Old money families

Old money is any person or family possessing inherited wealth. Generally it is said shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generation. In other cultures it is said from clogs to clogs in three generations. Similar proverbs convey the same meaning across different cultures.

But there are some old money families who have inherited huge assets. The major portion of old money family comes from landed aristocracy in Europe and other parts of world. The political power of aristocracy doomed as prices of agricultural product fell.

Maintaining old money has become more and more difficult as inheritance taxes has been levied in many countries. Below is a list of some of the families who successfully managed to keep their fortunes in family over a large period of time.

Old Money in United States

Rockefeller family

Rockefeller family fortune was made during late 19th and early 20th century. They made their fortune from oil industry primarily through Standard Oil.

Du Pont family 

Du Pont family has been ranked as richest families of United States by Forbes magazine. Their wealth dates back to mid 1800s.

Forbes family

Forbes family acquired its riches from trading between North America and China. This is an influential family whose members are active in American politics. Well known name is John Kerry, who is United States secretary of state.

But old money in United States is not too old. Below is a list showing old money families from various parts of world.

Old money in other parts of world. 

Old money in other parts is too old. Some claim that their fortunes were made during 12th century.

Spinola family of Genoa

Spinola family is an Italian family. It remained powerful during thirteenth century. Castle Tassarolo is their residence. Their fortune successfully survived many centuries.

Goulaine family

 This is old money French family.

This family owns Château de Goulain for more than 1000 years.

Royal family of Udaipur. 

This family is world's oldest serving dynasty in India.

Scindia family of Gwalior 

This was ruling family of princely state Gwalior. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is known to own more than 3 billion us dollars. This family is prominent for more than 270 years.

Rathor family of Jodhpur.

 This is another royal family from India having fabulous wealth for many generations.

House of Thurn and Taxis

This house is from Germany. The family is known for breweries and building castles. The head of the family has been listed as billionaire many times.

House of Hanover

Prince Ernst August is current head and is estimated to own 500 million pounds.

Nawab of Bahawalpur.

 The abbasi family of Bahawalpur governed princely state until their powers were abolished. This family owns many properties. The Punjab University building was gifted by this family. Sadiq Garh Palace in Dera Nawab Sahib was built by this family.

Pakistan's top tax payers

FBR, Pakistan’s Tax collecting agency has recently issued the list of top tax payers in the country. Pakistani tax laws provide for 4 categories of tax payers. Following are the categories

Salaried individuals,

Non-salaried individuals,

AOP, and

Company

The tax payers include top executives, entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals.

Following is the list provided by the FBR.

Salaried Individuals:

Tariq Nisar, tax payable/paid Rs189,910,478; Mohammad Naeem Mukhtar, Rs159,149,750; Muhammad Waseem Mukhtar, Rs158,858,269; Hassan Mansha, Rs149,423,639; Sheikh Mukhtar Ahmed, Rs147,855,957, Sohail Nisar, Rs105,657,657;

Khalil A Sattar, Rs93,288,432; Anjum Nisar, Rs80,983,805; Arif Habib, Rs80,681,004; Madiha Mehmood Moulvi, Rs67,582,338; Mian Umer Mansha, Rs64,828,437; Muhammad Yasin Malik, Rs58,599,486; Iqbal Alimohamed, Rs58,168,344; Fazal Ahmed Sheikh, Rs55,751,010; Muhammad Shoaib, Rs54,717,751; Rafiuddin Zakir Mahmood, Rs54,312,821; Faisal Mukhtar, Rs 54,167,795; Shuaib Anwer Malik, Rs51,076,156; Arpad Konye, Rs49,862,638; Waqar A. Malik, Rs44,415,066; Syed Babar Ali, Rs43,505,178; Uzair Saboor, Rs41,266,844; Aftab Faizullah Tapal, Rs40,097,924; Pervaiz Afzal Khan, Rs39,578,741; Mohammad Anwar Pervez, Rs38,733,282; Saima Shab Malik, Rs36,638,766; Atif Bajwa, Rs36,020,888; Mian Raza Mansha, Rs

34,969,949; Shamim Ahmed, Rs 33,562,048;

Atif Riaz Bokhari, Rs 33,112,789; Naved Abid Khan, Rs 32,303,687; Rashid Naseer Khan, Rs

31,966,552; Ricardo Guillermo Cordova Alban, Rs 31,352,079; Malik Amanat Khan, Rs30,963,744; Hussain Dawood, Rs29,993,841; Naushaba Khalil, Rs29,837,249; Syed Ali Javaid Hamdani, Rs29,745,236; Iqbal Ali Lakhani, Rs29,625,310; Fawad Ahmed Mukhtar, Rs29,546,012; Adil Khalil Sattar, Rs28,133,957; Amin Mohammad Lakhani, Rs26,870,151; Sikandar Mustafa Khan, Rs26,224,754; Siraj Jaffrani, Rs26,223,089; M. Farhan Hanif, Rs25,617,840; Saad Iqbal, Rs25,445,391; Zameer Mohammad Choudrey, Rs

25,320,022; Abid Hussain, Rs24,901,110; Syed Ali Akbar, Rs24,758,615; Junaid Shamim, Rs24,721,681; Shoaib Shamim, Rs24,085,957; Ovais Shamim, Rs23,918,738; Irfan Siddiqi, Rs

23,729,898; Zubair Shamim, Rs23,355,326; Laeeq Ud Din Ansari, Rs23,213,655; Arshad Riaz Fazail, Rs23,072,138; Mohammad Shoaib, Rs22,878,391; Abdul Salam, Rs22,642,265; Shahzad, Rs

21,935,820; Naz Mansha, Rs21,825,381; Shahbaz Yasin Malik, Rs21,256,927; Lars Christian Luel, Rs21,142,743; Badar Kazmi, Rs21,138,926; Naveed Arshad Fazail, Rs21,129,653; Dr M.S. Habib, Rs

