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LEARNING FROM OTHERS

The biography may be useful to someone who would like to extract and distill what I have written
and from which hopefully some lessons can be learnt. The whole purpose of this initiative is not
for people to learn about me and what I did, but to see what lessons can be learnt from it. It would
give me great satisfaction if, in the future, somebody were to use it as a case study.

The biography may be useful to someone who would like to extract and distill what I have written and from which hopefully, some lessons can be learned. The whole purpose of this initiative is not for people to learn about me and what I did and see what lessons can be learned from it. It would give me great satisfaction if, in the future, somebody were to use it as a case study.

BOOK CHAPTERS

My grandfather, Syed Wazir Ali, came from a family living in Tobian Gali, a narrow lane in Hatta Bazaar, which is near Rang Mahal in Lahore’s walled city. The family must have been doing reasonably well …

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I was born after four sisters, so there was great jubilation and happiness on my arrival. I attended kindergarten classes and received my primary education at Sacred Heart School, Lahore, which …

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While Bhai Amjad was a member of the Punjab Assembly and in politics, he developed an interest in industrial production and his desire was to have the family move from military contracting …

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Before my 1954 European tour, I asked the people in my Karachi Office if there were any letters from Scandinavian countries that could lead to business contacts because I was planning to visit Finland …

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In the establishment of Packages Limited, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, as it was called in 1956, played an important role in terms of providing finance to my family as shareholder …

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Before regulating your colleagues, you have to discipline yourself. You are not above your colleagues; you are one of them. You have to accept the fact that you are not privileged …

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Soon after Packages came into being and we were recruiting new employees, I was inundated with recommendations and personal pleas by young men coming with their parents to seek employment. They would …

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Both Bhai Amjad and Bhai Wajid were keen on ‘shikar’, although I doubt if my uncle or my father ever handled a gun. When my brothers came of age, they were members of a society in which ‘shikar’ was …

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The genesis of my father’s trust, the Syed Maratib Ali Religious and Charitable Trust dates back to when I was a student at Aitchison College and I suggested to him that he should start a Trust. I sowed …

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My family and parents were forever talking about my marriage, even while I was still studying at Government College in 1944. Bhai Amjad was married when he was 19 but …

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When I was studying at Aitchison in 1941, I wrote letters to Mr. Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru asking for their signed …

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In 1978, when I had completed my national service at the National Fertilizer Corporation, I came back to the private sector and worked on setting up ‘Milkpak Limited’. I went to International Finance Corporation (IFC) where Moeen Qureshi …

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