Alumni Relations OfficeDear Alumni,

Asslam-o-alaikum!

It gives me great pleasure to share with you that LUMS Alumni Affairs Office has completed 9 years since inception. Dur-ing this time the Alumni Affairs Office has taken many initiatives to foster linkages between alumni around the globe, andthis magazine is among one of them. The Alumni Annual 2009 brings to you your class-notes, articles from alumni andnews from LUMS. I am sure you will enjoy reading this issue and learn more about the LUMS community.

This year the total number of LUMS alumni has reached to 4,500 which is a major milestone in the history of LUMS. In2009, the Alumni Affairs Office focused on reaching out to the LUMS alumni community across the globe and has en-deavoured to bring them closer to each other. We have established several new alumni chapters for this purpose. Thesechapters comprise of alumni volunteers who have worked really hard in bringing alumni closer in their respective regions.We appreciate their enthusiasm and commitment towards LUMS. In the current year several alumni reunions werearranged in New York, Seattle, Bay Area, Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. We also arranged thefirst ever 20-year reunion of MBA Class of 1988 in addition to 10-year reunions of other classes. This year we have in-troduced an alumni newsletter to keep you informed of the success stories of your fellow alums.

In 2010 LUMS will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. We will be arranging special events for alumni to celebrate thisgreat occasion.

We are grateful to our alumni who have set up individual or collective endowment and scholarship funds at LUMS to en-sure provision of quality educational opportunities to their successors. This year more than 600 alumni contributed to var-ious initiatives at LUMS, making it a record. We anticipate that this number will grow in coming years. We have also startedpreliminary work on creating a university endowment fund with the help of alumni and friends of LUMS with the ob-jective of making the institution self sustainable in a few years.

In the coming years we will be working closely with our alumni to create strong connections between alumni, studentsand faculty. The alumni can help us with mentoring and counseling of students, giving lectures, participating in seminarsand workshops, facilitating fundraising, organizing networking events such as the grand homecoming weekend, reunions,etc. I will be happy to hear your ideas in this regard.

Let’s work together to make the LUMS network stronger than ever!

Regards,

Sheikh Ali Hussain (EMBA 2007)Director, Resource Development & Alumni Affairsali@lums.edu.pk

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Pro-Chancellor’s MessageDear Alumnus/a,

I want you to know that over the years you havebeen a source of great satisfaction for us and we areproud of your achievements. We always look forwardto hearing about your progress in life and want you toshare your experiences with us and also give us feed-back on what you think should be done here at LUMSto make it better.

This is a dynamic time here at the University; manythings are changing and we would like to share thesenew initiatives with you. We feel you should be en-gaged in the future development at LUMS.

At LUMS today we have a fairly solid base on whichwe can continue to improve our effort. We needyour collaboration to make that happen.

Best wishes for your continued success,

Syed Babar Ali

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Bright FutureBy Risham Zaigham

The Alumni Annual team recently caught up with LUMS Vice Chancellor Dr. Ahmed Jan Durrani. What en-sued was an interesting conversation about his decision to join LUMS, his impressions of the Universityand initiatives here, and of course, the personal implications of his professional choice. Read on!

Tell us a little about yourself and your deci-sion to come to LUMS…

This has been the hardest decision I’ve ever madein my life. It’s not easy to leave your family and ca-reer behindand have yourc o l l e a g u e squestion yourdecision. Butmy reasonswere not onlyprofessional;they weremore to dowith having adesire to helpPakistan. Noquestion aboutit, it’s a deci-sion based onpassion andgut feelingrather than anyrational logicthat nothing else could justify that except you feelyou must do it, it’s your obligation towards thecountry and society and that’s what brought mehere. I have lived in the US for almost 35 years. Mywife is a physician, she practices there and my sonis a senior at Rice University. So all of us who arethere essentially talk about doing something forPakistan but nobody has the courage to do it andto me it was an epiphany that I need to be the firstone if nobody else does it. Somebody has to startoff. So it was a tough decision. LUMS had askedme five years ago and at that time I said no, and a

year ago they asked me again if I would join them.But this time, they presented it in a way that Ishould do this for the country, which made a com-pelling argument.

Speaking of where LUMS needs to be, there’sa strong emphasis on research now, andwhat do you think is the reason for that shift?

I think a university aspiring to be a world class uni-versity cannot do so without really being an insti-tution where new knowledge is created, whereadvancement of knowledge takes place, wherepath breaking research happens. Being a good ed-ucation university is a pre-requisite but to be a greatinstitution you must begin to create a scholarly en-vironment and nurture the students, and advance-ment of knowledge must happen. Otherwise justbeing an educational institution, with time, the qual-ity of instruction as well as the reputation of the uni-versity begins to deteriorate. Knowledge isdeveloping so fast that unless you are part of thatscholarly environment where you contribute to itand you build the capacity and the new generationof scientists who will develop that knowledge, theuniversity will continue to fall behind and thatwould perhaps ill serve the nation because ourproblems are unique and we must solve and de-velop our own solutions and that can only be doneif there’s a capacity to address those problemsthrough research.

Are there any specific initiatives that you feelalumni should be aware of?

Oh, there are. I have been here a year, and when Ilook back at what we have achieved during one

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year, I kind of marvel at it myself. Change is noteasy, particularly in Pakistan, where the inertiaagainst change is huge. Especially when themechanism to manage that change, especially theorganisational mechanism, is missing. I can’t helpbut commend my colleagues who have helpedme manage that change. I would like to mentionthe financial health of the University. Let me rec-ognize this upfront and address this issue. We hadto tighten belts within the first three months of mycoming here; we recognized that the Universityhad financial deficit accumulating over the years,that we cannot to afford to continue down thatpath without self destructing in the long run. So weinstitutionalized good fiscal practices meaning thatwe plugged wherever there was waste happen-ing, we controlled some of the unnecessary oper-ational as well as capital expenses, we revampedthe budgeting process so that the budget is pre-pared with a view of the resources that are avail-able to us rather than an open ended wish list andhoping that somebody will write a check for LUMS.So within the last one year we have not only re-versed the trend of growing budget deficit but arehoping that within the next two years we’ll bring itto zero and going forward we’ll begin to build en-dowments which are so badly needed for LUMS.This will help manage our financial affairs in suchprudent ways that hopefully we can put awaysome of the revenue that we generate for rainydays. I think that was one very important accom-plishment that took a lot of time. Six months of mytime were devoted to it.

The second compelling matter at that time wasthat the three schools that we have, each schoolhad its own incompatible policies, one is in a quar-ter system, the other is in a semester system, oneis in modules, and because of that not only ineffi-ciencies were happening, triplications were hap-pening, each one having their own registrationsand own admissions and own communicationsand marketing, but also it was ill serving the stu-dents. Because students could not take coursesfrom one school to the other school, their vaca-tions were not at the same time, the semester wasending at a different time, so that to me was anunacceptable way of managing the University.It isimportant that the focus must shift from three sep-arate schools to really LUMS as a university, as a

whole, that students must be given the opportu-nity where consistent policies apply across allthree schools. So we set about fundamentally tocreate one uniform calendar for the University andmove to the semester based system. These arenot easy changes. We worked very hard, manyfaculty members, even students and staff, they allplayed a role in it and we have moved to semes-ter based system and things have settled down.

And the third really was bringing this concept ofresidential colleges to LUMS. We need to thinkabout the emotional health and physical wellbeingof students, advising system, their interaction withthe faculty, etc. They are functioning as a commu-nity of students rather than individual studentsdealing with their own problems. All these essen-tially persuaded me to look at the model that I hadbeen used to at Rice University and many otherleading universities, the system of residential col-leges. This means each college becomes a com-munity of students; alive, well, and taking care ofeach other, where students take ownership of theirown living spaces. With faculty and staff and thisinstitution providing support to make their livingplaces as attractive and as friendly as they wantto be, and they should be self governed. There isa concept prevailing at many universities, that stu-dents cannot take responsibilities, administrationhas to make every decision for them. We have ac-tually turned it upside down. My philosophy is thatstudents are responsible, grownup and if we wantto shape their minds as future leaders we need togive them responsibility and I have no doubt thatthey will rise up to it, and they have not disap-pointed me so far.

Over the years LUMS has produced very suc-cessful graduates. But most of them are inthe corporate rather than the social sector orpolitics. Do you think that LUMS would wantto focus on that in the future?

Absolutely. I cannot overemphasize that social re-sponsibility and civic engagement must be part ofthe LUMS programme. There’s a lot of potential forLUMS to provide service to society in a variety ofways, through either student organizations or asan institution serving the needs of the country atadvisory level, or faculty providing technical ex-pertise to the outside world. I think in the coming

Our problems are unique and we mustsolve and develop our own solutions andthat can only be done if there’s a capacityto address those problems through re-search.

My philosophy is that students are respon-sible, grownup and if we want to shapetheir minds as future leaders we need togive them responsibility and I have nodoubt that they will rise up to it, and theyhave not disappointed me so far.

years we will be emphasizing the issue of civic en-gagement and social responsibility here at LUMSand part of that has to do with elevating the statureof civic engagement and social responsibility ingeneral.

Service to the society is fundamentally the respon-sibility of any institution that exists in a communityand I think that burden is much higher for LUMS be-cause LUMS being the leading institution in thecountry must provide leadership. It must providethat openness that its students when they gradu-ate and go out, they can truly be leaders in trigger-ing economic prosperity of society, being sociallyresponsible citizens, in being the future policy mak-ers of the country, and they take with them theircore values that will serve the country in the com-ing years and those values include openness, tol-erance, respect for each other, civility and acommitment to the betterment of society.

I’m hoping that we can encourage our students toengage in community projects. That’s the best waynot only to give back to the society, but also in away to discover yourself and also to learn and be-come aware of what the real needs are, how ordi-nary people live. Many students come from veryprivileged classes, they come here, they live in abubble, they go back, and they never really under-stand what the real issues are of the society. And-having community projects as part of the educationat LUMS I think would be a very desirable thing fortheir future.

How do you think LUMS expansion plans andthe resources available go hand in hand?

I think except for SSE, LUMS is not growing verymuch, and it certainly can’t because it’s con-strained by resources, the size of our faculty and

equally important, the residential capacity. At leasthalf of our students come from outside Lahore andthey must be accommodated and we don’t haveenough off campus housing, safe and secure hous-ing in the neighbourhood like in many other coun-tries, so we are constrained by that. So whatevergrowth that you’re seeing here is simply the natu-ral growth that has to occur, 5 – 7%. Many tell methat LUMS is growing too fast; the student body isgrowing too fast. This is not the case. All we aredoing is adding the extra 200 students per year thatare coming in SSE. So the growth is rather marginaland the thinking out there that LUMS is growing toorapidly is really not valid. The growth has to be sus-tainable.

Whenever you grow an institution you need re-sources, and there’s always a feeling that those re-sources are being taken from one to give toanother. That’s how universities grow. After all,when the business school started there was in-vestment made in the business school. When so-cial sciences, humanities started, investment wasmade in that school. Now SSE has started, it re-quires a lot of investment.

As far as financing LUMS is concerned, we dorely on our alumni. What would that risk be ifthat support diminished?

LUMS alumni support LUMS in a variety of ways.It’s not just in financial terms. I think they contributein terms of ideas, minds, in terms of bringingknowledge to the institution, mentoring students,participating in its governance and of course themost direct and obvious way is through contribu-tions. No institution can function and be successfuland have new programmes and continue to growwithout financial support of its alumni and other

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benefactors. And I think and hope that LUMS alumniwill not feel at some point that they do not need togive to LUMS for whatever reason whether LUMShas plenty of its own resources or they feel thatLUMS is not quite rising up to their expectations, Ithink that would be a tragedy. Because LUMS doesrely on its alumni for support, financial and other-wise, and it must continue to do so. The alumnihave a lifelong relationship with their institution, andthe institution has to do everything to continue tomake the alumni proud of what is happening at theirinstitution and I think LUMS has done well so far andI’m very confident that it will continue to makealumni proud.

On a more personal note, you’ve left your ownfamily behind and your home for the past 35years and that must come with its own set ofchallenges. Do you feel it’s been worth it?

I honestly feel that it has been worth it. I cannot waitto get to my work every day in the morning. I al-most work 7 days a week. Everybody leaves at 5,I work till 7 or 8, whatever time it takes partly be-cause there’s so much work to be done, and sec-ondly because if I have left my family behind, I wantto give my best to this institution, that every minutethat I have goes towards building this institution. Itdoes alienate people, that I’m so focused on workthat I don’t socialize with them, but I always tellthem that every 5 minutes that I spend in non pro-ductive social chitchat with them, I have taken thattime out of my family time. And I would rather thattime be put to use for what I’m here for. I have tosay though, I hate to go back home in the evening.It’s like saying hello to the house and the housesays hello back to you and that’s about it! And par-ticularly the weekends are the hardest where I haveto stay at home.

First impressions, surprises and realisationson joining LUMS

1. “What impressed me most was that LUMS wasindependent of the bureaucracy outside.”

2. “I saw LUMS was really running strictly on merit.No one could question the integrity of LUMS.”

3. “A pleasant surprise was how passionate andcommitted the faculty, staff and students were re-garding LUMS. When students become alumni theyrecognize they had the best possible training in thiscountry, and perhaps the best time of their life at thisinstitution.”

4. “There was a lack of emphasis on the total de-velopment of students and universities that have theprivilege like LUMS to shape the leaders of the fu-

ture for this country have a responsibility beyondthe classrooms.”

5. “LUMS has been providing great instruction butis not engaged in solving national problems and is-sues. It almost feels like an island, a bubble discon-nected from the realities of the society outside.”

7. “The biggest surprise was that despite the strongoutside perception, LUMS is not a rich institution.

This perception is hurting LUMS, because LUMSdoes not get any grants from the government asthose grants come with strings attached. Tuitionpays about half of the cost of educating a student,and the other half needs to be begged and bor-rowed. If it’s small, it’s manageable, but now thatthe University has grown to this size, the responsi-bility is much heavier. So something has to be com-promised in order to continue to provide thatsubsidy.”

8. “Being a world class university with a researchmission, and at the same time remaining affordableand accessible, are conflicting goals and a very tallchallenge for the University that we will continue tostruggle with. I recognized right away when I ar-rived that long term financial planning of the Univer-sity must be put at a high priority for the sake of thenation, society and students who want to come toLUMS.”

By Sadaf Ahmed MS 2005

Life - at times an indefinable reality statesevents with crisp clarity. Clarity substanti-ated by visibility of direction and destina-tion. At time it is haze in the foreground.The haze is caused by self created real-ity, reality that is not real, that is not there,that is completely nonexistent, but theqalb signals the brain and it is all created.This self created creation, makes the vis-ibility less visible and in this lower visibilitylife is treated. Decades are wasted in thehaze of non existence as that so calledreality does not mean anything substan-tial to LIFE. The almighty has created ushumans as a part of nature, and hasgiven us a certain role, in line with theQuran and life of prophet Muhammad(SAW) with crystal clear clarity, practi-cality and reality. The self created realitynegating the above two makes human-ity go around in circles like an animal.Our creator has made us to live as perHis guidance and add value to the world,He has determined a deadline for us thatcomes as a surprise, giving us very lesstime to play our part in the world. Anydeviation, mist or haze takes us awayfrom our desired role. He wants us to thinkand reflect, create, innovate, enable andlive a conscious life beyond just breath-ing life. Consciousness enables us to seebeyond the apparent and find ways tounleash our potential and add to existinginventions of the world. Consciousnessenables us to take full responsibility of ourdecisions rather than always blaming oth-ers. Consciousness make us start on thepath of “SIRAT e MUSTAQIM”, as per Hisguidance and His will.

Success also being a subjective state-ment has many connotations, successcould be a great scientific discovery, anoptimized high tech software, a painting, abook, a flower arrangement, a cheesecake, a good conversation or even aword of kindness. The ability to live out-

side our existence enables us to producea higher quality output, be that our edu-cational, professional, social or philan-thropic endeavors. When we can seehow others feel, when we can feel how itis to be without eyes, without legs, withouta face and with cancer, schizophrenia orcardiac arrest.

When we can see how it feels withoutfood and water, without a home andschool and without healthcare and withinternal dissatisfaction, brutal intentionsand a camouflaged vision.

When we can feel how it is being with orwithout money, with or without intellect,with or without the ability to reflect, with orwithout the ability to put us in the placeof the other, with or without the ability tosee the glass as half full, with or without astrong urge to add value to the world,with or without the thirst to please theCreator by consciously submitting andliving as He wills.

We can see life being with or withoutessence. Happiness is the success of life,happiness in totality and reality createsmore and more happy state of minds. Ahappy person is able to acknowledge theblessings of Allah from the reality of ex-istence to the faculty of reflection. Ahappy person constantly works in the wayof self improvement to the given bench-mark, and constantly adds to the worldby being there. His presence becomesthe source of happiness for many in theworld.

In the pursuit of happiness we constantlyask Allah for his guidance and we ask“Allah please make me worth being ahuman, make me worthy of being YOURcreation, enable me to live beyond theordinary, please enable me to be an‘abud’ be a ‘mutaqi’. Ameen”

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ASpiritualApproachtoSuccess

Success in LifeI get invited to speak to students as part ofmy work, and I like to start off with ananalogy. I tell them to imagine a man whohires a cab, pays the cabbie in advance, butthen tells him to proceed to the destinationwithout getting in himself. They find the ex-ample amusing, but my intention really isto share a life lesson with them. Let’s comeback to that in a while.

Life is a beautiful gift, and a responsibility.Not understanding how to make the best ofthis is too big a loss, akin to rolling outyour most important new brand at worksans any research. We find ourselves focusingon just one of its many dimensions, usuallya professional career where we are stupe-fied by the associated monetary rent orsalary. However in the process we overlookthe many intangible but highly valuablebenefits that other ‘dimensions’ of life haveto offer.

Think about it. Some of the choices we endup making are suboptimal, to say the least.Our parents, for example, are the only peo-ple we will ever have in our lives who loveus more than themselves, but we see themless than we see our co-workers at work.There is much value to be derived from

being with them. Consider also the case ofour spouses, and our children, who face asimilar treatment at the supposedly justi-fied excuse of our deadlines and schedules.

Spiritual contentment is a third dimensionthat also takes the back seat. There are im-portant questions that demand reflection,such as where we are coming from andwhere we are going. In fact they are alsoenlightening, and can lead to true self dis-covery. There are numerous other dimen-sions that stay unexplored also; there is somuch to learn, so much to see, so much todo, so many people to get to know and ap-preciate. Not as an afterthought, not as aguilt laden ‘time off from work’, but as ourclear right as human beings yearning for afulfilling life.

My final contention is that these dimensionsdo not have to be lived in separate silos.There are overlaps that one could learn tovalue. For example in the work place, focuson developing what I call ‘life skills’ sideby side with your other trainings. These lifeskills include how to communicate better,how to resolve conflicts better, and how tobe a dependable team player. These traitswill benefit you in your career, and you will

take them home with you to your families,to your marriage, and to your children.

We are usually able to keep putting this off,and to ignore this fact till we reach the‘other side of the hill’. One is truly success-ful when one is happy and satisfied not justin the ‘today’ when one is young and every-thing is a daze, but also in the ‘tomorrow’.Adding depth to how we spend our livestoday is an investment in the future farmore valuable than any material assets weput away for retirement.

It is time now to wrap up the analogy at

the start. The cab really symbolizes our life,

and the example is meant to remove un-

necessary confusion from the view and pres-

ent a simple and clear picture. Let us resolve

to not let life pass us by just like the cab.

The remedy, once again, is really quite sim-

ple. We actively need to learn to ‘balance’.

With a little effort, we can experience how

valuable and enriching a life that is enriched

by multiple dimensions would be.

By Sabqat Mansoor MBA 2006

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The Passion RunBy Ayesha Ali Khan Bsc 2007

Remember how our parents always bring up stories about how relaxed,carefree and interesting life used to be. I cannot help but agree with themnow. It seems, the more the global market place continues to grow, themore interest people continue to lose in what they do. People now definelife as a static, perpetual routine of daily mechanical tasks. They seem de-void of any motivation and enthusiasm.Every day, millions start their day with the sole intention of grudging itthrough the eight hours in robotic mode. This could not be any more ev-ident than during the weekly traditions of Friday lunches in my nativeland. Friday lunches bring out a large population of young corporate ex-ecutives. They converge in diversified groups where a very popular topicis the one sentence question, ‘how’s work going?’ The most common an-swer seems to be that work is work. People simply cannot find anythingspecial to say about their work. Are we all this bored with something wespend our most productive hours on? Yet at the same time, my peers arequick to measure their success by aligning it to the amount of their pay-check.I am not being hypocritical; I am part of this very same group as well. ButI would certainly like to change this. I think my brain cells are rottingaway by simply being under the illusion that my current job descriptionis failing to stimulate any creative thinking No, this is not my success.Rather it is my failure. An old Chinese saying states that real interest isthe key to success. Absence of interest in what you do would make every-thing a mere obligation which will only end up killing any motivation anddrive to grow. There are times when a person needs to take charge of sit-uations. This applies to one’s employment. Either you can cave in andsimply take things as they are and be happy with your limited success. Oryou can turn things around and find success by being passionate aboutwhat you do.I believe we are all hidden geniuses with unique talents and we all possessan inherent passion which just needs to be unleashed. I know it is easy saidthan done. But that is the beauty of young age. This is the time to goknocking on every door and try opening as many windows as possible.Each may hold a different outcome. But success is having the passion totake all these risks to reach the ultimate goal. Take this spirit and go forgold at your work place. Even if a boss holds you down, stand yourground and find a way around. Go ahead, be passionate and make yourown corporate success story. Everybody backs a winner. The good thingis that this ideology can be applied to your professional life as well as per-sonal.So whether you are looking for corporate success, by coming up with thenext big idea or even starting a revolution, or divulging in some personalglory, make sure you continue to dance with passion and determinationalong the way.

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A Successful Approach in Life

By Ayaz ul Hassan Khan MS CS 2003

“Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimateobjectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.”Edwin C. Bliss

It is human nature to compare; we define:something as beautiful by knowing something uglysomething is good in smell by knowing the bad smellsomething is right by knowing the wrong

Similarly, talking about success stories without highlighting the failures containedwithin is worthless. As Shiv Khera, mentioned in his book [1]:

“Failure is the highway to success”

Tom Watson Sr. said,“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate”.

If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of greatfailure. But people don’t see the failures. They only see one side of the picture andthey say that person got lucky:

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Let’s take an example of a mans’ life history who:

failed in business at the age of 21

was defeated in a legislative race at the age of 22

failed in business again at the age of 24

lost the love of his life at the age of 26

had a nervous breakdown at the age of 27

lost a congressional race at the age of 34

lost a senatorial race at the age of 45

failed to become vice-president at the age of 47

lost a senatorial race again at the age of 49

and was elected the president of the United States of Americaat the age of 52!

The man was none other then Abraham Lincoln!

The question hence, before us is that would you call him a failure?He could have quit but he did not for to Lincoln, defeat was adetour and not a dead end. Similarly, we can easily find out greatfailure stories in every person whom we know to be successful.Some examples are:

1. Thomas Edison: he failed approximately 10,000 times whilewas working on the light bulb.

2. Henry Ford: the guy was broke at the age of 40.

3. Lee Lacocca: he was fired by Henry Ford II at the age of 54.

4. Colonel Sanders: he had to knock on more than a thousanddoors before he got his first order.

All of the above examples show that every successful person fo-cuses on their wants instead of the outcomes which they get fortheir immediate actions. They think long term instead of shortterm.

We can easily find the following qualities in every successful per-son:1. Desire

2. Commitment

3. Responsibility

4. Hard work

5. Character

6. Positive Believing

7. Give More Than You Get

8. The Power of Persistence

9. Pride of Performance

10. Be Willing to Be a Student – Get a Mentor

Now the question is that how we can develop such qualities inourselves. For this, Stephen R. Covey makes our work easy to re-markably gather the seven habits of the persons having abovequalities in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Peo-ple”. I recommend to the readers of this article to read that bookin detail and try to practice these habits in their daily life. It is anice tool to bring a change in our life. Following are the sevenhabits that Stephen identified by his research [2]:

1. Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision

2. Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Leadership

3. Put First Things First: Principles of Personal Management

4. Think Win/Win: Principles of Interpersonal Leadership

5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood: Principlesof Empathetic Communication

6. Synergize: Principles of Creative Cooperation

7. Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

By analyzing the above examples, qualities of a successful personand habits which they should have, we can conclude that for asuccessful approach in life, we should focus on our wants insteadof intermediate results that we get and keep a clear vision that isthe picture of the future which we want to see. A clear vision pro-vides us the following functions:

1. It gives us direction.

2. A vision greatly reduces the risk of realizing the worst case sce-narios in life.

3. It helps us in our day to day decision making.

4. It gives us motivation.

5. It helps us fight adversity.

6. If we don’t have a clear vision, we risk becoming the instru-ment of an undesired vision.

7. It helps us select some of our roles.

“You can and should shape your own future; because if you don’tsomeone else surely will.”Joel Barker

References:

1. You Can Win, A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers, Shiv Khera.

2. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Stephen R. Covey.

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By Muhammad Yousuf Bawany MS 2003

People say that when you die, yourwhole life flashes in front of youreyes, all the things you will miss, allthe moments, good and bad, whichyou will never re-live. Believe it ornot, a hard drive crash is an equallydistressful source of emotionaltrauma, especially for us techies,who live, speak, breathe and some-times even laugh (yes, I’m referringto the sick IT jokes we crack all thetime – all pun intended) in cyber-babble. Give me a choice betweengoing to a wild forest with a laptopfor one day and a day without it,and I will gladly go to the forest. Aslong as my fingers are caressing thekeyboard lovingly, I am on cloudnine – does not matter if I get backwith a missing limb or two! You getthe point, right? Our entire exis-tence, be it family photos, important

work documents or our precioussoftware collection – everything islost in a single heart-shattering,mind-numbing instant.

Before we get into the technical de-tails of a crash, let us analyze thebasic internal structure of a harddrive first. For the scope of this ar-

ticle, we shall be focusing on fourcomponents only, namely the plat-

ter, the spindle, the head and theactuator. The platter is where thedata is stored magnetically. Thespindle spins the platters based onthe location on the drive from whichdata needs to be read. The compo-nent that actually performs the read-ing and writing of data is the head,which hovers in the air above theplatters, without making contact.The actuator is the motor-mecha-nism that positions the head to thespecific area where data is to be readfrom or written to. All this spinningand positioning is controlled by asoftware that resides within a chipon the hard drive, commonly knownas the ‘firmware’. Now that you sortof understand how this contraptionworks, let us get into the crash-re-lated details.

Unlike popular belief, you CAN ac-tually survive a hard drive crash.Unfortunately, most of us are un-aware as to how this feat can be ac-complished. There are four maintypes of drive failures in general,with different causes. We will discusseach one and see how these issuescan be rectified.

1. Corrupted Firmware

Each hard drive has some relevantsoftware information that is storedwithin the hard drive itself, usuallyon a chip. This software orfirmware, as we like to call it, en-ables the drive to perform its in-

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formation and write data to it. Thisproblem occurs when there is anissue with the hard drive firmwareprovided by the drive manufacturer.If the platters on your drive arespinning but the system is unable torecognise or incorrectly identify thedrive parameters, then you mostprobably have this problem. Thisproblem is the rarest form of a harddrive crash and it occurs in specificdrive models.

In order for you to recover yourdata from such a crash, you havetwo options. First, you can go to anycomputer store and ask for a harddrive-to-USB connector. These con-nectors vary for different drivetypes, i.e. IDE, SATA and SCSI.Connect your drive to your com-puter with this connector and see if

the system is able to detect

the drive. In Windows XP, right-click on the My Computer, (no, notMY computer, YOUR computer),icon and click on Manage. On theresulting window, go to the left-most panel and select Storage DiskManagement. If your partitions areshowing there, it means that yourdrive has been detected and hasbeen loaded as part of your Remov-able Hardware. Feel free to browsethese partitions and salvage what-ever you want to.

If this fails, then you have to takeyour hard drive to a data recoverylab, where qualified technicians willdo some low-level reprogrammingof your firmware and hopefully giveyou a fault-free hard drive.

2. Electronic Fail-ure

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that it just appears to be dead whenyou connect it to a power source; nospinning, no clicking sounds, just adeathly silence. A power surgeknocks out the controller board,which is the brain behind the harddrive operation, and you are there-fore unable to even detect it on yourcomputer.

In the good old days, it was possibleto repair such a drive by swappingthe on-board circuitry with that of asimilar drive. Well, not anymore!Advances in data storage technolo-gies allow manufacturers to makedrives that use quite a bit of ad-vanced encryption and proprietarymicro-coding. So to fix these, weneed some special people who havean in-depth knowledge of electron-ics, can detect problem areas on thecircuit and know how to wield a sol-dering iron.

3. Hardware Failure

If your hard drive suffered hard-ware failure, then it is totally yourproblem – the blame is on you!Want to try this out yourself? Justdrop your laptop while it is still run-ning and you will probably have a

hard-ware failure onyour drive. Now you know whatcauses it. Let us take a look into howthese can be detected and rectified.Drives with hardware failure giveout an unmis-

takable click when they start – hard-ware technicians call this the “Tickof Death”. Unlike electrical failure,where there is a problem with theelectrical circuit, a drive with a me-chanical fault has problems with itsmovable parts, namely the head orthe spindle. In a lot of such cases,the circuit on such drives is intact.

Data recovery for such drives,(again), requires specialized help.The hard drive needs to be openedup in a particle-free environment,since a small particle can makescratches on the platter if lodgedwithin the head. From the “harddrive internals” discussion earlier,you should be able to recall thatthere are two main mechanicalcomponents within a drive: (a) thespindle for platter-rotation, and (b)the actuator for head positioning.

Thegeneral procedures

for such a failure include spindle orhead replacement, depending uponwhich part has gone bad.

4. Logical Failure

Logical drive failures are often ei-ther the easiest or the most difficultto deal with, ranging from simpleerrors such as incorrect file-alloca-tion entries or complex phenomena

including file system corruption.

These are caused by old-age (every-thing dies eventually, right?),viruses, and some other unknowncauses. Data retrieval can be simpleor complex, depending upon whathappened to your drive.

In some cases, data recovery can bedone using off-the-shelf tools in-cluding R-Studio, Recover My Filesand Get Data Back, but sometimes,if the whole file system is corrupted,you might not be able to retrieveany data from your drive – this oneis the silent-but-deadly attacker and

Living with Everlasting MemoriesBy Sheikh Taimur Nawaz MBA 2003

I went through an unfortunate tragedy andtrauma on December 23, 2006. It was Satur-day and I was asleep when I was woken up totake a phone call from the Foreign Office (myfather was working at the Ministry of ForeignAffairs in Islamabad, Pakistan). I was told bymy father’s assistant to rush to the ServicesHospital as my father had had a severe heartattack. I was all alone at home and raced tothe hospital where doctors were trying theirbest to save his life. I could not even gatherenough courage to ask my father’s colleaguesabout his condition. Finally I took a deep breathand asked one of my father’s old friends abouthis condition. He hugged me and told me myfather had just expired. I could not believe myears, my father was the most energetic manon the planet; he was physically fit, workingday and night and traveling half the monthwith heads of states and attending to the

visiting dignitaries. He was just 61 and I donot recall even a single incident where he hadto go to the hospital as he was in great shape.

I am a very emotional person and now I hadto be strong. I distinctly remember that Isuddenly got some sort of super power andpatience as I did not even shed a single tear. Istarted calling my relatives but I was not surehow to reveal this tragedy to my mother andof course, my only sibling (my sister,who wasmarried a few years ago and was supposed tovisit our place on Saturday evening along withmy niece and nephew). After informing a fewclose relatives, I finally called my mother andsister and informed them of his death. Onhearing this news, my mother literally col-lapsed and fainted and I could hear my sisterburst into tears. It was simply unbelievablefor everyone as nobody could even reconcile

with this shocking news.

When I reached home along with my father’sbody in the ambulance, I saw the foreign min-ister sitting in the lawn. He hugged me and Isuddenly came out of numbness, realized myfather had died and started crying. The restof my family was by my side. It was a horriblescene and I still feel that it’s unreal. It’s beenover two years and I have not been able tocome to terms with this tragedy.

The funeral was led by the foreign secretaryand scores of people kept coming to our placefor condolences. I still recall there were lots ofbeautiful wreaths from his friends from theArmy, Foreign Office and from the president aswell. I distinctly remember that the religiouscleric who led the funeral prayers said at thegraveyard, “I do not know this man but

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the huge number of people who attended thefuneral and what I have heard from them is in-credible and he must have been blessed by Godin heavens”. It was a great honour as the primeminister personally came to our place for con-dolences. He paid rich tributes and rememberedmy father in beautiful words. There was a spe-cial reference at the Foreign Office and my fa-ther was remembered in great words and Ireally felt honoured to be his son. After hisdeath, I started receiving condolences from lit-erally across the globe from our embassiesabroad.

A week after my father’s death I got a call fromthe Foreign Office and I was asked to visit mylate father’s office to sort out personal stuff.It was such a painful moment as it took me al-most three hours to sort out official and per-sonal belongings of my father. There Idiscovered that I did not know a lot about myfather. There is a rule that whenever you get agift on your foreign visit or from any visitingforeign dignitary, since you are getting thatgift in official capacity, you are supposed toget it evaluated from one of the government’sministries and in case the gift is abovepre-defined thresh-

old in terms of value then you have to paysome percentage to retain it otherwise you willdeposit it with the government. My father fol-lowed this rule religiously and it speaks a lotabout his ethics and honesty.

My father had a yearly planner and I was as-tonished to see his organization at work. He hada very hectic routine and he was traveling a lotbut even then I saw notes on his planner suchas ‘Call Hadeel (one of my cousins) for regretsfor not attending marriage function’. I was toldby my father’s assistants at the office that heused to regularly distribute his official giftsamongst his office staff and they loved hisgesture. It was such a beautiful feeling to seemy father had maintained separate folders inhis personal cabinet with certificates of my sis-ter and myself.

There are a lot of memories worth mentioningthat are now extremely precious to me. My fa-ther was very fortunate as I used to heargreat things about him during his lifetimebecause of his impeccable reputation andit’s still the same.

Once I was abroad on a business trip toBangkok, Thailand and my father arranged a

driver and car at the airport to drop me at thehotel. For this, he obviously called Pakistani em-bassy in Bangkok. I called the gentleman at theembassy twice to thank him for this gesture -once I got dropped at the hotel and also whenI was departing back to Islamabad, Pakistan.The gentleman at our Pakistani embassy inBangkok wrote a letter back to my father prais-ing me for my good manners. I remember, myfather came back from office extremely happyand said, “Read this letter son, I am reallyproud of you”. There was extreme happiness onhis face. I saw the same letter filed in the per-sonal cabinet in personal folder that my fatherhad maintained in his office. I found it when Iwas sorting out personal stuff in his officeafter his death. I now realize how happy itwould have made him and it was his extremepassion for me that the letter of appreciationwas of such value to him that he made it apoint to file it in a folder as something veryspecial.

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Another time I bought a blue and white stripedtie for my father and asked him to wear itwhen he went to the Oval Office as he was vis-iting the USA as a state guest with the Pak-istani delegation. I mentioned this verycasually. But I still recall distinctly that I wassitting with my mother watching television andtuned in to the news channel and I noticedthat he was wearing the same tie. Now when-ever I see that tie in my cupboard I am re-minded of my father.

Once I was having discussion with my fatheron various professions. Apart from many valu-able comments, he mentioned something thatI still remember when he said that one couldearn money easily with brains and good luckbut it takes ages to earn a good reputationwhereby you are respected as an honorable andcredible person.

My father lived a very eventful and humble life.A lot of people know and have seen him on tel-evision, in newspapers, with high profile digni-taries and heads of states but he lived a veryhumble life. Even today when I go to somemarket, a shopkeeper would remember him as acheerful man, a butcher in one of the meatshops cherishes times he spent while havingtea with him in early mornings on Sundays atthe shop, the chef and waiters at the Islam-abad Club still recall my father’s personal touchwith them as he always enquired about their

families, the baggage handlers at the airporthave lots of respect for my father and ofcourse my father’s staff at the Foreign Officewho are still in touch with me and remember myfather in great words as a great individual, areal mentor and competent professional. Andthe list goes on.

Now he is no more, but wherever I go I hearbeautiful stories about him as a person andpeople have high expectations from me as hehad set great traditions.

I miss him almost every day and of course ona lot of occasions like on my birthdays, the dayI got promoted, on family reunions, on mymarriage ceremony etc. But I am really proudto be his son as I get respect wherever I goand I have everlasting memories to cherish.

My father breathed his last on Saturday, De-cember 23, 2006 in the early hours. Just aweek earlier on Friday December 15, 2006, heperformed Umrah and called me from Makkahafter jumma prayers telling me that he had of-fered a lot of prayers. He was a fortunate mansince Allah granted him with an opportunity tovisit the Holy Kaabah a few days prior to hisdeath. May God bless his beautiful soul witheternal peace. (Ameen)

My father is my role model and I always prayto God to give me courage and strength to be-

come a good human being just like him. He wastruly a great professional, humble, selfless andhonest man, a father one would dream of, agood son, a true friend, an inspiration for thefamily. My mother remembers him as her bestfriend and their relationship was filled with lotsof love and beautiful gestures.

