The Pakistan Ambassador

  Sonraj Group, Pakistan’s leading luxury retail and horology house , hosted its 3rd annual year-end breakfast in Karachi, bringing together team members from across the country, former colleagues, senior professionals from the business community, members of the banking sector, industry partners, and distinguished guests. The official event celebrating a year of transformation, revival, and renewed commitment to the values that define Sonraj, commenced with the recitation of the Holy Quran, followed by the national anthem. Renowned showbiz personality Mr. Behroze Sabzwari formally opened the proceedings by introducing Sonraj’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Rameez Sattar, and spoke about their decades-long association while commending Sonraj’s remarkable journey. He highlighted the company’s resilience, strong teamwork, and the respect it commands both locally and internationally. He also acknowledged Sonraj’s role in bringing leading global watch brands to Pakistan while maintaini...

  Advising the business community to take a leading role in social transformation, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Tourism, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, called on leading businessmen and industrialists to allocate at least one per cent of their profits to charitable efforts aimed at enrolling over 26 million out-of-school children in Pakistan. He made this appeal while speaking as the chief guest at a special gathering organised to rally support from Islamabad’s business community for the Green Crescent Trust’s (GCT) ambitious drive to provide quality education to children from underprivileged communities in Sindh. The event was hosted by Usman Shaukat, President of the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (RCCI). Praising the presence of Islamabad’s prominent business figures, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan highlighted their commitment to eradicating illiteracy, describing education as the key to Pakistan’s rapid progress and its emergence as an influential global player, a...

  The leading Sindh-based educational charity, Green Crescent Trust (GCT), is set to hold consecutive get-togethers in Lahore and Islamabad, seeking philanthropic support from prominent businessmen and industrialists in Punjab and the federal capital to accelerate its mission of enrolling out-of-school children across Sindh. GCT CEO Zahid Saeed will deliver a compelling presentation highlighting key facts and figures related to the current education crisis in Pakistan. He will also outline a practical and impactful way forward, proposing sustainable solutions to address the serious challenges facing school education—particularly for underprivileged children—through GCT’s proven and scalable model. For the past 31 years, GCT has been working tirelessly to eradicate illiteracy and provide quality education to children from underprivileged communities. The trust has established a network of 173 charitable schools in remote and neglected rural areas of Sindh, with a total enrolment o...