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00:01:00Thank you very much, thank you. The program begins with your early
00:01:03life, education and training, family background, your dreams
00:01:07and priorities during your student life. Thank you very much.
00:01:10Mr. Kakar, you gave me the opportunity. First
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00:01:15all, I was born in Quetta. My father was in the army,
00:01:18so there were postings. So my early education
00:01:22for yourself and for your was partly in Punjab
00:01:25and then partly in KP province, where he was posted. So it happened there.
00:01:28Later I
00:02:01Our progress can be very rapid
00:02:05if we pay a little attention to some of our
00:02:08basic structural changes.
00:02:10If we talk about energy,
00:02:13we currently have enough excess power
00:02:17production has also started, which is considered here.
00:02:19is leading these things. Along with that, we have,
00:02:21praise be to Allah, very rapidly adopted new technology ourselves
00:02:25in the private sector. This includes energy
00:02:28from solar and wind.
00:02:30And now the new policy we have made here,
00:02:34in it, we are bringing battery energy storage systems.
00:02:37This is a completely new concept that is spreading very rapidly
00:02:40in the world, and in Pakistan, already, approximately three
00:02:43thousand megawatts of battery energy storage systems have been installed. Once the policy comes,
00:02:47I hope that by 2030, we will have installed approximately
00:02:51one hundred thousand megawatts of battery energy storage systems.
00:02:54Sir, you have a Master's degree in MBA from Canada.
00:02:58You have also worked in an international environment.
00:03:02How did you find the experiences
00:03:05of Pakistan? What difference did you feel?
00:03:09Look, there it has already
00:03:12happened. They have gone through this
00:03:15process. Where they had the instability,
00:03:19economic and
00:03:20political.
00:03:23We are still a new country. A young country.
00:03:26We are going through this process.
00:03:30So I would say that we are making better
00:03:34progress compared to the Western countries.
00:03:37Sir, you have been associated with this sector for the last three
00:03:41decades. Which project or achievement in your life
00:03:44Balochistan is a province will you remember throughout your life in your memories?
00:03:48I have done many things, Mr. Kakar,
00:03:52to further increase our exports. but perhaps
00:03:55I give importance to this job at the Engineering Development Board
00:03:57because here I am getting
00:04:00the most opportunity to serve Pakistan.
00:04:03And my
00:04:06mission and the government's vision is
00:04:10to industrialize Pakistan. In the next three
00:04:13or four years, we should be able to increase our exports
00:04:16to 60 billion dollars and
00:04:19create jobs for our youth, who are very capable
00:04:23and talented. Along with success, a person also faces difficulties.
00:04:26What was the most difficult phase
00:04:31the job of our government's in your career that had a major impact on your leadership,
00:04:34your thinking,
00:04:36in the world. So and your optimism? When you are leading an organization,
00:04:39there will be criticism.
00:04:45held seven or eight meetings A good chief
00:04:48executive should first consider
00:04:51what benefits the state will gain from
00:04:54the decisions he makes. The state is formed by
00:04:58its people. Those decisions
00:05:12have to take society along. So the challenges here are
00:05:16greater. You have worked on many large industrial
00:05:19and development projects in your life.
00:05:23In your opinion, what is the most important thing to make a large
00:05:26project successful? And
00:05:29investment, or technology, or human resources?
00:05:33The most important thing to make a large project successful is that it should be planned
00:05:37very well. And our objective
00:05:40should be set very carefully
00:05:44first, and then we should never lose sight of that objective. For
00:05:47business or any
00:05:50large project,
00:05:53money is never the actual
00:05:56problem.
00:05:59But what do you want to achieve from the project you are setting up?
00:06:02You should have clarity on this. Then
00:06:06you will be able to get the most benefit from that project.
00:06:09Sir, let's talk about your current responsibility.
00:06:12When you took on this responsibility, what were
00:06:15the biggest challenges? Secondly, please explain to the viewers
00:06:19about the Engineering Development Board what its basic purpose is
00:06:22and what role it is playing in industrial development.
00:06:26When I joined, the biggest
00:06:30problem in the Engineering Development Board
00:06:34was that there was a lack of human
00:06:36resources here. Over
00:06:40the years, these people retire.
00:07:12so that our economic development can be faster.
00:07:16There is a revolution all over the world.
00:07:19Of lithium-ion battery and cell manufacturing and battery energy
00:07:22storage systems manufacturing. And a revolution
00:07:26in solar systems manufacturing. Policies were needed
00:07:30for all of these. So the biggest challenge was that as soon
00:07:34as I joined, I had to start working on these policies. Alhamdulillah,
00:07:38Allah blessed me a lot. And by January
00:07:41and February, I had made all these policies
00:07:45and submitted them to the ministry. The new industry
00:07:48that will be set up in Pakistan needs to be export-oriented.