He was truly my hero.

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Lakson Tobacco MBA Scholarship

Lakson Tobacco Company has gen-erously given a scholarship fund ofPKR 1,335,000 to the SulemanDawood School of Business. Thisfund will be used to set up threefull tuition fee scholarships forstudents of the MBA program forten years. The SDSB is thankful tothe Lakson Tobacco Manage-ment and our alumni workingthere for making this possibleand opening much neededdoors for the deserving and tal-ented MBA students.

Social Enterprise DevelopmentCentre (SEDC)

SEDC is proud to share the recentsuccessful efforts made by the entireteam; the center obtained a grant ofUS$68,000.00 from the Citi Founda-tion and United Ways in support ofthe Management DevelopmentTraining Programme for MicrofinanceInstitutions. This one year funding willopen future opportunities for SEDCin the area of Microfinance.

SEDC also recently obtained a grantof US$250,000.00 from the PackardFoundation, USA. The funding by thePackard Foundation entails that theSEDC shall publish 12 cases on RHissues in Pakistan as a casebook,train 30 health sector executives and45 health sector managers under the

Leadership Development TrainingProgramme.

Other activities undertaken by SEDC

include a workshop on Health Enter-prises Leadership Management(HELP), Leadership DevelopmentTraining Program for Afghan NGOManagers, and CSR 2009 – a round-

table conference on corporate socialresponsibility. For more informationabout SEDC’s ongoing and futureprogrammes please visit

http://sedc.org.pk/portal/index.php

CMER Data Resources (CDR)

The Centre for Management andEconomic Research (CMER) has set

up CMER Data Resources (CDR).CDR is an online, public-userepository of data resources de-veloped to facilitate socio-eco-nomic research in Pakistan.

CDR is a collection of datasetsfrom both the public and the pri-vate sector of Pakistan. Thesecomprise of micro-data fromgovernment surveys, financial

and provincial development statisticsand LUMS surveys. About 65datasets pertaining to millions ofhouseholds and individuals and ac-companying documentation in theform of questionnaires, code books,read-me files and section-wise de-scription of datasets are currentlyavailable to the LUMS community in auser-friendly format on the websitehttp://cmer.lums.edu.pk/drc/index.php

This data is a valuable source to pro-duce original research in various dis-ciplines by employing thousands ofdata points across provinces andacross districts. In the coming years,CMER aims to reach out to a broaderaudience by making these datasetsaccessible to the general spectrumof academics.

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Participants of Health Enterprises LeadershipManagement (HELP) Workshop

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Rausing Executive DevelopmentCenter (REDC)

This year REDC explored newgrounds by successfully launchingand delivering eight new open en-rollment programs in the areas of Fi-nance, Operations, Education,Information Technology and BrandManagement. For more informationabout these and other programmesoffered by REDC please visithttp://redc.lums.edu.pk/

Entrepreneurship & SME Centre(ESMEC)

ESMEC in partnership with UNDPconducted a training programme onthe ‘Competitiveness of GarmentsIndustry in Pakistan’. Other work-shops held under ESMEC include‘Entrepreneurship – is it for me?’ byDr. Muhammad Azam Roomi fromthe University of Bedfordshire, UK.ESMEC also conducted a seminar on‘Role of Business Schools in Devel-opment Entrepreneurship and Small& Medium Enterprises’. For more de-tails about upcoming ESMEC activi-ties please visithttp://ravi.lums.edu.pk/enterprise/

The MBA Placement Office (MPO)

With the vision of catering to themany needs of MBA students and toeffectively cater to the fierce and dy-namic corporate world, a separateplacement office dedicated solelyfor the business graduates, the MBAPlacement Office (MPO) was estab-lished in April 2009 under the super-vision of Zainab Nawaz (MBA 2004).To realize this vision, the MarketingDepartment of Suleman DawoodSchool of Business was merged withMPO. From its initial onset, MPO istargeting a focused, sector wise ap-proach. Officers in the MPO teamare dedicated to one or more indus-tries, working closely with faculty and

alumni. The MPO team is further aug-mented by the joining of Mr.Shehryar Ali Shah (MBA 1991) in anadvisory role. Mr. Shehryar helpedinduce both the alumni and em-ployer perspective to the placementactivities and guided graduates intheir job search through a realisticand practical framework. Mr. She-haryar continues to provide his ex-pertise to both our office and thestudents.

Despite the adverse financial condi-tions, MPO has been instrumental insuccessful placements of its gradu-ates. More than 70% of the class hasalready secured employment. More-over, these opportunities have ele-vated the average salary bar againstthat of last year. In terms of intern-ships, 100% success was achievedwell within the deadline of the sixweeks internship requirement.To provide a career platform exclu-sively for the MBA graduates, MPOhas taken several new initiatives. TheMPO weekly newsletter is a highly in-teractive channel to keep the stu-dents apprised and involved in all itsrecruitment activities and processes.Other initiatives include sector wiseNetworking Nights and Alumni Ses-sions, workshops for professionaland personal grooming of the stu-dents, MPO Corporate Visits, MockInterviews by alumni, MPO Re-cruiter’s Guide and MBA Profile CDs.

MPO is seeking maximum alumni in-volvement in all these initiatives. Theinitiative of alumni sessions is spe-cially planned for this purpose. Wewill be inviting senior alumnus fromdifferent industries to give exclusivetalk to the MBA graduates on themarket situation and future trends intheir particular sectors. We requestyou to contact us for the alumni ses-sions and mock interviews. We arepositive that through your involve-ment and support, the MBA Place-

ment Office will be able to furtherenhance and sustain the LUMS MBAedge in the market, both in terms ofacademic excellence and profes-sionalism.

To contact the MPO please write di-rectly to zainabn@lums.edu.pk or callat +92-42-35608178

SDSB Marketing Department

Like every year, the SDSB MarketingDepartment is planning to conductinformation sessions for prospectivestudents in Bangladesh, Sri Lankaand Nepal. SDSB will also be partici-pating in the GETEX Expo in Bahrain(31st Oct – 2nd Nov, 09). We wel-come our alumni from all over theworld to give their feedback andsuggestions about colleges and uni-versities in their respective countrieswhere we may send our promotionalmaterial. Please send your feedbackto zainabn@lums.edu.pk

SDSB Fundraising Department

The SDSB Fundraising Departmenthas been set up to meet the growingexpansion and research demands ofthe school. It has recently launchedits first fundraising campaign ‘TheSDSB Promise; Inspiring Business Ex-cellence’. The focus of the campaignis to mobilize people and monetaryresources for the next stage of theSchool’s growth. Funds include, butare not limited to, student scholar-ships, faculty research and namingopportunities for the SDSB buildingand academic chairs. The schoolaims to enter the next phase ofgrowth with these endowments. Thecampaign aims to collect USD 50million over the next five years.

We look up to our alumni for theirsupport and encouragement to en-sure that SDSB continues to fostertalent which will transform the

students admitted to SDSB in to theleaders of tomorrow. Your dedica-tion is critical for us to achieve thegoals of this campaign. We urge youto participate in the successful real-ization of this vision by way of gener-ous support and valuable donations.Please make your donations by visit-ing http://sdsb.lums.edu.pk/

Correction

The Battle of Minds (BOM) competi-tion was organized by Pakistan To-bacco Company. We apologize forthe mistake in the last edition of thenewsletter.

In memory of Dr Naim Sipra

I had the privilegeof knowing DrNaim Sipra for overtwenty years. In mylong associationwith him as a col-league and friend, Ifound him to be animmensely deep thinker, extremelybright scholar, remarkably principledadministrator and an enormouslykind person. With his passing, theSuleman Dawood School of Busi-ness, Lahore University of Manage-ment Sciences (LUMS) has lost oneof its finest Professors.

Naim Sipra earned his MBA and PhDin Finance, both from the Universityof Texas at Austin. During his gradu-ate studies, he worked as an Instruc-tor from 1980 to 1984 at theUniversity of Texas at Austin. Upongraduation in 1984, he joined theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder asAssistant Professor. In 1988, hejoined the Graduate School of Busi-ness at LUMS as Associate Professorof Finance. He earned his rank of

Professor of Finance in 1998 and re-mained active at LUMS until his pass-ing away on 30 June, 2009.

Dr Sipra offered a range of coursesin Finance including advancedcourses in Corporate Finance, In-vestments and International Finance.His publications include “StatisticalTests of Stochastic Process Modelsused in the Financial Theory of Insur-ance Companies” coauthored withPatrick L. Brockett, Robert C. Witt,Boaz Golany and Xiaohua Xia, pub-lished in Insurance: Mathematics andEconomics (May 1996) and “Linear-ity and Gaussianity of Interest RateData: an Empirical Time Series Test,”(with Patrick L. Brockett), publishedin Actuarial Science (January 1987).In addition, he wrote numerousworking papers including “Does In-ternal Diversification Really Pay: Evi-dence from Pakistan”, “MarketEfficiency of the Karachi Stock Ex-change”, “Role of Movable Propertyas Collateral in Pakistan”, and “Imple-menting Completely Monotonic Sto-chastic Dominance: The Case ofMutual Fund Performance” coau-thored with Alex Whitmore.

Professor Sipra was Director of theCase Research Centre (CRC) from1997 - 2009, and founding Editor ofthe Asian Journal of ManagementCases (AJMC) from 2003 - 2009. Hewas instrumental in launching AJMC,which aimed to provide high qualitysubject material to academics, con-sultants and management develop-ers through cases and research onmanagement practices in the socio-economic context of Asian coun-tries. Dr Sipra was very excited aboutthe response that AJMC receivedand he worked very hard to encour-age quality submissions from devel-oping Asian countries. He was astrong advocate of the case methodform of teaching and wrote and su-pervised over 50 cases in the area offinance. Earlier, he served as Tech-

nical Editor for the Journal of Market-ing from 1983 - 1984 and as the Di-rector of the Lahore Stock Exchangefrom 1997 - 2001.

Indeed, a loss of human life is alwaysa very painful experience. The expe-rience becomes shocking whensomeone dies young, and traumaticwhen that someone is a good friendor family. I am taking this opportunityto thank Naim Sipra for being a goodcolleague and a wonderful friend.Naim has left behind a legacy of hu-mane, selfless, kindhearted, and pro-fessional behaviour. In his untimelypassing, he has reminded us of ourmortality and shed light on what arethe important things in life. Indeed,he has left a deep impression on thepeople who got to know him well. Ionly hope I can emulate some of hisnoble attributes. Also, I offer my pro-found condolences to the Sipra fam-ily especially his wife, Mrs Sonia Sipra.May God bless his soul and providestrength to his family to bear this ir-reparable loss - Amen

In order to celebrate his lifelong ac-complishments to the academiccommunity, the Suleman DawoodSchool of Business has launched aDr Naim Sipra Scholarship Fund. Theschool also plans to organize a sem-inar in the academic year 2009-10 tohonour his academic accomplish-ments. As one of the founding fac-ulty of LUMS, Dr Naim Sipra has left aprofound mark on many aspects ofthe university. Naim, my friend, youare going to be deeply missed.

Dr. Shaukat Brah

Professor and DeanSuleman Dawood School of Busi-nessLahore University of ManagementSciences

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The true meaning and spirit of greatinstitutions gets symbolized in someicons – the people that give truemeaning and life to the otherwisemeaningless institutions. Dr NaimSipra is such an icon who symbol-ized in a very unique way what LUMSstands for.

Since the time when he came toLUMS as a candidate for a facultyposition to the time of his untimelydeath, Naim was a true symbol ofwhat LUMS stands for: Merit, In-tegrity, Academic Freedom, Diversity,Tolerance and Excellence. On manychallenging occasions, he stood likea rock (or anchor, as our Pro Chan-cellor described him when he wasjoining LUMS) to uphold these val-ues. From his commitment to devel-oping very high quality cases, to hisdevotion to rigor, to his high stan-dards and expectations from stu-dents, and caring attitude towards allhis students, Naim was a role modelteacher. Over my more than twentyyears of association with Naim as acolleague, I found him to be an ex-tremely likeable person – one whowould forgive others on matters thataffected him personally, but at the

same time take a firm principledstance on institutional issues, even atthe risk of confronting his close col-leagues. He was not a man of manywords, but whatever he spoke wouldbring immense value. As Vice Chan-cellor LUMS, I entrusted Naim withseveral onerous tasks of heading in-quiry committees to sift through di-vergent and complex perspectives.On each occasion, he was able todissect the issues with his sharp andcritical approach. And he did all thiswithout losing his smile.

It is individuals like Dr Naim - meticu-lous, extremely professional, highlycommitted, and compassionate toeveryone- that make institutions.LUMS was extremely fortunate tohave him as part of faculty for over20 years. His untimely death has lefta huge void. Naim was one of thoseindividuals who in their quiet and un-pretentious way help build institu-tions. He never sought attention orglamour but helped define themeaning of passion and commit-ment.

An unsung hero, one who gavecredit rather than grab it from others,

Naim was a true gentleman and manof principles. May his soul rest ineternal peace, he is no more with usbut the impact that he left behind onLUMS and hundreds of students willlive for a very long time.

Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan

ProfessorSuleman Dawood School of Busi-nessLahore University of ManagementSciences

Dr Naim Sipra -- A LUMS icon

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The Big IssuesDr Ejaz Nabi has been the Dean of the School of Humanities,Social Sciences and Law (SHSSL) since last year but his in-volvement with LUMS goes back almost two decades. In thisinterview he talks about the evolution of SHSSL, the popu-larity of social sciences in Pakistan and the challenges andopportunities of alumni leaving Pakistan.

Tell us about the SHSSL and how it has evolved.

When the undergraduate programme started at LUMS inthe nineties, it was still in its formative stages, offering eco-nomics and a mixed bag of social sciences. Now, we havethree departments and about 60% of the students and 60faculty members are in SHSSL. The Economics Departmenthas grown to become the best in the country. The Humani-ties and Social Sciences Department is a huge establish-ment in the Pakistani context offering three new majorsstarting this year; anthropology/sociology, political science,and the remaining humanities and social sciences.

At present, LUMS is only known for its teaching platform andnot seen as a research institution even though we have lotsof faculty members who are doing very interesting research.We are setting up a multi disciplinary research centre to belaunched in October this year. This centre will focus on fivethemes which are poverty; prosperity and social justice; re-gionalism and globalisation; institutional capability, trans-parency and accountability; and environment andheritage. A cross cutting theme to support these five will bethe theme of culture. The kind of research our faculty hasbeen doing the past five years fits very nicely under thesebroad themes. So I’m encouraging faculty to come to-gether- lawyers and economists, historians and political sci-entists. We are thinking of research without necessarilyseeking outside funding. We’re in the process of restructur-ing our programme so that we will offer selected seniors aneight credit research paper, which will be a joint publicationwith a faculty member and focus on a topic from one of thefive themes. Every year will have a theme. This year it ispoverty.

We want everybody to start thinking about the big issues inthe country. When I say we, I mean the leadership team ofthe school which is the three heads of departments, the sen-ior professors and I, and we’re going to bring in the studentbody.

So that’s where we are, we’ve been quite successful andwe’ve been fortunate to have this wonderful campus butbricks and mortar aren’t the only things that make a uni-versity fantastic. It is the quality of faculty that is key, becauseif the quality of faculty is good, you will attract good students.A large part of time goes into recruiting faculty. The politicalsituation in the country, especially the security situation, hasnot helped last year. It’s not been easy, but we are fortunateto have a very good basis to build on and we continue toattract faculty, people who have recently finished their PhDsin good universities. It’s been a little harder to get senior fac-ulty than the younger people. But we’ll keep trying andhope that the situation in Pakistan will improve.

Have you seen an increasing trend towards the pur-suit of a social sciences education?

Now that I’ve been here for a year, I can see for myself thatthere has been an increase in demand from the studentsand parents for the Social Sciences. In fact it constitutes avery large intake here because people want their childrento study anthropology, sociology, and economics.

There are very few places in the world that give you the kindof tangible access to history like Lahore and Pakistan. For us,not to be studying history doesn’t make sense. The most

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eminent historian of this country, Ayesha Jalal, a professorat Tufts University, has agreed to come and spend sixmonths here starting in January 2010 to help us develop thehistory programme. I am hoping that in the future we’ll beable to offer history as a major as well.

Students want to learn these subjects because they areseeking a framework for looking at the world around them.I’m extremely encouraged.

Now more than ever, people worry about whethertheir degrees are helpful further on in life. As far as em-ployers are concerned with degrees, other than theusual technical ones, do you think there’s going to bea change in that attitude?

Increasingly, the trend in the corporate world is to take peo-ple who have a very good grounding in the broader SocialSciences at the first degree level. Accounting and financecannot be the only way you look at the world; it’s a very lim-ited view. So I’m delighted that Pakistani parents are willingto spend what it costs to send their child to LUMS for theirchild to develop that framework we talked about.

Our corporate world still has to rise and shine. But the globalcorporate world is not so narrow-minded. So we’ll have toeducate our corporate world!

Talking about LUMS alumni, what can people do onan individual level to make a difference?

This is a very difficult question. Look, what we shouldn’t try todo is prepare a blueprint for the students who come here, ablueprint for life. That’s not really what we’re about. What weshould do is to provide them with analytical skills so thatwhen they look at something, they put on their thinking capand they begin to ask questions about it. If there’s a socialproblem they come across, or if there’s a career choice theyhave to make, hopefully through the education that they’vehad here they’ve developed their own respective frame-work. And they’ll come at it from their framework.Now by emphasizing research, we’re going to try and con-textualize that analytical framework that they’re developingto the Pakistani situation. What I’m hoping at the end of theday is that they’ve acquired an analytical framework andthey have a canvas of Pakistan to apply that analyticalframework. But I don’t think we should restrict people. Nei-ther in the type of analytical framework that they should get,which means that everyone should become an engineer,

or on the canvas on which they want to apply that frame-work. If we have done our job successfully at LUMS there willbe enough graduates who will want to work on the prob-lems of Pakistan and will want to live here despite all thathas happened. There are many challenges. But if some ofLUMS students, even if most LUMS students want to applythat framework to a larger canvas of the world, and want tolive in a developed part of the world, that’s okay to me. Be-cause they will bring with them a certain analytical frame-work, and we now know enough about how globalizationworks to understand that even if people have moved awayfrom their places of birth, provided they’ve not moved awaybecause of violence and threats, but voluntarily, and havebecome successful somewhere else, they contribute phe-nomenally to their countries of origin. China’s developmentstarted when the Chinese overseas started to send hugeamounts of money back home as investments. In all ofSouth Asia, India’s prosperity and big change has comeabout because of non resident Indians sending moneyhome. We get 9 billion dollars a year in remittances and thefigure is rising. Non resident Indians and non resident Chi-nese are now buying up property in their home countrieswhich has given a huge boost to a whole new industry. Theycontribute to social issues.They’re not gone. The richer their experience, the less likelythat they have gone forever.

What about the flip side –brain drain?

We need to create the right environment. We can’t cagepeople. I have now lived enough years, and I have lived inall parts of the world. I’m convinced that you set your placeright and it doesn’t matter how many years people havelived out, they will come back. No migration and no remit-tances would have made us far worse off than we actuallyare. There are some consequences of migration. One ofthose is what you talked about. Another is what I worry aboutthat when they come back they cause their own problemsin distorting the economy. But there are ways to address that.Take Nepal, a poor country in South Asia. Nepalese startedto go out because their own environment wasn’t very good.Nepal has seen a dramatic decline in poverty as a result ofthat. So thank God there is overseas migration. So weshouldn’t stop people from going out, but we should ad-dress the reasons why people feel they need to go out.When we do that they won’t go out. But meanwhile let themgo out.

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t h e S S E C o m p l e xLUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) is the first pri-vate research institution in Pakistan. Its educational missionis to produce technically competent graduates and innova-tive problem-solvers. Its research mission is to create usefulknowledge to address pressing local and global issuesthrough cutting edge research conducted by its faculty. Forthis purpose it aims to provide an environment comparable tothe best research universities of the world. The SSE Complexis a testament to the commitment to teaching and researchexcellence that SSE aspires to achieve. So far it is the best sci-ence and engineering, research and teaching building thathas been constructed in Pakistan. Configured by the world’sleading designers of scientific institutions it is equipped withworld-class laboratories and facilities to contribute to the fron-tiers of knowledge and transform life as we know it.

The SSE Complex is housed in a new purpose-built complexlocated on the existing LUMS campus. The physical infra-structure of the SSE is pivotal in its vision of multi-discipli-nary research and education. It comprises state-of-the-artteaching and research laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms,computer clusters, other learning spaces as well as faculty,staff and graduate student offices.

Plans for this infrastructure have been drawn up by therenowned architect Habib Fida Ali.The architectural plans are based ona facilities programme developed bythe project team in collaborationwith the campus and facility plan-ning firm of Dober, Lidsky, Craig andAssociates based in Boston. Themagnitude of the building is suchthat it has to be developed inphases. Currently the complex con-sists of two connected 6-storey lab-oratory and classroom buildings

with a combined covered area of 300,000 sq-ft. Provisions foranother 250,000sq-ft building are available, thus providingsufficient space for the school’s ambitious research and teach-ing programs. It also comprises a 25,000 sq-ft physical plantand a 10 MW grid station.

The complex promises to be a facility that will prepare theSSE for new challenges with cutting-edge research labs andflexible space that allows for reconfiguration as needs evolve.The laboratory designs for the 26 research, 10 teaching and 2support labs are based on extensive first-hand research ofsome of the world’s finest laboratories at top ranking univer-sities and incorporate vibration control, safety and environ-mental protection measures with guidance from leading USbased architectural and engineering firms, including PayetteAssociates, Walter P. Moore, BDMI and Vanderwell Engineers.

Similarly, the design of classrooms and other learning spacesis in line with international best practices. The two 200-seatlecture halls and four 75-seat classrooms are equipped withdigital projectors and audio visual devices. The building alsohas space for five computer clusters and three studentlounges which serve as interaction spaces to allow studentsto discuss problems and new ideas in a comfortable and stim-ulating environment. The SSE complex can house up to 100

faculty offices, and accommodate upto 500 post-docs, graduate researchassistants, technicians and adminis-trative staff.

SSE is premised on a hope; that bygetting the best minds of Pakistanand providing them with a world-class education, it can influence thedestiny of this nation. The SSE com-plex is instrumental in helping theSSE in achieving this goal.

Building the Future

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LUMS student societies form an important part of the overall LUMS experience. Here, these societiesprovide us with an update of what their year-long activities have been!

President Student Council2008-09: Mohammad Usman(BSc 2009/09020163)Vice President Student Council2008-09: Fazal Ashfaq (MBA2009)General Secretary StudentCouncil: Affan Javed (BSc 2011)

The last few years have seen arise in student activism and ashift towards greaterstudent empowermentat LUMS. Student soci-eties have played agreat role in organizingvarious events and cre-ating platforms for dis-cussions and exchangeof ideas. This created asense of independenceand self reliance in thestudent body. The Stu-dent Council in thisperiod has grown froma small body to an in-stitution that now notonly looks to point out prob-lems and concerns of the stu-dents but strives to providesolutions and looks for ways tobridge the gap between stu-dents and the administration.Over this period, the Councilhas helped in bringing the stu-dent body together as a com-munity and as a driving force,and has strengthened the beliefin student empowerment andunity.

The outgoing student councilcarried on with the momentumset by the previous councilsand set an outstanding plat-form and a bench mark for the

new council through variousaccomplishments. Below aresome of the Council’s majorachievements.

Earthquake Relief Project

In wake of the tragic earth-quake in Baluchistan, the stu-dent council decided to set upa united platform which could

enable fellow Luminites to helptheir countrymen in their hourof need. After intensive efforts,the Council was able to collectover 1 million rupees. Tents,blankets, warm clothing, med-icines and food items were pro-cured from the majority of thefunds and were distributed incollaboration with organiza-tions such as ERRA and Edhi.The remaining funds were usedto provide long term relief forthe affected victims, which in-cluded buying cattle for themas a source of livelihood.Though the entire councilworked for the collaborative ef-fort, three people who worked

aggressively for this effort were:Haris Iqbal, Aneeq Cheema andMohammad Usman.

Policy Review Committeeand Change of Phd Aca-demic Policies

The SC 2008-09 sent two rep-resentatives to the Policy Re-

view Committee whichcomprised of several faculty andstaff members. It recommendedpolicy changes in the LUMSgovernance and academic struc-ture that were implemented bythe Management Committee.

Later, the student council hada series of talks with the Regis-trar, Provost, HoD, Phd Coor-dinator, faculty members,senior PhD students, andbreakthroughs have occurred inthe form of potential policychanges proposed by the HoD.

Five members of the Councildeserve commendation for thiseffort: Saad Latif (ex-President

SC), Mohammad Usman (Presi-dent SC 2008-09), Ramsha Has-nain (BSc 2009), Affan Javed(BSc 2011) and Junaid Akhtar(PhD CS).

Freshmen Orientation

The Student Council tradi-tionally manages the orienta-tion for the freshmen at LUMS.

This year they gave the ori-entation experience awhole new angle. The or-ganizing team was headedby the President of Stu-dent Council, Usman.There was a volunteerteam of over 100 studentsunder the Council.

The traditions that define‘ice-breaking’ were used toset the tone for receivingfreshmen. This time, ses-sion facilitators, who pro-vide the first ever

interaction between LUMS stu-dents and students-to-be atLUMS, were hand-picked andhad to go through a workshopwith the student-counselor atLUMS, Ms Uzma Mazhar, forbasics on how to welcome peo-ple into your fold. This madethe orientation session muchmore interactive and fun. Fur-ther innovations were theDean’s session with parents anda tour of hostels followed by asession with the Council. Theevent as a whole provided astrong foundation for theCouncil to establish friendlyties with the students on theirvery first day.

L to R (1st Row): Fazal Ashfaq (Vice President, Student Council-MBA 2009), Aneeq Cheema(BSc 2010), Affan Javed (General Secretary, Student Council BSc 2011), Mohammad Usman

(President, Student Council-BSc 2009), Zahoor Gorsi (MS), Haris Iqbal (BSc 2010)L to R (2nd Row): Zahra Arshad (MBA 2009), Rao Umer Farooq (BSc 2009), Ramsha Hasnain

(BSc 2009), Asad Tahir (BSc 2011), Junaid Akhtar (PhD), Shaza Fatima (BSc 2010)

The LUMS Student Council 2008-09Bringing LUMS together

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Q2S Transition

The change from quarter systemto semester system from Fall2009 is one of the biggestchanges that awaits LUMS.While it is a move in the rightdirection, it involved a lot ofconfusion and concerns fromthe student body, especiallyfrom the batch of 2010 that willgo through the transition in itsfinal year. The Council was veryactive regarding this particularissue and stressed the need forgreater student involvement indecision making. The adminis-tration acknowledged the diffi-culties that the graduatingbatch will face and has promisedgreater flexibility and relaxationin the graduation requirements.The Council members whomade this effort a success are:Haris Iqbal (BSc 2010), AneeqCheema (BSc 2010) and M.Usman (President SC 2008-09/BSc 2009).

Residential Colleges

Aimed at bridging the commu-nication gap within the studentbody and taking a step towardsbetter student-faculty relation-ships, the idea was to dividebatches into different housesand to have separate events forthose houses/residential col-leges. Although the vision andthe idea itself is brilliant, it isimportant that such changes areintroduced gradually especiallywhen LUMS is already goingthrough a massive change in theform of Q2S and this is exactlywhat the Student Councilstressed on. Eventually it wasdecided that the RC system willbe applied only on the freshmenand the sophomore batches andthen gradually in two yearstime, the idea will be a reality

in the entire LUMS community.

Honour Council

This is probably one of thebiggest initiatives taken towardsstudent independence and em-powerment. The idea is to havestudents responsible for theirown actions and eventually theplan is to have students runningthe Disciplinary Committee atLUMS and being involved in ac-tual decision making. However,the idea is not a reality yet be-cause it was realized that sinceit will be one of the biggestchanges for LUMS, it is impor-tant that it should be intro-duced and implementedgradually. The first phase con-sists of creating awareness aboutthis system, and having the be-lief that we can trust each otherand that it is a change that canhelp create responsible individ-uals from this community.

The people behind this effortwere: Ashar Qazi (BSc 2009),Aneeq Cheema (BSc 2010),Haris Iqbal (BSc 2010), Moham-mad Usman (President SC 2008-09)

Faculty-Student Relation-ship

In the view of the Council, itsbiggest achievement was to es-tablish this relationship of un-derstanding and mutual trustwith different departments andfaculty members. The Council isnow looked upon as a strongstudent body where studentconcerns and suggestions aregiven due importance. Over thecourse of the last few months,the understanding and patienceextended by both students andfaculty has given rise to a

greater bond between them,opening new doors to studentempowerment and activism.

People we would like tothank:

Vice Chancellor Dr. AhmedJan Durrani – for his constantavailability, his efforts to im-prove student life at LUMS andfor giving LUMS a strong vision.

Registrar Dr. Tariq Jadoon-for his availability, his tremen-dous help in every matter andhis smile.

Other people who have con-tributed to our work over timeare: Dr. Sohaib Khan, Mr.Yasser Hashmi, Dr. UzmaMazhar, Dr. Ali Qazilbash, Jus-tice Jawad Khawaja, Prof. AliCheema, Mr. Nasir Afghan,Provost Dr. Anjum Nasim, Mr.Mazhar Chinoy, Mr. Muham-mad Ali Shah, Chief LibrarianMohammad Ramzan, Mr. JavaidWilliams, and Prof. Zaeem Jafri.

After the end of the academicyear 2008-09, the StudentCouncil is now no longer lookedupon as a body that just pointsout problems and concerns;rather it is an institution thatstrives to find solutions tobridge the gap between studentsand the administration atLUMS.

Authority and Responsi-bility: MohammadUsman’s Balancing Act

Written by: Lareb Sabir

Members of the Student Coun-cil are the only democraticallyelected representatives of thestudent body at LUMS. Thesestudents voluntarily spend timeand effort trying to get the is

sues of the students across tothe administration and ensurethat we get some say in all themajor decisions that affect ourlife at LUMS. In this exclusiveinterview, we get an in depthlook into the workings of theCouncil and find out about theman spearheading the organiza-tion.

Not an Easy Job

Mohammad Usman, the Presi-dent of the Student Councilhails from the batch of 2009, anEconomics and Political Sciencemajor from Islamabad. He waselected to this prestigious postwith the immense support of hisbatch-mates. After becomingsuch an integral part of theCouncil, he owes mentorship toex-President, Saad Latif. It isalso from this guidance thatUsman has come to believe thatsomeone can only be successfulin a position of power and lead-ership if s/he can feel for issueswithout getting agitated andcan put in a genuine selfless ef-fort into bringing about achange. With power comes re-sponsibility as Usman

was quite right in pointing out.Usman informed of the PolicyReview Committee in which he

represented the student bodyof LUMS after the tragic deathof a student in April 2008. Itwas the first time that theCouncil gained such a right andthat a student was to be part ofsuch a committee. The Com-mittee, comprising of severalfaculty members, was success-ful in improving several aca-demic and governance policiesof LUMS.

At a later stage, Usman alongwith graduate council repre-sentatives prepared a report ofstudent facilities and academicpolicies at international univer-sities which were implementedfor PhD and Masters studentsof Computer Science at LUMS.The Council is still evolvingand it needs people who care,who want to get involved, andwho want to make a difference.The President believes that thecause of most of our problemsis apathy and when this atti-tude changes, our conditionswill change. Usman brought tolight a very apt example of therole of the student body in rais-ing its voice for justice at a so-cietal level. This was theprotest of the LUMS studentbody staged outside LUMS atthe tragic accident involvingLUMS students which resultedin the death of one student.The protest was extremelyfruitful as it helped in puttingthe culprits of this accident be-hind bars and ensuring that

justice was served. The protestled by the Council and joinedby hundreds of students and

many faculty members wasthe first protest held out-side LUMS and was a stepin the right direction to-wards a more concernedand informed studentbody. Usman believedthat the students, facultyand staff collaboration in

this time was essential in bring-ing LUMS together as a com-munity. He was particularlythankful to the Vice ChancellorDr. Ahmed Jan Durrani, Regis-trar Dr. Tariq Jadoon and LawFaculty member Dr. Ali Qazil-bash for providing a crucialsupport to the students at thiscritical time. Usman was alsoparticularly thankful to the ViceChancellor and the Registar fortheir continuous help and avail-ability to the students. He be-lieves that under their currentadministrative leadership,LUMS will continue to raise itsinstitutional status.

Keeping Alive the TrueLUMS Spirit

Talking about SC Elections2009, Usman was disappointedwith the fact that some cam-paigners were asking for votes

on ethnic basis. He assertedthat such a practice was againstthe spirit of LUMS and that thediverse and healthy environ-ment of LUMS needed to befostered further. He pointedout that most candidateswanted to change the systembut were not fully aware of the

system and were not interestedin finding out about the Coun-cil’s current accomplishmentsand efforts which often wentunseen in the student commu-nity. Furthermore, Usmanasked for the students to takeresponsibility and ownership oftheir institution in matters ofcommon such as conservationof electricity on campus andensuring that littering was re-duced- two common problems.

With regard to the workload ofthe Council, Usman remarkedthat since so many changeswere taking place in LUMS, theCouncil had a lot on its plateand many a times it turned intoa one man show as the Councilwas often over stretched andover worked. We as studentsneed to realize the pressures onthe Council and the fact thatall they do is completely volun-tary and they get no officialrecognition or reward for theefforts they make. Perhaps wecan join in giving them a help-ing hand; after all they work forus. According to Usman, whatthe Council needs are studentswho are willing to take a standand are willing to build a net-work of trust and are willing torespect and understand theconcerns of the administrativedepartments so that they canhave a better working relation-ship. He remarked that there isa vacuum of communicationbetween the students and fac-ulty, between the administra-tion and the students andbetween student societies andthe Council which needs to befilled through institutional de-velopment.

Usman believes that LUMSshould produce leaders of to-morrow who would bring apositive change in our countryand community. For this the

students at LUMS need to bemore aware of their surround-ings and its norms so thatLUMS could succeed in shapingleaders of our society. Talkingabout the issue of dissociationfrom the cultural norms of theoutside community that wasbrought up in the BSc 2012election debates, Usman be-lieves that students should un-derstand our culture andsociety, and should make intel-ligent, viable decisions that willhelp them bring the necessarychange in Pakistan. Talkingabout the Council’s role in thelarger scheme of things, Usmanmentioned the Baluchistanearthquake relief fund and howthe Council, with the help ofthe students, alumni and ad-ministration raised more than 1million rupees. This is indeed acommendable task and we asLuminites appreciate this ini-tiative of the Council.

Usman believes that all weneed is genuine, mature efforton the part of the students.Mature, responsible candidatesneed to be elected who cantake the larger vision of aLUMS community further. Hebelieves that all members ofLUMS need to engage more forachieving positive outcomes toany issue. He believes that weneed to be more active, moreinformed and interact morewith all who are part of LUMS.He believes that LUMS as acommunity is not only its stu-dents, faculty and staff but alsoour Alumni who we furtherneed to engage and build net-works with.

If you have any queries re-garding the Student Council,its responsibilities or achieve-ments please contact Usmanat: 09020163@lums.edu.pk

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Phoenix is a student run organization at LUMS, concerned withreigniting the youth’s spirit, and imbibing in them a sense of re-sponsibility, especially regarding the social and human rights is-sues in Pakistan. The areas of operation are, therefore, multifacetedregarding the social issues, educational problems and the identitycrisis faced by our country, and the lack of counseling available tothis body. Hence our aim is bi-pronged; initially spreading awarenessvis-à-vis social issues and later on mobilizing students to take action.This is done using a variety of methods, involving discussions, de-bates, events, and awareness programs and workshops. It must benoted that we have no political agenda and are an independent, non-partisan society.

Our more recent events include the Child Abuse Prevention day whereinpurple ribbons were sold and a seminar held to raise money for Bunyad[an NGO working for the protection of children's rights]. We also had a sem-inar on corruption with guest speakers from NAB which included the Chair-man NAB himself. The seminar was followed by a rigorous Q and A session,whereby the students voiced their opinions and concerns to the relevant au-thorities. We plan to hold a two day, intra-Lahore conference next year to pro-mote social awareness regarding the various issues our country faces andwhat the role of the youth should be given these issues. This would not onlyresult in the promotion of awareness but would also serve as a fundraiser forthe various NGOs we are currently working with.

