Japan Includes Pakistan in a List of Top 10 Friendly Countries

[S.Y.A]

Number 2 is a big problem.
Our technical education syllabus is out of date. We don't have latest machines/ tools/ software in technical colleges that may help the students in getting hands on experience and bring much needed efficiency.
Met someone who told me that there was a meeting in his company about investing in Pakistan and one major reason was unavailability of technical workforce with certificates in using latest machines/ leveraging technology. Also the workforce can't read instructions manuals..

This sector requires huge investment at college diploma level.. even then 5-10 years are required just to catch up..

New curriculum is being decided for technical and vocational training for a variety of different fields, sub-committees have been formed to address each and every field, a foreign NGO is leading the effort, various organizations (govt and otherwise) are taking part in the process, Professors from top universities have also been involved. Good will come out of it InshaAllah.

 

[PakSword]

New curriculum is being decided for technical and vocational training for a variety of different fields, sub-committees have been formed to address each and every field, a foreign NGO is leading the effort, various organizations (govt and otherwise) are taking part in the process, Professors from top universities have also been involved. Good will come out of it InshaAllah.

In shaa Allah..

New curriculum is being decided for technical and vocational training for a variety of different fields, sub-committees have been formed to address each and every field, a foreign NGO is leading the effort, various organizations (govt and otherwise) are taking part in the process, Professors from top universities have also been involved. Good will come out of it InshaAllah.

Next thing they need to focus on is enrollment.

The above is from Punjab. The numbers are too less to even consider. Many trades are not even there in >1000 lists..

 

[war&peace]

Pakistan played a significant role during 1947-51 in lifting the Occupation and restoring Japan's sovereignty. Pakistan was described by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as the 'tower of strength' on the Japanese peace treaty, signed on 8 September 1951 at San Francisco. Unlike many other Asian countries, Pakistan waived war reparations from Japan to help build its economy. Pakistan was among the first few countries that ratified the Japanese peace treaty.

Pakistan also played a leading role in Japan's postwar economic revival in the 1950s by exporting cotton and jute to Japan as textiles was the only industry allowed to revive under the Occupation. SCAP-Japan sent its first trade mission to Pakistan in May 1948, headed by R. Eaton. Two months later, Japan signed a trade agreement with Pakistan in July 1948, which was also the first trade agreement signed by Japan with any country after the war. Much of Pakistan’s export was on deferred payment as Japan was short of foreign exchange. In exchange for cotton and jute, Pakistan imported textile machinery from Japan. Therefore, a mutually beneficial trade relationship emerged between them.

When I read such posts / articles about our role in helping various countries around the globe...be it Germany in 60's, or Koreas, China and now Japan.... in addition to many Islamic countries and Arab countries... and today we find ourselves in this position??..we really need to analyse our policies in retrospect.. where did we mess up and by who?

New curriculum is being decided for technical and vocational training for a variety of different fields, sub-committees have been formed to address each and every field, a foreign NGO is leading the effort, various organizations (govt and otherwise) are taking part in the process, Professors from top universities have also been involved. Good will come out of it InshaAllah.

So let's say thank you IK ... that's the tabdeeli..Nya Pakistan

 

[Umar Nazir]

When I read such posts / articles about our role in helping various countries around the globe...be it Germany in 60's, or Koreas, China and now Japan.... in addition to many Islamic countries and Arab countries... and today we find ourselves in this position??..we really need to analyse our policies in retrospect.. where did we mess up and by who?


So let's say thank you IK ... that's the tabdeeli..Nya Pakistan

I feel same like you and perhaps these are the reasons of our self destruction
1) 1965 war prove to be a first brake on our industrial and economical growth as war prove to be a costly and more than half of the Army senior command was not in favor of 1965 war and later USA stop all the aids which was necessary for solid industrial base at-least for another 10-15 years
2) 1970 dispute between east and west Pakistan and later war with india . This could be avoided by offering one president for both east and west Pakistan and 2 states fully independent in all other matters
3) 1972 Bhoto Nationalization policy which still have disastrous effects on our economy
4) Afghan Jihad and radicalization of our Society

 

[war&peace]

I feel same like you and perhaps these are the reasons of our self destruction
1) 1965 war prove to be a first brake on our industrial and economical growth as war prove to be a costly and more than half of the Army senior command was not in favor of 1965 war and later USA stop all the aids which was necessary for solid industrial base at-least for another 10-15 years
2) 1970 dispute between east and west Pakistan and later war with india . This could be avoided by offering one president for both east and west Pakistan and 2 states fully independent in all other matters
3) 1972 Bhoto Nationalization policy which still have disastrous effects on our economy
4) Afghan Jihad and radicalization of our Society

Well, it needs to investigated thoroughly. I can't agree or disagree with all of your points though I tend to agree on point 3) and 4) ... rest of the points need more deliberation. You can say generally for all the wars and they do damage but when a war is thrust upon you there's no other option.