20,862,016; Roar Bjaerum, Rs20,720,722; SM Kashif Qaseem Ud Din, Rs20,637,695; Grame Douglas Amey, Rs20,578,984; Kumail Aftab Tapal, Rs20,436,264; Muhammad Ali Tabba, Rs20,240,800; Amin A Hashwani, Rs20,162,114; Mehvish A Tapal, Rs20,000,593; Liubov Guskova, Rs19,813,634; Nauman K Dar, Rs19,688,632; Rashida Tapal, Rs19,663,377; Abdul Hameed Agar, Rs19,506,793; Farzana Firoz, Rs19,498,174; Andre Nel, Rs19,473,633; Jehangir Firoz, Rs19,124,263; Sohail Bashir Rana, Rs18,814,094; Aurangzeb Firoz, Rs18,520,588; Abdul Aziz, Rs

18,516,069; Shahid Yasin Malik, Rs18,463,355; Anwaar Ahmad Khan, Rs18,137,263; Jahangir Khan Tareen, Rs18,130,622; Ehsan Ali Malik,

Rs17,885,412; Imtiaz Hamad Khan, Rs17,859,328; Karl Erik Broten, Rs17,435,358; Peter Day, Rs

17,328,403; Ahmed Khizer Khan, Rs17,127,375; Muhammad Rafique, Rs17,048,424; Latif Khalid Hashmi, Rs16,996,864; Abdul Razzak S Dawood, Rs16,779,806; Fawad Yousuf, Rs16,667,383; Umair Amanullah, Rs16,487,173; Jhon Seward, Rs

16,434,922; Aftab Ahmad Khan, Rs16,399,329; Danish Iqbal, Rs15,857,529; Asif Jooma, Rs

15,721,467; Tariq Khamisani, Rs15,376,005; Javed Iqbal, Rs15,346,500; Babur Sultan, Rs15,309,994

Non-Salaried Individuals

Irfan Usman, Tax Payable/Paid Rs749,008,253; Wazir Ali Pardhan, Rs210,332,864; Tariq Rafi, Rs

174,246,502; Muhammad Irfan Ghazi, Rs

117,179,385; Sh Jhanzeb Jilani, Rs104,780,291; Abdullah A. Hashwani, Rs100,131,932; Sheikh Wajahat Ali, Rs98,363,593; Farrukh Ijaz, Rs96,964,775; Muhammad Akram Khan Panazai, Rs95,509,632; Iqbal Ahmad Qarshi, Rs84,362,395; Muhammad Ameen, Rs83,375,785; Asifa Malik, Rs80,634,780; Iqbal Naeem, Rs78,390,180; Sher Muhammad Mugheri, Rs77,243,231; Sabir Hussain, Rs75,084,388; Farhan Hanif, Rs

73,142,703; Alam Khan, Rs71,051,166; Siddik S.Jaangda, Rs68,574,255; Aamir Zia, Rs68,125,766; Falak Sher Awan, Rs66,678,108; Haji Sirajuddin, Rs66,324,515; Abdul Samad, Rs63,628,741; Ali Mehboob, Rs57,477,619; Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, Rs57,249,652; Syed Abdul Manan, Rs56,447,033; Nelofar Sikandar, Rs53,529,363; Qalander Bux Abro, Rs53,356,908;

Muhammad Tehreem Shamim, Rs 53,083,878; Tariq Chobdar, Rs52,575,479; Muhammad Aneeq Siddiqui, Rs52,488,217; S.M. Ashfaq, Rs52,216,103; Shahid Ansari, Rs52,048,375; Malik Muhammad Mukarram, Rs51,886,071; Muhammad Dawood, Rs49,725,378; Liaquat Ali Gondal, Rs49,282,666; Rabnawaz, Rs48,660,492; Manzoor Hussain, Rs47,612,252; Muhukum Uddin Solangi, Rs46,964,804; Muhammad Riaz, Rs 45,463,685; Mohammad Saleem, Rs44,922,249; Abdul Jabbar, Rs44,674,656; Muhammad Waris Panhwar, Rs44,344,256; Muhammad Akbar Sheikh, Rs44,289,527; Ejaz Ahmed Dogar, Rs 43,709,625; Muhammad Tariq Butt, Rs42,422,376; Sabz Ali, Rs39,793,113; Naeem Ali Muhammad Munshi, Rs38,927,581; Nisar Ahmed Dogar. Rs

38,563,185; Amin Muhammad Lakhani, Rs38,517,189; Mian Mohammad Jahangir, Rs

37,834,401; Muhammad Usman, Rs37,529,538; Saifullah Mangat, Rs37,463,832; Muhammad Atif Butt, Rs37,328,546; Dilawar Hussain, Rs37,166,425; Mohammad Umair Kara, Rs

36,898,227; Ahmad Ghezal Usmani, Rs

36,181,766; Abdul Waheed Shaikh, Rs35,700,855; Zeeshan Arshad, Rs35,540,911; Ammil Raza Mansha, Rs35,521,875; Niamatullah, Rs35,187,558; Ayoob Eusoof, Rs35,076,600; Wajid Iqbal, Rs34,814,616; Anil Kumar, Rs34,725,317; Pervaiz Shakeel, Rs34,610,484; Mohammed Ahmed Chobdar, Rs 34,414,163; Sultan Ali Kamruddin, Rs34,294,574; Mansoor Ahmed Soomro, Rs 33,880,026; Mohammed Sabir, Rs

33,847,558; Zamir Ahmed Qureshi, Rs33,536,504; Aziz Hasan Jillani, Rs33,486,038; Faisar Mehmood, Rs33,435,252; Maqbool Ahmed Soomro, Rs 33,339,191; Muhammad Rafique, Rs

33,302,711; Muhammad Atif, Rs33,251,530; Shakir Ahmed, Rs33,235,379; Imran, Rs33,235,379; Amir Amin Kothawala, Rs 32,939,226; Zaitun H. Jan Muhammad, Rs

32,852,562; Zahid Amin Sethi, Rs32,830,957; Zor Alam, Rs32,574,385; Saleem Zakaria, Rs

32,521,971; Shahid Majeed, Rs32,294,104; Khan Ayaz Khan, Rs32,256,830; Muhammad Kashif, Rs