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The Lahore University of Management Sciences(LUMS) team won the “Outstanding Delega-tion” Award at the Harvard World ModelUnited Nations Conference held from March22 – 27, 2009 inThe Hague, capital of Nether-

lands. The team comprised 8 undergraduatestudents from LUMS Model UN Society(LUMUN) sitting in the simulation of variousUnited Nations committees.The conference was attended by 2500 studentsfrom over 150 prestigious universities world-

wide including Oxford, London School of Eco-nomics,Yale, Sorbonne and UC Berkley amongothers. Of these, only two delegations wereawarded the “Outstanding Delegation” awardson their performance ratio and LUMS, with 6individual “Outstanding Diplomacy” awards outof the total 8 team members, was one of them.The other such award went to the MUN Soci-ety, Belgium. At the closing ceremony held atNovotelWorld Forum,The Hague, it was thegreen and white flag that soared high.The award marks the fourth continuous victoryof the LUMS team at the HarvardWorld MUN

Conferences which are organized by HarvardUniversity and held in a different country everyyear.The LUMS team bagged the coveted “Out-standing Delegation”Awards in Beijing (2006),Geneva (2007) and Puebla, Mexico (2008),

bringing Pakistan to the forefrontof the largest and most prestigiousstudent gatherings in the world,year after year.Another LUMS team comprising13 students performed exception-ally well at the Model UNTurkeyConference held in Izmir, Turkeyfrom 9th to 13th March, 2009,which was attended by over 500students from across the world.AtMUNTR, “the team which comesand conquers every year, LahoreUniversity of Management Sci-ences” were the words from the

Secretary GeneralYigit Canay, which made the13 member delegation from LUMS rise to re-ceive resounding applause. LUMS bagged the"Outstanding Delegation" award with 10 of the13 member delegation receiving “OutstandingDiplomacy” awards in their respective commit-tees.The conferences provided an opportunity forthe students to interact with a global audienceand they left a strong, lasting impression of aneducated, well-informed and competitive Pak-istani youth.The LUMSModel UN Society is the pioneer ofModel UN simulations in Pakistan and organ-izes the annualAll-Pakistan Model UN Confer-ence every year at LUMS, which is the largeststudent gathering in SouthAsia, and the EurasiaMUN Conference in Geneva, Switzerland inpartnership with University of Geneva.Under the inspiring patronage of Dr. Zaeem H.Jafri, the society, founded in 2002, has grownexponentially and has now incorporated vari-ous social aspects relating to the advancementof United Nations’ Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs) for Pakistan. As part of its ex-panding Social Responsibility Program cateringto the MDGs regarding Universal Primary Ed-ucation, LUMUN has affiliated itself with edu-cation-related NGOs including CareFoundation and The Citizen’s Foundation, and

assists them in various capacities. On the envi-ronmental front, LUMUN has adopted GreenPrinciples for its December conference (in-cluding limited use of paper) and has intro-duced a tree-plantation campaign with itsAffiliate Programme. Several activities areplanned for the Social Responsibility Day thatwill be held at LUMUN ’09 Conference thisDecember.Another significant contribution LUMUN plansthis year is to get the LUMUN platform recog-

nized as the pioneer in development of Pak-istan’s future ambassadors by the Diplomaticcommunity residing in Pakistan. To this end,various dignitaries have been invited in the past.Of notable mention is Mr. Engin Soysal, theTurkish Ambassador to Pakistan, US ConsulGeneral in Lahore, Mr. Bryan D. Hunt andHonorary Consul Generals of Malaysia andTurkey who attended the Spring Intra-LUMSConference held on 16th May, 2009. LUMUN’09 plans to take this to a stratospheric level toenrich the experience of the participants.A full scope of LUMUN’s activities in the com-ing year can be accessed via its website atwww.lumun.org.

LUMS WorldMUN Delegation after winning

US Consul General Mr. Bryan Hunt with LUMUN Patron, Alumnusand President at Spring MUN, LUMS

LUMS Team in Turkey

The Turkish Ambassador attending a Committee Session atSpring MUN (Tukish and Malaysian Honorary)

Creating Future Ambassadors of Pakistan

LUMS Model UN Society (LUMUN)

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ABOUT DRAMALINEDramaline, the dramatics society atLUMS, holds the prestigious position ofbeing the oldest society in LUMS. It isan entertainment based society with amission to bring out creative talentamongst students, be it in acting, direc-tion, production, or script writing, alongwith providing quality entertainment tothe student body in general. In the aca-demic year 2008-2009, Dramaline or-ganized three major events.

DramaFest 08

DramaFest 08 was the first All PakistanDrama Festival to be held in LUMS inthe October of 2008. The three day eventattracted an audience of approximately800 per day and showcased the best the-atrical talent from all over the country.Fifteen schools and universities from allover Pakistan participated in the festivalperforming short 20-30 minutes skitsbased on various genres of theater. Be-sides providing a platform for studentsfrom all over the country to bring for-ward their talents and gain recognition,the event was able to capture a consider-able amount of press and media cover-age.

Standup and ImprovisationalComedy Show: SHARK

From the creators of Pakistan’s first im-provisational comedy troupe ‘BlackFish’, comes another smash hit comedygroup: SHARK. The new comedy troupeheaded by renowned comedian Saad Ha-roon took the LUMS stage this Decem-ber and gave the enthusiastic audienceof LUMS a laughing riot. The show heldin an auditorium in LUMS attracted ap-proximately 300 students.

SkiTamasha 6

As the trademark annual Dramalineevent, SkiTamasha was arranged on thelargest scale ever, attracting an enthusi-astic audience of 600 people every day.The three day event featured perform-ances from LUMS students and was notrestricted to a particular genre. The 20-30 minute performances showcasedsome of the most unconventional cre-ativity in the students. The event also at-tracted sufficient media coverage.

LUMS Annual Play 2008

LUMS held its last annual play in March2008 titled ‘Marta Kya Naa Karta’, a Pak-istani adaptation of Dario Fo’s ‘The Ac-cidental Death of an Anarchist’. The playwas performed in Alhamra Hall 2 for fiveconsecutive days and attracted an audi-ence of more than 600 people every dayfrom all around Lahore. Imran Khanwas invited as a guest on the third daywhich contributed to the substantialpress and media coverage at the event.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Dramaline, due to the scale and fre-quency of its events, is categorizedamongst the biggest and most active so-cieties at LUMS. In the coming year thecouncil hopes to replicate all the successof the previous year and hopefully set thebar even higher.

DramaFest 09

DramaFest 09 will be the second All Pak-istan Drama Festival to be held in LUMSin the November of 2009. The three dayevent will be aimed at attracting an aver-age audience of 1000 students every day.Around 25 teams from all over Pakistanwill be competing in the event to be rec-ognized as the best in student theatre.The event will be given extensive pressand media coverage.

SkiTamasha 7

SkiTamasha 7 will aim to increase theparticipation of teams from LUMS andinclude a few guest performances fromart colleges in Lahore. The three dayevent will feature 20-30 minute creativeperformances by LUMS students, andwill attract considerable press and mediacoverage.

LUMS Annual Play 2010

An annual play will be organized in Feb-ruary 2010 to put forth the best per-formers and technical experts thatLUMS has to offer. The play, which willbe directed by a professional, will run forthree consecutive days and attract an av-erage daily audience of 1000 people fromall over Lahore. Much press and mediaattention will be attracted by the event,which will be extensively advertised.

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The fact that the debating soci-ety acts as an agent that lendsvoice to issues of all spheresand natures, is what we’re mostproud of at DRUMS. It isn’t onlyfeisty battles of words and witthat the Debates and RecitationSociety at LUMS (DRUMS)teaches, but we also strive to in-culcate a profound sense of selfconfidence in an individual. Oureminent and dynamic societyprovides the ideal platform toyoung debaters and publicspeakers to exhibit their talentand voice their opinion on per-tinent world issues.

The academic year 08-09 hasbeen coloured by the tremen-dous achievements of DRUMSand our assiduous members.

LUMS IV

DRUMS takes pride in the factthat the LUMS Inter-Varsity wasthe first debating tournament inthe local circuit to introduce theBritish Parliamentary format ofdebating. Over 60 teams, fromthe most reputable educationalinstitutes from all across Pakistanparticipated in the LUMS Inter-Varsity Debating tournament2008. The three day event wasa roaring success, marked byfiercely competitive debates onsignificant topics of political andsocial concern, adjudicated byrenowned judges and experi-enced debaters. The organiza-

tion of the tournament in 2008was impeccable and was ap-preciated by all as the most ef-ficiently managed debatingmeet of the season, which pro-pelled us to take the Inter-Var-sity to the next level!

This year, we’re breaking allbarriers and taking that nextstep by taking the LUMS IV in-ternational! This September,LUMS will host debating teamsfrom Europe to Asia for thegrandest debating event thatPakistan has ever seen!

MindQuest

Working up the right mix of en-tertainment and intellectuallystimulating activities is what thedebating society is all about. Soit was only a matter of time thatwe came up with the MindQuestwhich received a spectacularreception from within and out-side of LUMS which would putthe best quiz shows on televisionto shame!

Bilingual Declamation

Another feather in DRUMS’ capwas the unprecedented AnnualLUMS Bilingual Declamationcontest. The unfaltering hardwork put in by our members toresuscitate the dying art of ora-tory paid off, as the contest cul-minated with a riveting finaleappreciated by the audience.

The Olympiad

DRUMS also co-organized thelargest university event in col-laboration, that attracted over1500 students from all cornersof the country; the annual LUMS

OLYMPIAD 2009. This megaand vibrant affair, with its mul-titude of events ranging fromdebates to music, was an in-credible accomplishment for us.It reached out to a larger stu-dent population, augmentedyouth interaction and also en-couraged a diverse range ofco-curricular activities; an inte-gral aim of the society.

International Circuit

The World Universities DebatingChampionship 2008

After a hiatus of many years,DRUMS participated yet againat the biggest showdown; themost prestigious debating eventof the world: the World Univer-sities Debating Championship

2008! One of the few institu-tions representing South Asia,LUMS shone as a rising star inthe tournament after two of itsthree teams broke for the octa-finals.

This year the stage is set for theWorlds’ to take place atAnkara, Turkey, and LUMS isgetting ready to give the Euro-peans a run for their money!

All-Asian Debates

The All-Asians’ 2008 were ahuge success and establishedLUMS (the only semi-finalistteam that wasn’t from Banga-lore), officially, as a force to be

reckoned with in the South Asiandebating circuit, winning acco-lades on team and individualbasis!

Moreover, our DRUMS debatingteams won laurels at variousprestigious local tournaments allyear round. We also repre-sented Pakistan at the ac-claimed UT MARA Internationaldebating tournament 2009 inMalaysia, and did exception-ally well.

Where we’re going with all this

At a time where democracy is afaçade and freedom of speechis afforded to only a certainkind of opinion, DRUMS proudlyupholds the institution’s name byaffecting social change througheffective dialogue, diverseopinions and healthy debate.

Over the next year, we plan togive back to the local debatingcircuit, having benefited from itsince we were schoolchildren.We will be conducting work-shops for debaters and adjudi-cators to enhance the standardof debating in the country byhoning budding talent. Further-more, we are taking on an am-bitious project of organizing anall Pakistan declamation andrecitation event, in the upcomingacademic year and will also bea part of a grander, much an-ticipated LUMS Olympiad2010.

With our promising trackrecord, our ardent membersand the support of our alumni,DRUMS is ready to achieve allthis and much more.

DEBATINGAND

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LUMS Entrepreneurial Society (LES) is the first stu-dent-organized entrepreneurial society in Pakistan.Not only does it offer valuable information, op-portunities and exciting challenges to its members,but also to the Pakistani community at large, sinceit is our responsibility to work towards the generation of a healthilycompetitive and diverse corporate scenario in order to promotethe economic growth of our country.

To achieve the above objectives LES organizes competitions, work-shops and lectures for its members specifically as well as the stu-dents of LUMS at large, in addition to an international conference.

Every year, along with welcoming the blooming flowers of spring,we welcome delegates from all over the country and abroad toLUMS in the highly competitive Young Leaders and EntrepreneursSummit (YLES) to facilitate networking, exchange of ideas and col-laboration with other budding entrepreneurs out there. Under theaegis of YLES, workshops are conducted aiming to equip partici-

pants with the finer as-pects of entrepreneurshipand inculcating in themleadership and team-work. On the other hand,it also challenges themwith the Business IdeaCompetition; which teststheir ability to innovate,

analyze and present a business idea, and the Play-It; an ad-mak-ing competition designed to assess their creativity and compre-hensive knowledge of the product assigned by coming up withtechnically sound advertisement videos and that too within a lim-ited time period. Despite the diversity in these competitions, theSummit provides a holistic simulation of the business environmentby complementing the competitions with networking opportunitieslike a concluding thematic formal dinner. All these events convergeon another point: excellence. The workshops are conducted byhoned experts of their fields. The victors of the Business Idea Com-petition get to lay claim on their trophy only when the gurus of Pak-istan’s business community are convinced of the financial viabilityof their business idea in the Pakistani context. Different companieshave approached us to buy and copyright the ads produced in thePlay-It for their products. The aura at the formal dinner leaves the

delegates nothing less than awestruck. This showof excellence is by no means restricted to LUMSEntrepreneurial Society’s annual hallmark confer-ence.

The teams representing LES in the business management compe-titions at the annual NaSCon at the Islamabad campus of FAST Na-tional University have consistently performed with the sameexcellence. This year at the NaSCon ’09, LES teams bagged the 1stand 3rd positions at the Business Case Competition, the 2nd and3rd prizes for the Business Plan Competition and won the Eco-nomic Plan Competition by a wide margin!This pursuit of excellence is well embodied by the society’s bi-an-nual publication, Enspire. The founders describe it as “a uniquemagazine with a purpose to inspire young and old, all and sundryto imagine, in-novate andexcel in life bysharing withthem stories ofpeople whohad thecourage to takean initiative,pushed them-selves to the limit and are fulfilling their lifelong dreams today”. Thispurpose is being served to date with four successful issues pub-lished.This has been the path so far trodden by this dynamic society atLUMS. It seeks to explore new avenues to mark with its expertise, ex-perience and of course – excellence. Social entrepreneurship hasbeen earmarked as the overarching theme for its activities over thecoming year. In order to continue with its performance and forsuccesses yet to be achieved, it seeks continued support and pa-tronage from its pa-tron at LUMS, Mr.Asad Alam as well asthe business com-munity of Pakistan inthe form of sponsor-ships and partner-ships.

LESFawwad Khan of EP giving critique on Play-It final

LES at NaSCon

Panel Discussion at Enspire Launch

Winners at YLES '09

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About The Society:

Alpha Society is an event management society at the La-hore University of Management Sciences. It is registeredwith the Extra Curricular Office of LUMS as an official stu-dent club since 2000 but has been an essential part ofLUMS since 1995. The Alpha Society specializes in provid-ing regular entertainment tothe ever-expanding LUMScommunity on and off cam-pus. Considered by many tobe the most active societyon campus, Alpha typicallyhas some student entertain-ment activity planned forevery week. Alpha continues to man-age diverse events such asmovie screenings, t-shirt de-sign competitions, high-defini-tion film previews, campusradio shows, outdoor and in-door coverage of internationalcricket and football matches,scavenger hunts and treasurehunts, series’ season premieres, a Rung (colour brawl) festi-val, etc. Some recognized brands have partnered withAlpha over the years such as City FM 89, Lipton, Paktel,OZO Drinks, Moods and Booster Drinks.

About its members

Beginning as a small group of 10 or so people, Alpha Soci-ety quickly made room for itself in the hearts and minds ofnot only its ever growing mem-bers but also amongst the LUMSstudent body. The Alpha Societyis in its true sense a completefamily. And like any other com-plete and wholesome family weare dysfunctional and harmonious,we joke and we get seriousand above all, we fight butwe always love and forgive.It is an honour to be able tocall ourselves a member ofthis unique group, an honourwhich does not depleteafter having left LUMS butrather makes one realizehow truly great it actually is.

ALPHASOCIETY

RadioLUMS is one ofthe hottest and most re-cent societies to be addedto the impressive list ofsocieties at LUMS. Themain media link that theLUMS student body haswith the rest of the world, RadioLUMS is a lot more than justa student run organization. It is the face of LUMS as well asan opportunity to project LUMS as well as Pakistan all overthe world in the best light possible. Besides being a source ofinformation, RadioLUMS provides its members with an amaz-ing opportunity to express themselves. It also serves as an im-mense and extremely valuable source of entertainment.

From recruiting over 50 RJs, managing its own fully equippedradio room as well as transmitting 24 hours a day, Radi-oLUMS has done a brilliant job despite just entering its sec-ond year. We have also had listeners tuning in from across theglobe, with the LUMS alumni being exceptionally active andavid listeners. Our vision and future for RadioLUMS con-sists of recruiting fresh, invigorated and original minds thathave the capacity to think outside the box and push all bound-aries of creativity. From a highly skilled technical team, tomarketing gurus as well as exceptional producers, RadioLUMShas a mind blowing experience to offer to anyone who is will-ing to work hard and have a good time doing it.

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During 2008-2009, the LUMS Chess Club’s focus was on increasing thenumber of its services. The year before, we organized a chess meetingevery month, where the entire LUMS body was invited to the PDC toplay chess free of cost. Its increasing popularity led us to convert themonthly meetings into weekly ones. This year, not only were we regularin providing this weekly forum for chess players, but we also expandedour target audience by keeping chess tutorials at this meeting. It there-fore turned into a forum for those interested in learning the game, ratherthan only for those who knew how to play it. The members of the LUMSChess Club were available in these meetings to teach anyone whowished to learn, be it a student, faculty member or a staff member.In addition, we successfully organized the routine annual tournaments:the Intra-LUMS Tournament, the Faculty vs. Student Tournament, theInter-School Tournament for the Olympiad, and the Board Games Tour-nament. We also ranked the best student players at LUMS who formthe university chess team, which will hopefully participate in the Interna-tional Chess Olympiad in early 2010.Starting from next year, we intend to start an online forum in addition tothe weekly meeting, where the LUMS body can play amongst them-selves around the clock. We also expect to expand the boundaries ofthe Chess Club’s services by organizing and hosting Inter-UniversityTournaments and Championships at a national level.

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ShAR

E-LU

MSShARE is a multicultural non-profit organization that strives to develop understanding of an exceedingly complex world

economic system. ShARE promotes dialogue on local socioeconomic issues through presentations, seminars and con-ferences, globalizing localized issues and therefore, stimulating a ‘shared’ concern within the international community. Itis our long term goal to ‘generate and use knowledge to contribute to a region’s human, social and economic devel-opment.’

ShARE-LUMS in this regard, has been actively pursuing various research projects while also marking its presence in-ternationally through joint presentations, conferences and international visits. Throughout the past academic year, ShAREinitiated a number of research projects and delivered presentations on local economic and social issues of pertinence.

To mark the commencement of activities for the year, a seminar on ‘Alternate, renewable solar energy in Pakistan’ wasorganized by the ShARE-LUMS Energy Network. The seminar highlighted the importance of renewable energy sourcesand how they can be used to ‘fill the energy gap’. Also, strategies to disseminate these resources across the mobile re-gions of Pakistan were also discussed.

A joint presentation through video conferencing on the ‘Global financial crisis and its impact on local economies’ washeld in collaboration with the ShARE-ETHZ network, Zurich. The joint presentation strived to elicit localized impactsof the financial crisis, discussing implications by way of presenting specific cases and predicting the future pathwaysfor Europe and Pakistan. The conference was initiated by the social issues network and was the first of its kind to beheld at LUMS. As a follow up on the joint conference, a project was drafted focusing on the macroeconomic as wellas microeconomic ramifications of the global financial crisis in Pakistan. The project was an initiative of the Macroeco-nomics Network.

A primary research project on the ‘Recruitment patterns exhibited by Pakistan's corporations and banks for skilled labour(Bachelors and higher qualifications) in urban universities’ was also completed by the Entrepreneurship & Innovation(E&I) Network.Work on yet another project commenced in early June focusing on ‘The sanitary conditions and healthmeasures in the slums of Lahore’. Primary research on the project was conducted at Chararh Pind, DHA, Lahore.

However, the highlight of the year’s academic activism remains the ShARE LUMS Bogaziçi students meet, which tookplace in Istanbul, Turkey. The event led to joint presentations between the two networks on ‘Issues of agricultural con-tract systems’ as well as the ‘Economics of disaster management’. The drawbacks and limitations of the currently preva-lent land administration systems as well as land distribution patterns in Pakistan were also discussed. A workshop on therole of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agricultural modernization was also conducted by Professor GökhanÖzertan of the Bogaziçi University which proved to be enlightening for all the attendants. However, the trip was notlimited to academics alone and a lot of adventure and sight seeing accompanied.

For the year 2009-2010, ShARE-LUMS has come up with an exciting calendar of events. The year will kick off witha formal recruitment drive, targeting the crème de la crème of the LUMS community, followed by their assignment todifferent knowledge networks. Upcoming research collaborations include joint presentations with EPFL Switzerland andITB Indonesia, which will continue throughout the first semester. The second semester will mark international visits in-cluding participation in theWorld Economic Conference scheduled to take place in Indore, India. ShARE members dis-playing great enthusiasm throughout the academic year will be nominated to represent LUMS at the event. Yet anotherinternational visit is planned for this year, the details of which will be communicated later. Also, all Inter-network pre-sentations will continue in conjunction with the events mentioned herein.

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Amnesty International (AI)Amnesty International (AI) at LUMS is AI’s official student group that is affiliatedwith AI in UK. Amnesty International works to protect human rights all over theworld. It aims for a world where peace prevails. It was started in 1961 by a singleman and since then has come a long way and is now present in 150 countries withmore than 2.2 million supporters. AI does not support any political or economic ide-ology and this may be what has made it a reliable organization. It has adoptedpeaceful means to counter human rights violations. It writes letters to the concernedauthorities holds peaceful demonstrations, lobbies with government officials andrepresentatives and spreads information about what human rights actually are. Greatstress is laid upon the letter writing as we believe that it is one of the most effectivemeans of making oneself heard.

AI’s student group was launched in LUMS in December 2008 under the umbrella ofthe Law and Politics Society. Since then it has been targeting human rights violationsnot only in Pakistan, but also in other countries. So, by working for/with AI-LUMS, youare essentially reaching out to people world over. It is our small effort to make thisworld a better place.

We started out our campaigning with a protest against the conflict in Gaza followedby a 24-hour vigil to show solidarity with the victims of war crimes. Petitions weresigned and sent to governments of Israel, Palestine, Egypt, UK and US asking themto take action against these grave human rights violations. Next in line was ourCounter Terror with Justice Campaign; the agenda was to put an end to the War onTerror and to actualize a peaceful end. To achieve this objective, a “checklist” wasprepared by AI for Obama’s first hundred days, which included among many otheractions, closing down Guantanamo Bay, ensuring fair trials for its detainees and end-ing impunity. Postcards were signed and then sent to President Obama. Other thanthat, cards were sent to the families of these detainees to let them know that they arenot alone in this struggle. We particularly took up the case of Masood Janjua andFaisal Faraz who have been missing since July 2005.

Women rights are another issue that remained our focus throughout the year. Westarted out with sending messages of solidarity to activists in Iran fighting for womenrights. It was followed by a campaign on violence against women. We took up thecases of Tasleem Solangi who was “fed” to dogs by her husband on a mere suspi-cion of her having an affair, and Shahnaz Bibi who was burnt alive by her husband.Appeals were made to Prime Minister Gillani to take immediate action against thecriminals and to make sure that women feel protected. We received a prompt replyfrom the prime minister’s office that chief secretary punjab had been called upon tolook into the cases. Up till the recent news, the Supreme Court has ordered an inves-tigation into the Tasleem Solangi case and has also suspended the officials who werepreviously working on it. Our last action, so far, for women rights was a protestagainst flogging of a 17-year old girl in Swat.

Keeping in mind the military action in Swat, we started out an awareness move-ment, which is our latest campaign. Fliers were distributed that had a detailed accountof what was happening in Swat as observed by AI’s researchers. Also, funds wereraised for IDPs by staging a play “A Palestinian Tale” which was a representation ofwhat a family goes through in war afflicted zones. Since human rights violations inEastern Myanmar are of similar nature, we took up that campaign as well. A docu-mentary was shown to raise awareness about the issues faced by people in EasternMyanmar because of the government officials and post cards were sent to the gov-ernment with appeals to address these issues promptly.

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PLUMSPublications @ LUMS (PLUMS) is the society in-charge of over-seeing all student–run publications at LUMS. In the academic year2008/09, PLUMS was successful in providing several of its proj-ects to the LUMS student body. Like every year, the freshmenwere welcomed to LUMS through the ever popular, ‘Unofficialguide for the freshmen’. The guide served as an easement intolife at LUMS for the freshmen, and gave them access to informa-tion invaluable in steering them through their upcoming four/fiveyears.

PLUMS also published two issues of its quarterly magazine ‘Lu-minaire’, which offers a student’s perspective into various aspectsof life at LUMS. Both issues were greatly appreciated by the stu-dent body and the faculty, and were sold out within a day. PLUMSwas also instrumental in bidding a fitting farewell to the graduat-ing batch through its annual yearbook. Based on the theme of‘Once upon a time’, the yearbook was an ideal commemorationof the contribution made to LUMS by the graduating batch, andwill be cherished by the graduates for a long time to come.

(Publications @ LUMS)

Luminaire

The LUMS Art Society is recognized for its commitment to promoteand inculcate artistic and aesthetic excellence amongst the LUMScommunity. In an environment of business ideas and competition itprovides a platform for creative expression and apprecia-tion. Over the last academic year we under-took many activities some ofwhich are listed below:

• An art exhibition “EX-PRESSIONS” exhibiting thework of Dr. Kinza from theACF Department.

• Another art exhibition “Ex-perience Art”, which was amega event of the arts society,exhibited the works of all the membersof the arts society and also some from othermembers of theLUMS com-munity

• NOWPDPexhibition: Thiswas collaboration between LCS, AISEC and the Arts Society done foran NGO, for the benefit of special children. The event included chil-dren preparing art work and the exhibition ofthat art work.

• Trip to NCA: This was arranged to ex-pose the LUMS community interested in artto the art work of one of the best artschools in Pakistan. Definitely aneye-opener and veryhelpful in gettingcontacts for futureworkshops in additionto ideas for differentart techniques.

• Trip to GIKI: LUMS ArtsSociety participated in the GIKI Art Gala and wonpositions in 3 out of the 4 competitions. Anachievement by the LUMS students!

• An art carnival which was held for the first time in LUMS. It hadall arts stalls, art games, live sketching and works of vari-

ous artists were put

on sale. While continuing with its tradition theLUMS Art Society plans to expand its ac-tivities over the coming years, both in termsof scope and variety. Besides the exhibi-tions, Reality, 3D, and Beyond LUMS thathave previously been organized, as wellas the workshops held, we would like toorganize trips to different locations for

landscaping, launch the art society web-site and publish a magazine that would

showcase, as well as promote, art at LUMS.Some of the planned future events along with

their details are listed below:

• Mega Ex-hibition: Anexhibitionof artwork bya r t i s t s

from amongst the LUMS community. Includes paintings, sketches,photography, poster design, graphic/digital art, as well as some ex-ceptional three-dimensional work by artists from art schools, includingNCA, BNU, Indus Valley, and Punjab University etc.

• 3D: An exhibition of three-dimensional art work by artistsfrom amongst the LUMS community. Includes origami, jewelry, hand-icrafts, sculpture etc.

• Workshops and lectures: The list may include but is notlimited to jewelry making, pottery and sculpture, modern art, sketchingand drawing, water colour, oil painting, origami, paper making, floral art.It is the responsibility of the arts society to hold such workshopsto teach the LUMS community what they might be interested inas far as art is concerned. In the coming academic year alone,we plan to hold 4 workshops.

• Inter University Art Competition: This is an initiative the arts soci-ety plans to take next year. As one of the most prestigious univer-sities in Pakistan and known for its student activities, we have aplatform to hold this event and promote the name of LUMS in thefield of art across universities and the art community of Pakistan in

general. This would be a competition where art and creativity indifferent mediums would be promoted.

• Faculty Competition: In view of the great success of Dr.Kinza’s exhibition last year, in the coming year we will be or-ganizing a fun art competition exclusively for the faculty to pro-mote and showcase the art talent present in our faculty.

For more information you can contact us at arts@lums.edu.pk

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SPADESSPADES is a relatively new society, aimed at the promotion of science and engineering. Since the School of Science and Engineering(SSE) was launched this year,the society had a busy time, with three major events taking place one after the other.

Cancer Awareness Campaign

SPADES celebrated cancer awareness day at LUMS with an elabo-rately planned campaign. Ms. Fatima Khwaja, a visiting profes-sor at LUMS SSE and also a Junior Research Scientist at ShaukatKhanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, assisted the members of thesociety in making this event memorable. The campus was deco-rated with banners and posters. A desk was set up outsidePDC where pamphlets were handed out, which outlined thecommon types of cancer,their symptoms and what can be done

to reduce the chances ofgetting them. T shirts,cancer bands and other ac-cessories were also sold,the proceeds of whichwent for the welfare ofcancer patients at Shaukat

Khanum Hospital. Moreover,adonation box was set up where students donated generously.At another desk, art supplies were provided to students/fac-ulty members to make get well soon cards for young cancerpatients. Students participated in this activity enthusiasticallyand very soon piles ofcards with impressiveartwork as well asencouraging mes-sages could be seenall around.

A seminar was held by

Ms. Fatima which ex-plained what exactly can-cer is and how itdevelops. She went on todescribe different typesof cancers which arecommon in Pakistan. Fur-thermore, she outlined thecommon everyday practices and chemicals which can cause can-cer and advised students on how to avoid their use. She espe-

cially elaborated on howsmoking is a leading cause ofcancer and gave statisticalevidence which shockedmany in the audience.

The seminar was attended bysome very special guests: former cancer patients from ShaukatKhanum who had recovered from the disease. At the end, theywere introduced to the audience. The patients included childrenas well as young adults. Each of them had a story to share: aboutwhat they went through when they were diagnosed and howthey were treated. All of thempraised Shaukat Khanum for sup-porting them financially as well asemotionally in their struggleagainst this disease. The audi-ence was touched by their brav-ery. The day ended with a dinner at the Executive Dining Hall forthe guests.

Educating and Raising Awareness

Donating money at the Shaukat

Khanum Donation Box

Students getting brochures from the

information desk

Students making get well soon cards

Seminar by Ms.Fatima Khwaja

Cancer patients at the seminar

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MATLAB ka Matlab Kia?

With the creation of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering,an entirely new field of academia has been ushered into LUMS.The students of the first batch were taught entirely newcourses, never taught before at LUMS. Even the three Calculuscourses were different from those taught to the student inSHSSL and SDSB. One of these new courses was Problem SolvingUsing Computers (CS102), which was taught to the SSE class inthe Winter Quarter. The course was taught by none other thanDr. Arif Zaman and Dr. Sohaib Khan. The course was aimed at usingcomputers to solve real-life problems and model complex situ-ations and scenarios, e.g. ant behavior and chemotaxis in sim-ple bacteria. The course was mainly lab and project-based, witha four-hour lab session every week, and a three-week long proj-ect at the end of the course. The language used throughoutwas MATLAB, a computational programming language used by

scientists and engineersworldwide.

The 10 best projectswere also recognized,with awards being givento the top 3. The eventwas attended by most

of the Computer Science faculty, as well as other faculty mem-bers. Once the course was completed, the instructors con-ceded that the quality ofthe final projects wasastounding and well be-yond anything they hadexpected. Noting this,SPADES organized anevent ‘MATLAB ka matlabkia’ which showcased thebest projects submitted at the end of CS102. The event washeld in the PICIC Auditorium, and the Chief Guest was Dr. AsadAbidi, former Dean of LUMS SSE. The projects were judged by Dr.Arif Zaman, Dr. Sohaib Khan and three graduate students fromthe Computer Science department. Approximately the best 40projects were showcased, and a few of the projects were evenrecognized for their idiosyncrasies or less-than-serious out-put.

The event kicked off with a laugh, as the audience listened hard,trying to make sense out of what Faryal was saying, which wassoon revealed to be nothing more than an extract from a ran-dom text generator submitted by one of the students! The au-dience was given an overview of the projects via a projectorscreen. Not all the projects were run, however; some wereshowcased by snapshots and videos of their output. The cre-ators of the top 10 projects were invited on stage and asked toexplain their projects themselves.

The best project undoubtedly was that made by Imran Sajjad,who made an astounding tree generator. The generator couldgenerate five to six different trees, and the level of detail,down to the last leaf, was simply amazing. Combining this withthe maker’s brilliant aesthetic sense, we had some extremelybeautiful and realistic trees made in MATLAB. Even though theproject was amazing, it took MATLAB over 10 minutes to render,so snapshots of the generated trees were displayed insteadof rendering them during the event.

Other projects in the top 10 included Anique Akhtar’s Space Im-pact, Salik Nadeem’s Nokia Snakes, Muhammad Usama’s randommaze generator and AsadullahNaweed’s Shoot Out amongmany others. Apart from theTop 10 awards, a number of hu-morous ‘awards’ were alsogiven out, like the award forthe most blank lines of code, themost sleep-inducing output, most elaborately commented codeand most irritating output among others. These awards weregiven out at regular intervals, and thus helped to lighten the at-mosphere and bring even wider smiles on the faces of the au-dience.

Overall, the event was a huge success and the faculty memberswho attended the event said they were very impressed withboth the quality of the projects as well as the organization ofthe event itself. The students who attended it also lauded theorganizing team, and even students from SHSSL and SDSB werevisibly impressed. SPADES hopes to continue this tradition withthe projects of the SSE Class of 2013 (if they are good enough!).

Hosts conducting the event

Audience consisting of facultymembers as well as students

Senior Project Exhibition 2009(SPROJ ’09)

Senior Project Exhibition (nicknamed SPROJ) is a showcase of theSenior Projects of the Computer Science and Computer Engi-neering majors at LUMS. It also aims to highlight and appreciatethe world-class research conducted in the LUMS CS research labsby the faculty and the research associates (RAs). LUMS boastsan exceptional Computer Science faculty and student body, andthis exhibition, attended by the LUMS community as well as peo-ple from the corporate community, is an opportunity for themto share their excellent work.

This year’s SPROJ was bigger and better than ever before. Con-ducted in the galleries of the LUMS Academic Block, this year’sSPROJ sought not only to bring many months’ hard work to lightbut also to provide a recruiting ground for the IT firms in thecountry to select the best and the brightest in the field. Theexhibition was attended by the LUMS faculty, students (partic-ularly CS & Math majors and students from the SSE pioneerbatch) and members from the corporate community. Among themore noted visitors were Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan (Ex-Vice Chan-cellor,LUMS), Dr. Arif Zaman (Professor,CS & Math), Dr. Sultan Sial(Associate Prof., Math); Dr. Sohaib Khan (Asst. Prof. CS), Dr. Sha-hab Baqai (Head, Assoc. Prof., CS), Dr. Naveed Arshad and Dr. Ja-hangir Ikram.

To add visuals to the event, all exhibitors were provided withlarge display LCDs to facilitate and enhance their showcase. Also

a permanent feature of theevent was a stupendous FoodCourt, which was set up in theCentral Courtyard of the Aca-demic Block which featuredPizza Hut, Dunkin Donuts, Pa-

paya Dog and Gelato Affair,among others. This foodcourt proved to be a great re-lief for people tired of PDC,providing everything fromburgers and pizzas to ice-cream all in one place.

But the main attraction of the event was the projects (whatelse could it be?) This year’s SPROJ saw some awesome projects.From a Cellular Remote Control System to software for thepreservation of the classical Mughal art, the projects demon-strated the remarkable creativity and innovative thinking of theCS/CMPE people in particular and the LUMS academic body in gen-eral. Following is a brief overview of the showcased projects.

SMS-based Remote Control System

Presented by Ahmad Warraich from the batch of 2009, the proj-ect deals with talking to yourhome appliances via SMS. You canuse the system’s “Central Unit” byassigning it a cell number and sim-ply SMS-ing to the number to op-erate the devices connected. Itcan deal with 14 to 16 devices andis independent of geographicalboundaries; after all it’s an SMS.Originally designed for security systems, it can even be usedby home users.

Remote Surveillance and Control (RSAC)

Showcased by Ahmad Omer,HassamRaja, Zohaib Akhtar and UsamaAhmad from the Batch of 2009, thisproject puts your home securityand devices on your fingertips.This project makes use of SMS toalert you about any intruderthreats at your residence. A majoremphasis of this project has beento minimize the costs as much aspossible. It uses 2 webcams andappliance control hardware and costs a maximum of Rs 5000/-.

Conservation of Mughal Art

Done by Ali Ahmad (CS ‘09), this project seeks to revive and pre-serve our Mughal Artistic Heritage. The software uses symme-tries to reconstruct old Mughal Art by removing blemishes from

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Guys from Dunkin Donuts

At the Pizza Hut stall

Ahmad sharing his ineffable

wisdom with curious minds

RSAC

lmages using data from other symmetric parts of the images.The software can also extract digital vector art from the paint-ings.

SM3DP (Structure from Motion, Display for 3D Percep-tion)

Carried out by AbubakarUmer, Ahsan Dar and SaadKhawar,from the LUMS batchof 2009, with Dr. Sohaib Khanas the advisor,the projectaims to develop a PerpetualUser Interface for comput-ers – machine’s ability to imitate human senses. The example il-lustrated in the exhibition used one webcam to capture headmovements and change the 3D scene on the display accordingly,simulating real-world vision!

Non-Rigid Structure from Motion

Carried out by Ijaz Akhtarfrom the Computer VisionLab, this project involves theextraction of the 3-D struc-ture of the non-rigid i.e.moving soft objects fromthe videos shot by singularcameras. The technique is amajor breakthrough in the field and has wide applications in theanimation and gaming industry.

