Good morning - Sindhi Association of North America

social economic dynamics because the IT sector is one of the largest employment creators in the
world in the emerging economies and this also gives benefits to the downstream sectors as well.
The Indians believe that there are 80-90 million people required to take care of the entire
world’s back office operations needs. Along with this, we can bring in sustainability and
economic prosperity. Sustainability will be there in the flow of the people living in the rural
areas, there would be an economic prosperity as the spending would be there. They will have
the money, they will spend and the economic activity will have a positive impact on the overall
development of the rural areas. The IT training to the youth in the rural areas will give them
exposure to the skills which are highly valued in today’s world; that is very important and then
we can also have lot of money in the rural areas they will begin to thrive. They will think
positively and they will be able to build careers and they will have lot of jobs. Along with this,
there will be a less burden on the urban areas because if we start providing jobs to the people in
the rural areas they will stay back. They will prefer to work close to their areas and then we will
have lesser basic amenities problem and environmental problems and the broader impact
would be to you know bridge the digital gap in the rural areas and urban areas, stem the brain
drain, we will reverse the migration and there will be reduced infrastructure pressure.
In the end I would say that definitely there would be challenges but we will start with one pilot
project from one village may be. If proven successful, then we will identify people and train
them in different verticals. The challenges and obstacles would be there definitely, but it is up
to us to turn them into the opportunity and if we overcome them we will be winners. If we
allow them to overcome us we will be the losers. So it is our choice and it is only our choice. It
is better to be exhausted from the success then to be you know rested from the failure and I
think that is my message and that is the bottom line of today’s theme which is 21 st century Sindh
choice & challenges.
Mr. Fazalullah Qurashi: Real problem to me was the subject today was challenges and choices
and perhaps we are failed to discuss the challenges and choices how we see the Sindh future. I
told you about the economic poverty, but the question is we have talked about the
entrepreneur spirit innovation and leaderships but what about the environment, what is
environment that we had in Sindh today. We say fact of production, land, labour,
entrepreneurship. We have land but without the infrastructure. We do not have power. We
have got 20-hour load-shading in rural Sindh and about 8-hour load shading in urban cities. We
do not have gas, we do not have portable water. About more than three million people are with
hepatitis B, HIV AIDS occurrence in Sindh is the largest and in these environment what is the
state role, where is the state, what about the law and order situation. If you start business you
have to give seed money, when you earn the business you have to give (bhatta) and we are
talking about the environment, we are talking about the entrepreneurship. What
entrepreneurship you are expecting in this environment. Again going back to the conditions, to
me one of the most disturbing element is not slow economic growth in Pakistan but it is unequal
distribution of benefits of whatever growth that take place yet. The Pakistan is elite capture.
There are monopolies and they are protector of monopolies sitting in the assemblies. They have
got their businesses and there are laws to protect them, it may be sugar mafia, it may be
fertilizer whatever it may be and you get the policy decisions for your mills. You are compelling
the government agencies to buy the surplus when it is cheap in the market and then you
insisting on importing the things when you want, it is a cheap in the country you want to import.
I have seen in the forums these types of policy making. One of the manifestation of extreme