 

[Umar Nazir]

Well, it needs to investigated thoroughly. I can't agree or disagree with all of your points though I tend to agree on point 3) and 4) ... rest of the points need more deliberation. You can say generally for all the wars and they do damage but when a war is thrust upon you there's no other option.

exactly when a war is thrust than absoulty no other option rather than fight with dignity, but its Pakistan who start operation Gibraltar without proper planning. where as in 1971, no doubt its India who attack on Us, but this could be avoided if our policy makers of that time solved east Pakistan issue internally .

 

[war&peace]

exactly when a war is thrust than absoulty no other option rather than fight with dignity, but its Pakistan who start operation Gibraltar without proper planning. where as in 1971, no doubt its India who attack on Us, but this could be avoided if our policy makers of that time solved east Pakistan issue internally .

Well, where I disagree with most and now I even question our growth in 60's is reliance on USA. That was going to fail sooner or later. Our blind establishment in fact betrayed the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The founder of then nation wanted a prosperous and a self-reliant country with its own identity and ideology. But the establishment prematurely joined camps and sold out the sovereignty and went for easy money but as they say there are no free lunches in this world. Pakistan had the potential to develop on its own without seeking help from anyone.

 

[Umar Nazir]

Well, where I disagree with most and now I even question our growth in 60's is reliance on USA. That was going to fail sooner or later. Our blind establishment in fact betrayed the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The founder of then nation wanted a prosperous and a self-reliant country with its own identity and ideology. But the establishment prematurely joined camps and sold out the sovereignty and went for easy money but as they say there are no free lunches in this world. Pakistan had the potential to develop on its own without seeking help from anyone.

sir what ever you said is totally true but Indian forced us to join west when they stopped our share of money and start playing dirty water games with us. Its also true that we suffer alot by joining west in cold war , but we benefited alot as well. South Korea , Japan and West Germany all become developed by joining US , we could also become developed if we could delayed our wars for atleast 15-20 years more.

 

[war&peace]

sir what ever you said is totally true but Indian forced us to join west when they stopped our share of money and start playing dirty water games with us. Its also true that we suffer alot by joining west in cold war , but we benefited alot as well. South Korea , Japan and West Germany all become developed by joining US , we could also become developed if we could delayed our wars for atleast 15-20 years more.

Or if Ayyub Khan had capitalised on the opportunity offered to Pakistan in 1962.. there would still be a war but in the end, Pakistan would have gained so much and resolved the issue once for all. Pakistan's issues are internal problems---non-homogeneous development. All of our industry and development in confined in one particular area. That has created a lot of grievances among masses and caused brain drain. We needed to diversify and utilise our resources in much better ways. Whole of Baluchistan has been left unpopulated while Karachi, Lahore and many other cities in Punjab were allowed to grow like jungles of concrete and crimes.

 

[Umar Nazir]

Or if Ayyub Khan had capitalised on the opportunity offered to Pakistan in 1962.. there would still be a war but in the end, Pakistan would have gained so much and resolved the issue once for all. Pakistan's issues are internal problems---non-homogeneous development. All of our industry and development in confined in one particular area. That has created a lot of grievances among masses and caused brain drain. We needed to diversify and utilise our resources in much better ways. Whole of Baluchistan has been left unpopulated while Karachi, Lahore and many other cities in Punjab were allowed to grow like jungles of concrete and crimes.

absolutely true. thats whats i want to say our decision makers are idiots

 

[ps3linux]

Pakistan welcomes Japan to establish industries in SEZs.
We need to welocme Japan not only for business/industrialisation but more importantly we need to LEARN from Japan about IndustrialMindset and WorkEthics.
PMIK needs to visit Japan and invite Japanese businesses to come invest in Pakistan.
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Sorry sir for the late reply, it seems I cant keep myself out of mess, a friend was having trouble in finding an appropriate course facilitator (I don't like the word teacher or lecturer) for a particular subject in his university's weekend MBA program, guess what he somehow enticed and whitemailed me to be the lab rat (in the name of contributing to the country's future) and act as facilitator again so my weekend are now fully packed for the next 8 weeks.