Wavelet-based Video Compression

Carried out by multiple research associates from the MultimediaLab at LUMS, this Video Compression codec lets users “zip”videos to a set of low-resolution blurred files and send themover networks and then reconstructhigh-quality videos at the receivingend.

This year’s SPROJ also featured theiRaffles’ Apple Education Drive 2009in collaboration with SPADES. For theentire day, iRaffles staff showcasedsome of the tiniest iPods, coolestMacBooks and stunning iMacs. Theyattracted a lot of crowd from within the LUMS community.

All in all, this year’s SPROJ was a great success.

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MacBooks, iPods and iMacs: stealing the crowd

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EmergencyLUMS now has a fully operational Emergency Medical Servicessystem set up and managed entirely by a dedicated group ofstudents on call around the clock, seven days a week to ensurethat any emergency situation requiring immediate lifesaving in-tervention is provided for.

Trained through a rigorous fifteen day programme by the Pun-jab Government’s Rescue 1122 personnel, the first batch of cer-tified Medical First Respondents (MFR) began operations on theLUMS campus in the winter quarter 2008-2009. They aretrained in first aid techniques to handle cases ranging from heartattacks and choking to spinal injuries and fractures. Confidencecomes with having received expert training and practice.

Any phone extension in LUMS dialing 1122 will make a callstraight to the EMS office located in the sports complex. Emer-gencies include injuries and severe illness that require immedi-ate medical attention. An MFR will reach the patient within 6-7minutes, and conduct a thorough physical exam, to assess thepatient and then attempt to stabilize his condition, and call anambulance if need be.

A group of around 10 students juggle their academic and extracurricular life at LUMS while keeping the EMS system function-ing, and even expanding. Every quarter, the existing EMS teamconducts an EMS course, usually on weekends, to further trainother students and even staff members. A small number are al-lowed into this course teaching basic lifesaving techniques andproper etiquette for an MFR, followed by frequent testing oftheory and rigorous practical evaluations. There is a strong em-phasis on a certain standard of performance, the right attitude,and attendance, for this course and its teachers carry with thema huge responsibility – that of attempting to save patients’ lives.

The LUMS community also looks up to its EMS giving them therecognition and respect they deserve for their efforts. Apprecia-tion from patients and their families themselves is an importantfactor helping them feel good.

EMS is now an active part of the University, in attendance atevery sports tournament and match played by LUMS teams, (es-pecially rugby matches, where minor injuries and nosebleedsare a frequent occurrence, but also respiratory distress and inone case, a serious neck injury). An EMS member also accom-panied the LUMS Sports Team to a recent event in Turkey.

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Given that they are pioneers of the EMS in LUMS, theyalso have to work towards raising awareness about the na-ture of their services, which is to respond to life threaten-ing emergencies. They find it funny that students willsometimes think of them as a substitute for doctors, askingfor injections, or show them month old injuries.

However, they take it all in good stride, and continue towork with a selfless dedication. Anyone who joins EMS hasthe common motive of wanting to provide communityservice, learn new skills and provide social services withintheir capacity.

This has been is the first such kind of initiative in a Pak-istani university, and the LUMS EMS is actually also thefirst certified team to receive training as MFRs by Rescue1122. The LUMS EMS wants to help establish the samekind of programme in other universities, and future plansalso include extending services to the surrounding area ofDHA in collaboration with 1122.

The EMS team is currently raising funds for an ambulanceto be parked in LUMS at all times, and be driven by EMSpersonnel themselves in case of an emergency requiringtransport to hospital.

Community service has been rendered a new meaning atLUMS with the EMS. Their motive is a selfless one, echoedby their 1122 instructors, and an inspirational message toevery newcomer who joins the EMS classes, as put by in-structors Zubair and Jamal:

‘If we can save one life, then every effort we make is worthit.’

Note: To help raise funds for the LUMS EMS ambulance,support is welcome. Please contact Zubair Anis Ahmed,10020001@lums.edu.pk, 0332-8400542 or visit the EMSwebsite at http://ems.lums.edu.pk

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2009 has seen an incredible growthfor the National Outreach Pro-gramme (NOP). The number of ap-plicants applying through the NOPstream reached 5000 this year. ThePreliminary Evaluation Test was con-ducted for 3000 shortlisted candidateson June 06, 2009 across 12 cities ofPakistan namely Lahore, Rawalpindi,Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi,Hyderabad, Sukkur, Faisalabad, Gu-jranwala, Gilgit and Skardu.

The top 300 candidates were invitedto attend the Summer Coaching Ses-sions at LUMS. This year, 136 studentshave been admitted to undergradu-ate programmes at LUMS throughtheNOP stream. This accounts for anunprecedented 20% of the total un-dergraduate student intake.

Another achievement for the pro-gramme this year has been the grad-uation and placement of its fourthbatch. NineNOP scholars graduatedthis year, making it a total of 29 grad-uates to date. AhmadMujtaba, AsimJahangir and Amirali Rajani havebeen recruited by prominent compa-nies namely, Procter and Gamble,UBL and Bank Al-Falah. Another

NOP student, Adeela Sarfaraz, wenton a fully funded exchange pro-gramme toAustria. Furthermore twoof our 2008 graduates, Sami UllahKashif and Afeef Naeem, have beenoffered admission to Georgia TechUniversity and Ohio State Universitythrough the prestigious FulbrightScholarship.

Once again, we received very gener-ous contributions from a variety ofdonors, ranging from corporate en-tities to LUMS alumni. We are ex-tremely grateful to all our donorsand would also like to thank the BScclasses of 2006 and 2009 and MBAclass of 1999 for their philanthropiccontribution to the NOP fund.

We realize that in order to makepeople avail the benefits of the NOPit is necessary to get the message acrosswhere it is needed the most. Apartfrom various public awareness cam-paigns, community involvement is animportant tool to achieve this goal.One of the major developments inthe extension of the NOP this yearhas been of the involvement ofNOP scholars who are currentlystudying at LUMS. Most of these stu-

dents voluntarily went to the top col-leges of their native cities (likeD.G.Khan, Mardan, Peshawar, Okara,Multan etc) and encouraged the stu-dents of these institutions to comeforward and make the most of thisopportunity.

Since its inception, the National Out-reach Programme has remained trueto its mission, facilitating and recruit-ing promising students who lack ade-quate financial resources. Throughthe remarkable success of the Na-tional Outreach Programme, LUMShas been able to build a student com-munity that is economically, geo-graphically and culturally diverse andhas a nationwide flavour to it ratherthan one that is regional.

The immediate challenge for LUMS isto make theNational Outreach Pro-gramme sustainable by generatingscholarships for NOP scholars withthe help of alumni and other sociallyresponsible individuals and corpora-tions. Together we will be able tobring a much desired change bypreparing future leaders of Pakistan.

By Hassan Pervaiz

The LUMSNational Outreach Programme

T h e L U M SNational Outreach Programme

Name ______________________________________________________________________________________

Designation _________________________________________________________________________________

Company __________________________________________________________________________________

Business Address _____________________________________________________________________________

City ________________________Country ____________________ Email _______________________________

Tel: ________________________ Fax: ________________________ Cell: _______________________________

I/My Company would like to create a named endowment for two NOP scholars in perpetuity.

Benefactor (Endowment for two students) Rs 12,000,000 / $ 150,000

OR

I/My Company would like to sponsor one/more _________ (please mention number) NOP scholar(s) as a

Patron (for full program) Rs 2,400,000 / $ 30,000

Guardian (for 2 years) Rs 1,200,000 / $ 15,000

Supporter (for 1 year) Rs 600,000 / $ 7,500

Friend Any amount

The payment is being made through*

LUMS Website Transaction # _____________________________Bank Draft # ______________ Bank_____________________Cheque # ______________ Bank_____________________Wire Transfer Bank details _______________________________

* Please note:

A complete form should be sent to LUMS for reference

The payment can be made in half yearly installments

LUMS is exempt from income tax under Section 159 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001

Payment method details are as under:

Donate Online via Visa / MasterCard (preferred option)Please follow the steps

a) Visit LUMS web-site: www.lums.edu.pkb) Select ‘Pay Online’ linkc) In step 1/4, choose “Donors (NOP Donations, Donations for Scholarship Fund, Other Donations)”.d) In step 2a/4, make the relevant choice (‘LUMS Graduates’ or ‘Other Donors’).e) In the next screen of step 2b/4, fill out all the mandatory details (Name, Organization, etc.) and the amountfor your contribution (in Pak Rupees).f) In step 3/4, confirm your details.g) In step 4/4, please enter your credit card detailsh) Once this is done you shall receive a syatem generated e-mail giving you detailsof your transaction.

Cheques/Bank Drafts are to be made in favour of:

“Lahore University of Management Sciences”and sent to the address given below.

Resource Development & Alumni AffairsLahore University of Management SciencesOpposite Sector U, Phase 2,DHA, Lahore Cantt. Pakistan

Tel #: 92-42-3560 8000Ext #: 8236, 4214, 4212, 8181Fax #: 92-42-572 2591Email: giving@lums.edu.pk

Instructions for Wire Transfer:

Direct transfer can be made to the LUMS US$ account:Corresponding BankPay to: ABN AMRO Bank, New York,Account number: 661001031641Routing number: 026009580Swift Code: ABNAUS33Beneficiary Bank:- The Royal Bank of Scotland LimitedSwift Code ABNAPKKAFinal BeneficiaryAccount Number 520216-415Account Title. Lahore University of Management SciencesAddress: 4/5, Cavalry Ground Branch Lahore CanttBank Telephone Number: 92-42-665 5590Bank Fax Number: 92-42-665 5591

For US residents

Information pertaining to Friends of LUMS-USA is given below, which can be used to transfer the funds by the interesteddonors while availing tax benefit. "Friends of LUMS-USA Association", is a tax-exempt entity registered in the United Statesunder Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code, where donations can be deposited on behalf of LUMS.

Bank details are as under;

Title of Account Friends of LUMS – USA AssociationA/C # 200133114Routing # 321171184Bank Name & Address: Citibank West, 451 - Montgomery Street, San Francisco 94104.

Details pertaining to IRS Exemption of "Friends of LUMS –USA Association" are given below;

a. Employer Identification # 03-0412310b. DLN 17053106023012c. Foundation Status Classification 509 (a) (1)d. ID # 31435

Details of Contact person of Association are as follows:

Contact Person: Joannay LaneyAddress: Friends of LUMS-USA Association

155-P Moffet Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

If your organization offers a Matching Fund Program, please inform us so that we can pursue them to match your donation

Alumni Events and ActivitiesByAyesha Azhar

The Alumni Affairs Office is working proactively to keep thealumni in contact with the university and each other for their mu-tual benefit and for the continuing support and advancement ofLUMS.The rationale is to enhance the involvement of alumni inthe university activities.The Alumni Affairs Office is constantlylooking for ways to connect further with the alumni.

In order to bring a structure to the LUMSAlumni Chapters, one initiative taken by the departmentis to organize volunteer alumni teams in various regions to work with LUMS.The aim is to improvethe networking of the alumni in the region and to support the University in placement, marketing,networking and fundraising.The first meeting for the Karachi ChapterVolunteers was coordinatedin March 2009.TheAlumni Office participated in the meeting to give initial team formation and ac-tivity guidelines.This meeting and then subsequent meetings resulted in the establishment of LUMSKarachi Alumni Chapter (LKAC). LKAC has connected with the alumni in the Karachi area andhosted their first event, a successful volleyball tournament on May 30, 2009.The chapter has alsostarted providing support to various functions at LUMS like placements, networking etc. Promi-nent Chapter Coordinators in Karachi are IrfanA Khan,Al Hani K Nizamuddin, Saira Khan,Abdul-lah Akhtar, MuhtashimAshai, Nabeela Naeem, MAnis Sajid and SyedAther Ahmed

Similarly, a meeting for the Islamabad Chapter volunteers was held in April, 2009.The purpose ofthe session was to bring structure to the Islamabad chapter and exchange ideas on activities and pro-cedures for the team.The Islamabad Chapter team hosted a reunion onAugust 2009 and have beenhaving regular meetings and sessions. Prominent Chapter Coordinators in Islamabad are UmerMalik, Saud Mukhtar and Haider Rafiq

Similar alumni chapter teams have been formed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait respectively.This willmake the alumni network self sustaining and also help in the formation of an Alumni Associationteam structure in the future. Chapter Coordinators in SaudiArabia (KSA) are SomiraTariq Soomroand ShafaqTariq Soomro while in Kuwait Ali Maaz, Khwaja Faisal and Ammar Muqeet are coordi-nating

Alumni Chapters

Alumni Reunions in the US

In June 2009, a very dynamic group of alumni organized three alumni reunions in NewYork, Seattle and BayArea (Stanford University Campus). Dr.Ahmad Jan Durrani,ViceChancellor and SheikhAli Hussain, Director Resource Development &Alumni Affairsattended these events. A large number of alumni attended these reunions and had agreat time in learning more about their alma mater.

Dr Durrani shared his long term vision and encouraged alumni to help LUMS becomea globally recognized research university.The participants gave their feedback on im-proving several functions at the university.We are really grateful toAli Almakky (MBA1996),Ali Jaffery (BSc 2001), Imran Ismail (BSc 1998),MonaAkmal (BSc 2001), SanaNaveed Khawaja (BSc 2005), Abid Mohsin (BSc 2001), Sanaa K Nadeem (BSc 2007)and many more for arranging these wonderful reunions.We look forward to havingrepresentation of many more alumni in following years.

Besides attending the alumni reunions theVC and Director also met charter membersof (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of NorthAmerica) OPEN in DC,Houstonand Bay Area.This visit helped in firstly introducing LUMS to the US based Pakistanicommunity, secondly in boosting LUMS graduate placements and finally in developinglinkages for future financial support for LUMS

Alumni Reunions in the US

Reunion in NY

Reunion in Seattle

Reunion in US Bay Area

VC meets Alumni in DC

VC meets OPEN DC Members

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Islamabad Reunion

Class GiftsAlumni have always extended their support to LUMS,whether itis in terms of constructive feedback or funding of various LUMSinitiatives.

The following classes have given class gifts to LUMS:

We are thankful to all these classes for contributing generously.LUMS is very proud of their philanthropic spirit.

The Islamabad ChapterAnnual Reunion was hosted at the Islamabad Club on FridayAugust 07, 2009.This is the first time the IslamabadAlumni ChapterTeam organized and hosted this event themselveswhile from LUMS theVice Chancellor Dr.Ahmed Jan Durrani, Director RD&AA SheikhAli HussainandAmnaArshad from theAlumni Office attended. It was a well attended get together.The eveningstarted with Umer Malik, a very active alumnus in the Islamabad Chapter Team, welcoming thealumni on the behalf of the Chapter. He shared the details of the Chapter meetings and invited thealumni to join in.TheVice Chancellor LUMS then shared with the alumni, various updates on LUMSand how their alma mater has grown.The evening ended with dinner. Haider Rafiq, Saud Mukhtarand Umer Malik were the main alumni coordinators for this event.

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Get ready for a blast from the past with oldfriends, teachers and the familiar surrounds at the

LUMS Alumni Annual Homecoming 2009.

IIff yyoouu hhaavveenn’’tt rreeggiisstteerreedd bbyy nnooww……wwhhaatt’’rree yyoouu wwaaiittiinngg ffoorr??RREEGGIISSTTEERR NNOOWW!!

1122tthh ooff DDeecceemmbbeerr,, 22000099!!

IIff tthheerree iiss OONNEE ddaattee yyoouu rreemmeemmbbeerr tthhiiss DDeecceemmbbeerr,, mmaakkee iitt tthhee

1122tthh ooff DDeecceemmbbeerr,, 22000099!!

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Registration Form

Name _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Programme & year of graduation _____________________________________________________________________

Residential Address__________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tel # _____________________________ Email ___________________________________________________________

Company _________________________________________________________________________________________

Designation ________________________________________________________________________________________

Tel # __________________________ Fax # ______________________________________________________________

I will be accompanied by my: spouse/fiance/ee ______________________________________________________

Name of spouse/fiance/ee __________________________________________________________________________

Spouse/fiance/ee also LUMS graduate Yes __________ No ________

If yes, year of graduation _____________________________________ Degree _______________________________

Total number of participants attending the homecoming ________________________________________________

Please find enclosed a cheque*/draft/pay order of Rs. __________________________________ drawn in favour of

“Lahore University of Management Sciences” covering the following: (Please tick)

My registration Rs. 1,500/-

My spouse/fiance/ee’s registration Rs. 1000/-

* Cheques are acceptable only for bank branches in Lahore. For other cities, please send a demand draft/payorder.

If you are accompanied by children, please mention number __________

Send to:

Alumni Relations Office, First Floor, Library Building, Lahore University of Management Sciences

DHA, Lahore Cantt. 54792 Tel # 92 42 35608000, 111-11-LUMS Ext: 4212, 8184, 8181

Fax # 92 42 35725048

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Faisal JanSaba Industriesfaisaljanallawala@yahoo.com

Yasser Bashir is in Lahore trying to run asmall but growing technology servicescompany. He often also tries to fit insquash in his 12-hrs a day, 6-days aweek work schedule, without successand thus losing the inevitable battle ofthe bulge, a little bit more. HajiraKureshi has just finished up this year'sadmissions process at the LUMS SSE.That’s actually her most major updatefor the last 2 years. She is fortunate tobe a part of a great team at this pio-neering venture to build Pakistan’s firstresearch university. They have a cute 4year old daughter Eshaal. Abid Buttand Maheen Rehman just becameproud parents of Daanika Bano. Abid isstill running e2e which Alhamdolillahhas grown leaps and bounds. Maheenis working for IGI Financials. Their eldestdaughter Zaaria is four.

Mohsin Aikal is with Barclays bank. He isHead of Unsecured Assets, Head ofLoans. While Mahwish Gul Aikal is lec-turing Economics for BBA and BSc atthe American College Dubai. Theyhave a 4 year old daughter, Soha.Sadia Sheikh is working as a ManagingEconomist at Experian in London. Herhusband Hasan Amjad has joined ahedge fund, taking a sabbatical fromthe University of Cambridge .They areliving in Cambridge at the moment.Omar and Rahila Chughtai have set-tled down in Toronto Canada with theirthree sons. Omar is currently working forIBM and balances his work-week atclient locations with quiet weekendsspent at home. Rahila is keeping her-self busy by taking care of the threeboys. They can occasionally be seen atsocial engagements. Zainab Latif andAsif Shahid Khan have a new additionto their family, Amani. She and Jibrankeep their hands full :). They still live inNYC. Asif works at Morgan Stanley andZainab is still PhD-ing and teaching atCity University of New York.Noman Noor is enjoying the work life

balance @ IBM. Not much sportsthough ... needs to get that started re-membering the days at SLUMS (Sports@ LUMS). He has been in California(San Franciso) for 10 years now ... lovesit. Noman has a baby daughterAasiyah who is 1 year and 4 months.

Usman Masrur is working as Financeand Procurement Management Con-sultant and is looking after LUMS AlumniOrganization in Canada, living inToronto with his wife, Sadia and daugh-ter, Zara. Umair Shah ever since his mi-gration from the academic world hasfrozen himself in Chicago on track forcapitalistic pursuits. Reliable sourcessay he was behind the Wall Street crashof 2008. We couldn't get direct confir-mation from him since we were unableto locate his little house on the prairies.Until last reports he was still happily mar-ried with a 2 year old daughter Noor.After 5 years in Japan, from hating it toloving it, Naveen Khan has now arrivedin Budapest, Hungary. She enjoys beingin Europe though her husband Nickmisses Asia more ;). Settling in is takinglonger than expected and if all goeswell, she should have the home of herchoice by July. All friends are welcome!At the moment her son Sikander,1.5years old, is taking up most of hertime. Naveen hopes that will changesoon and she can go back to somekind of professional occupation but sheis leaning more towards charity andphilanthropist activities. Afia Nathanielis currently based in New York. Recentlyopened her film production companyZambeel Films in Lahore, Pakistan. Sheis looking forward to making an inde-pendent feature film in Pakistan that ismeant for a theatrical distribution world-wide. If anyone is interested in investingin this feature film or knows someonewho may be interested in investing,please contact her directly. “After all, ifwe don't tell our stories to the world noone else can do it for us." Faisal JanAllawala is still working for his Dad in hisEmbroidery Business bringing out newEmbroidered Fabric Collections seasonafter season. He spends his free timewith his 2 daughters Mariah and Hania.Saadullah Bashir is in Southern Califor-nia these days, pursuing a Ph.D. in Eco-nomics.

Arfat Qayyum moved from Toronto toQatar a couple of years ago, to set upthe Private Banking business for a new

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bank there. Enjoying life in the MiddleEast - especially being close to family.Arfat's son is turning 5 this year and hiswife is also working in Qatar. He spendsmost of his free time with friends and likestaking vacations in Europe. If anyone isvisiting Qatar, drop him a line. It is alwaysnice to catch up with old friends.Shahzad Khan completed his PhD fromCambridge sometime last year. How-ever, he is still an active researcher andhas set up an active collaboration withthe University of Ottawa, secured someresearch funding from the Ontario Gov-ernment, and is basically having a ton offun. Ahsan Khaliq is based in karachispearheading his Dad's UDL DistributionEmpire. Apart from his business his familykeeps him busy at home.

Asif Mujahid(Dada) is in Minneapolisworking for an airline. SalahuddinKhawaja is still at Deloitte, still consulting,still living in New York. Still trying to figureout a way to settle down … ImranAhmed Khan continues to work forCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerceas an IT Project Director in TorontoCanada. Imran and his wife are proudparents of a 2 year old daughter (Sara).He still tries to make it to Pakistan for Bas-ant along with working on his tan in theCaribbean Sea once a year.

Irfan Haqqi continues to work for Ciscosystems in California. He was recently"roped in" and is now happily married. Heis active socially with the Luminite com-munity in California. Faisal Sardar is cur-rently working in New York as Director ofRevenue Management, with GeminiManagement in NYC…. Abbas Raza isworking as Head of North America CreditTrading FVP for JP Morgan in Manhattan.He hates the weather but still managesto ride his motorcycle when it's sunny. Hisboxing career never took off so he staysin shape by fighting with rude NYC taxiand limo drivers who get in his way. Hiswife Anabela is the cool-headed personin the relationship, and is enjoying a suc-cessful career as a Product Controller atthe same bank. Fahd Osman has a newaddition to his family, Aarez Osman whois 5 months old and keeps him and hiswife Saima very busy. He is still in Bostonworking for State Street Bank. SalmanQureshi is working for Friends Provident inSurrey, UK building Online Life Insurancesystems. He has a beautiful wife anddaughter. He has also set up his ownconsulting company Clearnet Consulting(if anyone is interested in IT Consulting

they can contact him).

Sabir Sheikh is based in Lahore manag-ing his family’s Textile Empire. When he isnot minting money he tries to spend timewith his three kids. Asad Farooqi is stillworking for Cisco and living in Bay Area,CA with his wife. In his words “No up-dates, same old man :-)”. SalmanHameed is still working for Turin Networksin California. His biggest concern is hisloosing his hair at incredible pace. Hehas two sons. Mosharraf Zaidi writes forThe News, al-Shorouk in Egypt, and TheFar Eastern Economic Review in HongKong. He advises governments, non prof-its and international organizations like theUN and EU on public policy and politicaleconomy. He was blessed to have hadthe opportunity to perform the Hajj lastyear with his wife Jawairia. Sons Musaand Isa stayed home with grandparentsand aunts! Khurram Ali is often found jet-setting between his three mansions inBoston, Lahore and Gujrat. The RogerFederer of employment loyalty has beenwith the Pakistani software giant,Techlogix, for the 12th straight year, andcounting. Khurram is also the proud fa-ther of three lovely daughters.

BSc 1998Coordinator

Mahvish RazviVincere Technologiesmahvishrazvi@yahoo.com

Really we alumni from 98 are from StoneAge of LUMS. LUMS has come such along way …Why? A Radio station, labs ofall kinds and categories, programs,events, awards, gyms and courts andwhat not … you name it. Wish I was backin university just for all this. This year I cansafely say that we all have moreachievements, more awards, more greyhair, more fat around our waistlines andof course more kids! Tracking down classmates wasn’t as easy as I had thoughtwhen I volunteered to this. Many are hid-ing under rocks I think! Some very enter-prising BSc 98ers even refused to sharetheir news!

So presenting now BSc 98 whatever’s leftof it, in communicating mode.... alpha-betically unsorted of course:

Starting from Dubai, which is home toseveral of our classmates: Fahd Iqbalworks at an Egyptian investment bank forthe past 2.5 years now. His son Haristurned 2 and his daughter Amaani is now8 months old. He says he's been blessedwith a beautiful happy family and has alot to be grateful for! Fahd Shah works inDubai Chambers of Commerce as aneconomic researcher. The move toDubai has given him a chance to see hisfamily who are in Karachi. He says he’senjoying Dubai, slowly taking it in. Also try-ing to learn and practice Arabic. If any-one comes to Dubai please take hisopen invitation to drop in on him with allyour bags and baggage, unless ofcourse he’s packed his baggage andvisiting Pakistan. Mudassir Sheikha alsolives in Dubai and works for a consultingfirm. He got married this past December.Jawaad Chawla too has recentlymoved to Dubai to join Standard Bankfrom Standard Chartered Bank in AbuDhabi. He’s enjoying Dubai after the earlyadjustment period to Dubai traffic andconstruction zones. His wife Tania of Mrs.Me fame has finally convinced him tohire a personal trainer who drives him likea slave.. Hopefully results will ensue. Mov-ing on to the US of A: Imran Moin is set-tled in Sacramento, CA with his wifeNicole and their 1 year old daughterNoor. Tired of being on the road everyday, Imran says he finally left DeloitteConsulting last year (after 6 years ofbeing with the company) and joined thehealthcare company Blue Shield of Cal-ifornia in Sacramento, CA where he is amanager in their Business Transforationand eBusiness Department.

Imran Ismail works as a marketing ef-fectiveness consultant for a media andadvertising agency in New York. He livesin Manhattan. Omer Rana is still in CA.He now has 2 children Haider 5 andShahmeen 1.5. On the job front, he'sstarted a consulting firm sometime backand working with a lot of Fortune 500clients.. He too sends an open invitationto all mates. Starting this year he’s part-nered with Samir Sheikh and Rafay fromB97 to focus on government contractsand still continuing with that. This brings usto Samir Sheikh. He left his position atAvaya in search of a larger success andis working on a US public sector startup.He is happily married to Rafia and has a2 year old son Raed. Saad Khawajaand Sophia Saad are in Dallas. Saad isworking as a Application Architect at In-tuit, Dallas, Texas and Sophia is looking

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after their home and 3 kids. I hearSophia is a great cook. Everyone is USAconsider yourself invited ;) Rizwan Aftabsays he’s the same as last year. I hopehe changes a bit this year. Adil Sher-wani has wrapped up his MBA, finallyreturning to Seattle where he says he’llget to reunite with his band TMB andhopefully finish up their much-delayedfirst album! Hurry up Adil we’re all tuningin. Adil also insisted that this be an-nounced to Vomic Nur, after 11 yearsof silent bitterness at being beaten outfor the BSc 98 gold medal,I can finallyexact sweet revenge now that SyedSalik Nur has recently joined my groupat Microsoft... muahahaha!! (j/k Salik :D)Vomic if you are reading this please alsobe informed that I’d personally nuke youbecause after all my failed attempts atfinding you for class notes all I get to do isto pass this threat on!

Northwards in Canada, Shahzad Khan(Doogie) is back on his 24 km bike com-mute every day to work and after thesummer plans to take up cross-countryskiing to cover the same territory over thesnow. Way to go!!! Shahzad and Zebahad their third child in January, HashimMuhammed Khan. Hashim joins his elderbrother Hakan (5) and sister Melike (2) in awonderful loving family. Shahzad hasbeen continuing his research at devel-oping thinking, personality-rich digitalcharacters for games, and has received$300K of funding from the Ontario gov-ernment to recruit a teamat the Universityof Ottawa to support this research. In ad-dition, he is consulting to the Canadianfederal government on Web 2.0 tech-niques to establish knowledge manage-ment standards via his consultancyWhyztech.com. Tehseen Thavar has notmuch to update. I'm STILL in school! I ama professional student, she says. AliHashmi, Javaria and daughter Manaallive in Canada, where Ali is working whileJaveria is doing a Post Doc. In the UK wehave Arshia Ahmedwho says she spendsmost of my time watching cartoons, lis-tening to nursery rhymes and going to toyshops in London. Why? Arshia says it’s acombination of second childhood andher 5month old daughter Zara’s decisivenature. Arshia about time you takecharge. Children quickly turn into mon-sters. Salman Aslam is a managing con-sultant at Capgemini, moving soon backto Pakistan from UK. Nearly ten years withNazish Afraz he says - with two kids,Emaan 7 and Zayn 2. Over to the wilder-ness of Africa: Naureen Madhani lives in

Tanzania with daughter Rida, who’s 5 now.She says she loves it. She’s still working forAga Khan University. God knows where lifewill take her next she says. By the look ofher photographs, I’d say National Geo-graphic Naureen.

Back home, in Pakistan, Abdullah Akhtarand Khursheed Akhtar say there is notmuch to add to their previous class notes.They are still running the family business intextile spinning sector, supplying Chinesespinning machinery to mills all over Pak-istan. Abdullah and Saira are now mar-ried for 7 years and have one son who’s 5years old. Khurshid and Sara are nowmarried for 9 years with one daughter 7years old and son 1 1/2 years old.NomanYaqoob says he’s still up to his neck withwork in textiles here in Karachi. He says hehas two lovely daughters, aged 3 and 1.Nowadays he’s also working towards low-ering his Golf handicap. Well good luckNoman.Waqar ul haq and Amena hadtheir first child, Zayna, in November 2008.Ninety five percent of people agree thatshe resembles Waqar. Poor child. Bothparents hope she grows out of it soon.Waqar continues to work hard in the fam-ily business, and has also gotten involvedwith a budding creative agency in La-hore. He adds that he is currently con-templating having a consistent exerciseprogram of some sort, as the years haveput on a few inches. Waqar join the clubbecause most of us are also doing thesame. Our very accomplished Dr. UmarSaif says Hadi and Ali keep Tehreem andhe quite entertained. His three startups(BumpIn.com, SeenReport.com andChOpaal.pk) are all doing well. Researchcareer at LUMS is going well too he says.He received the Mark Weiser Award andtheCIO technology pioneer award. Con-grats Umar. You do us all proud. Ali Per-vaiz says he is still working in the familytextile spinning business based out of La-hore. He is also involved in real estate de-velopments and the possibility of enteringpoultry industry soon is on the cards. He’smarried to Sara and his family includesMahnoor 3.5 and Hamza 2. Arif JalilPiracha is currently running Nayna Fash-ion House (one of the leading designer la-bels), Evenement (a leading corporateevent management company), andSmartPrep, which is a test preparation or-ganization. He has a son who’s 3, whoapparently drives him crazy. HaleemaSalman and husband Amaar are in La-hore. They now have a beautiful daugh-ter named Mariam in addition to sonRaahym.

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Rest of our classmates preferred not toshare their news, however they are onFacebook so I assume, alive and kicking.Amber and Shahid Masud last seen hol-idaying in London, Haroon Sheikh some-where in the middle east, ArmughanJaved, Faryal Raja and Sumaira Khanin USA. Sabeen Aamier is somewhere inChittagong but no news from her assuch. Noman Sheikh of LUMS longestacademic association fame is well prob-ably lost in the corridors of LUMS still.Khawaja Umar Farooq, KhurramQureshi and Vomic Nur are in UK. UmarMoghul lives in USA but was recentlyseen holidaying in Lahore. Ishaq Burneyis in Australia. I was told Qamar UzZaman is probably somewhere in Lon-don and that Fahad Aqeel should knowmore about his current whereabouts butthen Fahad Aqeel is nowhere to befound. Erum and Omer Ghaznavi, AliyaKhan, Tahir Munir, Khurram Shakeel,Adeel Rafiq exist on Facebook and ap-pear to be doing well. Also seen onFacebook are Fawad Rafi, Bilal AliNawaz, Saad Karim, Syed Ali, YanaalKhan, Ali Anwar, Ali Murtaza andMubarika Aijazuddin.

Of those who have disappeared intooblivion are Suleman Waheed, LuluahHashim, Sadia Hussain, Saadia MariumSheikh, Naveed Zaffar, NaveedAhmad, Nabil Hasan, Yousaf Ahmad,Mehmood Yar Hiraj, Roohi Chaudry,Sadaf, Ali Majid, Usman Rauf, MehnazAsghar, Fahad Aqeel, Zaheer Ali Jafri,Faisal Fareed Rattani, Hasan Hamid,Noor Zahra, Isfandyar Khan, Jahanzaiband Mudheea Hussan and leaving notraces whatsoever.

Fate brought us together some 15 yearsago. Our days at LUMS were no doubt avery memorable part of our lives. I thankthe LUMS Alumni Office for keeping usconnected somehow.

BSc 1999Coordinator

Ameel KhanMelbourne Waterameel.khan@gmail.com

It's hard to believe but it's been ten yearssince we graduated. That means it is re-union time! We are planning one via the

LUMS BSc 1999 Alumni group on Face-book so join in on the discussion andhope to see you in Lahore.

Abdul Mannan Abbasi is working in Lon-don with Riskmetrics. He is happily mar-ried and is no longer missing New York.Adeel Janeed Meer is working in JerseyCity. Adeel Jamil Siddiqui and NadiaHussain are in Washington DC with their 3year old daughter. Adil Paracha is work-ing in the UK as a brand manager forKimberly Clark Europe. He is a proud fa-ther of a boy and two girls. Adnan Bhuttaand Naira Latif Chaudhry have a sonnamed Mikail and a daughter namedAmna. They are both still working at Mi-crosoft. Ahmed Hamidani is working inSingapore. Alefia Lotia and family arequite accustomed to the Texas heat. Thegirls (Zainab & Zahra) are (im) patientlywaiting for the arrival of the newest addi-tion-to-be. In the meantime Alefia is try-ing to catch as many naps as possible(so far not to her satisfaction). Pool,school, and never-ending housework arecausing Alefia to search Craigslist for a'driver' and a desi cook. Aliya Salahud-din is working in London. AmanullahJiffrey Kariapper is at Strategic SystemsInternational (SSI) in Lahore. Amber Riaz isdoing her PhD from Oxford. Ambreen Gi-lani is working with the Poverty Group atUNDP and continues to enjoy living inNew York. Ameel Zia Khan is working forMelbourne Water in Australia. He contin-ues to be an active blogger and youcan read his professional blog at insani-tyworks.org/acme and his personal blogat insanityworks.org/randomtangent.

Amir Ali Jafri is working for Microsoft inSeattle. Aqib Elahi Mehboob recently setup a new broking firm, called Alpha BetaCapital Markets, with his boss from AKDSecurities (Nadeem Naqvi). He now aimsto break into the top five with this newoutfit, but the market has been tough.Things were way easier at AKD! He is hap-pily married with two children: Adil is 6and Areeba is 3. He recently lost weight,his hair, and his moustache! AshabNaeem Iqbal is working for American Ex-press in London. Asif Amjad is working forKPMG Financial Advisory in Riyadh. AsimButt is making art in Karachi. AsimMemon and Mariyam Mansur are bothworking for Microsoft in Seattle. Assed Je-hangir and Tania Tariq have moved tothe Hague. After completing his PhD,Assed has started work at SiemensNetherlands. Tania is a stay at homemom who is usually found cleaning up

after the eternally energetic Ayaan whois 3 and Elaina who is 2. Babar Ghias is inNYC with Rabia and his daughter. He isworking at Credit Suisse. Faisal Wahabcontinues to run his pharma and toiletriesbusiness in Karachi. Faisal Wasey is inKarachi with his wife and daughter.Farheen Lotia is in Karachi with her hus-band and daughter. Farooq MustafaAlavi is working for Standard Chartered inKarachi. Fatima Ashraf has moved backto Calgary, Canada. She is trying to getused to the cold after spending threewarm years in Houston. She is a stay-at-home mom to Ahmed, 5, and Sophia,2. Fatima Muzaffar is living in London.She's busy being a full-time mom to herfour year old son Mikaeel.

