence personnel, police officers, foreign policy experts, media practitioners and movers and shakers of civil society.
‘Karachi needs care, ownership’
July 5, 2021
KARACHI: Candid political jabs were exchanged between Miftah Ismail of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Senator Faisal Subzwari of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) during the Safe Karachi Conference at a hotel in Karachi on Sunday, while the K-Electric seemed to have been given a clean chit.
The PML-N and MQM leaders put all the blame on the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), while the other speakers kept talking about the problems of Karachi and asserting that they did not want to get political.
At one point in the conference, Subzwari expressed resentment towards the courts of the country, and said that as a political party they could only talk against pieces of legislation being passed in the assembly but they could not ask the people to vote for them at gunpoint.
Call for collaboration resounds at Safe Karachi Conference
July 5, 2021
Candid political jabs were exchanged between Miftah Ismail of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Senator Faisal Subzwari of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) during the Safe Karachi Conference at a hotel in Karachi on Sunday, while the K-Electric seemed to have been given a clean chit.
The PML-N and MQM leaders put all the blame on the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), while the other speakers kept talking about the problems of Karachi and asserting that they did not want to get political.
At one point in the conference, Subzwari expressed resentment towards the courts of the country, and said that as a political party they could only talk against pieces of legislation being passed in the assembly but they could not ask the people to vote for them at gunpoint.
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail speaks at the Safe Karachi conference. Photo by writer
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have their own ways of looking at things that may keep projects in Karachi moving ahead.
He was speaking at the ‘Safe Karachi’ conference organised by the Corporate Pakistan Group at a local hotel on Sunday to create awareness about the challenges faced by Karachi and focus on the key problems faced by the city’s administration, residents, service providers and businesses.
“A Karachi I grew up in was a clean and vibrant city. It was a different city. People used to come from all over the county to see Karachi. Then we also saw Karachi nose diving. There were thefts happening here, murders happening here. The lawlessness saw the departure of industry from here. Big business houses also left Karachi,” the governor said.
‘RDA to convert to digital banking’
Business
May 4, 2021
KARACHI: Roshan digital accounts will ultimately be converted into digital banking, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari said on Monday.
He was in a discussion with Azfar Ahsan, founder of Corporate Pakistan Group (CPG) and Nutshell Group, in an online live session from CPG dialogue platform titled “The Way Forward for Pakistan”. Discussing the problem of Hundi, he said the government is trying to attract overseas Pakistanis away from the use of Hundi and Hawala but to do that we have to match the ease of transfer and are working on it.