31,683,423; Malik Mushtaq Ahmed, Rs31,606,421; Jahangir Siddiqui, Rs31,566,375; Mohammad Shakeel, Rs 31,512,743, Gulbano Hasan Ali, Rs 31,213,846; Ebrahim Qassim, Rs31,183,290; Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, Rs30,863,501; Abdul Qader, Rs30,565,958; Ronaq Iqbal Ali Lakhani, Rs 30,444,703; Waqas Aftab, Rs

30,297,262; Mumtaz Ali Chandio, Rs

30,136,960; Shazia Arif, Rs29,734,662; Mohammad Najeeb Haroon, Rs29,625,113; Mohammad Muqeet, Rs29,542,025; Iftikhar Ahmed, Rs29,439,873; Muhammad Farooq, Rs

29,273,343; Rasheed Khan, Rs29,185,972

ASSOCIATION OF PERSONS

LTHJV, Tax Payable/Paid Rs496,882,503; United Agro Chemical, Rs 464,893,376; Limak Jv Zkb, Rs

424,226,717; Zahir Khan & Brothers, Rs384,895,596; Chawla International, Rs

357,433,819; Advance Telecom, Rs231,960,765; Kingcrete Builders, Rs223,181,907; United Mobiles, Rs 217,779,874; Triple Tree Associates, Rs210,177,344; Descon-Ccc Joint Venture, Rs 172,649,975; Wr Edible Oil Refinery, Rs 171,263,860; Zafar Enterprises, Rs 153,574,140; A.F. Ferguson And Co., Rs 140,711,931; Dbh Joint Venture Projects, Rs134,749,136; Habib Construction - Ikan Jv, Rs134,280,851; Saadullah Khan & Brothers Engineering & Construction, Rs

126,851,510; S.M. Jaffer & Company, Rs

124,614,948; Eko -Krc (Joint Venture), Rs

119,052,042; Niaz Muhammad Khan And Brothers, Rs110,160,293; Rajby Industries, Rs

97,768,036; M Irfan M Aamir Construction (Mima Construction), Rs96,714,838; Haji Muhammad Shabir Ch. Nazir & Co., Rs 86,687,866; Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder., Rs84,726,066; Kpmg Taseer Hadi & Co., Rs82,480,509; Tayyab Manzoor Tarar, Rs 79,850,001; Wazir Ali & Company, Rs73,728,419; Teletec Enterprises, Rs

68,875,982; Werrick Pharmaceuticals, Rs63,469,852; Nkke (Jv), Rs62,314,770; Sparco-Clic Joint Venture, Rs61,830,419; Shafique Brothers And Company, Rs60,582,986; Muhammad Ramzan & Company, Rs59,054,448; Wilsons Pharmaceuticals, Rs57,162,719; S. Ejaz Ud Din & Company, Rs56,832,072; Crescent Corporation, Rs55,759,206; Hantex, Rs54,940,039; Khattak Allied Construction Company, Rs53,967,219; Gourmet Foods, Rs

52,874,139; Saadat International, Rs51,873,837; Neie-Lac (Joint Venture), Rs51,183,579; Aman Autos, Rs 50,193,912; Al-Kamal International, Rs

50,080,044; Chief Machinery Corporation, Rs

48,013,666; Haji Abdul Sattar & Co, Rs46,641,618; Green Stone Corporation, Rs46,547,076; Multilynx, Rs 45,152,140; Friends Enterprises, Rs

45,108,210; Pakistan Rubber & Tyre Co, Rs

43,859,437; Kamal Textile Mills, Rs 42,625,533; Shafiq Construction Company, Rs 42,493,372; U.M Enterprises, Rs 42,140,749; United Towel Exporters, Rs 42,138,805; GKG, Rs 41,812,402; Jamaluddin & Company, Rs 41,724,427; Iftikhar & Company Contractors, Rs 40,953,982; Baba Enterprises, Rs 40,366,018; Nafcon Construction,

40,040,147; Elcon Associates, Rs 39,801,538; Muhammad Faisal Ghafoor, Rs 39,005,768; RMC Construction Company, Rs 38,391,730; Inland Construction Company, Rs 36,882,648; Unique Trading Company, Rs36,550,945; Imran Ship Breaking Co., Rs36,355,040; Qasim Khan & Company, Rs35,832,614; Construct, Rs35,492,899; Kazi Nisar Ahmed Pirzada & Co, Rs35,445,003; Al-Hamza Trading Company, Rs35,236,187; Fashion Knit Industries, Rs34,394,033; S.S. Enterprises, Rs34,226,571; Riaalaw, Rs 34,149,093; Choudhery Construction Company, Rs

33,647,308; Shaheen Freight Services, Rs

33,641,143; Ch Engineers Associates, Rs 33,252,943; Ss Fashion Resources, Rs 33,251,530; Plastochem Corporation, Rs32,595,465; Rachna Agri Business, Rs32,553,140; Sattar Electronics,

32,135,867; Jubilee Corporation, Rs 30,136,384; Advance Business Systems, Rs 30,109,915; Zahoor Die Casting Co., Rs30,072,930; Kaghan Trading Company, Rs30,067,098; Kanpa International Sales, Rs29,809,227; Adamjee Enterprises, Rs

29,632,055; National Tent House, Rs29,498,725; Aq Enteprises, Rs29,480,328; Zain Ul Abideen And Sons, Rs29,398,532; The Legend, Rs29,342,277; Al-Hamza Trading & Ship Breaking Company, Rs29,321,325; A & B Productions, Rs

28,904,812; Asif Brothers, Rs28,877,725; Pinggao-Potential Jv, Rs28,555,197; Transfab, Rs

28,297,503; Haji Said Muhammad And Sons, Rs

28,239,681; Amir Rice Traders, Rs28,105,446; M. Yahya M. Yousuf Bari, Rs27,243,493; Iqbal Rice Mills, Rs26,924,165; Agro Industrial Solutions, Rs

26,867,009; Shaheen Enterprises, Rs26,554,220; Dha Bahria Town Joint Venture Project, Rs