Feroze Gulzar is busy playing polo whilerunning his family business on the side.He is married to Hina Khar and theyhave a daughter named Anaya. FuadGhazanfar is working for Nestle in Lahore.Hassan Ali joined Intrinsyx Technologiesin San Francisco and started his careerin business development. He is also in-volved with NASA in San Francisco (intheir human and animal space ventureprogram!). He got influenced by sufias-tic Islam and planning on redoing thetrip to Mauritania to get blessings from a100+ year old sufi shaykh. Hassan Javedis in Redmond. Hina Khar won her seat inthe 2008 elections with a strong majorityand is a special assistant to the PM oneconomic affairs. She is married to Fer-oze Gulzar. Hina Khawar Aslam is mar-ried to Akbar Ahmad and has settled inLondon. They have a wonderful daugh-ter Zara. Iftikhar Rafi is working for a Swissbank in Dubai. Imran Ahmed is takingthe year off to see the world. Junaid BinJahangir is in Edmonton, Canada.Khawaja Bashir Uddin is in Dubai with hiswife (Sana) and daughter (Zaynah). He isworking as Sales Manager for EMS, whichis Blackberry's Partner in Middle East &Africa. Khurram Khaliq Khan is in Lahorewith his wife, Fatima. Kiran Nanjiani is inKarachi, working in the media industry.Maha Ahmed is working towards her PhDin Holland. Mahira Daha and FareedZaffar are both in Lahore. Fareed isteaching in LUMS. Mahvash Ghous (for-merly Akram) is in Dubai with her hus-band, Yusuf, and three kids (a boy andtwo girls). Makhmoor-ul-Hassan is work-ing for Shell in London. Marium Hassan(formerly Naeem) is working for Shell inLondon.Mariyam Memon and herhubby, Asim Memon, are both workingfor Microsoft in Seattle. Marukh Aftab is

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working for Nokia-Siemens Dubai as atelecommunications consultant. Sheand Hasan Muzaffar have a beautifulbaby girl (Zaria). Mehreen Tanvir Butt isin the US. Mehwish Zaman is full-timemom in London. Moazzam Ali Khan isworking for Unilever in London. Mon-azza Aslam got her PhD and is nowworking towards a post-doc in Oxford.She recently had a baby girl, Zara.Muhammad Amaan Akram is workingin London and has two beautifuldaughters.Muhammad Hasan Muzaf-far is working for McKinsey in Dubai.Muhammad Omer Iqbal is still happilymarried and working for Microsoft inSeattle. He recently had a daughter,Zainab. Muhammad Oosman is in Sili-con Valley. Mustafa Zulfiqar Rakla isworking for McKinsey. He and Marziahave a daughter. Nabeeha is going tobe celebrating her tenth wedding an-niversary in August and feels it's hightime she changes her name on thealumni notes to Nabeeha Arif becausethat's been her identity for the last tenyears! She is in Karachi teaching Math-ematics & English Literature at the Con-vent of Jesus & Mary. Her daughter,Iman, is now five and a half; andthough most say she resembles herdad, you only need to talk to her forone minute to know she's like her mom.Nasir Masud Khan is currently workingat eBay, Inc. as a Senior Software Engi-neer. Nauman Akbar is working for Ex-port Flow in Lahore. Neda Mulji is inDubai with Sameer Anees and theirdaughter Alesha.

Nirmal Babar is in Maryland. NoviraSabir is in London busy being a momto her two daughters, Alizeh and Manal,and running a small business of herown, Rusum (www.rusum.co.uk), whichdoes photography and make-up forbrides. Omer Mehmood Asad is cur-rently working for Riverbed Technologyin San Francisco, California. He is hap-pily married to Maira and they wereblessed with a little angel, Aleena, ear-lier this year. He still travels a lot for workand pretends to hate it. And he is stillsurprised when people in BSc classnotes continue to claim that he hasbeen getting job offers from Googleand is rejecting them. Why would he?!Razal Minhas is in the US. Rida Zaidi isliving in London and passed her drivingtest on the first try! She is working withFitch and her past employer, FSA, is dueto be abolished next year. Runaas De-heem is happily married, living in Jed-

dah, and is managing Pantene for theArabian Peninsula region. Saara Salimis busy being a mom in London.Sabeen Pirzada is happily married toAniq Ahmad and is living in the swelter-ing city of Houston TX. She completedher CPA and is working with a public ac-counting firm as a Manager in Tax. Shewishes Uncle Sam would leave herclients alone so that she can havemore time at home! Saif Nomani isworking as a wildlife biologist and statis-tician in sunny Wyoming. He got mar-ried in July. Salman Ahmed is in Londonand has passed his driving test with fly-ing colours! He is currently working withNouriel Roubini to set up a macro advi-sory business in the UK. Salman Khalidis working in a cube for Microsoft inSeattle like many other BSc '99 folk.

Salman Mahbub is based in DC andworking for Sapient. Salman Mahmoodis happily married and living in Texas.Saman Sheikh is working for PBS inChicago. Sameer Mohammad Aneesis working as a strategy consultant withArthur D. Little in Dubai. He is married toNeda Mulji and they have a daughterAlesha (pronounced Ali-Sha). SamirZahid is in Australia with his wife Saira.Sarah Fatima Zaka is working as a de-velopment economist and consultantin Lahore. She has two daughters.Sarah Naeem Qureshi has two boysand is working as a realtor in the DC/Vir-ginia area. Sehr Sheikh is busy with herson Zayaan. Sheikh Mohammad Alimanages Hilal Technologies in Lahore.Shahzad Hasan is working at a quanthedge fund in New York City, focusingat the Fixed Income options world.Shazia Farooq Rahim is in Karachi.Shayan Mehdi Zaidi is in Chicago.Syed Mustafa Bilal is in Seattle and isalso working for Microsoft. Syed SalmanZaidi is at Deutsche Bank in Singapore.Tayyab Rafiq Balagamwala is workingfor his family business in Karachi.UmairJalil is the managing partner at Weband Mobile (WAM) in Dubai. He is hap-pily married and has two children: Ab-dullah, who is currently undergoingcancer treatment at SickKids hospital inToronto for stage 4 neuroblastoma (ab-dullahumair.blogspot.com), andAayan. Usman Waheed is working inBahrain as Brand Manager Coca-ColaMiddle East. He is happily married andhas a daughter named Reem. Usmanis happy to touch base with you onLinkedIn and Facebook. Yasir Ali keepsbusy managing his portfolio of stocks,

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options and ETFs when he is not @work(wink wink). He has finally moved to theCisco campus in Massachusetts andcommutes to work thrice a week. On thefamily front, Sadaf and Yasir are expect-ing their second child and have realizedthat finding the right baby name is waytougher than finding a house! ZeeshanMansoor is working for his family businessin Karachi.

Classmates not included in these notes:Aisha Hassan, Anita ManzoorChaudhry, Hasanat Ahmed Haider,Laila Bushra, Mohammad Rizwan, Mo-hammad Zakria Khan, MuhammadRashid, Muhammad Umer Farooq,Nadia Rehman, Rana Sajjad Ahmad,Shama Saeed, Syed Hasan Hasnat,Syeda Shehrbano Kazim, WaqasAhmed, Haseeb Hadi, andWasif Tanvir.

This is the fourth year we have compiledour class notes online. If you weren'taware that this compilation was hap-pening, you're probably not in touch withthe rest of the class on MyFamily.com oron Facebook. Please do get in touch be-cause we really would like to know whatyou're up to, even if all you give us is aone-sentence update on your life.

BSc 2001Coordinator

Abid MohsinMcKinsey & Co.abidmohsin@gmail.com

The news from around the world is reallybad. It has been especially hard on theBSc 2001 batch. Some of us are savingeverything, including internet bandwidth,so we haven't responded to calls forclass notes. Others have gone into hid-ing, no doubt being chased by theircreditors. The smart, hardworking oneshave blocked off all distractions andkeep looking down on their work desks,probably an instinctive response to tryand keep the paychecks coming. Fewof us have gone green, and they don'twant to be part of anything published onpaper. And then there are those whohave chosen to lead a normal, healthylife. It is their chronicles that we will get toread this year.

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Hussain Shehryar Humayun is.... mar-ried!!! That's fantastic! How awesome! Hiscurrent employer is the Bank of Tokyo-Mit-subishi UFJ Ltd., which if you don't know, isthe 2nd largest financial holding com-pany in the world, by assets. He has beenwith them since May 2006, and is cur-rently in London (why not Tokyo?). His pre-vious employer was Deloitte & ToucheLLP, also in London.Munib Khalid Siddiqiis still single. I'm with you man (in spirit, notliterally). He responded with a wink ;) nextto "single", which means he's living his life.Naaaice! He is working for Accenture inAustin, Texas, since early 2008. Previouslyhe was with AMD, also in Austin, Texas.What's with all the A's? On a personalnote, he says: "I stayed at Abid's place for2 days while I was in San Francisco buthe was too busy to meet me evenonce.” Ali Jaffery is married, working withUnion Avenue Advisors, a hedge fund inNew York City, breaking necks and chas-ing checks. He previously caused may-hem at Aeneas Capital Advisors. In hiswords: "I continue to live and work in NewYork City with my wife. I pretty much spent2008 enjoying married life and trying tosurvive the economic downturn. Duringthe slower periods, I co-authored a bookwith one of my professors from the Rut-gers Business School. The book is titled"HEDGE FUND ALPHA: A Framework forGenerating and Understanding Invest-ment Performance" and is due to comeout in the summer of 2009." Wow! Some-one actually published a legitimatebook.

Maleeha Ali is in London too. She's mar-ried to her employer. No, she's married,and HAS an employer, Lend Lease LLCLondon. She was previously at KPMG LLPLondon. A shout out from her to the restof the gang: "Would love to have a BSC2001 reunion if that’s ever possible!" Fa-rooq Naseer replied saying: "As for theclass notes, I don’t know what to write...it's same old except that I was ditchedby some friends while visiting San Fran-cisco this year ;-)". This seems to be apattern here. Hmmm. Mehr Shah is sin-gle and currently pursuing her MBA atSyracuse University. Go, Mehr, go! Shewas previously involved with the PakistanMicrofinance Network, from 2005 - 2007.Mehr says: "Wishing everyone in BSc 2001the best. We should get together soon!!"Beenish Temur Hassan is married. Is thathow the name got longer? :) She is "work-ing with hubby in the family business,

Globe Textile UK Ltd." Nice! Apparentlyshe is having too much fun, saying: "It'sbeen a crazy magical year full of laugh-ter and travels and Disney and magicshows and meetings and late work nightsand singing and dancing and trips to thepark and loving phone calls back home- I have a one year old beautiful babygirl, Alaya, am still settled in England, andam working with my husband in the fam-ily business, Globe Textile. I would say it'sbeen pretty close to perfect, except thatthe unstable situation back home in Pak-istan has made it impossible to be atpeace. I wish to take up this space topray for our country... let's hope the classnotes next year reflect a picture of Pak-istan that would make all of us glow withhappiness and pride."

Asim Saghir "Jiggar" Sheikh is married,as he was last year. No change there. Hedid add: "Currently running my own fam-ily business in Lahore, did my Mastersfrom Nanyang Technological Singapore.Well, life is going beautiful with my twinsnow eight months old and gettingnaughty day by day. Everything else is al-most the same as last year." Bahut aala.Omer Suleman is currently trading FX op-tions at Deutchse Bank. He was previouslytrading the same at Lehman Brothers,before which he finished his PhD at Ox-ford. He is married with a 1.5 year oldson. Come on people. What's with all themarriages and the babies? No wonderwe have 6.7 billion people in the worldtoday. Farhan Khan wrote a nice longnote for us: "Hi there. Although the busi-ness and market was sluggish yet theyear sped by in a few blinks. It reallyseems only yesterday when I was com-posing this message for last year’s alumniupdate and here I am scribbling downagain. I know 2008 was generally repletewith depression and retrenchment newsbut Alhamdulillah the year proved to bea fruitful one for me. I got promoted toAsst. Vice President, tied the knot and gota chance to visit Zurich – all in 2008. Mar-ital life is proving to be a bit too blissful forme, so much so that I have put on a fewpounds already, hehe, but on a positivenote I am trying to shed some by play-ing squash and cutting down on intake.We have a decent representation of ourclass here in Dubai and every now andthen we meet up at somebody’s placeto catch up and reminisce the old times.Would urge all of you to give a shout ifand when you visit Dubai. I am mention-ing my updated contact details;

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do get in touch whenever you can. ".Sweet dude!

Umair Bashir has been married sinceJuly 2005, and living with his beautifulwife in Seattle, Washington. No matterwhat your wife says, Umair, I think youhave an awesome car. You rock! Umairhas been with Amazon.com since June2005, and was at McFadyen Solutions,in Vienna, Virginia before that. He didMS in Systems Engineering from GeorgeMason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Heelaborates: "After being in the techni-cal track since graduating from LUMS,have finally made the switch to busi-ness side. This transition took a whilefrom a Technical Program Manager atAmazon to a Software DevelopmentManager and now a Senior ProductManager for an Amazon subsidiary:www.WarehouseDeals.com" SyedSalman Jan is single, actively studyingfor his EMBA and working for NAFAFunds as an investment consultant, andsays, "Very bored with my life! Seriously,yaar!" Yes, seriously, yaar :). KhurramMalik wrote to me and said: "I just grad-uated from my second masters atCarnegie Mellon University (the previousbeing the one at the University of Cam-bridge), besides TRYING to completeanother part-time at the University of thePunjab. Employment details includestints at UNIDO and research at a cou-ple of universities, since leaving HabibBank AG Zurich (UAE) for my masters."That's quite a lot of brand names in 2sentences. Impressive! Beenish Pervaizis "working for Nestle and recently gotpromoted as head of the entire juicesportfolio. Simply love my work and thecomplex business dynamics make itboth challenging and exciting. More-over, plan to resume my music lessonssoon, as singing still remains my fore-most passion in life!" Wow, the entirejuice portfolio? That's awesome. SaadAnsari says: "I am awesome. Oh andI'm getting married. By the time youpublish this I will be married. Bundle ofthanks!" Saad has also lost all upperbody mass and accumulated massivelegs, from running marathons and hisdaily 10 miles a day. Crazy.

Abdul Rehman's status is "married". Hiphip hurray! He is currently working atXelleration LLC, in Irvine, California,since September 2007. Enjoying theSouthern California beaches and sum-mer tan. Mmmmm mmmmm. Man-soor Mirza has a full update: "I left my

consulting position at NASA in late 2008to work full-time on my offshore venture,Techtronix, in Pakistan. Since then I'vebeen working out of Lahore and visit myoffice setup in Islamabad every coupleof weeks. Although Techtronix has beendealing mostly with offshore customers,we launched our first Pakistani venturein the form of Starz.pk - a business listingand review website for Pakistan. The sitehas constantly gained tractionamongst users and is now amongst themainstream information portals for find-ing business outlets around Pakistan. Nodevelopments on the marital front yet."Very cool! I played around on Starz.pkand one of the coolest things is thesatellite map view. Was pretty excitedto see the LUMS one :). Amjad Hussainis also married. Helping save the worldat Microsoft Corporation, in Seattle,Washington, since 2001. Isn't that whenMicrosoft released Windows XP? Amjadjoins a company and good things hap-pen. Usman Jamil is "still in the midst ofhis struggle to become a competentand successful litigating lawyer in La-hore. He is an associate at Raza KazimAssociates where he has been workingnow for the past 8 years ever sincegraduating from LUMS and has a li-cense to practice in the High Courts. Hestill has a passion for sports and oftenwatches and plays basketball, football,tennis and golf whenever he can findthe time! He is happily married to hishigh school sweetheart Zahra, and hastwo children mashallah - a girl, Raaya,aged one and a half and a new addi-tion - a boy - Raayid, born in the firstweek of June." Life is good!

Saadia Khilji says: “After graduationfrom George Washington University in2004, I worked as a systems analyst atMetropolitan Washington Airports Au-thority. In 2006, I moved to Connecticutwith my husband where he started hisresidency in psychiatry. Now he is in hisfinal year and we have yet to decide ifwe will continue to stay in CT or movesomewhere else within the States afterhe graduates from the program. Nocomplaints with Connecticut so far. Iam thoroughly enjoying my job. Man-aging high profile and multi million dol-lar business/IT initiatives for TravelersInsurance; I received my project man-agement certification last year. Besidesthat I am learning the violin, followingtennis tournaments and skiing. I havecertainly found many activities that Ienjoy very much”. Kamran Ahsan is

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in Washington DC working for CapitalOne. He is a business manager, Strategyand Analysis, which means that he tellsa bunch of analysts to come up withfancy charts with pretty colours andround numbers. He adds: “Due to mywork over the last 5 years, I have had achance to observe up close and livethrough the worst global financial crisesin quite a while. This continues to be anunprecedented learning opportunityand exciting time for personal/profes-sional growth.” Quite a while? Try “sincethe dinosaurs went bye-bye” :). So, truthbe told, this is all I got from the batch thisyear. Boo :( Granted we were a batch ofabout a 100, but this response is prettyweak. So I decided to write about morepeople that I know of. Azmat Ali Pashaand I are actually roommates now. He isworking as a product manager atGoogle, loving it, and spending timemeandering around the streets of SanFrancisco. Single (come on, now howcan a married man come live with me,please) and happy. Cheers mate! Fa-tima Kardar and Ali Alvi are married, inMicrosoft, and from what I can tell, hav-ing a totally awesome time in Seattle. Alvionly gets serious when you talk to himabout Microsoft Explorer, and Fatimanever gets serious. Sara Tahir is also in Mi-crosoft, kicking it in high gear in the Zunedivision. iPod + iPhone killer? Only the fu-ture will tell. Married to a Loomy, HassanJaved. Haseeb Ahmed Shaiekh is alsoat Microsoft, also in Seattle, Washington.He spends his time playing squash, andsquashing all the people who now reportto him at Microsoft :)

Ali Aziz I ran into in London. He was withAmazon.com in Phoenix, Arizona, buthas moved out of the US and is enjoyinglife in Europe. Ahmed Khan I owe anapology to. I was in Pakistan, and wewere totally going to meet up. But I hadsome personal things come up andnever got to touch base with him. I apol-ogize. Promise to come over and say hinext time. Also, congratulations on get-ting married! Gibran Ali Malik is workingat Proctor and Gamble in Lahore. Hegoes to the gym twice a day, everyday,and is looking ultra fit. People usually dothat just before they get married, I think.Saad Tawab Khan Rao and I becamefriends on Facebook, but I have no cluewhat he's up to. His profile says that he'smarried, in Karachi, has a beard, and"enjoying today's cricket match". I knowthat Asjad Yahya and Umair Tariq bothmoved to the UAE, Asjad from Pakiland,

and Umair from London. Hope they arehaving a good time paying 0% taxes. AliAwan is still in London, still in investmentbanking. He was totally rockin' when Imet him earlier this year. Syed Abbas AliShah is in Lahore, running his own importbusiness. Sultan Akif is in Canada, mar-ried with a kiddo. Man, life is moving fast.He has taken up "shikkar", i.e. hunting wildanimals. Camouflage and everything.Sultan, have you tried yoga? It calms youdown. No really it does. I talked to JawadSaleem on the phone a few days ago.He said “yeah, I saw your email aboutthe class notes”. Well… I’m waiting :).Nauman Azhar and Ayesha Waheedare living the good life with two kids in theSan Francisco Bay Area.

For me, Abid Mohsin, things also wentwell. Just had my 30th birthday, or assome would say, my 9th annual 21stbirthday :). Am still in the San Franciscooffice of McKinsey & Company, work isvery busy, but very very cool, mostlyaround Finance and High Tech. Trying toget more into rock climbing, and overalltrying to figure out what is going on. Stillsingle, so I guess I haven't figured it outyet :) That wraps it up.

Talk to you next year. Ciao

Bsc 2003Coordinators

Sana Shahidsanashaq@hotmail.com

Muneeb AliPhD Candidate at PrincetonUniversitymuneeb@princeton.edu

Bsc 2003 continued their use of the on-line wiki for collecting notes. Sana Shahidand Muneeb Ali edited the final notesand they are hoping that next yearsomeone else will take care of this :-)

Bsc 2003 has a new mailing list now (theprevious MSN group perished). Kindly,take time out to join the mailing list athttp://groups.google.com/group/lums-bsc-2003. Thanks!

Regions are roughly ordered from westto east.

Canada

Amit Pinjani is in Toronto, Canada and isgetting married in July.Omar "Sasha" Fa-rooq is lost in Canada. Hello Sasha?

USA

Assam "Vex" Khalid graduated from UTAustin and is chilling in the big snapplebefore heading back to Pakland. AbishToseef Khan got married, has moved toDallas, TX and is working on developing aSouthern accent. Ali "Moscow" Akram ismarried to Zahra Niazi (Bsc 2004) and liv-ing in New Haven, CT. Ali is doing a PhDat Yale. Ali Habib just graduated fromDuke and is back in Karachi and on thejob hunt. Ali Afzal Malik requests a lot ofdu'aas. He is in LA trying to finish his doc-torate in Computer Science. Ali got"nikaah-o-fied" last year. Amina Hasan isrumored to be working in NYC as a hot-shot lawyer. Her next public sighting islikely to be once she makes it to the USstate department. Atif Ikram is marriedto Sonia Salam (Bsc 2005) and doing aPhD at Arizona State Univ. Beeee Khangraduated from George Washington Uni-versity! Woohooo! Yippeeee. DanialRanjha is doing a Masters at CMU.Danny Afzal recently moved to Manhat-tan and survived the financial collapse(or maybe caused it considering he'sworking with Lehman Bros!). Danish "D"Mujeeb is in NYC working at Morgan-Stanley, enjoying married life. Hamza"Hamster" Javed graduated from NYUand plans to move back to Islamabad.His animated movies are releasing soon.Watch out. Mehreen Zaidi left the PhDprogram at The Ohio State University in2006 after completing her MA in Poli Sci(IR). Currently living in Boston, MA, she ismarried, has a 17 month old baby boyand is expecting another baby in Augustof this year! Murtaza "Gullu" Halai is stillwith Amazon, Seattle.Muneeb Ali startedhis PhD at Princeton and ends up spend-ing most of his weekends in NYC. SarahTariq is working for NVDIA. Salar Farooki isat NYU, keeping pace with the big citylife.Usman Ahmad is a hot-shot lawyer inNY city where he claims to be working 16hour days but actually spends his timescouring through Friday Times and Sun-day Plus to keep up with the gossip in La-hore!

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Cambridge. Aamna Alamgir andJawahar Ahmed Sajjad are both work-ing as telecom consultants in DeteconInternational GmbH (DeutscheTelekom). Adeel Khan is still at Cam-bridge. At least accordingly to the not-so-recent reports. Ali Farid has movedfrom the hedge fund to a venture in al-ternative energy. He writes for ZawyaDowJones and Blue Chip. He got se-lected as a Young Global Leader byGeorgetown University and spent aweek with Secretary Albright, generalsfrom Pentagon, directors of CIA and USsenators. Ali was the youngest partici-pant of the Global Leadership Seminarand is using the platform to lobby forthe cause of Pakistan. His wifeMubashira is a fund manager coveringGlobal Emerging Markets at AberdeenAsset Management. Ali Gardezi left Ac-centure and is now working for the Lon-don Stock Exchange and contrary topopular belief is not responsible for thecurrent state of the British economy.Asma Aleem is still working with Price-waterhouseCoopers in London. She hasfinally sent her book to the publishersand is now looking to focus on her newfound interest- 'patisserie making'!! Bilal"Billi" Ahmad got married again. To thesame person. Well the first one was justa Nikah. He recently moved to Eng-land. Farees Shah is done with INSEADand is not fighting crime but Karachi'spower issues by taking up a job atKESC. Hasan Ateeque is working forBarclays Capital. Haris Aziz is marriedand working towards his PhD at War-wick. Imran Aslam is wrapping up hisMBA at INSEAD and is figuring out hispost grad school plans. Kashmali Khanis still at Oxford.Mahrukh Saeed is mar-ried, finishing her 5th year in EY London,and desperately missing home! Mur-taza Rehman is enjoying his post gradin the city of Dreaming Spires - Oxford,with his lovely wife. Rabea Malikmoved to Cambridge for her PhD.Sana Shahid Haq bid au revoir to theParisien life and got married to SaadAnsari (BSc 2001) in June 2009! She ismoving to the US and spends most ofher time these days unlearning themetric system. Shahzad "SIM" IsmailMian has recently moved to UK afterrejecting a lucrative offer in Switzerland.He is planning to work in the UK whilepursuing higher studies at Warwick atthe same time. What a mess or what apassion? Only time will tell! Usman KhanLodhi has finished his MBA from CassBusiness School in London and is tying

the knot in Lahore this September.Waleed Saraf is currently in London,half way through his MBA from LondonBusiness School and will be interning atGoogle during the summers. He is oftenseen counseling his friends on CFApreparation and further studies.

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Ali "ANK" Nawaz Khan is married andworking for Unilever. Ayesha Farooq isenjoying life in Dubai.Fawad Memongot married to Beenish Abbasi (MBA2006) and is currently working with Proc-tor and Gamble in Dubai. Imran Tahir isin Dubai working for Emirates Airlines.Jawad Khan is grinding away at McK-insey & Co in Dubai, shuffling between,Bahrain, Saudi, Kuwait, Europe andDubai. He misses his past life as adrummer, sports freak and being 10 kglighter. Khurram Ghufran is marriedand is working for Global InvestmentHouse in Kuwait. He likes to rememberthe days at LUMS, his never endingsleeps and the night long sessions inroom 308. Life is never going to be thesame! Kiran Khan and Owais Qazi arein Dubai. Kiran got a special extensionfor updating the notes and still man-aged to not update anything. Lazy!Mohsin Siddiqui is in Dubai and lovingit. Muhammad Noman Siddiqui hasmoved to Bahrain and his high speedflashy car is a real complement to hismost valuable asset - his long wavyhair! On the professional side, he hasbeen providing his invaluable advise todistressed companies after the globalfinancial crisis, and is in love with hisjob.Rabia Zia is married, has a one andhalf year old daugther, claims to be liv-ing in Dubai but spends more time "vis-iting" Lahore than she does in Dubai.Rai "Inzi" Usman Mujahid recently gotengaged. Salman Ikram Ul Haq is anassistant manager at EY Bahrain, gotmarried two years back and has a 1year old son. These days he is planningto start the LUMS Alumni Bahrain chap-ter. Sameer Noorani is superman. In hisordinary life, though, he works as a con-sultant at McKinsey and tries not to betoo conspicuous about his super-heroic-ness.Tehmina Hasan is workingin Standard Chartered Bank, Dubai, asManager Treasury Sales for the last 2yrs. Previously she was at Unilever Pak-istan. She is happily enjoying the life inDubai by hitting every concert andevent in town and has an endless sup-ply of her friends and family visiting her

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apartment through out the year.

Karachi

Aamir Ghulamani is developing a repu-tation as a tough interviewer as he worksat the HR department at TRG. His ruthlessattitude spares no one as one of his cur-rent colleagues and classmate fromLUMS might testify. He also plans on get-ting married within the next 12 months.Adeel Qaiser is still working hard at Terra-data and has worked himself up the cor-porate ladder and is contemplating ondoing a Masters. He is often sighted onboat basin after work with rest of thegang for a discussion on the political af-fairs of the country over a cup of tea.Adeel Farhan is back in Karachi aftercompleting his Masters in Mass Commu-nication from London. He now heads acontent company and is busy makingfilms in Pakistan and should be making itto the Oscar's red carpet within the next 5yrs. Ahsan Fazal is married and workingwith TRG in Karachi. He and his wife havejust been blessed with a beautiful babygirl. Bilal Farooq is back in Karachi afterhis Masters in Statistics from UTA. Currentlyworking with SAS as project manager andstatistical analyst. Planning on starting hisPhD in fall of 2011. Bilal "Bando" Sarfarazepitomises the LUMS spirit like no one elseas he saunters in to Dubai Islamic Bank at11am every morning (yes thats where hehappens to work). His love for cars andsleep will be tested shortly as his weddingis scheduled early next year. CyrilAlmeida regularly writes op-ed columnsfor DAWN. He is already famous you fools.No seriously he is.Farhad Nadeem is themanager of Surf Excel. Fawad Mirza iswith ICI fighting world hunger and poverty;).Haaris Haque is making it to the eche-lons of corporate banking with HSBC, is afather of a cute kid and is often spottedwith wife Annie (Bsc 2004) chilling atbeaches in Thailand with his infamousvideo camera. Mansoor Ahmed Ali hasset up his own business in Karachi, hap-pily married for two years and waiting tobecome a father. He is still quite the ath-lete as witnessed at the LUMS alumni vol-leyball tournament in Karachi which histeam won easily. Sattar Qureshi & San-niya Rasheed are busy with their twoprincesses, Zara and Zoya. Sattar is work-ing for Faysal Bank and Sanniya has de-cided to pursue her career as a stay athome mom :). Shakeel Hasan has be-come one of the most sought after cre-ative directors of Pakistan and is workingwith JWT. The most probable place to

meet him would be a morning flight to ei-ther Lahore or Islamabad. Umer "Spikey"Mehmood is working for Unilever.NazishQayyum is mother to a beautiful babyboy and working for a local school. SaadMohammad is still a true Pathan, donewith Purdue and is back in Pakistan after aminor stint in Dubai. He has taken up ajob at TRG recently, and has moved toKarachi. Sana Mekhari is back in Karachi.Siraj Vakil got married and is working forJS Private Equity in Karachi.

Lahore

Amna Haider or "Teacher Amna" as herstudents call her, is a proud mom andcontinues in her pursuit of educating La-hore's youth. Her around the world travelscontinue uninhibited!Bilal Salahuddin ismarried and working at ICI.Fatima Yaz-dani continues to maintain an extremelyhealthy work life balance and will be get-ting married this November to Afan Malik(Bsc 2002). Hammad Qazi got marriedand is done with his MBA from LUMS.HinaShaikh is relaxing in Lahore after recentlyending a project as an Asian Develop-ment Bank consultant and continues tomake wide ranging travel plans, a lot ofwhich she actually does execute. IbrarJaved is doing his MBA from LUMS wherethe first year has just flown by. JunaidTahir is working in supply chain at IFFC.Khadija Hassan Aftab can be seen fromtime to time on Dawn News as a book re-viewer. Khawaja Fahd (KMF) is a decadeold @ LUMS doing his PhD with AshrafIqbal. Last year he taught algorithms @LUMS. Meanwhile, in Punjab University hehas been working as an AP. Also, Face-book will soon be introducing a new bulkupload interface for his mammothamount of photogra-phy of LUMS and sur-roundings. MannanAmin is back homeafter Stanford. Along-side teaching at FCCollege, he foundedand is working at astartup, TinTash, which creates gamesand applications that hit the Top Ten sloton Apple's i-Store. Good Job! Omer Fa-rooq Khan got married to Khuban Hasan(Bsc 2004), and is on his way to being thenext big thing on the business scene inPakistan. Saad "Jaggu" Khan has leftP&G and moved back to Lahore asBrand Manager on Frito Lays and Cravysfor Pepsi International - and continues tohave cricket nights at his place everyweekend. Sadia is working with Nestle in

Lahore. Samar Deen is living in Ithacaraising 2 beautiful daughters and a hus-band who is enrolled at Cornell for a PhDprogram. Tariq Hussain is in LUMS, work-ing as a consultant. He is working with ArifZaman. Umair "KT" Siddiqi courageouslyignored all news from the finance world,threw caution to the wind and left his jobat Nestle for a position at RBS inLahore.Zeeshan Zaheer Khan & Ma-sooma are back in Lahore - Zeeshan hasstarted up his own travel company andMasooma recently got a sweet promo-tion at Metro. Zawar Qayyum is donewith his Doctorate in Science (DSc) and isback in Pakistan. He is currently working atPunjab University College of InformationTechnology as a full time Assistant Profes-sor, with some part time teaching atLUMS. He is also trading stocks in the USmarket and wants to become a saithsome day.

Islamabad

Abida Nagra is done studying, for thenext couple of years at least, got married,is consulting with the United Nations onthe reforms process, has no particular citythat she calls home right now and is en-joying that. Aruba Irfan has taken time offfrom work to spend time with her beauti-ful baby girl Sybil who just turned 1 :) HerEcon degree is really coming in handy toassess the demand and supply ofCerelac and the quantitative analysis ofbaby poop :D. Ali Fayyaz is working at Te-lenor. Azeem Niazi is working for J E Austinand father to the cutest baby girlalive!Fahd Gilani is back in Islamabad,after Paypal and a MBA from University ofCalifornia, and plans to get settled verysoon. While trying to get used to the loadshedding, he is fascinated by how theload shedding conveniently takes care ofresetting the router! Faiza Ather & Omer"Momers" Sheikh are trying not to getbored in Islamabad. Faiza is working withUnilever while Omer has taken up a jobwith Telenor.Haseeb Bin Aziz is at the Pak-istan Embassy in China and is busy learn-ing Mandarin. He got married last yearand continues to be the best and mostknowledgeable person to reminisce withon Pakistan cricket over a cup of coffee.Madeeha (Bamby) Bajwa is working atthe United Nations Office on Drugs andCrime in Islamabad. Woah! NaimaSaeed is in Islamabad, works at Oxfam,helps humanity, hosts her incredibly pop-ular show at CityFM89 and is another ex-ample of why 2003 is so awesome!Rizwan Bajwa got married!! WOW!!

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He's also kicking butt working at the WFP.Sobia Samad Khalid is a supermom!She recently left Mobilink to joinUfone. Uzma Hussain is working on anADB assignment in Lahore and alsobusy being the gorgeous teaching fel-low at the Social Sciences departmentat good old LUMS.

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Ali "Mochi" Irshad is still in Singapore.Omair Hameed aka Kappu is happilymarried and works at Schlumberger inKuala Lumpur. Zoaib Nafar completedhis Masters from UIUC in Aug '08 and isworking in sales at IBM. Khyber TV ran areport that Zoaib recently got rid of hiscap but nothing has been confirmedyet.

Aamir Alvi, Ashar Aziz, Eman Majad,Fatima Ansari, Ghazia Aslam, SaadiaAli, Asadullah Rathore, Mehru Asad,Sadaf Rehman, Sabeen Malik, MehrShaukat, Sufian Hashmi, Sara Shah,and Sadaf Shams are lazy and wehave no updates on them. Bad kids!

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Rabia HussainCitibankrabiah@gmail.com

Sanam Kubra Siddiqui aka Channohas finally gone to the outback to pur-sue her post-grad. She is studying Mas-ters of Development Studies at UNSW,Sydney, and will graduate by 2010. Sheis still contemplating whether or not tofurther do her PHd. Sanam is lovingbeing a student, and keeps missing theLUMS days! Contrary to what I wrote inlast years notes, Yasir Baghpati hasbeen working at P&G for almost 3 yearsnow (and is not at HSBC)...whoops, mybad! Fawad Ahmed likes fish. Fish likesFawad Ahmed. Yum! (I have no ideawhat that is about, you’ll have to askhim. Faryal Khan has moved back toKarachi and is planning on going backto work. Her son Rayyan is 1 years old.Quratulain Memon is a happymommy of a boy and a girl. SundusAhad is making sure that everyonestays connected with BlackBerry fromMobilink. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi is currently

interning at BBN Technologies in Cam-bridge, MA, USA. This is his 4th year inthe Ph.D. program (Computer Science)and he is hoping to graduate sometime next year.

Maria Khan will be graduating from theUniversity of Pennsylvania with a Mas-ter's in South Asian Anthropology andHistory in August 2009. “I will be movingto Orange County, CA with my hubbyhoping to find a job there with myhighly practical and lucrative skills as aproto-anthropologist! : P Before tryingmy luck in the job market, however, I willbe taking a road trip across the US fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific, penny-pinch-ing on the way”. Asim Maqbool has re-cently completed a Masters in ITManagement from Carnegie Mellonand on returning to Pakistan has joinedIBM. Sonia Salam is starting an MBA thisfall at Thunderbird School of GlobalManagement. Junaid Muhammad isstill at Telenor and ever since he got abigger chair he has once again de-cided to put off going to B school foryet another year. Ayesha Sultan is stillworking at HBL as a Senior Associate intheir Investment Banking arm and isdesperately trying to convince her su-pervisors that a hefty increment andpromotion are on the cards should theywish for their retention strategy to besuccessful. On the personal front, she isstill putting up with the antics of AhsanNazar, who refuses to mend his waysdespite being advised by wiser (andobviously married) folks. He is still in NewYork City trying to figure out why he'sthere and what is it that he does.

Haris Durani is in Teradata helpingbanks and telecoms make moremoney by reading their customer'shabits. Fahad Majid Hasan recentlygraduated from Columbia Universityand plans to get house arrested (returnback home) after spending two veryadventurous years in New York. Hewould be looking for a job shortly so beon the lookout - he might land in youroffice and become your boss. Aftergrilling at LUMS MBA and chilling on ex-change program to Bond University,Gold Coast Australia. Shumyl Akramhas taken up a new challenge inJapanese style i.e. have started work-ing at Kansai Paints in Lahore. ZainabJaved is enjoying life, eating baguettesand hanging around the INSEAD cam-pus in France, while Imran pursues hisMBA there. She has been spotted

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travelling around Europe and cycling onthe streets of Paris. Fahad Tanveer is cur-rently interning at Procter & Gamble “oneyear down with my MBA at LUMS and stillalive and kickin.”

Nazia Zaman is still at Microsoft, and sur-prisingly seems to be growing some rootsin Seattle. Her biggest root is her husbandMansoor Jafry (from LUMS 2002) who alsoworks at Microsoft. Mansoor and Naziagot married this spring in Seattle and arecurrently planning a wedding receptionby a lighthouse. They are also planningto celebrate their wedding in Pakistan thisDecember, so if you're around please bein touch. Nazia still hates the Seattleweather and her plans for world domi-nation (via higher education) do involvesettling down in a warmer climate. She'sbeen involved in some grass roots edu-cation projects for Pakistan, so if youhave some ideas please touch basewith her. Babar Ismail is working in Mi-crosoft for the past 2 years and has sur-vived two massive layoff rounds in thepast 6 months. Amber Rahman is work-ing as Brand Manager at ShakarganjFood Products Ltd. and shall be giving upher current marital status to join the mar-ried league soon. Safeeullah Shah hasbeen working for a hedge fund(Timescape Global Capital Mgmt.) forthe last 3yrs and has just moved to theirNY office. Saad Akhtar and Hadia Majidtied the proverbial knot this summer,which is the only reason why I’m lettingSaad off the hook for not submittingthese notes on time as promised (youare so doing it next year now, dude).

