The 'trade for peace' train steams ahead
On April 18, 2012, the CII and PBC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aman ki Asha, Jang Group and Times of India, agreeing to host annual conferences alternately in India and Pakistan.
The forthcoming conference in Lahore will be the first under this partnership.
The first meeting in May 2010 brought together some 250 Indian and 60 Pakistani businessmen and women whose joint statement highlighted achievable objectives and identified six sectors with the highest potential for mutual cooperation: Textiles, Information Technology (IT), Agriculture, althcare, Energy and Education.
They had urged both governments to ease visa restrictions, especially for the business community and to lift the ban on cell-phone roaming between India and Pakistan.
Business visas are being relaxed, but delegates will not be able to use their Indian mobile phones in Pakistan, unless the governments lift that restriction prior to the meeting in Lahore that starts on May 7, 2012.
At the last Indo-Pak Business Meet two years ago, Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee delivered the inaugural address and Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik, was among the luminaries who attended the event and stayed till the very end, leaving with positive feedback.
The forthcoming 'Dividends' conference is expected to be even more high-powered than the previous one, with three federal ministers addressing the gathering, Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh, Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Federal Minister of Commerce. Keynote speakers include Razzak Dawood, Chairman Descon, Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman Hero Corporate Services and Indian parliamentarian Mani Shankar Aiyer.
Other prominent personalities expected to make presentations and participate in discussions include Indian High Commissioner Sharat Shabarwal, CII President Adi Godjrej, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, MD of Bharti Enterprise Ltd, Vikram S. Mehta, Chairman Shell Group India, Mian Muhammad Mansha, Chairman MCB Bank, Mohan Kaul, Co-Chair, Commonwealth Business Forum, Jehangir Siddiqui, JS Group, Zakir Mahmood, President Habib Bank Limited, and Bashir Ali Muhammad, Chairman Gul Ahmed Textiles.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
It's all systems go for 'Dividends', the Second Aman ki Asha Indo-Pak Economic Conference, Lahore, May 7-8, 2012
Taking forward the 'trade for peace' agenda initiated with its groundbreaking Indo-Pak business conference in May 2010, Aman ki Asha is organising 'Dividends', the Second Indo-Pak Economic Conference in Lahore, on May 7-8, 2012 in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and the Pakistan Business Council (PBC).On April 18, 2012, the CII and PBC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aman ki Asha, Jang Group and Times of India, agreeing to host annual conferences alternately in India and Pakistan.
The forthcoming conference in Lahore will be the first under this partnership.The first meeting in May 2010 brought together some 250 Indian and 60 Pakistani businessmen and women whose joint statement highlighted achievable objectives and identified six sectors with the highest potential for mutual cooperation: Textiles, Information Technology (IT), Agriculture, althcare, Energy and Education.
They had urged both governments to ease visa restrictions, especially for the business community and to lift the ban on cell-phone roaming between India and Pakistan.
Business visas are being relaxed, but delegates will not be able to use their Indian mobile phones in Pakistan, unless the governments lift that restriction prior to the meeting in Lahore that starts on May 7, 2012.
At the last Indo-Pak Business Meet two years ago, Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee delivered the inaugural address and Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik, was among the luminaries who attended the event and stayed till the very end, leaving with positive feedback.
The forthcoming 'Dividends' conference is expected to be even more high-powered than the previous one, with three federal ministers addressing the gathering, Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh, Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Federal Minister of Commerce. Keynote speakers include Razzak Dawood, Chairman Descon, Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman Hero Corporate Services and Indian parliamentarian Mani Shankar Aiyer.
Other prominent personalities expected to make presentations and participate in discussions include Indian High Commissioner Sharat Shabarwal, CII President Adi Godjrej, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, MD of Bharti Enterprise Ltd, Vikram S. Mehta, Chairman Shell Group India, Mian Muhammad Mansha, Chairman MCB Bank, Mohan Kaul, Co-Chair, Commonwealth Business Forum, Jehangir Siddiqui, JS Group, Zakir Mahmood, President Habib Bank Limited, and Bashir Ali Muhammad, Chairman Gul Ahmed Textiles.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Peace hankies and more: A page from my diary
By Zain Hasan
May 13, 2010: Today I spent some hours with the students of a community school where I also had studied. - Akhtar Academy in Nazimabad. It was .....more
May 13, 2010: Today I spent some hours with the students of a community school where I also had studied. - Akhtar Academy in Nazimabad. It was .....more
Pak-India business leaders mull ways to enhance trade, economic ties
'Building economic links to help address development problems'
By Amir Zia
NEW DELHI: Prominent business and corporate leaders from Pakistan a .....more
By Amir Zia
NEW DELHI: Prominent business and corporate leaders from Pakistan a .....more
Pranab calls for increased India-Pakistan trade
NEW DELHI : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday pitched for increased trade with Pakistan, saying it would help reduce tensions between the two neighbours and b
.....more
NEW DELHI : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday pitched for increased trade with Pakistan, saying it would help reduce tensions between the two neighbours and b
.....more
Business leaders say chances of war recede when financial interests converge
By Shahnawaz Akhter & Saad Hasan
KARACHI: Pervez Said, a Pakistani banker, has always gone along easily with his Indian counterparts. Whenever the South Asians had .....more
KARACHI: Pervez Said, a Pakistani banker, has always gone along easily with his Indian counterparts. Whenever the South Asians had .....more
Aman ki Asha 'handkerchiefs for peace' at Ladybird Grammar School, Karachi
Karachi, May 17: Passionate and enthusiastic students of Ladybird Grammar School, their faces alight with the spirit of spreading the message of peace and harmony assembl
.....more
Karachi, May 17: Passionate and enthusiastic students of Ladybird Grammar School, their faces alight with the spirit of spreading the message of peace and harmony assembl
.....more
Aman ki Asha: Pak delegation reaches New Delhi
NEW DELHI (Mahmood Sham): A Pakistani delegation has reached New Delhi on Monday to take part in a business seminar organized by Jang Group and Times of India under " Ama
.....more
NEW DELHI (Mahmood Sham): A Pakistani delegation has reached New Delhi on Monday to take part in a business seminar organized by Jang Group and Times of India under " Ama
.....more Page 157 of 178
Special Editions
more editions
The News on Sunday Special Report: India Pakistan prisoners
We probably didn't need to do this Special Report. Newspaper stories don't matter when it comes to Indians in Pakistani jails and vice versa. In fact, 'vice versa' sums it up. We do to them what they do to us.
Except when the two countries decide to begin talking, yet again! This time a little before the foreign secretary level talks, some Pakistani prisoners were released by India (and vice versa must have happened) and some more were release....read more
Blog
more
For the past 2 years the Jang Group and Geo have been working on a project of great national interest; one that we hope will help usher in an era of peace and prosperity in the country and indeed, in the region. And one that hopefully all Pakistanis can be proud of.
The Jang Group has entered into an agreement with the Times of India Group, the largest media group of India, to campaign for peace betw
Global Media
Comments