00:07:52Our exports are very low compared to other countries
00:07:55like ours. And for the existing
00:07:59industry, the biggest challenge is
00:08:02how to shift it from local production
00:08:05or producing for the local market
00:08:08to exports. So in all the policies I have made,
00:08:12I have made sure that such incentives
00:08:16are kept that can entice the existing
00:08:20industrialists to move towards exports
00:08:23and encourage new incoming industrialists
00:08:26to consider Pakistan as a destination of
00:08:30choice and come here and invest.
00:08:33And Alhamdulillah, since I came, we have secured
00:08:37almost 4.5 billion dollars in investment.
00:08:41Very good.
00:09:01Currently, many things are imported into Pakistan that we can manufacture locally. How is your local industry, local manufacturing strategy?
00:09:05In these policies, it has been ensured that imported
00:09:08items that are localized
00:09:12are localized rapidly. All the people from the
00:09:16concerned industry were brought together
00:09:20and policies were made with their 100%
00:09:23consent and approval.
00:09:26And with them, it was discussed in great detail
00:09:30what incentives we should offer
00:09:33for the existing industry and for the new ones coming
00:09:37so that they start exporting. And in them, export targets.
00:09:41The third thing
00:10:55is that they must export. We have made sure
00:10:59that they must export. What is made in Pakistan
00:11:03should be good enough to be exported to the rest of the world. So
00:11:07in terms of localization, we have added this to it. Are its local
00:11:11parts also manufactured in Pakistan? Yes, currently
00:11:14we have different percentages for different
00:11:17models. The ones that are doing the most are almost 60
00:11:20to 65 percent of the models that are being manufactured,
00:11:24their parts.
00:13:07So first of all, there should be a policy direction. A policy
00:13:11should be made, which I am working on. The
00:13:14second thing is that we will have to identify our market.
00:13:18Pakistan's embassies are spread all over the world.
00:13:21We have commercial counselors there. We need to get more
00:13:55truck tires are exported to America. That means
00:13:58we have exported to every country
00:14:01in the world, Pakistani-made truck tires. So
00:14:05the United States, which is a very competitive market when it comes
00:14:09to truck tires. We are currently bringing
00:14:13more incentives in this policy
00:14:17There is a huge vacuum in Pakistan.
00:14:21You yourself have been in this profession for more than three decades.
00:14:26I mean, your profession of 30 years is not a short time.
00:14:29If we talk further, Pakistan has a very large
00:14:33youth population. What can engineering
00:14:36do for their employment
00:14:38and skills, in terms of industrial development
00:14:42or other such sectors that we have many of in Pakistan,
00:14:45so that they also get employment? First
00:14:49of all, in our country, it is necessary that the economic
00:14:53development, the GDP, should remain
00:14:55above 4.5 to 5 percent. So
00:14:59that the new population entering the job market
00:15:02can get jobs. The second
00:15:05need is that we should have vocational training institutes
00:15:09where they are taught skills so that skilled workers come into the industry
00:15:12and get jobs quickly. Now, to do all this, the biggest
00:15:16need we have is to set up industries. If industries are set
00:15:20up, demand will be created. If demand is created, people will go to vocational
00:15:23training institutes.
00:15:38We haven't explored the world that much. Need to be
00:15:41brought back to the industry.
00:15:45they should be facilitated. When they come to us, they should not
00:15:49face any difficulty here. Their work should be done as soon as possible.
00:15:52And the biggest thing that I am working
00:15:56on is to digitalize this whole process. If we talk
00:15:59about the label. People say that Japanese products
00:16:03are Japanese. So Japanese quality is good.
00:16:07So
00:17:37we bring Pakistan towards A so that everything
00:17:41is introduced. Look at our home
00:17:43appliances, look at automobiles, look at our
00:17:47avionics, look at aviation, look at logistics, everywhere
00:17:51artificial intelligence plays a big role.
00:17:53The engineering department
00:17:56If we talk about CPEC, many industries
00:18:00were supposed to be built, which are not yet functional. Secondly,
00:18:04we can also set up micro factories with worldwide quality.
00:18:07We can also build according to that, so what are you
00:18:11people doing in this for the mobile phone
00:18:15policy? I have gone to the very last
00:18:18component, the smallest possible
00:18:21component.