Take care, Rabia!

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Ahsan S KirmaniNew Silk Route Growth Capitalahsankirmani@gmail.com

Ahmad Abdul-Karim is returning to Pak-istan after having completed his M.Ed inInternational Education Policy. Thesedays, he is designing a course on dem-ocratic education that he wants to teachat LUMS - and hopefully other places. Heis also trying to figure out what to do withhis life (hopeless case!). Ahmed Bilal Far-man a.k.a ABF after completing his

Maters degree in Finance & Economicsfrom London School of Economics tastesdifferent consulting environments in UK!!He worked in Oxford for a year beforemoving to PWC London, where he is cur-rently working as a senior associate instrategy consulting!!! Ahsan Ejaz is cur-rently in the process of moving to the UAEas part of the company’s expansionplans. He is looking forward to this greatopportunity where he can party (andwork) to his heart’s content however he isstill figuring out how he will manage thecooking, washing and ironing on his own.Also, he denies accusations from somethat this is going to be another paid va-cation! Ahsan Saeed Kirmani misses thelife in New York City, but is more thanhappy to be back in Pakistan with 'friendsand family'. He has a love-hate relation-ship with his work at a private equity firmand a love-love relationship with RabeaInamul Haque.

Aiza Nasir Khan of tantrums/volleyballfame, completed her MBA from IBA in2008 and went on to work for Tetra Pak asthe Juices and Soft Drinks Category Ex-ecutive in the Marketing Dept. She ea-gerly awaits her marriage in January2010 to another batch-mate of ours.Taha Farrukh Akhtar also completed hisMBA in 2008 and is currently employedat Shell Pakistan Ltd. as a Finance Ana-lyst. Ali Azar is about to sit for Level III ofCFA, and continues to work for HSBC inPakistan as manager for Basel II / Portfo-lio Analytics. At times he just sits like Al-lama Iqbal and wonders whateverhappened to his Computer Science de-gree? He's getting married very soon.And he's convinced Chelsea will winChampions League one day. AmbreenHamza has just finished her first year ofMBA at Wharton and is now waiting tostart her internship in Philadelphia (thistime taking a break from the financialsector and venturing into media andtelecom for a change) before visitingfriends and family back home in August.And her new year's resolution (new aca-demic year) is to travel more within theUS over the weekends to beat Kimi'srecord of visiting 22 (I guess!) states inone year. History says it will never happenthough. Amer Mahmud Khawaja is backin LUMS, after his two year break as a soft-ware engineer, for his MBA. Having com-pleted the first year, he is now, strangelyenough, interning in a cattle feed pro-duction company (which is very much ina startup phase) headed by the ex-Di-rector of West Asia Business Unit, Pepsi Co

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Angbeen Atif Mirza *finally* graduatedwith a B.A and an L.L.B from LUMS in July,2008. She proceeded to complete herpupilage under a senior lawyer namedMakhdoom Ali Khan at a small law firmin Karachi called Fazleghani Advocates.She is now licensed to practice in thelower courts at Sindh and has quit,spending some time at home beforeleaving for Ann Arbor, Michigan for a yearlong LLM inshaAllah :). Athar Hameedhas been living on the edge since goingsolo last year. He worked for a bit with theRussians. Then he founded a startup witha couple ex-Googlers. You think GoogleWave is the future? Wait till this onecomes out ;-) He's also working for aDutch software company, rewriting theire-ticketing platform from scratch. Ohand he's still very much in love with Choti.Atika Hassan is happily married and en-joying a relaxed life in the Middle East. Arecent move with her husband to AbuDhabi has had her busy in finding aplace to live, furnishing it and wonderingwhat to do next :). Ayesha Ahsan Malik isback. Ayesha Ibrahim is back after fin-ishing an MA in Asia/African History and isteaching Middle Eastern History at thegood old alma mater. When she has thetime, she daydreams about a job thatwould involve travelling across the Mid-dle East from Marrakesh to Istanbul, fromCairo to Isfahan. Occasionally she alsoconsiders a PhD in the effects of Partitionon the political economy of Sindh.Ayesha Saeed returned to Pakistan thisyear after completing her M.A. She hashigh hopes of changing the world. Re-ally! Ayesha Suleman Sheikh worked forsome time in a software house and in abank. She has enjoyed the drizzles, thun-der and lightning of work. Nowadays sheis off work and wishes to learn swimmingsoon.

Burair Nazir is working up the corporateladder slowly and steadily. His plans totake over the world are still there but thereseem to be some complication to it. Hestill wonders why the world doesn’t offeritself to him in a golden platter. EmadNadim has now been in London longenough to have learnt to appreciatesunlight. He's still selling chocolate for aliving. Faheem Shelot is working as aconsultant with Ernst & Young in Bahrain.He went through some pretty diverse ex-periences throughout the year, which in-cluded losing his passport and alsogetting some "andar ki hawa" (I'll leave it

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to you guys to decipher what thatmeans), that too in Saudi Arabia of allplaces. The only thing on his mind is"bus kisi tarah yeh CFA level 3 pass ho-jaaye..busss!!". Faizaan Ahmad &Mahvish Ahmed got married in De-cember 2008 and have now movedinto their new apartment in Karachi.Faizaan returned from Vietnam after a6 month stint and is now heading Tal-ent & Learning for Unilever Pakistan.Mahvish has launched Vish'z, her brandof clothes, bags and nail art in Karachiand is now busy preparing orders. Onan unrelated note, Faizaan is also col-lecting used action figures and boardgames and currently has Monopoly,Monopoly Here & Now Edition, Pic-tionary, Taboo, Cluedo and Game ofLife :). Farhan Ali Saleem is making aliving selling garam parathas at Mi-crosoft. During his spare time, he worksas a Software Development Engineeron the latest hotness Bing.com. Hethinks that you ought to jump on theBing bandwagon right now becausesoon they are going to kick someGoogle butt. Fouad Shahnawaz has fi-nally moved back to his family in SaudiArabia after 7 years and is enjoyingevery moment of it. He resigned fromWarid just before the financial crisis hitthe GCC and is now waiting for thingsto ease down so he may find a suit-able job for himself.

Hasaan Butt recently graduated fromGeorgia Tech with a Masters degree inECE. Given his career interests and thecurrent global economy, he has de-cided to pursue a dual degree pro-gram and obtain an MBA as well. It ishard to believe that these are his onlyreasons for staying another year inschool, especially since Facebook re-veals a better picture of how he spentthe last two years, traveling across theUS and partying it up! It has beenheard that he intends to explore Eu-rope now! Hassan Abbas is enrolled inthe MS Computer Science program atthe New York Institute of Technology(NYIT). He will graduate in December2009 and then plans on working in thesoftware industry. He is tying the knotthis summer with batch-mate SamiaSohaib Siddiqui. He feels very lucky tohave found a perfect life partner. IzharSiddiqui has successfully managed toretain his job at KASB Investment Bank-ing despite the meltdown in the finan-cial sector across the globe. In his freetime, he is found finding jobs for other

people, planning his vacation, andplaying Burnout Paradise on Xbox. KaziMuhammad Siddiqui is happily mar-ried to Zainab. His old roommate Siki isunderstandably not happy with the sit-uation. Mr. and Mrs. KMAS are currentlyliving in Boston where Kazi also hap-pens to be pursuing an MBA at BostonUniversity. Mehran Gul is poor, hungryand lonely. You have succeeded, hehas failed. Does that make you feelbetter about yourself? Does it at leastsatisfy your voyeuristic curiosity?Mehreen Khalid has just completed a3 year stint in corporate banking and isnow ready to explore new industriesand ideas. She's embarking on an ex-citing journey to Duke University's FuquaSchool of Business for her MBA, and willgraduate in 2011!

Mohammed Adnan is cruising throughhis MSIT degree (Masters of Science inInformation Technology) at CarnegieMellon University, Adelaide campus. Heis almost half way through his one-yeardegree program. A highlight of his timein Australia has been his skydiving ex-perience – tandem jump from 8000feet from a small aircraft with 25 sec-onds of freefall before the parachuteis tugged to open. He is enjoying his in-teraction with the outside world, whilemissing Pakistan at the same time.

Moizuddin Sabri is working in Milan,Italy for an oil firm. The job helps him fillin the spare time between travelingaround Europe, hanging out withfriends, and playing sports. Of course,he has no idea where he might benext year, but for now Italy's great! :D.Mohammad Junaid Khan is busy writ-ing software for iscrybe.com. He is stillclueless about what he wants to dowith his life so he job hops from com-pany to company; last one was Tera-data. Eventually he might just leaveeverything and set out to scale God-win Austin. Muzammil Shahid Bhattiaka Bhatti just finished his MBA from IBA.He is all prepared to join the pool of un-employed labour force while at thesame time cursing the phenomenonknown as global recession. In othernews he is missing the LAS summer tripsand wants to go on a trek ASAP. NadiaHassan successfully completed hermasters from UK in 2007 and sincethen has been doing research andteaching at LUMS, confusing studentswith the concepts of game theory, in-dustrial organisation and

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macroeconomics!!! She likes her profes-sion and wants to continue with it in fu-ture as well!!! She has got into PhDprograms at universities in UK but is tryingto defer it till next year. Being on the otherside of the desk is giving her a lot of re-spect! The words like Ma’am/Miss havebeen added to her name and she is try-ing to get used to all these strangewords!!!!! :). Nadia Rana has officiallypassed through first year of MBA at LUMS,after quitting her job at Warid after 2years. These days she’s an intern yetagain, working at Coca Cola in Lahoreand planning for the Turkey exchangeprogramme next semester to finally ex-perience what it's like to study outside ofLUMS: p.

Naima Aleem (now Naima Fahad) is amother to a beautiful son, Hamza, andenjoying every minute of it! She fre-quently globe-trots between Al-Ain, Lon-don and Islamabad. Natasha Qureshijust got back to Lahore after finishing anMBA and M.Eng from Cornell. At the mo-ment she is clueless, jobless and elec-tricity-less! Nausheen Ishtiaq Jivani gotmarried (to a non-Luminite for a change!)and now divides her time between beinga corporate slave throughout the weekand trying to run a house on weekends.She still hasn't gotten around to chang-ing her name "officially". Newal Osmancompleted her Masters from the LondonSchool of Economics in 2007 andworked for a little while at the Sindh Edu-cation Foundation before joining the Uni-versity of Cambridge. She is now aboutto commence her second year at TrinityCollege, Cambridge, as a doctoral can-didate in South Asian political history.Rabeea Haq is still saying NO to corpo-rate slavery and standing by her princi-pled stance to put her energies to gooduse in the development sector—yes, stillworking for Kashf Foundation. This, ofcourse, is the second most time-con-suming item in her life’s current as, the firstbeing fielding millions of questions onwhen, how, where she’ll be getting mar-ried. Oh well, at least she’s spared the ‘towhom’ ;)! Besides work and dodging the‘Shaadi Brigade’, she’s putting her re-maining energy in getting fellow batchmates to pay for the BSc 2006 Scholar-ship Fund and in organizing a relief drivefor the displaced residents of Swat. Gooddeeds for the year—check. RabiaWaqar aka Bano just graduated fromColumbia University and after two spec-tacular years in the Big Apple is all set toget married this June and visit Australia...

Raja Zohaib Yasin has been sellingbhindis in the United Kingdom for the lastyear. Saad Waqas is still working withKPMG Saudi Arabia, churning out feasi-bility studies and business plans. He hasmade his peace with the most boringplace on Earth - Riyadh. He is keeping hisfingers crossed for CFA level 2 results. Bythe time people read this, Saad will behappily engaged and planning his mar-riage soon. Salman Suhail aka Kala isdesigning web applications for the Ara-bic world, and is hoping to launch sixnew products this coming quarter, alongwith a few of his own creations. Workinghard, partying less, and growing up.Saman Qureshi just graduated with aMasters in Public Relations and Commu-nication from her dream university, NYU.She has thoroughly enjoyed living in theBig Apple, meeting people from all walksof life, making life-long friendships, eatingfabulous food and immersing herself inwhat the city and university has to offer.She has also traveled extensively withinthe US and abroad in the last two years,and is looking forward to spending sometime with family and friends in Karachibefore work life consumes her. Samia So-haib Siddiqui is working as a SoftwareDeveloper at Smart Technologies and liv-ing with her family in Calgary, Alberta,Canada. She is tying the knot this sum-mer with batch-mate Hassan Abbas.Sana Ejaz got married in November andhas moved to Bahrain with her hubby.These days she is desperately trying toget hold of a job to keep her busy but therecession is not making it easy for her!

Sanober Abdullah has just finished herMBA from LUMS and is wondering how toleave the alma mater that has definedher for six years now! She is looking for-ward to re-join the corporate world inKarachi. Sara Inayat is certainly doingbetter than Mehran Gul. ShaheerAhmad Khan has been teaching Physicsto O level and General Science to grade7 at Headstart School Islamabad andserving as an Academic Coordinator attheir Boys Branch. He is now preparing tomove to Boston to attend Harvard’sGraduate School of Education as a Ful-bright scholar. Sheheryar aka Shery issuicidal after being rejected by compa-nies again and again and when he doesget a job they fire him before he starts :-(. Sikandar Raza Khan wiggled his wayinto Telenor with an award-winningdance to Benny Benassi's Satisfaction.Somira Soomro is happily running the GISDivision at e-Solutions and holding re-

unions for LUMS alumni KSA Chapter. Shewill be soon applying for her MBA.Sumaya Rehman has been travelling thewhole of Asia Pacific over the last 2 yearsand has for the past year settled in HongKong with her husband, Durrani. She hassecured a great job as a recruiter atRandstad and is now officially the leadrecruiter for MSCI Barra APAC. She misseshome immensely, but has managed tobuild an adventure-filled life with Durraniin Hong Kong. Sumayya Zubair hasbeen loving life down under - and hasbeen working hard as a business analystat a semi-government financial organi-zation in Melbourne. Loving having to doall the fun CS analysis stuff, meeting peo-ple and the challenges that come withit less the coding - yet scared of the'global recession' and now the swine flu!Thinking of going back to school to startan MBA degree but temporarily con-vinced out of it by her bosses who thinkshe needs to work a little more before hit-ting the books once again.

Syed Muhammad Hussain has com-pleted his second year of Ph.D in eco-nomics (?) at the University of Rochester.The question mark is because he will beappearing for the Ph.D qualifying examsthis summer, result of which will determinewhether he continues with the Ph.D. orends up with just a master’s degree.Taimur Adil aka Cobra recently got en-gaged to the now-love-of-his-lifeMahrukh. They are both working at ChinaMobile (Zong). Funny and true story:Cobra's boss's name is Peter. Ha! UmairHaleem is living in Lahore and commut-ing to Raiwind every day. He is trying toadd value to his family business in thesetough times being part of the ShafiGroup. Umer Hafeez is still in Karachi 3years on, now working as a product man-ager for deposits and Royal PreferredBanking at RBS. In those brief 3 years atRBS (previously ABN Amro) he has experi-enced acquiring a bank, being acquiredby a bank and now awaits another ac-quisition by another bank. Umer AkhlaqMalik is back on the home soil after aneventful year in Europe. He enjoyed hisdegree (Masters in Economics) from Uni-versity of Warwick UK and moved a stepfurther in his desire to travel around theglobe, including Spain and US in thepainfully slow but steadily growing list ofdestinations. Recently joined Mahbub-Ul-Haq Human Development Centre as aResearch Fellow, and looking forward tomake it big in the social-development

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sector. Zulfiqar Shaikh is almost finishedwith his Master degree in InternationalDevelopment from Cornell University(just finalizing the thesis part). He will beback in Pakistan by June and will startlooking for jobs in development sectorin Pakistan.

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Ayesha Ali Khan continues to live in thestill, glorious city of Lahore. She is enjoy-ing heading the marketing division forGloria Jean’s Coffees, Pakistan whereshe continues to channel all her ener-gies on bringing in a coffee drinkingrevolution within our tea-dominated so-ciety. While not busy brewing the per-fect cup, Ayesha continues to dreamabout eventually pursuing her postgraduate studies. Bilal Bhatti aftergraduating worked for Harvest Interna-tional as a business analyst and thenafter clearing CFA level 2 exams left forfar away land in pursuit of more knowl-edge! Bilal says “I’m pursuing my MBAfrom Krannert School of Mangement,Purdue University. Having a great timestudying in university again...remindsme of LUMS...good old days!!Miss youall :)”. Bilal Rana is wasting his time pur-suing Masters in Financial Economics atUniversity of Oxford. After failing to be-come a gambler (read trader) in finan-cial markets, he is contemplating aMadoff-like scheme for his country-men. Hamza Khan has been workingwith Citibank for the last 2 years. He nowintends to pursue graduate studies.

Hissibuoyy wants to be a Hollywoodhero, an international cricket com-mentator, worldwide filmmaker, and afamous Pakistani cricketer!!! But in real-ity Hissan ur Rehman is still surviving theboringly mysterious real estate industryof Dubai and Ajman, after making adsfor an ad agency Lowe (Lahore) fol-lowed by exploring his short filmmakingskills at Aag TV (Karachi). Once againhe is at a decision making phase hav-ing internal and external pressures of ei-ther to go for ‘masters’ or ‘shaadi’. Bythe time this note is published he mighthave committed one of the above two

socially acceptable ‘miss-takes’! Hus-sain Ali (RAMU) is working for a softwarehouse in Lahore, making games formobiles so that students can enjoy theirtime in classes especially of Social Sci-ences. Muhammad Farid Ahmed isabout to finish his second masters de-gree...... this time in investment man-agement....... he’s had a good yearand will start looking for jobs as soon ashe finishes his exams. MuhammadShuja Ali is since graduation working forAskari Investment Management in Is-lamabad as a research analyst.

Maryam Zahid is currently working 9-1at Gallup has also been looking afterher 1-year old baby ‘Asjad’ who keepsher on toes 24/7. He’s turning into a verynaughty chap but still gives mamatime to roam the world. Thanks to herhusband’s initiatives, she has been toKuala Lumpur, Singapore, Paris, Nice,Cannes, Monaco, and Amsterdamand will be flying to Dubai in Novemberalso. She, her baby and her husbandplan to follow in the footsteps of thegreat explorers of the world and enjoylife as it comes …. inshAllah!! NooraQureshi is finally done and over withMCB Bank Limited…… yay!!!!! She isnow enrolled in the MBA Class of 2011and is overworked, under slept (sleep…what’s that?) and starved…. *fingerscrossed* to get out alive. Omer Imtiazis surfing on the waves of CorporateBanking in MCB Lahore as MTO, andmissing the Good Old Dayz. RamishHashmi is misses Shafaq while compil-ing the class notes… last time she isdoing so. Given up her job and goingahead to pursue further studies. SaadZaeem, after graduating worked at Az-gard9 for a year where he handledproduction of Diesel, D&G, Next & Zarajeans. After successfully filling up his sib-lings' and friends' wardrobes, heswitched to an even sweeter career.Now he plays video games and getspaid for it!! Yes, that’s right...he's Direc-tor, Business Development at Tintash, agame development studio concen-trating on making games for the bud-ding iPhone market. Ironically, hecarries a Blackberry.

Shahab Ahmed has left IBM and is nowlivin' it up in Dubai as a consultant .He'sexperiencing new things, is happy forthe varied achievements of our batchin these last 2 years and very very sadwith what is happening to his country.

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He plans to apply for an MBA soon andthan settle back in Pakistan. ShafaqSoomro is settled in Riyadh, KSA and isworking for e-solutions, her dad's com-pany, as an HR consultant. Suzan B.Sheikh, now known as Suzan Q. Jafary isthoroughly enjoying her newly marriedlife. After completing her Msc Econ fromLUMS she went on a job search whichwith major breaks in between is still goingon. Waseem Ahmad Malik changed hisjob last September and is now working asManager Business Development forAskari Investment Management in Islam-abad. On the academic side hecleared CFA level 1 and now is studyingfor level 2. Zainab Saeed is done with herMSc and is back in Pakistan. She has be-come a raging workaholic, and loves herwork. She is working full time at KashfFoundation and teaching sociology/an-thropology courses at LUMS in theevenings.

BSc 2008Coordinators

Duaa KhalidThe Royal Bank of Scotlandduaa86@gmail.com

Saad GulzarMasters Candidate in Colum-bia Universitysaadgulzar@gmail.com

These are the very first class notes of theenergetic, vibrant and varied BSc classof 2008. This is mostly in alphabeticalorder - do bear with us till the very end! :)

Afsheen Qaiser, the queen of table ten-nis, is now working at Navitus as an HRConsultant. She will be getting married toOmair Dawoodji (‘07) this coming year.Ahmed Usman aka AU keeps himselfbusy doing killer deals for Meezan Bank'sTreasury. Globetrotting on the side; he stillloves food and spending time with the in-famous Batura Gang. His future plans in-clude yet another LAS trip and makingsure he enjoys his life to the max. AleenaNaseem went on to pursue an MSc Ac-counting & Finance from the LondonSchool of Economics (LSE). She's currentlyawaiting her result and simultaneouslyenjoying the London/Europe experience.Ali Soomro too is in England trying to un-derstand why after 5 years of takingcourses in economics he might be start-

ing a PhD at Cambridge with a coursecalled "how to do economics." We wishwe knew! Ali Gibran Siddiqui is busythinking, travelling and a trying to find aplace for him. He has spent the yearworking as a consultant for the Genderand Governance units of Social Policyand Development Centre, a private pol-icy research firm. His job has driven himall across the province of Sindh, fromsmall goths in Karachi to archaic citieslike Umerkot. Meanwhile, Ali Sohail hasbeen trotting over Germany, loving thecultural and professional experience,working as a Business Analyst withDeutsche Post DHL in their Global HeadQuarter in Bonn, Germany. His depart-ment is Corporate Procurement and histeam is responsible buying/leasing forDHL's Ground Fleet (cars, vans & trucks) inEurope.

While everyone else graduated, oneman remained behind to do his doublemajor in CS and math and savour everylast bit of student life. Now, much to AmirAli’s surprise, he’s actually started a realjob as a software engineer in Lahore.Hopefully, this is only a temporary aber-ration - if Fulbright and grad school ap-plications go well, next year should seehim in California, sunbathing, surfing ,studying and enjoying the famous Cali-fornian sights. In the meantime, Amir Aliversion 1.5 continues to challenges so-cial conventions and expectations inPakistan. Fellow batch mate Amina“Mimi”Mazher is already basking in thesun even if it is in Abu Dhabi, havingpassed the CFA Level I exam with flyingcolours she is awaiting the results of theLevel II one. Anam Nasir is presently work-ing at the Inter State Gas Systems on theIPI pipeline project. She, (like most of uspoor souls) doesn’t like her boss at all andis trying hard to cope with him while look-ing for another competitive job. Yet, sheadmits, “The earning part is fun!” Sheplans to go for her Masters next year. Ar-salan Iqbal aka Arsy moved to Bahrainand is an analyst at an Upstream Petro-leum Consulting firm. Yes, he has beenon oil rigs but no, does not own any(alas!). Plans for 09/10 include CFA,Euro/Middle-East tripping and getting hislicense. You can reach him at ar-siqbal@gmail.com. Enjoying her timewith friends and fiancé Fahad Jamil (’07),Ayesha Majeed is completing an ACAdegree while working with PWC as an As-surance Associate. She is awaiting the ar-rival of best friend Duaa Khalid toLondon, whom she plans on corrupting

to her heart’s content! Ayesha Mulla willbe attending The University of Chicagoon a Fulbright Scholarship in Sept 09 tosacrifice the next 5 years of her gloriousyouth in studying Media Anthropology atthe PhD level. She is daily questioning thiscommitment and her sanity. She is alsounashamedly publishing her life on Twit-ter. Follow her!

Ayesha Tariq Khan is searching for kaizen(Japanese for change for the better),success and contentment in that veryorder. She is, however, willing to settle fora graduate degree. When Ayesha’s notwishing and wanting, or even while sheis, she works for the Commercial BankingGroup in Habib Bank Limited as a Rela-tionship Associate. She also occasionallyteaches at the Princeton Review to helpteenagers achieve that proverbial Amer-ican Dream. Azka Khurshid is currentlyworking in The First Micro Finance BankLtd, Islamabad. She intends to go for hermasters to London School of Economics.Basharat Saeed, having bid a farewell tohis jacket lending days, is doing his MA inWar, Violence and Security from the Uni-versity of Sussex, UK. He will graduate inSeptember 2009. Belal Mahfooz is work-ing in Unilever, single and enjoying life tothe fullest. He is yet to accomplish hismini-dream of watching an F1 race butthat dream is about to come truesoon...After graduating, Dania Khanstarted working in HBL in Training and De-velopment. Yet, soon after she receivedthe Fulbright Scholarship and got admis-sion into Johns Hopkins, Georgetown andthe Fletcher school at Tufts. She leaves forFletcher school in august where she willpursue an MA in law and diplomacy. Sheis currently volunteering for concern forchildren as an IDP relief coordinator. Al-though vowing never to work in a bank,after graduating, Duaa Khalid found her-self working as a Management Associateat RBS Headquarters in Karachi. While theprogram has been all one could hopefor, she will be leaving for London Schoolof Economics this fall in order to do herMSc in Development Studies. When she isnot busy planning her sister’s upcomingwedding or being surprised into compil-ing the class notes by fellow batch mateSaad Gulzar, she can be found stressingabout her British visa. Some habits just diehard :)

Fahad Ahsan is working at HBL Lahore asan MTO. Having been placed in thecommercial asset marketing he is cur-rently overlooking the steel industry port-folio. He is also planning to try out for the

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Pakistan Rugby team which will go ontour later in the year. He also plans toapply for an MBA next year from eitherLUMS, NUS or somewhere in WashingtonD.C. Faria Chugtai is working as a RiskAnalyst under operational risk in the riskmanagement group of allied bank lim-ited. Batch topper Farah Said is now atOxford University doing her MSc in Fi-nancial Economics and was recentlyplaced on dean’s list. Faisal Nadeemaka FNR graduated from LUMS butnever really left LUMS. He has oftenbeen spotted back there with a bagslouched over his back, posing as astudent. On the rare occasion that hehas been spotted in Karachi, he’s beenaccompanied by his infamous twotone City. Faisal can also sometimesbe spotted in a hard to find office witha fantastic view, "resting his eyes" andfeigning sickness, although he suspectsno one really buys that excuse any-more. Unlike FNR, Fatima Khanmovedon and went on to Columbia Universityto pursue a Masters in Human Rights.She has been working, studying, andmost importantly, enjoying life as weknow in the city of New York - rafting, skydiving, hiking, if there’s an adventure tobe had, she's there. For about a year,Ferozeh Maqbool has been wastingher time – and loving every minute of it!Defying all the attempts to make herwork, she now believes it’s high time tostart looking for a job – but wait, therepops up yet another chance for glo-betrotting. Well, who could pass on thatone, right? The job sure can wait! Oneof the main highlights of the year for herhas been of getting (what she likes tocall) ‘semi-engaged’ to fellow batch-mate Shujaat Haider Naqvi, who iscurrently in Shell Pakistan Limited as aProject Planner Pakistan trying to imple-ment SAP on time. He has finally cometo realize that a ‘9 to 5’ job is a mere il-lusion, whereas in reality, the day endsat the boss’ whim. However, workingfrom 9 to whenever-the-boss-wishes, hemanages to balance all the aspects ofhis life very well, ESPECIALLY his trips to‘Islamabad’.

On the brink of the engagement he isplanning this year with a mystery girlwhom most of us would like to warn,Hamza Ahmed is currently neck deepwith RBS in what will be known as one ofthe biggest mergers in the financialworld and Asia. All in all, enjoying theluxuries of Dubai and working in a multi-national, he is set for the muchplanned M.B.A. at North Western in Mar-

keting as the next step in his careerpath. Hamza Khalid is part of the Man-agement Trainee Program at UBL; andis currently working at Quality Assurancein Lahore. He is also involved in coursesconducted on Quality Managementand is planning to do a post-graduatedegree in the field very soon. WhenHani Taha Salim gets time off from va-cationing she works as a TA, becauseshe just can't get enough of LUMS, andfor some semblance of maturity, at-tempts writing for The News. She hopesto garner some funding soon to launchonto more academic pursuits. Till then,Sarah Munir, who works for DAWNNews, and her keep hatching plans oftaking the world by storm. After workingfor a year on a Ministry of Finance andADB Project, Hashim Zaidi has hadenough of the public sector and is offto the States (either Columbia or UTAustin) for MPA. His mullah outlook isgoing to face a real test there and heis still on course of achieving his goal inlife: getting married by the time he is25! After graduating as a nerdy ACF (hisown words I tell you), Hassaan Ahmadstarted working at HBL Corporate Bank-ing in Lahore and is currently waiting forthe result of CFA Level II exam. HiraTajwar (now, Hira Ammar) lives in Sin-gapore with her husband after gettingmarried in July 2008. She works as Re-search Associate at TRPC, a HongKong-based telecom consultancy, andas a freelance writer for a local maga-zine called Asia! She will be moving toParis in September as Ammar (‘07) willbe pursuing the NUS-Sciences Po dualMasters program.

Imtiaz ul Haq is currently about to finishhis Masters in Finance from the Man-chester Business School. Once done,he will be looking to go for a PhD stick-ing around in England for another 3years! After graduating, Iqra Shukarstarted working in UBL as a Manage-ment Trainee and had an awesometime during the 5 week training inKarachi. Unfortunately, the graph justwent downhill after that so she veryhappily quit in December and left forJohns Hopkins. Right now, she is in Balti-more doing her Masters in FinancialMath. Irum Jehangir is busy workingwith her father in their family business ofsports goods in Sialkot named AWANSports. She helps in external marketingaffairs which keeps her busy with tours.Khadija Habib aka tiji (face book ad-dict) is currently doing her Masters in

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Financial Mathematics from Kings Col-lege London. She is still single and ap-parently there are ‘no hot boys’ in hergeeky course. She misses LUMS a lot andso is often going to Warwick to meetsome of them. Mahreen Mahmud andTareena Musaddiq (fellow major Face-book addicts) are currently doing MSc Fi-nance and Economics from WarwickUniversity. Maira Hayat did a master's inSocial Anthropology at Oxford. Her de-gree finishes in September when she in-tends to return to Pakistan. Furthermore,Maryam Javed is working in JS Invest-ments as a Management Associate andis currently looking after Channel. She hasbeen with the company since November2008 and was with Warid Telecom beforejoining JS. Mehreen Shahzad is workingas a Programme Associate at the Pro-gramme Development Department ofWWF - Pakistan (become a member -help save nature!). She is like most of us,missing life at LUMS terribly and sends acart load of cheery, best wishes to all herbatch mates.

Mian Mansoor Akhtar is dwelling in theworld of Java and Linux at Global IT Cen-tre of a Swiss bank in Dubai. He is oftenfound at wonderful beaches and restau-rants having a great time with friends.Moeez is currently employed by Abou-tUs.org as a WikiEditor. His desire to be-come the ruler of the world is put on holdfor now as he is attaining managementskills at his job. Yes, he is also waiting forthat Camaro. Muhammad Ali Jan hassaid goodbye to LUMS after 5 very mem-orable years and is going to his dreamuniversity SOAS to do a Master's in sociol-ogy, hopefully leading to a PhD.MusaabJaved has finally realized that Saudi Ara-bia is not the Kingdom to live in, wherehe currently works as an analyst in theasset-management division of an invest-ment bank (so much for that after thecredit-crunch). Having sat for an un-planned, peer-pressure driven, CFAexam in June; he is leaving the desertedArabian La-la land in September in pur-suit of better weather, a more lively/liberalenvironment, some rain (possibly snow)and quite importantly his Masters at Lon-don Business School. Muhammad BilalLikhani is still trying to find himself - andcurrently working for External Relations atProcter & Gamble (P&G). After work, he istrying his best to spend time with friends,learn Arabic and mentor teenage kids.After five years, Nadia Ahmad has grad-uated with a BA LLB and will be startingAnn Arbor, Michigan this fall for an LLM in

international and comparative law. Nau-man Syed is trying to complete his Mas-ters' in Accounting from Texas A&MUniversity. Every passing moment hethinks that had he been an ACF major;things would have been easier.

Working with PricewaterhouseCoopers inDubai and after auditing companies likeEmirates Group and British American To-bacco, Nauman Yaseen has decidednot to pursue a career as CA. He may di-vulge in the beauty of finance or thesweet bitterness of his own business, hehas yet to decide. Currently, he is enjoy-ing a quiet life watching new releases atCineplex and socializing with varied pro-fessionals and fellow Luminites. NidaParacha has just finished her law degreefrom LUMS. She is yet to return but intendsto work for a legal aid office or in a so-cially conscious law firm in Karachi.Rabeel Memon is on summer vacationsthese days from school. She is teachingSociology at Nixor College and gives pri-vate tuition to A level students. She keepsherself busy by taking horse riding anddance classes. Radia Mohyuddin hasforgotten how to plagiarize therefore shecannot complete this assignment (i.e.writing about her life as of now). Contacther at radiam@gmail.com. ReemaOmer has finally completed her BA-LLB and is heading off to Cambridgethis fall for an LL.M in international law.Saad Gulzar spent the last year inSingapore studying for a Masters inPublic Policy at NUS where he got todiscuss Lahori food with Lalu PrasadYadav. Next year, he is going to Colum-bia University in New York City for a Mas-ters in Public Administration and istherefore not expecting to see Mr. Yadavagain. He continues to reminisce reli-giously by going through all available Yoday pictures every month. Meanwhile,GEO has pretty much occupied SaadLatif's life. Working as an Associate Pro-ducer on their documentaries team, hehas been engaged with a variety for proj-ects for the Current Affairs department.Although aiming for masters sometimesoon, he still feels lost in his life after LUMS(a true Luminite I’d say!).

Saadi Azeem joined Standard CharteredBank as a Graduate Associate in June08. After the initial 2 months in Karachi herealized that to go back to his "tafree"lifestyle he would have to move backand is now posted in Lahore in corporatesales. He is, at the moment, confusedabout going for his masters, MBA, CFA,

CA or settling down and marriage. Hewants to play it safe and go for the mar-riage option and also help with the fam-ily business. Saadia Gardezi is studying atWarwick University, UK, specifically a Mas-ters in Political Economy with InternationalRelations and Humanitarian studies onthe side. Her lecture notes are still a col-lection of doodles, and she is still trying towade through Das Kapital. SabahatSalahuddin is working at McKinsey andCo and is currently on an assignment inKuwait. Her previous assignments havebeen in Pakistan and Qatar. Not surpris-ingly she is extremely busy with her workbut still manages a healthy work life bal-ance. Sabah Elahi and Omer Riaz havedecided to finally tie the knot and aregetting married in August. They are hap-pily preparing for the wedding with alltheir friends. Omer has completed hisMSc. whilst Sabah plans to complete herACA whilst working as an assurance as-sociate at Deloitte London. Saher Asadis currently working at LUMS as an RA andis going to George Washington Universityfor a PhD in economics on Fulbrightscholarship in August. Since graduating,Sajjad A. Sheikh has been working in thefamily business in the textile sector andlooking after its marketing and businessdevelopment dimensions. The work in-

volves extensivetravel and dealingwith customers in-t e r n a t i o n a l l y .Sameen AndaleebMohsin Ali taughtO'Level World History

for a year at Lahore Grammar School, 55Main Gulberg, and Lahore after gradua-tion. She will be starting at the LondonSchool of Economics this fall as a Com-monwealth Scholar, pursuing an MSc inComparative Politics (research). Beforegraduation Sana Agboatwala had de-cided not to go into banking. Yet, onefine day she graduated and became anRM in Barclays Bank. She's living the lifebehind her desk, planning one vacationto the next and spending money on ex-pensive cameras.

After graduating, Sana Javed joinedCitibank as a Management Trainee Offi-cer and stayed there for 2 months untilshe came to the land of oil and Sheikhsand joined Alghanim Industries. Currentlyshe’s employed at Alghanim Industries inKuwait as a Financial Analyst for the Elec-tronics division. Sanam Khawaja, workingas an Assistant Manager at Unilever ad-vises young graduates to choose their

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career path wisely and to network(which she adds they should start rightaway!) She reminds everyone to makesure their jobs keep them excited sinceonce they are on the wrong train everystop will be a wrong one! Sara Azmat isworking at Express 24/7 as associateproducer rundown and is applying forgrad school. After graduation our littlefriend, Sara Khan started working forMeezan Bank Limited in the CorporateBanking Department. She has to be theonly female from LUMS working there,which implicitly implies that more fe-males need to apply there. For those ofyou who don’t know, yes the rumoursare true. She admits to wearing anabaya and a hijab, because it is a re-quirement. Sarah Mazher joinedGlobal Securities Pakistan Limited,Karachi. She is working as an Econo-mist. Her responsibilities include releaseof the monthly product 'EconomicScorecard', Monetary Policy Reviewsand other economic updates to bedistributed to various stakeholders. Sheplans to expand her coverage fromEconomy to Treasury, Foreign Ex-change trading and involve herself informing Company Strategy.