26,540,772; Cot Link International, Rs

26,388,916; Hub Pak Salt Refinery, Rs26,104,853

Companies

Oil And Gas Development Company Limited, Tax Payable/Paid Rs36,963,745,646; Pakistan Petroleum Limited, Rs15,404,269,282; Habib Bank Limited, Rs11,786,705,153; Government Holdings (Private) Limited, Rs10,756,321,121; Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited, Rs 9,898,049,256; Muslim Commercial Bank Limited, Rs9,589,120,400; Pakistan State Oil Company Limited; Rs7,946,259,287; United Bank Limited, Rs6,588,129,067; Pak-Arab Refinery Limited, Rs

6,213,915,419; Eni Pakistan Limited, Rs

5,145,178,569; Civil Aviation Authority, Rs

5,100,197,646; National Bank Of Pakistan, Rs

4,486,609,700; Kot Addu Power Company Limited, Rs3,916,656,945; Bhp Petroleum Pakistan Pty Limited, Rs 3,456,964,686; Allied Bank Of Pakistan Limited, Rs3,358,099,795; Bank Al-Habib Limited, Rs3,197,816,366; Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, Rs3,140,132,933; Pakistan Oilfields Limited, Rs2,739,043,233; Kirthar Pakistan B. V., Rs2,682,810,578; Unilever Pakistan Limited, Rs2,353,785,690; Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited, Rs2,209,280,571; Pepsi-Cola International (Pvt) Limited, Rs

2,175,666,033; Eni Pakistan (M) Limited S.A.R.L, Rs 2,139,436,878; Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited, Rs2,050,011,450; Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited, Rs2,046,773,876; United Energy Pakistan Limited, Rs1,876,002,340; Indus Motor Company Limited, Rs1,822,993,007; Eni Aep Limited, Rs1,728,376,093; Attock Petroleum Limited, Rs1,659,963,223; Mari Petroleum Company Limited, Rs1,616,940,173; Bank Alfalah Limited, Rs1,539,981,471; Nestle Pakistan Limited, Rs1,498,936,479; Meezan Bank Limited., Rs 1,427,078,960; Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited, Rs 1,414,868,346; Omv (Pakistan) Exploration Gesellschaft M.B.H., Rs1,385,103,872; KP Exploration 2 Limited, Rs 1,294,291,629; Qasim International Container Terminal Pakistan Limited, Rs 1,293,414,906; Chevron Pakistan Limited, Rs 1,231,140,751; Pkp Exploration Limited, Rs 1,168,372,650; Karachi International Container Terminal Limited, Rs 1,162,191,804; Fauji Foundation, Rs 1,094,064,396; Shell Pakistan Limited, Rs 1,085,084,121; National Refinery Limited, Rs 1,065,977,142; Millat Tractors Limited., Rs 1,043,149,828; Tapal Tea (Private) Limited, Rs 1,025,292,744; Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited, Rs 960,833,557; Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (Private) Limited, Rs

960,367,365; Pkp Kirthar 2 B.V, Rs 950,543,986; Abbott Laboratories Pakistan Limited, Rs 895,030,776; Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited, Rs 876,938,659; The Attock Oil Company Limited, Rs 857,052,275; Pkp Kadanwari 2 Limited, Rs 818,143,871; Presson Descon International (Private) Limited, Rs 807,783,382, Askari Bank Limited, Rs 769,993,779; Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited, Rs738,675,258; Procter & Gamble Pakistan (Private) Limited, Rs

669,685,838; Nishat Mills Limited, Rs

668,373,334; Pakistan Refinery Limited, Rs

662,120,349; Descon Engineering Limited, Rs

660,231,773; PKP KIRTHAR B. V., Rs

651,803,541; Khadija Edible Oil Refinery Pvt Limited, Rs648,397,015; Glaxo Smithkline Pakistan Limited, Rs640,940,231; Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Private) Limited, Rs

637,939,012; Pepsico Investments Europe I.B.V, Rs

626,847,327; Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited, Rs613,558,083; Kufpec (Pakistan) B.V, Rs606,366,866; Thal Limited, Rs604,025,223; Lucky Cement Limited, Rs593,207,938; MOL PAKISTAN OIL & GAS COMPANY B. V., Rs

581,818,532; PKP Kadanwari Limited, Rs

563,813,985; Getz Pharma (Private) Limitted, Rs

555,996,520; Attock Cement Pakistan Limited, Rs

555,898,652; Dawlance Electronics (Private) Limited, Rs554,129,798; Educational Services (Private) Limited, Rs531,655,881; The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, Rs524,887,388; PAK SUZUKI MOTOR CO. LIMITED, Rs513,605,147; Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited, Rs

509,356,994; Unilever Overseas Holding Limited, Rs500,555,433; Atlas Honda Limited, Rs

494,413,732; Efu Life Assurance Limited, Rs

477,548,482; United Refrigeration Industries Limited, Rs476,091,352; Cargill Pakistan Agri Foods (Private) Limited, Rs455,658,203; Novartis Pharma (Pakistan) Limited, Rs445,673,972; Mapak Edible Oils (Private) Limited, 441,570,357; Trading Corporation Of Pakistan (Private) Limited, Rs434,844,350; Pakistan Services Limited, Rs428,731,650; Telenor Pakistan (Private) Limited, Rs427,579,061; Reckitt Benckiser Pakistan Limited, Rs421,977,892; State Life Insurance Corporation Of Pakistan, Rs410,727,775; Sitara Chemical Industries Limited, Rs404,910,290; Habib Construction Services (Pvt) Limited, Rs403,495,849; Murree Brewery Company Limited, Rs401,342,406; Pakistan International Container Terminal Limited, Rs397,552,545; The Bank Of Khyber, Rs 396,640,829; Dalda Foods (Private) Limited, Rs394,332,240; Attock Refinery Limited, Rs

385,058,343; Tahir Omer Industries Limited, Rs

373,311,786; Bata Pakistan Limited, Rs372,108,292; International Power Global Development Limited, Rs370,427,288; Franklin Templeton Investment Funds, Rs356,442,524; Zhongxing Telecom Pakistan (Private) Limited, Rs

353,117,065; Sea And Land Drilling Contractor Inc, Rs351,648,623; Pakistan Reinsurance Company Limited, Rs349,905,068; Pak China Investment Company Limited, Rs347,293,852; Gold Trade International Limited, Rs338,506,598; and K & N’s Foods (PVT.) Limited, Rs333,372,420

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Tycoon once again spells the magic.