Anyways, things are changing for Pakistan, law and order improvement, potential, improved power (electricity), interest of Chinese behemoths for investing in Pakistan is now changing the perception about Pakistan. I.K now is being touted as a global leader, Japanese too have noticed him.

A word on Japan, there is a vibrant and active Pakistani community in Japan mostly pashtuns mostly associated with reconditioned vehicles and spare parts and scrap, in the last tsunami (2011) Pakistani community was the first to reach the disaster affected areas, setup free food stalls, shelters, tents. They dared to reach the disaster affected areas even those where local relief organization were reluctant to go because of the fear of radiation. Their selfless efforts were duly noted by Japanese and praise for Pakistanis their selfless/fearless behavior, all major media outlets/newspaper covered that with glowing remarks for the Pakistani Community.

However, as usual there is a distance between this vibrant community and the foreign service stupids, if we could get some people's people of foreign service in Japan, people who have smaller egos than those of the existing lot, trust me the investment could grow exponentially which is highly favorable to Pakistan.

I have spent few years in fareast, visited each and every country we have very good representation (common pakistanis) in each of them, we need experts from the corporate world as commercial counselors in each embassy, traditional bureaucrats cannot never understand the dynamics of corporate world.

Of course we can benefit from their expertise, I am really impressed with their educational system particularly at the primary level, I am equally impressed with the public schools of Thailand where a proper gym, all sports facilities are open to the public in the evening after paying a very small token money. if you win the trust of the school they invite business executives regularly to come and share their vision/experience with the high school students. Malaysia with its uniform education system. Oh did i mention wherever there is school uniform it is the same across the country. Their education system focuses on subject as per their industrial/business requirements of the future.

 

[Hassan Guy]

Some of the nicest people in the world are from Japan, bro I wouldn't even put pak in the top 10 friendly countries.

 

[ps3linux]

Every country will try to establish its industry in Pakistan, provided:

1 - No power breakdowns
2 - Technically educated/ certified labor such as electricians, mechanics, electronic engineering craftsmen (very very important)
3 - Safety and security
4 - Effective and efficient judicial process
5 - Ease of setting up business in Pakistan

Agreed sir, however, 1, 2 and 5 are now getting better exponentially.

What was missing from the equation was the competition between departments to attract investment, in all honesty in the recent 6 months even I am amazed; if investment comes through BOI they take full ownership of the project and are bulldozing any hurdles in the way, further there is competition between BOI of two provinces (Punjab, KPK) to attract the investors in starting a project in their province. When the investor come through province (at least punjab) is taking full ownership and facilitating. Problem was investment coming in other than punjab/kpk in CPEC SEZs, sind no need to comment about it for obvious reasons. Though I am hearing good things about the current CM balochistan, and plans are already underway to bring him to the central for an important position in the future.

For point 3, lot of work is being done and I am hoping in the next 2-3 years we will see a comprehensive plan implemented in that direction.

For 5 let us hope...

 

[PakSword]

Agreed sir, however, 1, 2 and 5 are now getting better exponentially.

What was missing from the equation was the competition between departments to attract investment, in all honesty in the recent 6 months even I am amazed; if investment comes through BOI they take full ownership of the project and are bulldozing any hurdles in the way, further there is competition between BOI of two provinces (Punjab, KPK) to attract the investors in starting a project in their province. When the investor come through province (at least punjab) is taking full ownership and facilitating. Problem was investment coming in other than punjab/kpk in CPEC SEZs, sind no need to comment about it for obvious reasons. Though I am hearing good things about the current CM balochistan, and plans are already underway to bring him to the central for an important position in the future.

For point 3, lot of work is being done and I am hoping in the next 2-3 years we will see a comprehensive plan implemented in that direction.

For 5 let us hope...

That's why we are seeing a lot of interest being shown by the foreign investors in Pakistan.

But the perception building will take time too.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Expand this further with Japan and all other asian countries. So we don't become over dependant on Iron Curtain Brother.