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9-27-2019

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Syed Qaim Ali Shah sb, Prof, Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui, distinguished guests particularly foreign delegates, it is always a great pleasure to be here in Sukkur and Sukkur IBA and I have followed the great interest the transformation of Sukkur IBA from scratch to what it is today. And I want to congratulate Professor Nisar Siddiqui and his team for the wonderful work they have done, and I hope that they would continue to make a difference in the lives of the students of the rural areas of Sindh who have been not a beneficiary of the best education in this part of the world. So, My Congratulations. I am also very sad that one of the major pioneers of Business Education in this country left us at the very young age; Dr. Hasan Sohaib Murad not only like Nisar created one of the finest universities in private sector by dint of hard work and his focused attention on building a very fine institution; UMT owns everything to one single individual which is Hasan Sohaib Murad. But he was not only concerned with the one particular university. He was very much interested in doing things for business education as a whole. So, he was one of the founders of the Association of Management Development Institutions in Pakistan, and he and I exchanged a lot of notes as to how we can revive the AMDIP as a forum for intellectual contributions of our researchers and also benefit our students in the latest trends in the management education. And, he also persuaded the Higher Education Commission to create the National Business Education Accreditation Council which under his leadership was trying to evaluate the standards of business education in this country. He was the first president of that, and I am very glad that my friend Farrukh Iqbal has taken over from him. And I am sure this council will continue to make its best efforts to create the environment for the growth and improvement of business education in this country.

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Dr. Ishrat Hussain, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Institutional Reforms and Austerity, delivered the Dr. Hasan Sohaib Murad Memorial Lecture at the 15th South Asian Management Forum held at Sukkur IBA University from September 27–29, 2019. The event’s theme focused on “Challenges of Inclusive Growth and Sustainability: The South Asian Context."

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