Malik Riaz signed an agreement with His Highness Sheikh Nahyan to construct world’s tallest building in Karachi. The project will be worth 45 billion us dollars. Of the total 45 billion US dollars 10 billion US dollars will be invested in Lahore and Islamabad and other 35 billion US dollars will be invested in Sind. In addition to the tallest building sports club, educational and media city will also be constructed. The project also includes construction of miniature of Seven Wonders of the World. Construction project will boost 55industries including cement industry, bricks industry, electrical industry, iron and steel industry and glass industry. The project also encompasses generation of electricity from sea water. According to the statement the project will provide employment to 2.5 million people.

Nahyan is Chairman Abu Dhabi group, which is largest foreign investing group in Pakistan. The group has its investment tin many sectors of the economy. Bank Al Falah, Warid and Wateen Telecom companies etc are some big names that are owned by the Abu Dhabi group. Sheikh Nahyan is also recipient of Pakistani highest civilian award hallal e Pakistan.

Malik Riaz is a Pakistani tycoon who is the founder of Bahria Town. Malik Riaz has completed this project as an example for the country’s real estate developers. As much as 100000 families are dependent on bahria town for their livelihood. He belonged to a business family. At a young age the Business of his family was collapsed and he was forced to start his practical life as a clerk in Military Engineering Service. Then he started his entrepreneurial career as a small government contractor and achieved unprecedented success as a businessman.

Malik riaz is famous for his remarkable quality of maintaining good relations with many important political personalities even when they are at daggers drawn with each other. He also enjoys cordial relationship with many in military and civilian establishment of Pakistan.

Malik Riaz is a great philanthropist as well. He helped flood affectees and provided ransom for the freedom of Pakistani hostages from Somali pirates. 

According to the Newsweek the net worth of the tycoon is around 6 billion us dollars. These days his son takes care of the Bahria Town as its CEO.

Malik Riaz has started and completed many projects ancillary to Bahria Town in collaboration with many international and foreign contractors in order to provide world class residential facilities to the residents of Bahria Town. Malik riaz has brought Thomas Kramer as well as Sultan Nahyaan to invest in Pakistan along with him.

Thomas Kramer is leading global networker and an entrepreneur, who has to his credit major construction projects around the world, including Miami Beach, in USA. He has a net worth of 90 million us dollars. He is working on many large scale projects including a mixed use tower in Germany, mega development project in Brazil including a five star hotel etc.
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Pakistan's Logistic Giant

Agriculture sector contributes a lion share in Pakistan’s GDP. But presently Pakistan’s 40% agricultural produce is lost because of bad logistic infrastructure. And this company is experimenting with ways to provide logistic services to Pakistani agriculture sector with only three to four percent loss.

Starting from four employees, it now has over 400 people as its employs. With 700 customers including many national and multinational companies, it takes care of whole process of logistics including shipping, trucking and warehousing.

The company was started by Abid Butt in 2005, who earlier worked for a French logistic giant Geodis. At that time, in Pakistan, no one was available to provide end to end solution, so initial idea was to provide all services including trucking, warehousing and shipping etc by the same company. This led the company’s name being e2e supply chain management (pvt.) ltd. i.e. end to end supply chain management (pvt.) ltd. In 2011 butt’s company had around 76 million us dollars in annual revenues. The company grew 1918% from 2008 to 2010 and was nominated as Pakistan’s fastest growing private company by AllWorld network in 2012. Initial investment in e2e supply chain management (Pvt.) ltd. was arranged by him and his friend and was 1 million rupees (nearly 20000 us dollars at that time) each.

Company’s founder Abed butt is a LUMS graduate with a major in economics and also holds an MBA from INSEAD. After graduating from LUMS, Pakistan’s leading business school, Abid worked for Maersk. Later on he joined Geodis, and was posted in Paris.

He started his business from Karachi, Pakistan’s industrial and commercial heart. He started his entrepreneurial career by resigning from Geodis, risking a steady career growth. At that time he was making 15000 euros per month.

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Increase in salaries and allowances of top judges.

President Zardari has approved 20 percent increase in the salaries and judicial allowances of superior court’s judges. This approval was given on the advice of prime minister.

According to the presidential order the monthly salary of chief justice has been increased from Rs. 448221 to Rs. 537865. Previously cumulative monthly salary and allowances of Chief Justice was Rs. 724321 apart from other perks and privileges.

According to the details produced in senate previous year, Chief Justice also gets a chauffeur-driven car with 600 liters petrol monthly, free medical treatment for his family, rent free accommodation which is maintained by the Government and provisions to electricity, gas and water.

Salary of the other judges of the apex court has been increased from Rs. 423414 to Rs. 508097.

Increase in the judicial allowance of the apex court’s judges has also been ordered. The judicial allowance of the judges of the apex courts has been increased from 196219 to rupees 235463.

The chief justice of all high courts will receive 498509 rupees which was previously 425426 rupees. The salaries of other judges of the high courts will be increased from 399447 to 479336 along with judicial allowance increased to rupees 188370 rupees.

Waste Management entrepreneur

Pakistan generates nearly 56000 tons of solid waste daily in urban areas only, and it is increasing at the rate of 2.4% annually. This solid waste is an opportunity for entrepreneurs.

This waste can be recycled, used to produce liquefied petroleum products, or electricity.  There are advanced waste-to-energy conversion technologies that are commercially viable and sustainable. Presently Fauji Cement Company is using municipal solid waste to produce electricity.

Garbage is not only a cheap source of producing electricity but it can also be used to produce fertilizers. It is profitably being converted to fertilizer by an entrepreneur from Lahore.

Asif Farooqi is a green entrepreneur. He is CEO of waste buster, a waste management company. He is the pioneer of the waste management business in Pakistan.

Some years earlier he started with 6 donkey carts that collected waste from house to house. Now his business waste buster has 200 garbage collection vehicle and employees 3000 people. His business is not only about making money but also conserving environment as well.