00:18:25I made this whole mobile phone industry policy
00:18:29sitting with them. We have gone down to the smallest part of the lithium battery,
00:18:33and we have also created its new HS code. Whether a tariff
00:18:37was to be imposed or not, where it should be made, how long it should take to be made
00:18:40in Pakistan, what its localization should be. But my
00:18:44perhaps, if I say my
00:18:48overarching objective here, that
00:18:51is to develop industry in
00:18:54Balochistan, in which my
00:18:57objective is that two-wheeler
00:19:01industry should be developed in Balochistan. Besides that, as
00:19:04you just mentioned, the parts of mobile phones,
00:19:07which include chargers, wearables,
00:19:11dongles, should be manufactured there and exported all over the world,
00:19:14and the country's needs should also be met. If we talk further
00:19:18about minerals,
00:19:22that is full of mines. And
00:19:25Pakistan is an agricultural country. How
00:19:29can we especially improve agriculture through
00:19:32cold chain? Secondly, how can we utilize
00:19:36mines and minerals? In the lithium
00:19:40ion battery cell manufacturing policy that I gave, we have covered lithium. We have also covered
00:19:43sodium. We have also covered the new chemistries
00:19:47that will come. For agriculture, I am working on
00:19:51an agriculture policy, which includes
00:19:54agriculture done on a commercial scale, because Balochistan
00:19:57is almost 48 percent of Pakistan.
00:20:01And surprisingly, against common belief,
00:20:05some areas of Balochistan have good amounts of water
00:20:08where we can grow good crops that need water and that sell for a lot
00:20:14work is being done on a policy for this, and InshaAllah,
00:20:17they will make these indigenously localized things. I have also
00:20:23with various industrial groups, and they have developed three
00:20:26or four things in this, such as laser land levelers, seeders,
00:20:30harvesters. Work is being done on this. The rest have been developed.
00:20:33Mining is a very expensive
00:20:36project. And it takes a little more time.
00:20:40And wherever mining happens and you take it towards beneficiation,
00:20:43where the thing is taken to the end product and not raw material
00:20:47is exported, a lot of water
00:20:50is needed for it. So because of this,
00:20:54the cost of the project in Balochistan increases a little.
00:20:56Nowadays,
00:20:59innovation is coming on a daily basis. Things are
00:21:03moderating. Especially
00:21:06if we talk about research or innovation, industrial
00:21:10development is not possible without new technology.
00:21:13So what is your collaboration with universities,
00:21:17research institutions, and industry?
00:22:09In this, the biggest thing when we were making the policy,
00:22:13the industry was most concerned
00:22:17about the cost of the power sector.
00:22:50They will think about setting up new factories
00:22:54based on new technology, or there will be a slight
00:22:56delay. Last year, the Prime Minister went to
00:22:59China. And this year, lithium-ion
00:23:03battery production has started, and cell
00:23:07very difficult. At present, almost
00:23:092.5 billion dollars are being invested.
00:23:13In the production of lithium-ion cells. I am not talking about battery production.
00:23:16From very small parts, the cell.
00:23:44faith, unity, and discipline, if we focus
00:23:46and we work towards it in the next four or five years,
00:24:50from the world situation, where there is not just
00:24:53noise, but argument, this is World
00:24:56View with Sadia
00:24:58Afsar.
00:25:06No power is greater than truth, but who will
00:25:09bring this reality to light? Behind every headline, there is an
00:25:12untold story. Without research and verification, this story
00:25:16remains unheard. To know the truth of every news,
00:25:52you also have the right to know the truth, and so do
00:25:56I.
00:26:00What are we doing? Justice with
00:26:03truth.
00:26:10The truth is that speaking,
00:26:13listening, and tolerating the truth is difficult.
00:26:16We will continue
00:26:20our efforts to bring facts to light
00:26:23and expose lies. In the program "Sach Toh Yeh Hai"
00:26:27(The Truth Is).
00:26:28Poisonous dust and
00:26:50poisonous smoke from fuel, for how long?
00:26:54Now is the time for clean and environment-friendly
00:26:58travel. Zero carbon emissions,
00:27:01relief from noise, and a reduction
00:27:04of up to 70 percent in travel expenses.
00:27:08With special concessions and easy installments from the federal
00:27:11and Punjab governments, modern travel with e-bikes
00:27:15is now within reach of every citizen. Compared to vehicles running
00:27:19on fuel, electric vehicles are a better
00:27:21choice. Save the environment
00:27:25future generations.
00:29:02and Pakistanis have defeated all these difficulties.
00:29:06So why don't we move forward as
00:29:09one? Opportunities for investment in various sectors,
00:29:12potential for projects like CPEC,
00:29:16our youth. There are so many reasons
00:29:20for us to remain optimistic. Let's
00:29:24light the lamps of hope together for a bright
00:29:27future. Believe in yourself.
00:29:30Believe in Pakistan.
00:29:51Correct and timely!
00:29:53Blocking
00:30:25roads and disrupting public movement, the
00:30:28Islamabad High Court has clearly ruled it out, and now it is
00:30:34administration to ensure that there is no disruption of any
00:30:38kind. No violent group will come to Islamabad. The administration,
00:30:41police, interior minister, the entire government
00:30:45is absolutely clear.
00:30:48No violent group will be allowed to enter
00:30:52Islamabad. There are clear orders from the Islamabad High
00:30:56Court regarding road closures and disruption of public movement.