Sarosh Sualehi is having an amazingtime at McKinsey, Dubai. Many of herchildhood dreams of superspy-domhave come true (she can now sleep onplanes), but she also dreams of La-hore's winters, all the friends she has notseen in a while, and her cello. Nevertoo sure of where she will be next week,she misses the rootedness of home,but carries a little bit of everyone in herheart. If you haven't heard from her in awhile, it’s only a matter of two or threemore days- she got internet at herhouse yesterday. She will find you!Sehrish Tasneem is still at LUMS, sinceshe is part of the Law batch and missesher class mates a lot. Shazre Quamberis currently pursuing an MSc in Violence,Conflict and Development at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies.Her days are spent contemplating (inno particular order) human suffering,seasonal sales, the state of the econ-omy, the impending doom of a credit-crunched career and the never-failinghumour in a heat wave that peaks at33C. Shehryar Sadiq is studying atCardiff Business School doing an MScin International Economics, Bankingand Finance. He is currently working onhis dissertation 'Banking Profitability ofPakistan'. Sohaib Roomi has beenworking at the Business Support Fund for

the last six months during which he re-alized that he isn’t meant for this job-market but more suited to thebusiness/entrepreneur world. He is hop-ing to be married by next year. SuhaibBari is working as a Relationship Man-ager for the largest private bank in thecountry, Habib Bank Limited. He is look-ing after commercial markets and sitsat a crucial intersection, coordinatingbetween clients, diligence teams likeSBP, internal audits as well as the an-swering to the heads. Even though,Suhaib, or Bari as he’s better knownmasquerades as a diligent ‘Habibian’by day, he actually is and probably willremain for a long time, a Batura Boy atheart. Just ask those who’re subject tohis ‘work mails’.

Syed Talha Imam has been workingwith Unilever in his hometown, Karachi.He is enjoying the responsibility andspends all what he earns. He is onverge of the launch of his first individualproject, and is very excited about it. Hehas not taken a single day off from worksince graduation. That just tells you howmuch he loves his job. Umair MustafaKhalil is almost done with his masters atthe University of British Columbia and ispreparing to head to the University ofRochester for his PhD in economics. Hisstay in Vancouver was absolutely fan-tastic and having spent the last fewmonths chilling fulltime he is hoping toraise the tempo for the madnessahead. Umul Awan is currently workingas an MT - Risk Analyst in the UBL Treas-ury and Market Risk department on IIChundrigar road. Happy to have mostof her friends from LUMS in Karachi only,she is glad that they all continue tomeet up and have the "Batura Gang"fun that they were most famous for. Shesays that although no substitute is avail-able for her soccer at LUMS and the LAStrips, she is trying to make the most oflife in here. Usman Hijazi is in Islam-abad, working with Red Bull as a Mar-keting Executive for the northern regionand loves his job. After working at Mo-bilink for a year, Zahbia Sarfraz isheaded to Columbia University this fallon the Fulbright Scholarship for Mastersin Psychology. Zainab Tariq is currentlyworking at Network of OrganizationsWorking for People with Disabilities inPakistan (Nowpdp). She recently organ-ized a successful art competition fordisabled children in Lahore, Islamabadand Karachi, of which the one in La-hore was held at LUMS.

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Our hearty congrats to all those gettingor are engaged, married! We wish every-one the best of luck and hope to com-pile longer versions for years to come...

MS 2001

Coordinator

Babar IftikharSensys (Pvt) LTDBabar.Iftikhar@sensys.com

Babar Iftikhar is Projects Director / Vali-dation Head at Sensys (Pvt) LTD. Sensys isa product development company thatdesigns and develops industrial automa-tion software products. I have a cute littleson "Rayyan" who is almost 2 yrs old andam preparing him for Aitchison. We livein Tech Society, Lahore. Soccer is STILL onand I still play as FULL BACK. I have main-tained a good fit sports routine and theboyish looks are STILL there.

Zahid Irfan is currently working at Facultyof Computer Science and Engineering,GIK Institute, Topi. He is involved in a lotof activities like Open House Coordina-tion, WebTeam, Network Team and otheractivities but teaching is his primary joband he loves it.

Khuraam F. Khatlani is enjoying a goodhealth and atmosphere in NADRA. Hebelongs to Karachi and lives in Islam-abad. He is working as Program Man-ager in Technology and DevelopmentDirectorate at NADRA HQ, Islamabad.Last year he went to Khartoum, Sudan for10 days to do the requirements analysisto develop the Civil Registration Systemfor Government of Sudan, and enjoyedvisits to the remains of Nubian Civilizationsand 6th Cataract of River Nile. (‘I was thestate guest there!!’) Nothing else out ofordinary happened after that :). He’snowadays involved in developing the Be-nazir Income Support Program in collab-oration with World Bank. Aimal TariqRextin is pursuing a PhD in University ofLimerick, Ireland. His thesis is in the areaof Graph Drawing. He got married oneand a half years ago. He thinks Ireland isa nice place but misses Pakistan and hisfriends.

M. Abid Khan is currently in New York onthe Fulbright Scholarship pursuing PhD inEconomics. This summer, he is interningat the UN working on the Human Devel-opment Report and a comparative pol-icy analysis of 35 countries regardingmigration. In his personal life, he is still sin-gle (still J) so you can imagine there is nonews at that front. Saad Gul is a re-searcher at University of Tokyo, Japan, inthe department of Interdisciplinary Infor-mation Studies. Recently he married andmoved to Japan. Currently, Japanesestudy is at the top of his menu with freetime put into seeing as much of Japanas possible.

Sajjad A. Madani has moved back toPakistan after completing his PhD from Vi-enna University of Technology. Currentlyhe is working as Assistant Professor inCOMSATS Institute of Information Tech-nology, Abbotabad. Ali Kabeer, afterworking in Citigroup for 4.5 years hasmoved to Dubai in RBS bank. He is miss-ing his family there. He has got a verycute son.

MS 2003Coordinator

Faraz DurraniTechResourcersfarazdurrani@hotmail.com

Muhammad Asif finally completed de-gree requirements in July 2008 and isnow working with Emirates. Ayaz Khanmarried three years ago and is blessedwith a two year old daughter Dinah Khan.Ayaz is working with TRG in Karachi and isplanning to pursue a Ph.D degree now.Yousuf Bawani is in the UAE and is quitebusy in travelling back and forth from/toPakistan & UAE. Fahd Zahid is currentlyworking in IBM Pakistan as the SalesLeader for Pakistan North Territory. He ismarried for 2.5 years now with a 9 monthold daughter (Rameen Fatima). He hasbeen salesman of the year for 2008 in 25countries (MENA region)

Faisal Jamil is leading a professionalservices group at LMKR Karachi. He gotmarried 1.5 years ago and is still plan-ning his honeymoon. Zahra is AssistantProfessor Department of CS & IT at FCCollege Lahore. Nafees Sharif is still with

Waseel ASP Ltd Riyadh as Senior Soft-ware Engineer. He married 1.5 yearsback and performed Hajj with his wife thisyear. Nafees has been travelling aroundthe Arabian Peninsula to prevent monot-onous life. Faraz Durrani is running hisown recruitment company.

Imran Yusuf is permanently employed asa Senior System Analyst at Central De-pository Company of Pakistan (CDC)since 2006, and is also a visiting facultymember at University of Karachi andMuhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU).He got married more than a year agoand is blessed with a cute girl, Zoha, sixmonths old. Ibrar finally got married inMarch and is now teaching in HazaraUniversity. Salman Khan too got marriedrecently and is now assistant professor atFAST Karachi.

MS 2004Coordinator

Khurram QadeerGeo Television Networkkhurram.qadeer@gmail.com

Shahrukh Arshad worked in AOS foraround 2 years and then left Pakistan tojoin Emirates Airline's IT Department in2009 in Dubai. His wedding is in October2009 InshaAllah. Khurram Qadeer is stillworking at Geo TV Network. He hasmoved into looking after Geo Newsmore closely and has left his social life (orwhatever was left of it) completely be-hind. He however continues to teach un-dergraduate students at a university andloves it. He hopes to go for another Mas-ters next year. He still doesn’t plan on set-tling down and believes there are stillbetter things to do in life. Zeeshan Rana(Peter) has not yet completed his PhD inSoftware Engineering from LUMS :),seems like a long journey... He is workingwith Dr. Shafay and Dr. Awais and is at-tempting to develop some relativelygeneric approach which can predictsoftware defects for multiple scenarios.These days Peter is in Lero, the Irish Soft-ware Engineering Research Center andUniversity of Limerick section. He is thereunder a research collaboration and stu-dent exchange program for a fewmonths only.

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leaving Pakistan Tobacco Company in2007 and has been working there sincethen. He is getting married in Octoberand trying to enjoy every bit of bache-lor time left till then by travelling toplaces everywhere.

Tariq Fayyaz has returned from US andis working at Xavor these days. He is liv-ing a very happy married life, whileworking at both office and at home :).Rana Haris aka Harry has been workingat NESCOM (Islamabad) for the last twoand a half years and now he is plan-ning to move to Lahore kyun ke 'LahoreLahore ay'. He is hopeful that he will beback from the 'city of living dead' by Q32009 InshaAllah. Usman Tahir akacheetah has been working in M-Sys-tems and he intends to remain there atleast till the next century. He spendsmost of his time playing table tennis

and badminton in office, after officehours of course :). There might be acase that he goes to office for this verypurpose ;) His marriage is planned rightafter Eid Ul Adha this year.

Khawaja Fahd (KMF) is a decade oldat LUMS. He is still doing his PhD withAshraf Iqbal. Last year he taught algo-rithms at LUMS. Meanwhile, in PunjabUniversity he has been working as an AP.Also, Facebook will soon be introducinga new bulk upload interface for hismammoth amount of photography ofLUMS and surroundings.

Syed Farooq Ahmed (Far0ck) joinedKarachi Stock Exchange, last year in themidst of economic recession, as Infor-mation Security Analyst. He started pho-tography in autumn 2007 and is nowthinking of adopting this as his new ca-reer. He runs a studio "Portraiture", whichis known for its selective clientele andappointment based shoots. UsmanChaudhry joined Motorola Pakistan,after leaving Techlogix, in 2006 as aTelecom Engineer. He relocated to Mo-torola Bahrain and has been living inBahrain for the past two years. He is sin-

gle and apparently in no hurry to getmarried.

Farqaleet Kirmani joined Teradataafter graduating from LUMS and hasbeen working there for the last 2 years.He has no future plans and is happilysingle. He intends to stick with the cur-rent job until they kick him out by force!:). Junaid Akhtar wrote “Unlike mostpeople I'm still at LUMS (God forbid) try-ing to complete my PhD. But aiming toget it done by the time next class notesare to be submitted. The biggestchange has been my marriage this De-cember. I went for honeymoon toPhuket, Thailand. If anyone needs infor-mation about the place, contact me.It's such a lovely place, I recommend itto everyone, but before that I recom-mend getting married, zaroori hai. Atthe political front, we are trying our bestto form a graduate committee at LUMSthat shall have its representation at thepolicy meetings. There's some break-through there. It's sad but the batch fel-lows that I'm still in touch with are onlythose who are doing their PhDs here. Iwish that wasn't the case. The things Imiss the most are the future dreams ofUsman Chaudhary and serious talkswith Farqi. I wish you all the best for thisworld and hereafter!”

Sher Shah Khan is working with Tera-data since May 2006. Previously he waswith Techlogix Lahore. He received NewAssociate of the Year award in 2006and Associate of the Year award in2007. Currently he’s working for a UKclient as ETL Designer. Sheeraz Akramsays “I was very energetic about myfield after graduating from LUMS in2006, but slowly that energy went awayand now life is very smooth and slow. Iam still working as a lecturer in Schoolof Computer Science, GIFT University inGujranwala. Now to bring somechange I am looking to switch institutesas well as the area, most probably toRawalpindi/Islamabad and also lookingto study some more. I am still singleand looking to be married in next 2 to 3years. I miss my LUMS fellows especiallyAamer Zaheer (AZee), Zeeshan AliRana, Umair-ul-Hassan, Khalid Mah-mood Amir and Umer Faiz”. Saqib Ash-faq has recently left Teradata andjoined IBM as a Data warehouse con-sultant.

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MS 2005

Coordinator

Muhammad Usman NaseemTeradata Corpluminite41@gmail.com

(Class notes collection was also sup-ported by Syed Ali Kirmani)

This is the second year of graduation ofMS2005 batch, arguably the most sig-nificant batch of graduate students interms of numbers and certainly when itcomes to fun. By now most of the peo-ple have settled in the corporate world,joining companies of all sorts, from es-tablished giants like Microsoft to humble,yet ambitious and promising startups. Afew have decided to stick to academ-ics, and still fewer have out rightly refusedto leave LUMS at all! But one thing iscommon among everyone, they all missLUMS badly.

Many people finally seem to havemoved on (past their possible post-grad-uate crushes) to get a life :D. We haveseen more and more people settling intomarried life. A few have moved abroadand some are there for a short tour.

Owing to such a large batch, many peo-ple have been out of touch with others,and we had to coerce their whereaboutsfrom them or their friends in some cases,just in time for inclusion in the class notes.Missing deadlines of anything related toLUMS seems to be hard-wired in all O5’ers. But in the end many people joinedthe volunteer work to get theirs and theirfriends updates included.

Major names in contributions apart fromthe editors are Sadaf, Murtaza, AsimShah, Wasif, Sajed, Imran Khan and oth-ers who anonymously edited the wiki. Wethank all these people for their help andcontribution. Some of the people whowere heard about here last time aroundcouldn’t be contacted/didn’t respond intime, while there are a few first timers, in-cluding some from CMPE. Looking for-ward for even better participation infuture.Enough blah blah from me, we’llmove onto the real stuff:

Aaminah Hamid is in LUMS and will befinishing her MS in June. Abdul Baseer:Lost and out of touch, in a world wherekidnappings are common, his batchmates are worried about him. AbdulRauf Muhammad Rana after goingthrough the list of courses in the hand-book has finally discovered that he isdone with the MS courses requirements.In pursuit of his everlasting wish to have a"Dr" with his name he is going to havequalifier this summer [or a wise optionwould be to have a homeopathic certi-fication]. Not to mention that he is almostdone with his proof of P=NP [WARNING!'Almost' is a subjective term]. AbdulRehman still works as team lead in Opti-mal Solutions. According to him he does-n't miss any TV series, just like old times. Iscontinuing to put on weight and hasbeen able to add 0.5 kg in the lastdecade. Adeel Munir Butt, For all kind of

de-tails, updates and news...frequently keepchecking this link....... http://www.face-book.com/profile.php?id=733726157

Any inconveniences are regretted :D.Adnan Ahmed: Adnan Ahmad droppedthe course named "Class Notes" :P. Hedeleted his previous class notes :P, rumoris that he still hasn't lost that cheeky heart-throb smile. Adnan Waheed has beenengaged last year (as he claims) and ex-pects to get married this year (suppos-edly). Much to relief of his peers inLahore, he has moved to Karachi andjoined Wichorus, where he is working asa S/W engineer. He already has the richexperience of working for more than ayear at Mentor Graphics, Lahore. AemenLodhi is doing his PhD from G-tech (readGeorgia Tech), that's all that could becoerced from Farhan Iqbal, his old timepal.

Affan Rauf seems to be really sincerewith Red Math as he is there now formore than two years. He seems to enjoyhis work and there are rumors that he isgoing for some office trip soon (abroador to Abbottabad? it’s not clear). Ahmad

Muqeem Sheri being an entrepreneur atheart, founded his own companySheritech in Lahore, ran it for 2 years,closed it down, got married and movedto Rawalpindi. He was then heard to bea lecturer at NUST and was again seenaround a new startup. People who keeptabs on him say he is in Korea these days,doing a PhD in a field un-related to hisprior qualification. He is highly disap-pointed with the standard of Koreanchicks, chucks and food. Although he stillcan't pronounce the name of the city heis living in, he is fluent in Korean namecalling. Akeel-ur-Rehman Faridee is stillworking in Mobile Weaver, Islamabad.Got engaged last year (in Dec. 2008,and hence his phone bills have soaredmany times) and will be getting marriedin September 09. He is trying to find a jobto move back in Lahore (doing so un-successfully for the past 1 year.....damnthe recession). Is nowadays happy with-out any reason. Oh wait! Didn’t we say heis Guild Initiative' to financially supportneedy, talented students from remoteareas. About Amir Raza, “There is newsthat Amir would be replacing Younis Khanfor next Allied Bank commercial. He isthere for almost 2 years and going to be‘Manaaaager’ soon." He was with HBL forover 16 months and now with MCB in thecapacity of Internal Controls Division. Heplans to stay with MCB for at least an-other year (wouldn't it have been better ifhe had done MBA or something?) Heclaims to miss the times of his stay atLUMS. He is thinking of organizing somecharity work as well. Ammara NadeemMalik is reportedly happily married andstill residing in Lahore.

Anoosha Habib served as an RA in Sule-man Dawood School of Business, LUMSfor years, which lead to an offer by Lak-son Group as Manager Institutional Sales.Then on she made it a priority to spendtime with her family and moved back toBahawalpur with a comfortable job of As-sistant Professor in Islamia University. Sui-cide rate among her Business Comm.students owing to boredom is reportedlyvery high. Asher Imtiaz, after higher edu-cation is now giving higher education tothe kids of FC University. He has beenspotted at LUMS occasionally. But, thenews is any concert he attends at LUMSthese days ends in a crash. Asif Rafiq Ra-jwana: Rumors are that after working forTRG about a year; Asif is thinking to starthis own company. Being a firm believerof "look before you leap", he has beenthinking for quite sometime now. Asif

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Raza Baig is working in Techlogix, afterresigning from Systems getting married?Started an NGO Talent Ltd. He claimslike all other developers that "life is toobored and static, but it is going on”.....Yeah much better than exciting life inFashion industry, right? Asim Ali Shah isalive :P He has just realized that it was awaste of time to remain single and hasa vow to do some thing practical now.That’s why he bought the new releaseof IPhone, and is loving it! :P. Asmar AzarKhan is also working at UMT along withlikes of Farhan (our sympathies as he isstill stuck with him) and he is also com-pleting his PhD at LUMS, and is oftenseen making tea in the CS building'spantry. Ayesha Afzal is persistently work-ing with Mobilink’s Information SecurityTeam. Ever since she joined she hasn'tswitched a single job, that probablymakes her the most consistent 05-ian.

Bilal Ahmad Bajwa after his MS wentback on his faculty position at FC Uni-versity. He is thinking of appearing forLUMS PhD qualifiers next time i.e. plansto come back with a big BANG! BushraAnjum is halfway through her PhD at NC(Fulbright Scholarship). Nearing theQualifier she spends most of her timesubmerged in Queuing Model Simula-tions, and the remaining time in plan-ning a Great Canyon (Arizona) trip, atreat to her from herself if she passesthe exam in her first attempt! Eirij AliQureshi: The only known fact about himis that, owing to confusion around hisname, he was mistakenly allotted aroom in LUMS girl’shostel; for thathe is a legendin the 05 batch.Nobody hasheard anythingfrom him thenon; we hopethat he man-aged to get outof F-2. FahadAkhtar, well,after spendinga year and halfin URAAN (whichhad a strategic lo-cation in Liberty Market, Lahore and hewas found roaming the crowded mar-ket corridors on pretext of smoke, teaand lunch breaks). Fahad decided tohave his own company,which is cur-rently doing well as a start up.Working inall sorts odd technologies, he is oftenfound saying "I love recessions, it sends

work to the Third world". Fahd khan isworking for Teradata corp., and is grow-ing in size day be day like a flubber witheach unsuccessful crush :P. News is thathe suffered a heat stroke in the Alpinewinter of Switzerland last year, reasonsnot known! The Fastian-turned-LuminiteFahd Mustafa Bhatty is lost, his whereabouts are unknown, and the 05 batchis thinking of submitting an Alien Ab-duction report to the producers of"Taken" or may be "E.T.". Other sugges-tions? Farhan Iqbal is still working hardat UMT, educating the upcomingbreed of electrical engineers in his ownstyle. Also, secretly wishes since ages totake THE GRE test but can't find time forpreparation (don't we all). But the goodnews is that he got married this winter.Good news for him yes, but for theother party, I think we gotta ask :)

Furqan Ahmad Minhas has been per-fecting the art of laziness since he leftLUMS. So much so that recently he wascontacted by the director of "Heroes"for the role of a lazy super hero named"Super Minhas". Recently the laziest per-son awards was added to his honorsand awards closet, when he wasbeaten by a snail to the touch line andbtw he is proud of this unique superhero ability :D. Furqan Aziz is still work-ing at FAST-NU. He is recently promotedto the post of Assistant Professor :). He issupposedly in Peshawar, and seldomvisits his alma-meter, LUMS. GhulamMurtaza is still stuck in LUMS doing hisPhD. Though he says he is meant to be

a student forall of his life.So let’s seehow far itgoes. Helead an ad-ven t u r o u sfew monthswith Mi-crosoft Re-search inIndia, andhas broughtback a fewdozen em-

b r o i d e r e d ,block printed and patterned South In-dian shirts to show off that he was there.Hafiz Ali Ghous Fakhri is working in Mo-bilink as a Business Analyst, and would-n't like to share more than that :P. HumaNaushad is in Canada. Living in a smallbut beautiful city called Woodstock,she is working as a Web Developer for

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Dixie Sales Company and enjoying herjob. Recently she celebrated her 1stwedding anniversary. She is living happilywith her husband and these days deco-rating her new house. Hussain LatifMughal aka HLM, has made quite atransition from LUMS to the land of pen-guins :P He is still associated with STC asa System Analyst, fattening his bank ac-count (& his tummy :P) and could earnsome much needed “sawab” by spoil-ing some of his Pakistani chotu friends(*hint* *hint*). Iftikhar Alam is AssistantDirector in Ministry of Defence and sta-tioned at Peshawar. He is happily marriedand was blessed with a daughter a fewmonths ago. He regularly plays host toany or all 05-ians who visit (or plan to doso, and never show up) Peshawar,Charsadda and adjoining areas. He has-n't realized as yet that he is a Bureaucrat,so he still keeps tabs with the lesser privi-leged old class mates.

Imran Khan is doing well in Egypt and is

assumed to be writing class notes (whichnever show up, somehow). He did writefor Adnan Ahmad, Asim Rafique and thelikes of them, but they weren’t approvedby the concerned authorities. He is oftenheard saying "I miss LUMS, the shadytown, the alleys of which, I will never for-get." Inam Alam is working in Systemsnowadays. Few things which are com-mon from before are his long hair andshyness. Irfan Ahmed recently joinedREDMATH after working for two years atNETSOL. He is still committed to makingPakistan a better place by serving the ITsector whole heartedly. Jareer AhsanHushaam after leaving the lighteningworld of Showbiz (I mean job in IT de-partment of ARY), is now working in Vazay.His efforts of relief activities for IDPs arewell appreciated by everyone. He isconstantly visiting the camps and help-ing different organizations to help Inter-nally Displaced Pakistanis. Other thanthat, he is trying to lead a 'Normal' (read

boring) life of an IT professional. JaveriaRasool is working in PEL Lahore. KhalidRehman crashed n burnt in his "first evertrue love" with Nottingham. By the way,he fell in love with this city on his first visit;) He is still in Teradata. Khuram Javed isworking at REDMATH, and is living in La-hore in a shared accommodation with 8other Luminites. He claims that aftermoving from LUMS hostel, he is still athome with all “swizziness” of living alongwith other Luminites. Liaq Ahmad NasirButt is switching jobs like a playboyswitches his girls. Now he is working withVopium A/S. He too got Nikkah-ed lastyear (Oct. 2008) and is expected to bemarried at the end of this year. His effortof moving from Karachi back to Lahorepaid off; now he can concentrate onthings which matter, rather than spend-ing money on return tickets to and fromLahore every other weekend.

Madiha Rehman is happily married andis on a full time job with Mahrosh, hercute lil’ daughter. The year started withloads of fun as Madiha went to Germanywith her family. Otherwise she is doing thesame as the previous year; looking afterher daughter and enjoying her. This yearis a bit tough for her family now as her fa-ther passed away this year. Prayers of thewhole batch are with her and her family.Mahgul Qayyum has said good bye toSystems Ltd. and is now working as a lec-turer at Government College University,Lahore. After working at Systems she isfinding this job relaxing and exciting :)(Career Opportunities at LUMS so sheclaims). Malik Tahir Hassan is one morePhD Student of the batch. He defendedhis PhD proposal recently and is doingquite well. He still has his trade mark BIGsmile across his face, and still wears onlyWHITE colored clothing. Mirza Muham-mad Yousaf: After following the footstepsof Furqan he joined Teradata to add tothe tally of 05-ians in Teradata. There isalso a little Mirza in town - his almost oneyear old, cute son named Abdullah, whowas born just one day before the lovelymonth of Ramadan last year :). We’re allhoping that he turns out as hyper active,fun loving and party crashing as his fa-ther. Moeen Uddin Bandey is working inITS Lahore, happily unmarried, living withNajam and the guys. He is usually foundhalf way between Lahore and Islam-abad, somewhere around Sukheki. Mo-hamad Ali Kirmani, after having helpedfound at-least 3 start-ups and being amajor reason for their foreclosure, isagain working in an even lesser known

start-up company, this time inRawalpindi. His quest for a job which of-fers Wednesdays 'off' is still unsuccessful.Being a very regular volunteer for non-profit social welfare organizations, Alikeeps getting lots of free food everyother day. For reasons still not clear, is ru-mored to have started preaching"celibacy" on Saturdays to all who wouldlisten.

Mohsin Naeem Khan was a very activemember of ‘05 community but hasn'tbeen in touch with batch mates lately.He still has "interested in women", "look-ing for friendship" flags set in his Face-book profile that gives one theimpression that Mohsin is still "desperatelysingle". Mubasher Nawaz Awan waslately known to be working for Cisco, andwas minting quite some money. A seriesof road accidents and illnesses lead toCisco people allowing him to work fromhome, and he was happy with thearrangement. Reportedly the highestpaid O 5ian, he frequents Mid-Easterncountries often. We received news just offthe shelf, hot out of the oven, that he iscurrently based in Dubai in Cisco Sys-tems as NCE (Network Consulting Engi-neer).

On to Muhammad Abdul RehmanAkbar Khan aka Mani, a happy go lucky,stylo guy :). One of the tension free guyof our batch, with many sleepless nights:P, he is living it up in the all time favoritehoney moon destination, Switzerland. Heis still associated with Teradata and *des-perately wanting to be no more fun bythe end of this year*. MuhammadAhsun Ali has worked for 2 long yearswith Mobile Weaver, Islamabad, and hasshared the tea-corner of the same com-pany with Akeel, Ali Kirmani & MuqeemSheri. He resides in Rawalpindi. He ap-peared with a broken hand on Hasnain'sNikah. He is slave of his routine, but hehopes to break the chains and have abetter life next year.Muhammad Asad isworking in Allied Bank (Head Office La-hore) as Information Security Analyst. Heis happily married and has a cute littlebaby girl. He is also still desperate aboutNirvana.See http://www.linkedin.com/in/muham-madasad for any other updates.

Muhammad Asim Javed is working inScrybe as a software engineer part timeand is found chatting on gtalk and Face-booking as a fulltime job :P. He has aban-doned his PC after buying an iPhone, aphone with a ROCK solid BATTERY :P.

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He still enjoys streaming Punjabi Dra-mas from Youtube, and eats up all thebandwidth, much to the agony of hisfive other O 5ian house mates in a G-11 apartment. Muhammad AsimRafique is doing Congo-ishly good.After having been in Congo for morethan a year, he has realized its time toread some Sufi stuff :P to kill the loneli-ness. Angelina Jolie is not the only hu-manitarian, Asim too has adopted twokids in Congo, and we wish him goodluck in the good work he is putting up.

Muhammad Fahim Ullah has suppos-edly started his own Software Companyin Lahore, and is getting a lot of atten-tion of out-sourcing agents because ofhis good work. He is on his way to mak-ing his first million dollars. He is so busythat he couldn't let us know whether heis still single or got married, as if wecare! :).Muhammad Imran Ansari waslast heard of working for Blue Rider, atF-10. He has his usual all-good attitudeintact, but not much is known abouthim after his appearance for a get to-gether in Islamabad last year.Muham-mad Ishaq is still proving hard to catch,even if one uses Saif as bait! He is work-ing in Next Bridge for last two years. Heis living happily, spending time withfamily and friends. He also thinks com-piling class notes is fun, so we are for-warding the torch to him next time.Muhammad Ismail is currently workingas Open Source Technologist at Zero-point. Before joining Zeropoint, heworked as a System Analyst at MakabuPvt Ltd.

Muhammad Kamran Nishat has beenblessed with a boy this year, is continu-ing his Ph.D. and currently is in Italy onEureka scholarship program. He barelysurvived the earthquake there, thoughsome of his friends here have otheropinions about the reason of the earth-quake. He still misses the birthdaybumps he used to receive on anyone'sbirthday :D/:P. Clearly O 5ian birthdayshaven’t been the same after he left.Muhammad Kashif Azhar is workingwith GenITeam, Lahore, and lives withKhurram, Moeen and a few other O5ians in Lahore, close to LUMS, sneak-ing in LUMS Wi-Fi from their home.Rumor is (though unbelievable) that hehas put on some weight! According tounconfirmed sources, he has quietlygotten married. Muhammad NasirMumtaz is working in Leaseguard Ltd (Afinancial company in Oxfordshire, UK)

as part time system analyst. He is also insecond year of his PhD studies workingon Delay Tolerant Networks Security. Hemisses Pakistan very much and is wor-ried about the situation of Pakistan.Muhammad Omer Raffat is working ona decision support system (DSS) projectfor Nortel HQ in texas. MuhammadUmair Khan is missing his 7+1 jigronicfriends of LUMS (that 1 is aka Zahid, fa-mous as our Bhatti). Working in Spec-trum Inc (SibiSoft), his currentresponsibility is to work with CapeGem-ini Inc and TeleFort as a Consultant.Muhammad Umar Farooq is workingpassionately in Analytics department atTeradata. He has anxiously seen off hiselder brother's marriage and wishes hisnumber comes soon. He exercises reg-ularly to stay fit and is currently takinglessons in photography to reveal hisnewly acquired Canon camera. Lovespaint-balling........ guess all have to be-ware of him then :).

Muhammad Zahid Ali is going througha wonderful experience of life, in asense trying to discipline his life. EverySunday night he plans the whole nextweek and then starting on Monday hethinks "chad yar next week see pakka;)"... The rest is good with him enjoyingthe summer of NY & NJ. For a living heis working as a Project Coordinator andTeam Lead in a Technology company,leading and coordinating with the offshore Indian Team. He spends week-ends with friends, visiting the TimeSquare and Jersey beaches often.Muhammed Sheraz Sharif says: “I amworking in International Turnkey Systemsaka ITS (did someone say Turkey?)which is (as he says) the leadingprovider of cutting-edge integrated in-formation technology solutions to awide spectrum of industries and gov-ernment entities across the Middle-East,Africa, the Asian region and beyond (allthe way to the edge of the universe). Iam working there in the capacity ofSoftware Engineer.” Ufff.... A responselike that to request to update classnotes really tells that we the O 5ians aretotal geeks at heart! Munazzah AbdulGhaffar is happily married withMuhammad Hassan Khan and enjoy-ing the weather of United States. Rumorhas it that she went across the conti-nent 3,000 miles just to meet an O 5ianfriend! Wow, that’s the social spirit weall need, good work! Nasir Zeeshan iscurrently working at NETSOL and alsoinhis third year of Dars-e-Nizami course.

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Natasha Qaisar is still in London and stilldoing the same job though searching re-ally, really hard for a job in her own field.As for now she is enjoying her time offand the lovely London weather. If every-thing goes according to her plan she’sdefinitely coming back in a few monthstime to meet her family and friends :D.

Naveed Ahmed a.k.a. Navie is workingas Software Engineer at Aga KhanAgency for Microfinance. His job leadhim to visit both Afghanistan and Syriatwice. Currently in Syria for deploymentand some kind of consulting as well, bythe time this would be printed he will beoff to Kyrgyzstan (yes that's a country). Hefinds it fun to meet people, learn aboutbanking, and in the past one year he hasperfected the art of staying away fromfamily, and yet keep our bhabi happy bybringing her presents from all the exoticplaces he visits. Naveed Ashfaq left afterstudying just one course and nevercame back. Qasim Ali, after spendingtwo years at TECHLOGIX, had a leapforward in his career and went on tojoin world's biggest IT company i.e. Mi-crosoft Corp. (yipeeee!) Currently he isworking on an up coming version of Mi-crosoft Windows. So guys and gals, ifyou find any bugs in up coming versionof Windows, then this time at least youknow who the culprit is :). Reema Tariqis working as a faculty member in Com-sats and living happily with her HusbandUsama. Rehman Chughtai has FINALLYleft LUMS, just like his friends Usman,Noman, Zahid; all of who stayed as longas possible. Guess nobody will ever beatKMF on that. Employed in RAC, he is a bitannoyed with himself after selling hiscamera to Usman. His latest activities arestill a mystery to his friends, and he him-self thinks that he is blank more than everbefore. S. Meiraj Hasan is currently em-ployed at Consistel Pakistan (Private) Lim-ited as Engineer in Building NetworksNorth Region and resides in Islamabad.He claims to be looking for New ProjectWork Assignment (whatever that means)these days.

Saadia Mumtaz is having loads of fun inteasing students ‘kiun kay Saadia bhikabhi Student thi! :D Her activities havebecome far more dangerous after be-coming Assistant Professor :D She is think-ing to switch again though and hopingfor some venture soon. Sadaf Ahmed isAlhamdulillah in a state of perfection andwill remain in that state unless and untilcompelled by an external force (Allah

SWT) to change that state. She is learningArabic besides enjoying her perfect lifeAlamdulillah :). After securing a senior po-sition at an IT company named RAC,Sadia Saleem bid farewell to her mindnumbingly boring job and decided toclimb the academic ladder. She is cur-rently busy pursuing her fully funded (asusual :P ) PhD at Manchester University.Though Sadia bitterly misses her familyand ‘too good to be true’ friends, news isthat she is excelling at her program,burning Biryanis and going bankrupt pay-ing her phone bill. Saif ur Rehman is onleave from PTCL where he works on SAP,to finally get a break and complete hisdegree at LUMS. He is married andspends his weekends in Islamabad withhis family. Has become a family guy andwent totally missing from the O5 socialscene. Sajed Hafeez Malik got marriedlast year and has been blessed with aboy recently, named Muhammad Malik.He is the same old Sajed, chit chatting

and making everyone laugh their tails off.The first ever elected President of LUMSStudent Council has not pursued a polit-ical career, instead he is working at theAnalytics Department at Teradata, re-sides in Islamabad, and plans to do sofor some time to come.

Sana Jawaid is now Sana Zubairi, and is(very) happily married. She currently re-sides in the U.S. She's been to DisneyLand to meet Mickey & Minnie, to Miami,San Francisco, and a few other placesnext to her neighborhood. Wow, that’s aneat neighborhood :D. Her only pastimeis spending her husband's hard earnedmoney. She still thinks she will be crownedhome coming queen the year she 'sur-prisingly' shows up for it. Sana Shafi, hon-ored Systems Ltd. for 8 months thendecided to taste the research field byworking as an RA in LUMS. As soon as shesigned the contract she Nikah-o-fied withher Prince Charming who came from theRoyal Kingdom (United Kingdom). After 4months she decided to give all her time

to her shadi related activities and saidher final good bye to LUMS though shekept on coming to LUMS for the LastSamosa. Finally she got 'rukhsat' in full'Mughal' attire and flew to her home inReading, United Kingdom with her Hus-band "Abdul Jabbar". Now she is visitingOxford, London, Hereford, Swindon, andplanning to go to Scotland and Walesvery soon. Saqib Rashid is working as aSystem Analyst in Red Math and is cur-rently in Amsterdam on a business trip. Hereally has no idea why Dutch people likehim so much! Shaheryar Iqbal is happilymarried and currently in Singapore forthe past six months. His old flat mates re-port that he is very generous person, infact a party guy :P :D, but he doesn't likewasting tissue paper :D. Sharjeel ShahidSheikh is working in Techlogix as ProjectManager and he is looking to get mar-ried. Any one interested should know thathe is no longer bald. He has spent a lotfor hair transplant. :)

Shehryar Shaukat Khan at MentorGraphics, as well as trying to setup a Vi-able Amsterdam/Lahore based Soft-ware house (www.outsourceddata.eu):) His hopes to advertise his venture viaclass notes are successful :P. Sidra Ma-sood is just like the Himalayan snowleopard; the sightings of Ms. Sidra Ma-sood are equally rare. However a littlebirdie told us that Sidra’s time is takenup tracing BUGS and I’m not referring tothe six legged, disease carrying onesshe loathes. Sidra Masood is working asSQA Engineer at Ikonami Technologies Is-lamabad. She is not watching PrisonBreak although Tayyaba and Sadaf aretrying their best to convince her ;). SyedAli Ahsan Jameel has got his hands on alot of things: Alliance IT- a startup com-pany where he is director IS, Envy- amen’s formal shirts line; and Laraib.com-a repository of Islamic religious texts. Be-cause he's so busy, he has to use algo-rithms to find what's on his mind butrealized he needs an algorithm first tofind the mind itself. Syed Farooq Ali hasbeen working on a research project inMultimedia lab of LUMS as a ResearchAssociate. He proudly tells every one thathe is a team leader of a project com-prising of seven persons. Also he is notengaged and claims it is good news forgirls the world over :).Syed Mohsin Razagot married last October, and switchedjobs to DWT Technologies. He is report-edly in Islamabad these days. He stillclaims that the best food in the world is atButt Karahi of Lakshmi Chowk. Syed

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Muhammad Noman Bukhari joinedTeradata this year, and is back in hishometown of Karachi, and recentlyflew from Karachi to Islamabad just tojoin his friends on a trip to Naran Valley.He was seen capturing nature througha DSLR with an intimidating looking lens.Rumor has it that he is still single!