Mr. Farooqi informed in a report of al Jazeera that what started from six donkey carts has become a business employing three thousand people and all this money is generated from waste. His men collect garbage and other waste from narrow streets of Lahore and deliver to factory through garbage collection vehicles. His waste management plants separate garbage into organic, plastic and metals to produce liquefied petroleum products, and fertilizers for farmlands. 

Asif Farooqi holds masters degree in environmental engineering from northwestern university, USA with specialization in waste management. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of environmental engineering. His company waste buster is based in Lahore. Many contracts have been won by the waste busters in Karachi and other cities of Pakistan.

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Iqbal Zafaruddin Ahmed

Iqbal Zafaruddin Ahmed is a Pakistani entrepreneur and philanthropist. His business group, Associated group, was founded by Iqbal and his father. It was 1965 when they laid the foundation of this energy group.

Today his group has become the largest producer, transporter and marketer of liquefied petroleum gas in private sector. The member companies of this group are jamshoro joint venture limited, lub gas, mehran LPG, Pakistan Gasport limited, AG omnimedia, AG publications, and associated estate developer. This group has revenues in excess of 200 million us dollars.

The group has extended its interest in the media and property development by launching AG omni media, AG publications, and associated estate developer.

Iqbal Zafaruddin Ahmed is a self made businessman who started business at the young age of 16. He was born in Patna, India to Z. Z. Ahmed, who later becomes deputy inspector general police (Pakistan). Iqbal Ahmed has been featured in Newsweek international and Forbes. His family has produced lawyers, judges, politician, and bureaucrats. Some leading names from his family include moulvi Ziauddin Ahmed, first Indian to serve as DIG (deputy inspector general) Bombay sindh presidency. Pakistan’s ambassador Riazzuddin. Former (Pakistani) Supreme Court Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed was his cousin.

Mr. Iqbal played an important role in improving Pakistan US relations.

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Pakistani people in private equity industry.

Private equity represents a class of investors, their funds, and their subsequent investments, which are made in private companies or public companies with the goal of taking them private.

Below are some notable Pakistani people from private equity industry around the globe.

1.      Riaz Siddiqi is a Founder and Managing Partner of Denham Capital, a private equity firm that manages over 4 billion dollars and invests in the commodity and energy sectors globally.

2.      Faysal Sohail is a venture capitalist and has served as a General Partner at CMEA Capital since 2002. 

3.      Wahid Hamid is a Senior Partner at Abraaj Capital and Head of Portfolio Management and Operations Group.

4.      Dr. Moeen Qureshi - Chairman of EMP Global, a multi-billion private equity fund; Former Prime Minister of Pakistan; Former CFO of World Bank

5.      Arif Naqvi is founder Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity firm that invests in Middle East and North Africa.

6.      Aamer A. Sarfraz is founder of Indus Basin Holding, a developer of agribusiness projects in Pakistan.

7.      James Caan is also the founder and currently CEO of the UK-based private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw

8.      asad zain Founding Member at Manara Equity Partners

9.      Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, General Partner New Silk Route Partners (a private equity firm that invests in Asia and middle east)

10.  Sardar Sherazam Mazari. In May 2009, he established Rojhan Capital as Managing Partner, which is an investment and management company focused on Pakistan.

11. Asad Jamal of ePlanet Capital is global venture pioneer. He has offices in Asia, Europe, U.S. he led investments in many hi-tech firms including Baidu ( China’s google), HiSoft (information technology and business process outsourcing company headquartered in China), median technologies (cancer detection company based in France), SiliconFile Technologies(chips for cell phones and cameras, South Korea) 

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How much do Pakistani cricketers earn?

According to Najam Sethi, former chairman Pakistan Cricket Board, the board has earned 800 million rupees profit for year ended 30 june, 2014.

But salaries and bonuses of cricketers is nowhere near to what board has earned.

Salaries and match fees according to categories is shown in following table.

Category	Salary per month (PK RUPEE)	Test match fees ( PK RUPEE)	ODI fees (PK RUPEE)	Twenty twenty fees (PK RUPEE)
A	449,218	400,000	300,000	125,000
B	314,452
C	179,687
D	89,843

Category A include Misbah Ul Haq, Muhammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, and Junaid Khan..

Category B includes Younus Khan, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal, and Umar Gul.

Category C includes Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Adnan Akmal, Khurram Manzoor, Nasir Jamshaid, and Abdul Rehman.

Category D included Sohail Maqsood, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Bilawal Bhatti, Sharjeel Khan, Zulfiqar Babar, Fawad Alam, Ehsan Adil, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Raza Hassan, Umar Amin, Harris Sohail, Rahat Ali, Shaan Masood, Mohammad Talha, and Anwar Ali.

Earlier Shoaib Akhtar said “I was an elite star, still after playing for 14 years; I only made seven to eight crore rupees.” 

"I made seven to eight crore rupees" Shoaib Akhtar

Seven crore rupees translate to 750000 US dollars approximately. This is a small amount when compared with what cricketer from other countries earn. According to the report, which compared the earnings of cricketers from different countries, Pakistani cricketers earn amount roughly equal to UK average wage. According to this report published during 2010 central contract earnings of Pakistani players at that time was 22500£ per annum, per player. The trend around the globe has been changed players are now paid a percentage of board’s annual earning.

Pakistan cricket board should not only take care of international cricketer but also should pay attention to domestic cricketer players. Although Pakistan premiere league can prove to be a ray of hope for these players as well as many aspirant cricketers.


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Izzat Majeed, CEO Alyph Limited

Izzat Majeed is an entrepreneur, investor, poet and educationist. His investment company Alyph Limited is a billion dollar company. Izzat Majeed studied in Britain from Oxford University and completed his master’s degree with economics. He started his career as a lecturer at Punjab University. After 7 years as lecturer he resigned from the university. He still lectures in west on Islam. In 1982 he moved to Saudi Arabia where he served as an advisor to Saudi Arabian minister, his Excellency Hisham Nazer. After leaving advisory to Saudi minister he started an investment company, Alyph Limited in London.

Alyph Limited has investment in green field industrial and infrastructural investment projects globally. The business interests of this company around the world exceeds 1 billion us dollars. In Pakistan Izzat Majeed bought union bank and then sold it to standard chartered bank.

His interest in music especially classical music led to the birth of Sachal Music in Lahore.

Sadeq Saeed, a Pakistani banker

Sadeq Sayeed is a prominent Pakistani banker and electrical engineer. Presently he is serving London based hedge fund firm, Metage Capital Limited, as its chairman.

Sayeed was born in Pakistan and went to United States for studies. He took admission in Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate programme in economics with concentration in electrical engineering. Later he also got his master in finance from the MIT.

He started his active professional life at the age of 23 by joining World Bank. His assignments in World Bank include working as research associate and internal consultant.

Later in 2000 he joined Nomura group, a Japanese financial conglomerate. Before joining Nomura he also served Credit Suisse First Boston, an investment banking division of Credit Suisse group.

At retirement from Nomura, he is reported to have received severance package amounting to 34 million us dollars.

In Pakistan he along with shaukat tareen, former Pakistani finance minister, led consortium which acquired controlling stakes in Saudi pak commercial bank. Later Saudi pak commercial bank was renamed as Silk Bank Limited.

Success achieved by Pakistani bloggers.

Income diary has a post named ‘20 top blog sales’ that has a list of blogs that were sold for millions. In recent past a name of Pakistani blog appeared in ‘top earning blogs’ on incomediary. According to incomediary Saad Hamid’s blog Sizlopedia was making 11000 us dollars per month.

Blogging has become common in Pakistan and there are many successful bloggers in Pakistan. Recently another success has been achieved in this area by Pakistanis. Gagism.com, a humor blog, co-founded by Farrukh Zafar and Salman Saeed, has been acquired by an Australian firm for rupees 10 million (105000 us dollars approximately).  Presently gagism has a team of 6 members including two founders. 

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Founded by former income tax oficer

Interwood Mobel is Pakistan’s largest producer of wooden furniture. Interwood Mobel is founded and run by Farooq Malik, who is a former government employee at FBR. Interwood is manufacturer and retailer of furniture and owns retail outlet in many cities of the country. Presently this company is running 6 show rooms in Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad. Nearly 1500 people are working for this company. Presently interwood is working with international household company Ikea. According to Farooq Malik profit margin is low but his company is learning a lot from Ikea.

The lifestyle of Interwood Mobel owner resembles that of Ikea owner Ingvar Kamprad. He lives in a rented house and owns an old car. He frequently attends exhibition in different countries and according to him he learns from these events. He is impressed with the creativity of Italian people.

Interwood Mobel was started when Mr. Malik was removed from government service. He started by making television cabinet, and then converted to manufacturing wooden doors. Meanwhile he was reinstated in previous job by government. After his retirement from government service as a 22 grade officer he started focusing on his business. Now his other family members have also joined him in this business.

Tariq Farid, Pakistani American entrepreneur

Tariq Farid is a Pakistani born American. He started his entrepreneurial career at an early age, by successfully managing flower shops. His latest started venture is Farid Capital Corporation that helps franchises buying equipment. Farid is a serial entrepreneur. Besides starting Farid Capital Corporation he is also operating an international franchise business by the name edible arrangements. Edible arrangements was started by Tariq along with his brother in 1999. His edible arrangements boasted revenues of 195million us dollars in 2008, and owns 883 franchises internationally.

His other entrepreneurial ventures are related to software. He created Netsolace, which is a software company and specializes in providing software to franchise industry.

Farid attribute his success to his business philosophy. According to him his success has come from paying attention to often overlooked details such as website, order tracking and follow-up customer service, the logo and branding, and employee training.

Farid has been recognized as an entrepreneur of the year by international franchise association in 2009.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BENEFITS TO SOCIETY

Sadruddin Hashwani is a Pakistani billionaire. According to information available on the internet he has a net worth of 1 billion us dollars. He owns many five star hotels including world famous Marriott hotel Islamabad. He also owns stakes in many other businesses. He provides services to many people by offering staying facilities to many delegations foreign as well as domestic. His businesses also include oil and gas exploration and Production Company. He provides employment to many people directly and indirectly.

There are many other businessmen who provide employment to many people. Many overseas Pakistanis also have invested heavily in Pakistan like Sir Anwer Perwaiz. His Bestway group has invested in banking and cement manufacturing sector. His businesses also employees many people. Along with providing employment, his business produces products that are exported to many other countries. Cement manufactured by his plant is exported in huge quantity to Malaysia earning heavy foreign exchange.

Alsher Fiyaz is another expatriate Pakistani who is the founder of alfi investment and his company has stakes in shipping and retailing industry. His brother Javed Fiyaz is involved in many charity projects in Pakistan. Fiyaz family has an estimated net worth of 3 billion pounds.

Entrepreneurs generate opportunities for employment and earning foreign exchange. They produce goods and services for consumption inside and outside our country. So in regard to these services they should be respected by community and Government should facilitate entrepreneurs, as entrepreneurship is engine to economic growth.

Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh

Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh is present Pakistani finance minister. He has also served as privatization minister during the tenure of former President Musharraf. There is a successful privatization program to his credit during his previous charge. He had graduated from Boston University with undergraduate and post graduate degrees in economics. He also has worked in Harvard University. 

During 90’s dr. Hafeez served as country head World Bank Saudi Arabia. Dr Sheikh has also written a book on Argentina’s privatization program.

He has been a partner at new silk route. New silk route is a private equity firm. According to his record made public by election commission of Pakistan he owns assets of more then 250 million rupees. He owns a house in Dubai and held money in various foreign banks accounts.

He was born in jacobabad and also runs watan foundation for the betterment of poor Pakistanis by providing them clean drinking water, and other health facilities.

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Internet Business

Recently Facebook went public. Its value is above 100 billion us dollars. There are many internet companies that went public and are enormously valued. But still majority of internet companies are private. Majority of these companies are built by people aged less than 40, like Mark Zuckerberg. Well known Cook family has started many internet businesses including the myYearbook. Internet offers enormous opportunity to entrepreneurs.  The fact is that internet has given rise to the global economy that has no borders. You can provide your services to different people of the world, belonging to different continents.

The best side of internet business is that there is practically zero marginal cost in this business. Secondly you do not need heavy infrastructure like transport, rails and roads, etc. this offers remarkable opportunity to entrepreneurs from third world countries. Monis Rehman is one such entrepreneur who started Rozee. It has been estimated to be worth more than 600000 us dollars. Scrybe Founder Faizan Buzdar has also made use of internet.

ChenOne, fashion retailer

ChenOne is Pakistan’s leading fashion retailer. It has retail outlets in Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries. ChenOne was established in 1997. The first ChenOne store was opened in Islamabad then another in Lahore. Since then there is no looking back. In all of the major cities of Pakistan there is ChenOne retail outlet. ChenOne offers fashion clothing, bed linen, foot wear, kitchen accessories and furniture.

ChenOne is brainchild of mian Muhammad Latif. He started this chain to provide international quality to customers at local prices. Initially it was planed to establish such stores in 14 different cities of Pakistan. ChenOne has four different departments to cater to the needs of their customers. Presently ChenOne has more then 20 stores.

ChenOne offers free home delivery and offers special discount. ChenOne has revenue of 24.5 million us dollars and earns profit of 1.3 million us dollars.

ChenOne has retail outlets in following places. ChenOne stores are located in Pakistan in the following places:

• Islamabad (Opened in 1997)
• Rahim Yar Khan (Opened in 1997)
• Lahore (Gulberg branch) (Opened in 1998)
• Faisalabad (Opened in 1998)
• Karachi (Opened in 1999)
• Rawalpindi (Opened in 2001)
• Peshawar (Opened in 2002)
• Abbottabad (Opened in 2004)
• Lahore (Defence branch) (Opened in 2004)
• Multan (Opened in 2005)
• Sialkot (Opened in 2006)
• Gujrat (Opened in 2006)
• Karachi (Tariq Road) (2008)
• Bhurban (Opened in 2008)
• Sargodha (Opened in 2009)
• Bahawalpur (Opened in 2009)

Outside of Pakistan, ChenOne has stores in the following places: ^[8]

• Abu Dhabi
• Dubai (Jumeriah)
• Makkah
• Bahrain
• Ajman
• Sharjah
• Riyadh (Olaya Road near to Kingdom Tower)

Chenone is owned by Chenab group. Mian Muhammad latif, with the worth of 700 million us dollars, is chairman Chenab group.

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Pakistanis in retail and wholesale sector worldwide

Pakistan is 6^th most populous country in the world. This country is having huge growing middle class. Size of retail and wholesale market is above 40 billion us dollars per annum. To benefit from this huge sector many international retail and wholesale companies have moved in Pakistan. Metro cash and carry, makro, hyperstar etc. are some names that are active in Pakistan’s retail and wholesale sector. 

Although Pakistan has huge retail sector, but still Pakistan has not produced any international chain of supermarkets. The size of majority of retailers is small and competition among them is tough. Retail sector contribute very little to state exchequer despite having a large share in GDP. Total contribution to state exchequer is approximately 125 million rupees while 50 million is contributed by canteen store department, chain of retail outlets managed by defense ministry.
Pakistan has huge diaspora. nearly 7 million Pakistanis are living in different countries of the world. there are nearly 1 million Pakistanis in united states. In United Kingdom nearly .7 million Pakistanis are living.

Many Pakistani businessmen abroad are involved in retail and wholesale business. This is because Retail business doesn’t needs a person to have any experience or specified level of education. Many Pakistani owns convenience stores abroad. The US convenience store market is monopolized by Pakistanis and Indians. In United Kingdom many Pakistanis are active in retail and wholesale sector. E.g. Pak supermarket is owned by Khalid Hussain. United wholesale grocer was owned by Muhammad Sarwar and his brother Muhammad Ramzan. Sir Anwer Pervaiz owns Bestway cash and carry. Najib Khan owns food retailing business in United Kingdom. Syed Qamar Reza owns 12 outlet of retail24 in United Kingdom.

Pakistanis are not only active in retail sector of USA and UK but also Middle Eastern countries. Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob owns chain of jewelry outlets. He also has started ARY cash and carry.

industries produced Pakistani billionaires

According to Forbes technology is the sector that has produced highest number of billionaire in United States after investment. The leading sector in the rest of the world according to Forbes is investment while fashion and retail ranks second.

GlobalTop 10 Industries Producing Forbes Billionaires

1. Investments: 143
2. Fashion & Retail: 123
3. Real Estate: 102
4. Diversified: 97
5. Technology: 90
6.  Manufacturing: 85
7. Energy: 78
8. Finance: 77
9. Food & Beverage: 69
10. Media: 64

Pakistan has a list of rupee billionaires, although completeness and correctness of this list is doubted. Although it is difficult to know which sector produced how many billionaires in Pakistan. But it can be seen from the list that majority of Pakistani billionaires come from diversified, textile and fashion, investment, landholdings, overseas business and media.

Big business houses in Pakistan used to invest in diversified sectors to manage risk.

Pakistan has huge textile and fashion industry and is growing at a high rate. Many fashion designers have started doing business on a global scale. Names like Maria b. Hassan Shehryar Yasin etc are having retail outlet around the world and their clients include many rich and famous people including family members of royal families. Fashion retail outlet like Chenone is having its retail outlets in different cities of the world.

Pakistani stock exchange is best performing stock exchange in the world. It has generated good returns for investors. Many international investors are also investing in Pakistan’s stock exchange. Pakistan has many mutual funds which provide opportunity to household investors to invest in stock exchange.

Pakistan has large land holdings since the colonial era and families manage to keep these large land holdings in their own families through inter-cousin marriages.

Many Pakistani billionaires have got their massive wealth from overseas business and investment in other countries. Sir Anwer Perwaiz is one such billionaire who got his wealth by establishing bestway group in UK.

Media is another such area where Pakistani billionaires have stakes. Jang group owned by Mir family is well known to have earned their wealth from their media business. Electronic media is a recent entry in this field As Pakistani government started issuing licenses to private television channels.