Since June 2008, Talal Ahmed hasbeen working at Habib Bank AG Zurich(Global IT Department) as Deputy Man-ager in UAE ( quite a long title for a job), which clearly implies that he is stillvery single! He became an instantcelebrity when he uploaded a pictureof dancing along side a belly danceron his Facebook page. Everyonewanted to be in his place or at least theeditors of these class notes. Apart fromhis professional life, he tries his level bestto workout daily at Fitness First. Andthese days he is trying to visit Pakistan.It’s been a long time (but hey whowants to leave the belly dancers all bythemselves in UAE?) Tayyaba Ayaz is inUN and enjoying the great work she isdoing :). She is sad about MichaelSchofields untimely death ... Aren’t weall :D.

On Usman Naseem (an intro to Usmanby Asim Bhai, on special request)“ahaaa Supi, I am postive Mirza Galibna hotay tu Mirza Supi hota. "Ek Moha-bat So(100) Afsanay" itnay AsfaqAhmad nain likhtay howay nahin sochajitna supi nain parhtay ho sacha. Lov-ing, sportsman, under beared TomCruise. Used to spend his time like mostof MS (Charay) around PDC, reciting"twelfth player" by Iftakhar Arif, "Shaid koisanyaha ho jayay". Beside all this hewas a caring, loving (which we cameto know very late), enthusiastic guy. Ican’t write about his educational skills,because I don’t have such guts”.WOW! Thanks Asim Bhai! :D.

Usman Raza Chohan has beenabroad this year once again, this timeto Australia where he was a researchfellow at University of New South Wales,Sydney. He also made himself, his fam-ily, and batch mates proud by gettingsecond gold medal for the batch.Usman visited Islamabad to catch upwith friends accompanying Zahid for afun weekend at Monal sometime ago.That’s all most got to see of him lately.His narratives of his visit to France andAustralia have a very high entertain-ment value, people enjoyed them

more than he expected! :)

Waqar Ali So ‘wam’ (waqar ali mirza )is now a days working at Allied Bank(Ltd) as a System Analyst for the imple-mentation of their T24 Core Banking So-lution. He will be getting married by thisyear’s end (we all wish you best of luck).Wasif Hussain is still very single andmore than willing to let go of his "MostEligible Bachelor" title. In the meantimehe has devoted his life for the noblecause of reforming Pakistani's tax sys-tem as Senior Business Analyst at PRAL.Fortunately even in these busy times hehas managed to hold on to his rigoroustrekking routine, enviable build andNestle water bottle. But he has limitedhis activities to places where he cansafely charge his android Phone :D. isstill a loyal employee of Umair Javed,working on automobile software solu-tion. He got engaged last year and is

literally getting married as these notesare being written! He has moved to La-hore with his family. Zeeshan Malik isgetting married this month, (accordingto HLM its 101% confirmed news), Itseems his dreams to become the nextPakistani snooker world champion won'tbe realized any time soon. Better luck inyour next incarnation Shani Bhai :).Zelleh Hussnain Syed got Nikah'ed thisspring, resides in Rawalpindi and aftera brief stint with a bank, is believed tobe assisting his father in family business,or that might be a cover-up for what-ever conspiracy he and KhalidRehman are hatching as usual, anyideas?

Well that’s all folks, we are sure you musthave smiled a lot reading all of this :-P!Stay connected, stay happy, and staysafe wherever you are.

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Hina SajidEconomic Analyst, Govern-ment of Pakistanh_sajid@yahoo.com

As cliché as it sounds, we still can’t be-lieve a year has passed since we “left”LUMS. However, we really haven't “left”LUMS (physically yes, but otherwise, no).We have transitioned into a somewhatdifferent life (Better? Maybe). I will nowgive a stereotypical statement: best ofluck and congratulations to my entirebatch for this transition. I will now beginthe fairy tale:

Farah Azhar insists she is too important tobe missed (add: *wink*). After the sadis-tic Masters, Farah has found a new pas-sion to make people healthy! No she isnot practicing medicine (God forbid), butworking towards setting up afree clinic in the Waltonslums. She is working on adevelopment project of thesocial wing of PakistanTehrik-e-Insaaf, completelyapolitical in nature. The aimis to improve the healthcare, education system etcin Pakistan. (Farah, pleasesay hello to Mr. Imran Khanfrom our end too). Farah re-fuses to let go of the de-pendency (emotional??!) onLUMS. This has been taken careof since she lives only 3 minutes awayand thus is found wandering aroundcampus. Her recent accomplishment in-cludes going on the Khanpur LAS trip withfriends (finally!). She terribly misses thequizzes, the stress and ....wait forit.......PDC KA KHANA. (Imagine how post-Lums life is when you start missing PDC kakhana!!). Oh, she also adds that she'shappily single (it’s complicated).

Nothing can be like the LUMS days, addsMahrokh Aejazi. She was one of the HBLmanagement trainees for 2008 and iscurrently working as a credit analyst/manager in the SME sector in HBL. PhD isdefinitely STILL an option for her. She stillreminisces about Dr. Burki's and Dr.

Cheema's paper submissions (she adds:it sure was a funny nightmare!!).

Khuram Ashfaq Baloch is working for theState Bank of Pakistan. He is in Karachi.That is ALL I know. Neelma MohammadAsif Siddiqui got married recently in abeautiful ceremony. She sends her lovefrom the other side of Atlantic! TehreemHusain is also working for State Bank ofPakistan in Karachi. We get to hear fromher every now and then! Last I heard,Madiha Sardar had gotten engaged.Any updates on that, people?

Our very own Fizzy (Fazilda Nabeel) wentstraight to do another Masters after LUMS,to Brown University (For a Masters in PublicPolicy, on Fulbright). She has been re-united with a Fizzy look-alike (a possibletwin from a different time and space?) atBrown. We cannot tell them apart. Shewants to come back to her 'Paki Sar Za-meen' to make a difference. Although,she is not sure how and is still unsureabout what career track to choose onceshe returns, but ultimately she wants tostart a free charity school for girls (InshAl-lah). You go Fizzy! We all support thisnoble cause! Nadia Mukhtar Sayed is at

LUMS, teaching.She says that it is in-deed quite hecticwith oh-so-manyexams, quizzes etcto check andrecheck. Dealingwith the students,contesting marks,sometimes be-comes unbear-able. *HUG* (forthe students, incase Nadia is

strict).

Adeel Tariq insisted he write his own classnote: Adeel Tariq is currently masquerad-ing as a research associate at LUMSwhere he is secretly trying to discoverbaryonic dark matter with his imaginarydinosaur. Upon succeeding Adeel in-tends to retire to his motte-and-bailey po-tato castle in the fifth dimension andsporadically erase important events fromhistory (such as the opening of KFC inMandi Bahauddin). In his spare time,Adeel likes to play tic-tac-toe with the nu-merous Matrioshka Brains he has builtover time. Those of you who are left won-dering what species Adeel is, fear nomore, for I have taken the responsibility topublish an Adeel-Manual. Wait for the au-

tographed version, which will be e-mailed to all in PDF format by the end ofthis year (Sorry, the research is taking toolong due to Adeel's idiosyncratic behav-ior).

Amber Nabi Malik got married in De-cember 2008. We met the lovely coupleon the graduation ceremony. Congratu-lations! Amber has not been doing muchother than cooking and relaxing for thepast few months. She got selected at IBAas a teaching fellow and has plans ofjoining from fall semester 2009 (InshahAl-lah). She wishes everyone all the bestand misses everyone A LOT and insists ona reunion soon! Nadia Rabbani Kharsays she's technically not an alumnus(again!) yet since she is currently workingon her thesis and will InshahAllah gradu-ate this year. Nadia says: “As you all mightremember, I have a one year old son'Wasay Abbas Khan' who keeps me oc-cupied and whom I blame for delayingthe completion of my Masters program;) (Rather than my super powers of pro-crastination!)”. Nadia! How can we forgetour little baby Wasay who also attendedour Colour Week (And looked veryadorable). Wasay is actually turning outto be quite a hunk with his spiky hair andhis interest in football!

Hammad Javed (Maddy) is currentlyworking in Schlumberger, Abu Dhabi as afinancial accountant. He is also com-pleting his CFA and desperately waitingfor the recession to blow over! He missesLUMS and Lahore. Zainab Maklai is work-ing at a consultancy firm in Dubai. Her re-frigerator is still full of chocolates *drool*.Sahar Etezaz went back to Islamabadand joined the IFC group of World Bankas a researcher. She refuses to come toLahore (*hmph*) and even missed thegraduation ceremony.

Suzan Batool Sheikh recently got marriedand is spending time traveling. Congrat-ulations Suz! She also tells us that she re-

cently joined Warid as a qualityassurance executive. So in case the

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phone call is not going through, every-one now knows who to bother. You’rewelcome Suz! Qasim Jalil Ahmed is inSialkot. I remember he told me wherehe worked, but sadly I have completelyforgotten (please blame my short termmemory).

Dure Shahwar Malik went off to Lon-don School of Economics and PoliticalScience for another Mmasters. Sheloves the snow. Zara Waqas (Saeed) isa mom now, to a beautiful baby girlMashAllah. We saw the little one on thegraduation ceremony. Very adorable!She says it’s pure motherhood thatshe's into now and if anyone wantsbaby tips theycan alwayscontact her.She plans towork and em-ploy herbrains else-where in thefuture. How-ever for now;she is enjoy-ing her littleone. Zarawants a re-union too!

Who would have known that Muham-mad Asim would be busy teachingeconometrics in LUMS! He and AdeelTariq are keeping their fingers crossedto get a research paper published.Best of luck guys! Samreen Malik wentoff to do her PhD in Economics at Cor-nell on Fulbright. She is almost donewith first year and plans to work in Cor-nell from next year. For those of youwho are wondering, Samreen is single(And she adds that she plans to staysingle, for a while).

Dur-e-Shahwar Soomro went back toKarachi and is currently working forBritish Petroleum. Karrar Hussain Jaffaris yet another Fulbrighter in our batch!He is found in Harvard doing anothermasters and planning for a PhD.Haseeb Anjum (Our biggest Free Rider-Yes Haseeb, I still remember), is happilymarried Mashallah and unhappilyworking (Why am I not surprised?) at ArifHabib Limited as an economist & re-search analyst. He has no plans for fur-ther studies and is thinking of starting hisown business. As for me (Hina SajidKhan), I am working as an economic

analyst in an organization under Min-istry of Industries and Production, Gov-ernment of Pakistan. I have alsoindulged into my passion for writingand force people to read my narra-tions/short stories and give biased opin-ions (in my favour). I call myself afreelance writer (just so it seems fancy)and regularly contribute to a lifestylemagazine in UK (this is as close as Icould get to getting published). Also, Iam finally ‘google-able’ *woohooo*. Ihave planned a long list of things whichmight or might not happen.

Congratulations and best of luck toeveryone, and we shall plan a reunionsoon!

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Mumtaz SyedCrosby Securities Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.mumtaz.syed@crosby.com

This year we complete 22 years of affilia-tion with LUMS and each other, as well as20 years of graduation. It feels like yester-day that we had the water fight, thefarewell dinner and the graduation cere-mony, not twenty years ago.

I look around and see that it has reallyhappened! My son got married, so didSheheryar’s daughter. Shahzad’s son isabout to join an undergraduate pro-gram. Life has moved on, and we havealso, in a manner of speaking. The classis well settled in their respective profes-sions/businesses. Those who decided topart ways with the country are away andthose who took the plunge are sticking itout here. Then there are some who arecreating new options with a view to im-migrate. In the meantime, we all remainin touch through emails, particularly dis-cussing the situation of the country, polit-ical processes, and the implications. Weget the wisest comments from those whoare living abroad but none from thosewho are in it. I think that is what is knownas tunnel vision!

In 2006, we celebrated 20 years of get-ting together in Bangkok, which was dulyreported in this magazine. We had thenplanned that the 20th reunion of gradu-ation will be celebrated in a similar fash-ion, but at a different venue.

Come 2009 and we started short listingour potential destinations. After givingdue considerations to security environ-ment, economic downturn, historical per-spective and religious attachments,Istanbul, Turkey appeared to be thechoice destination.

A meeting was summoned of theBangkok-7, to discuss the dates as well aslist of participants. Ten people agreed toundertake this historic trip which includedAmer Aman, Azam Siddiqui, Ali Rahim,Ali Sameer, Imtiaz Naeem, NadeemButt, Shahzad Saleem, Yasir Mahmood,Zahid Khan and yours truly, MumtazSyed. You can appreciate the popularityof this group as its membership has

jumped by almost 40%. We missed outon two people because of their priorcommitments, namely Arif Butt andNajaf. They were missed during the trip.

I was entrusted with the responsibility offinding a parking place in Istanbul as wellas preparing a schedule of activities.Shahzad was planning the transportationof 10 people at the most competitiverates. The variables in equation were thelocation, facilities and the rates, all con-flicting with each other. So was the issueof air transport. Shahzad actually had todevelop an LP model to resolve these is-sues. Shahzad was also given the task ofmanaging the expenses for the trip, forbeing a Chinioti. He was the designatedChief Financial Officer at the start of thetrip, demoted to Treasurer during the tripand by the end of the trip his designationwas Cashier!

While planning the activities in Istanbul, Ialso used the same model to resolvevarying interests of group members, fromAli Rahim to Imtiaz Naeem, not to men-tion Amer Aman and Ali Sameer. Result:a FANTASTIC REUNION! Prayers were of-fered along the shores of Bosporus, onthe decks of a luxury boat, and in theBlue Mosque. There was a rumour of see-ing Imtiaz pray in the Blue Mosque whichwas later verified by Nadeem! At thesame time belly dancing and culturalshows were attended in very lively andpopular restaurants and during theBosporus cruise. Azam was seen in deepthought at one such show and Haji Yasircould not resist tapping his feet with thebeat of beautiful oriental music. Zahidturned out to be much bolder than hisBangkok trip and was a bit more relaxed.It was also a trip of culinary discoveries!We tried almost all kinds of kebabs andsea food. The Mediterranean mezzeswere simply amazing, so were Turkish De-lights and baklavas. We made someamazing discoveries about the geo-po-litical importance of Turkey and found outmore about its neighboring countries likeUkraine and Turkmenistan. All in all, the tripwas the best mix of the East and the Westin more ways than one.

A lot of time was spent together, knowingeach other better, and also grantingspace and taking care of others needs. Iwas the beneficiary in every possible wayof this because of my age! Our countrycould learn a lot in terms of tolerance ifthey could see the Istanbul-10 interactingwith each other. Shahzad has uploadedall the pictures on the web, and the Class

of 89 is invited to visit and post their com-ments. If the other alumni want to seethese photographs for inspiration, theymay do so by acquiring an invitation fromShahzad Saleem.

Last but not the least Asim Pasha has sur-faced (may be as a result of NRO) and isliving in USA. Apparently he has done an-other Masters, of course with flyingcolours, and working in a US Corporation.For further details, contact ShahzadSaleem again.

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Abid NaseemGeneralsoft, Incabidn@generalsoft.com

The tranquility of my home life is about toend. My daughter got her learner’s li-cense this year to drive a car. I've calledthe producer of the movie "Click" to seeif I can have the "gadget" for a few years.Job wise, still busy building Generalsoft.

Amir Syedain being employed to ped-dle loans by one of the first casualties ofthe global financial crisis in Bahrain, hasseen much (or the lack thereof) in the lasttwo years. He says, “I learnt the boring les-sons like living within ones means; shun-ning greed etc. Having lost its capitalthrice over, my employer has since beenrecapitalized and is threatening to artic-ulate its future strategy. Separately, I learnthow to submit to destiny; and to give andaccept love, unrequitedly. Sumer, mywife, was diagnosed with breast cancer.She is done with her surgery and chemo;and her radio-therapy should be behindus in a couple of months. And life, Godwilling, should be back to normal.Sumer’s experience has taught us much;helped us prioritize, and appreciatefriends and family who rallied round usand helped us through this otherwisetough period. Saadia, Yousuf/ Zarmi,Sadiq/Mariam, Omar/Farah,Humaira/Asim,Hafeez/Asia,Jahanzeb/Anita, Sara/Nile, Inam/Saadia, Nasir, She-heryar/Fatima – thanks for reaching out,being there, and reminding us that theworld is a good place to be. It meant alot. That Haider’s name is not on the list isa reminder of the sorrows of life and

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a great loss of 2008. That Saadia’s still is,is a comment on all that is good aboutit – thank you Saadia. The children, Zain13, Kumail 10 and Mahay 2 – havecoped remarkably well with the recentdisruption at home and have beenhelpful in their own ways. Let me sharesomething Kumail recently wrote be-fore I check out: If I had wings, I wouldhear the earth screaming for me; as Ileave slowly away.

Saadia Raza Bukhari says, “I think youprobably have the gist of what hashappened in my life last year. I lost myhusband Haider Salahuddin very sud-denly due to a ruptured brainaneurysm; he was 43 when he passedaway. I don't want to narrate it like atragic story but would certainly wantthat if you put anything in about ourloss, that you do it in a way to solicitprayers for Haider's soul and continuedprayers for a content and healthy lifefor our son, Emil Haider Salahuddin.”She is in USA for now but is contemplat-ing moving back to Pakistan as thingssettle down for her on a personal level.

Mohammad Shahzad Ali says, “Re-flecting on the last year in order to writesomething for the class notes I realizedthat nothing has changed at all thisyear as compared to the last one. So Iguess I have nothing significant to addother than the fact that I am still workingwith Syed Bhais as its COO. However,because of an involvement in a proj-ect with the Government of Punjab ourvery own Tania’s husband, AhmerMallick, has by default, become myco-boss. It has been a good experi-ence so far as Mallick sahib pays me alot of respect. Now this is somethingthat I have not been able to figure outyet: is the respect because of my age,work or being Tania’s class mate? Onthe family front nothing significant to beadded as every thing is the way it waslast year other than the fact that all inthe family are one year older and allthe kids are in one class higher than thelast. By the way my son secured 5 A’s inO’levels and now he is taking his A’levelclasses desiring to become a CA.”

Last year Shujaat Mirza was thinkingabout this, and this year he's done it!He's launched the Ikanway Scholorshipfund. And many of his classmates havepledged or paid their support to thefund. These include: Dr. PervaizAhmed, Imran Ghani, Jahanzeb

Naseer, Khawaja Khalil Shah KKS, SyedMansoor Hussain, Yusuf Ali, Saiqa Butt,Sara Bakht Rabbani, Shazi Naiyer,Sheikh Mohmmad Iqbal, RazaAhmad, Muhammad Nasir ZamanKhan, Khawer Khaliq and NailaHamid Maqbool.

Amina Ahsan Haque is still living inPleasanton. Nothing to report so far.Akbar Zaman Khan is working veryhard for International Finance Corp(IFC). Not sure what Ahmed Zaka urRehman and Mohammad Zaka urRehman are up to these days. Ali Ab-bass Hassan is dabbling in stocksagain. We are still waiting to hear fromAlliya Azher and Dr. Saadia Asifwhether they have moved back to Pak-istan or not. Have not heard anythingfrom Arif Shahab since 2005. Also notsure what Arshad Wadud Khan is up to.Azher Ali Hasmat hasn’t sent us an up-date this year though we do keep re-ceiving weird pictures that he sendsover the Internet. Hafeez AhmadChoudary sahib has pledged/paid intothe Ikanway Scholorship fund ShujaatMirza is organizing this year. Last year,he was planning to move to Jakarta for

a new job. Humaira Iqbal Khan hasnot updated us this year. HumayunMaqbool sahib is serving on the boardof a textile mill. He has alsopledged/paid into the Ikanway Scholor-ship fund Shujaat Mirza is organizing thisyear. Inam Ur Rahim says, “Life hasbeen good. My key achievements ofpast year are that I received a promo-tion, was able to retain the job and mytaxation did not increase (in Pakistan itchanges when your income increases).On family side, Faizan ur Rahim (14)now beats me in all the sports. Now Iam preparing Furqan ur Rahim (6) tobe my sports buddy.Another develop-ment is that we once again we have asizeable population of Ikanway back inLahore. So get-togethers are on the rise.During last year, I also volunteered tobe a mentor in a TCF school. It’s a 10week commitment to spend time withmentees on Saturdays. Would recom-mend this to my fellow Luminites aswell.”

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No updates have been received forwhat Muhammad Maqsood Ahmad,Mustafa Zafar, Omar Masrur, OmarSaeed, Saad Haleem Khan, ShaheenaRizvi, Tania Shah, Shehryar Ali Khan andSheikh Arif Salam have been up to.

Last year Nadeem Sarfraz returned to La-hore after living in Karachi for 10 years;he was looking after consumer loans forMCB (bank). No update received thisyear. No update received for Nasir Riazalthough I believe Nasir is teaching atLUMS. Nile Rabbani Awan was workingfor Noor Islamic Bank last year but no up-dates received this year.

Last year Sadiq Yusuf Yalmazmentionedthat he was working for WorldCALL. Noupdate received this year. He haspledged/paid into the Ikanway Scholor-ship fund Shujaat Mirza is organizing thisyear. As of last year Timour Pasha wasworking for Citibank at Dubai. No updatefrom him this year. Victorio R. Arias hasbeen missing in action since he wentback to Philippines in 1991.

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Syed Ather AhmedJS Investments Ltd.Ather.Ahmed@jsil.com

A disclaimer before you guys read on:please note that the order in which yourname appears is not a reflection of myrelationship or love for you!!!

Here goes the story of MBA 1992:

Muhatshim and Zunee are now based inKarachi. While Muhtashim continues totravel the country as Corporate Head forMCB, Zunee is the globe trotting seniorexecutive for IFC. Azfar Nomani is still withMCB as Head of Credit Review-South andhaving the time of his life rejecting dealsthat Muhtashim wants to book!! Man-soor Khalil is (mis) managing the assetsand liabilities of RBS in Karachi (no won-der it is being acquired now!!) and is en-joying his geographical bachelorhoodby sitting for ACCA exams (this is exactlywhat all of us should do if we ever get achance to be away from our betterhalves!!!!)

Weaved to textile sector are Usman Dur-rani, Rehan “Sufi” Afridi and Irfan Ab-dullah. UD is successfully managing hisown set-up in Lahore while our dear SufiCheap moved back to Lahore after abrief stint with IKEA in Karachi and is work-ing for a textile setup, exporting productsto top brands across the world. Rehanhas also been blessed with a baby girl(congrats Rehan!!!). Irfan Abdullah is busyteaching, consulting and at the sametime working for a leading textile group. Iam sure Irfan, UD and Rehan look up toAsad Zahoor who is trying to boost thecountry’s exports as Executive Director atTrade Development Authority of Pakistan.Also into teaching is Nabeela Naeem.She is helping students at various businessschools in Karachi learn the intricacies offinance. Dr. Salman Shah finally hassome competition!!

Jawad Amjad is ably managing his eq-uity brokerage and corporate financeoutfit, Invisor Securities. Jawad thoughneeds to be mindful of Maleeha MimiBangash as she is now the regulator ofall regulators, working as Member Com-petition Commission of Pakistan in Islam-abad!! Fatimah Afzal I believe is alsoworking in Islamabad as a consultant forone of the UN agencies. Keeping awatchful eye on Mimi and Fatimah in Is-lamabad is the one and only Moham-mad Ali Khan. Ali is with MCB, headingtheir commercial banking set-up for theregion. Intelligence sources have con-firmed that Taliban have banned hisentry in NWFP for his alleged non shariahcompliant activities and may be that isalso the reason that our dear friend Ha-roon Zamir has decided to base himselfin Dubai !! Haroon is working in acquisi-tion finance with Meraas Capital, a sov-ereign wealth fund.

Talking of Dubai, we now have quite ahandful of our class over there and all ofthem, by the grace of God, are doingexceptionally well. Aamir Zaidi is head-ing the Corporate & Investment Bankingdivision of Noor Islamic Bank and Faiza Ibelieve is running a roaring furniture busi-ness. Asad Batla and Asma are also inDubai with Asad heading the ConsumerBank of Noor Islamic. Saadiya Saadat iswith HSBC Dubai working as RegionalSenior Manager Channels. AhmedYahya is working as Marketing Director forGCC at Kraft Foods with Tayyaba aptlybeing the wind beneath his wings whilemy dear friend Munawar aka Monty isthe king of credit policy at Dubai Islamic

Bank. Also close by in Saudi Arabia isFarah Khan. She has recently startedwork as Financial Analyst in the treasurydivision of Saudi Aramco.

Staying with our overseas friends, Yawar“Admiral” Naeem is the Country Man-ager for Land O’ Lakes in Philippines, im-plementing USAID and ADB fundedagribusiness and dairy developmentprojects. Yawar Mazhar is the only “Ger-man” who has survived the layoffs at RBS.He is well settled with his family in Ger-many and continues to do well. Last Iheard from Faryal was about a yearago. She was in London looking after her3 wonderful kids. Nasir Iqbal is also inLondon running his companies Belling-ham Carr and Marsh that invest in energytechnologies and distressed assets re-spectively. Moving further west towardsUSA and Canada, Omar Malik is cur-rently teaching at State University of NewYork. Salman Mir is flying high as GeneralManager North America for CanyonGroup LLC. I hear Hasan Razee is in USAas well but not quite sure what he is upto. Nadeem llahi has said good bye toPakistan and has settled in Canada.Aliya Ehmar is also in Canada working inthe securitization division of CanadaMortgage & Housing Corporation.

Back to Pakistan, Omar Masud is man-aging the bureaucracy of the PunjabGovernment while I hear that Umar Zafar,after getting an additional degree fromLondon School of Economics, is nowworking with Netsol Technologies as VicePresident for their strategic wing. Also in ITis Shahid Mahmood, working as GroupDirector for IT at Wordcall. Hina Akhlaq isthe CEO for Pak Oman Asset Manage-ment Company. Gulbano has switchedjobs yet again and as this goes in to print,she is working with Saudi Pak Bank (beingrenamed as Silk Bank) as Head for SMECredits. Mehreen is holding the fort atLUMS and was recently promoted as Di-rector for the Rausing Executive Center.Way to go, Mehreen!! Naureen on theother hand is gradually and successfullygrowing her business empire and at thesame time is busy building her newhouse. I am sure we all can look forwardto a house warming party soon!!

I think one of two persons who have notswitched jobs since graduation (19 yearsago !!!) is Mohtaram Nadeem KazmiSahib (Azfar Nomani being the other).Kazmi Sahib is still glued to Siemens andhas almost reached the top of the ladder.

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Shahzad Iqbal said good bye to the jetsetting corporate life in 2007 and set upa dairy project with a passionate desireto bridge the gap between the havesand have-nots in rural Pakistan. His ef-forts have borne fruit as recently theAcumen Fund USA has partnered withhim and taken equity stake in his proj-ect. Well done Shaz!! I hear that AzmatBabar has also ventured into the worldof corporate dairy farming and at thesame time is working as a consultant.Good luck, Azmat!! Khola jee is missingin action. She was last seen working asa corporate banker for National Bank.

Last and hopefully not the least, I, AtherAhmed am still working with JS Invest-ments as their Chief Operating Officerand enjoying life in the wonderful com-pany of all the girls in my life (wife, 3daughters and mom……..in case youguys were getting any other ideas!!!)

Take care and I hope that next yearsomeone else volunteers to do this!!

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Sarah Begsarahbeg2003@yahoo.com

Another year has passed, and here Iam trying to get the latest on my friendsand class mates! My class fellows hadto bear with my aging memory andpoor computer skills when I lost infor-mation already sent by them. Onceagain, a special thanks to those whosent it again.

Karachi has seen some changes withAmenamoving back to Lahore after along stay in Karachi; still not sure whather work agenda would be. Asim isbusy expanding his business and doingso very successfully. Haseeb is head-ing the water division with Nestlé, livesin Lahore and has two children. Yahyais also in Lahore enjoying his fifty-seatcinema which must be complete bynow!

Imran Paracha, the inspiration for allaging men, is in Karachi and as per his

words, is in the same old city, with thesame old job and many other ‘sameold’ things!!! His daughter Nasheya justsat for her O’levels for Pakistan Studiesand Islamiat, while Mohaiman is goingto Class 7. Farah and Shahid with theirthree kids are also there, with Shahidbusy lending money to the poor withTameer Bank and Farah teaching littletoddlers at Karachi Grammar School.Aali and Saira are also in Karachi withtheir three daughters. Sadeed andNaureen live in Karachi with their twosons and he works for UBL. Hasan Javedhas recently moved to Karachi with hiswife and two children.

Qamar has recently moved to Stan-dard Chartered Bank, Oman in the ca-pacity of Regional Head SME NorthernGulf, Levant and Oman region. On thepersonal front, their daughter Shanzehhas just turned five. His passion formusic continues and he has recentlyrevamped and modernized his musicstudio. Zulfi works with Barclays Bankand has recently been relocated toNairobi, Kenya. Marryam and he havebeen blessed with a lovely daughterwhom they have named Noor Naira;the name follows the essence in thenames of the two elder sisters; Mahnoorand Noorain.

Dubai also has Soofi and Ali Mehdi withBarclays andOssi and Rauf Arshad withNoor Islamic. Amir Basraa recently re-located to Doha and works for Al Khal-iji in their Retail Bank. Ali Naqvi andAmna are still in Hong Kong with theirthree children, while Ghulam Mujtabawas teaching students at the NationalUniversity of Singapore till last known re-ports. Memosh and Maryam have re-located back to Riyadh with their twoboys, where Memosh is now a big bossin Henkel and running marathons inRome! Naveed Asghar is still workingvery loyally with Unilever and is based inJeddah, but is in the process of mov-ing to Dubai. Haider Ali, till last knownreports, was settled in Jakarta with hiswife Suzy.

Moeen and Sabd-e-Zar live in Londonwhere she teaches the CFA Program atFinance Grid Limited and other trainingestablishments. They have two sonsZain and Saif. The elder one Zain, takesa few of his IGCSE exams this summer.Sabd-e-Zar very tragically lost heryounger sister last year and the wholeclass would like to take this opportunity

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to offer their condolences to her and herparents.

Faisal works for an institution which usedto be called Toronto-Dominion, but now ithas become TD Bank. Faisal and Uroojhave two boys and have happily madeCanada their home. Ali Bajauri is also inToronto and his wife Saima is a buddingartist and Ali is very proud of that. He hastwo daughters. Osama is about to com-plete the course work phase of his doc-torate at Harvard Law School after whichhe plans to research and write his disser-tation in Pakistan, and also do justice sec-tor reform policy work. His wife Maryamjust graduated with a Masters degreefrom Yale Law School. Osama has twokids: his son Hatim is in class four at Aitchi-son while his daughter Nawaal is in prepat Lahore Grammar School.

Dr. Mansoor has been with Roche Diag-nostics Limited for ten years now. Hemoved to the UK last year in June andwas fortunate to be able to get a posi-tion in the Roche Diagnostics UK as the Sr.Marketing Manager HCP. He lives in Hay-wards Heath, a town in West Sussex. Heand his wife Sarwat have 3 children,Maha, Qasim and Sana. Fatima is alsoin the UK where she works in Barclays Bankin consumer banking. She and her hus-band Omar and son Usman live in Brad-ford in West Yorkshire. Salman Nisar and I(Sarah Beg) live in Lusaka, Zambia whereSalman works with Standard CharteredBank. We have three children, Mustafa,Zehra and Faiz. I am still writing book re-views for the DAWN and am serving onthe Board of Governors of the children’sschool.

Each year I fail to get more informationon Dr. Saleem Dar, Salman Saleem,Omar Khalid, Abid Ashfaq, Khaqan Ab-basi and Naveed Chawla. My apologiesand I hope next year would present bet-ter results! All the best.

MBA 1994Coordinator

Salman QutbMCB Bank Limitedqutbs@yahoo.com

This year our class seems to be keeping alow profile; there is no earth shattering

news, not many job shifts in mass drovesand no shifting of country of residence.What has happened to the LUMS spirit?!Could it be that the middle age phe-nomenon is settling in? Well, only time willtell. So here we go with latest updates(latest as of early June 2009).

Abdul Rahim Butt still conjures up syndi-cated loans for his clients in Asian andMideast markets, just sitting in his office inStandard Chartered Bank in Dubai. Thisyear he managed to evade all requestfor a further update. Ali Mahoon is busy inUmras, Hajs and also his job which is inJeddah as the Regional Risk Manager forSamba in KSA. He seems happy tacklingmore sophisticated cases in risk man-agement which are a given experiencein economies outside Pakistan. His wifeFatima and their kids Aahmad age 6,Dina age 4.5 and Danya age 3.5 arealso now well settled in their new sur-roundings.

Ali Nadir Syed, as the founding memberof an investment bank in Dubai navigatesthe post credit-crunch environment byplaying backgammon, Russian rouletteand monopoly with his borrowers. GulNigar remains busy as an activist, ap-pears in talk shows and writes regularly forpapers and websites. They have adaughter Amaan in class 3.Amer Kamalhas seen it all in his 8th year in Dubai –hemanages Shells’s chemical sales in Mid-East & Pakistan. It is only through his per-sonal effort that sales of anti-freezechemicals in Bur-Dubai now surpass salesvolumes in Nordic regions. He tells methat their villa is beautifully decorated withpaintings by his wife Gul. (He has threekids; Dua age 10 in class 5, Jazib age 8in class 4 and Rafay, age 2).

Atif Baig recently took up cricket umpir-ing in Singapore as an alternate hobbywhen he realized it was a quicker way toadd runs. Atif heads the regional CreditRisk Portfolio Management for DeutshceBank -with his skills in more demand hecontinues to enjoy life with his wife andthree daughters. Awais Hassan the fa-mous Baoooooooooo has worked won-ders at Habib Bank AG Zurich, in Dubaiand now heads its corporate zone. Hisbank presented him with an award inFeb-2009 and he now spends his afterhours in a gym building up his biceps.He and his wife Quratul Ain have two kids;Mahnoor age 11 in class 6 and Hasnainage 8 in class 3.

Azeem Ullah Khan, the forgotten entre-preneur, has his own immigration andsettlement consultancy called “AukSunConsultants” and he operates out ofthree offices in Canada, the UK andKarachi; though where he could be atany point in time is anybody’s guess.Wife Sadiya and daughter Anoush, whois age 5, studying in class 1, back his in-ternational travels and efforts with pa-tience and support. Behram Limbuvallanot seen by any for the last many yearsremain in hiding in Canada. With allemails gone unanswered what is he upto…… any idea???

Eiraj Saleh Daud is the man or more cor-rectly the General Manager behind everybar, every cup, every banner, every slo-gan and every delicious bite of EngroFood’s new ice-cream. If you find himgaining weight, it’s not his fault becauseevery bar coming out of the productionline has to be tasted for quality. He is atwork 24/7 while wife Ayela handles kids athome. (Talha age 12 in class 8, Hira age9 in class 5, and Danial age 6 in class 2).Faaiz Hassan works with HSBC Bank Mid-dle East Ltd as a director while beingbased in Dubai along with spouseAmina. Faaiz, during his previous stay inLondon, accumulated a load of fishinghooks, lures and baits … he is wonderingwhat to catch with these in Dubai …..any suggestion ? Please email him di-rectly. He has two boys, Omer age 9 andAadil age 4.

Fuad Zaffer doesn’t miss Lahore at allfrom Kansas, USA, where he has stayedput for the last 14 years, he works for Al-catel-Lucent which is a very, very, VERYhigh tech company thatmakes……………………….. well if youare that curious you may check withFuad directly. (Kids: Insia age 13 in class7 and Faran age 6 in KG). Haaris Zafar isa director with RBS in London, loves visitingand financing ventures in mines andmetals. His job is regulated by FSA whilehe himself is regulated by wife Fatimaand also his son Mikaeel who is age 4and in nursery.

Haider Rafiq’s business in Islamabad issupply chain logistics & manufacturing ofFMCG, in simple plain words, he makesbiscuits, steel bars and milk and sellsthese as well….… a small clarification,cows make milk he only sells it. He has ason, Hamza age 12 in class 7, anddaughter Aiman age 10 is in class 5). Hispastime is perfecting his golf shots while

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pondering on customer complaints.Having impressed Al Gosaibi in his pre-vious job, Hammad Hassan now keepsthe guys in Bahrain busy; they bring innew loans for wholesale Islamic andstructured banking at ABC Islamic Bankwhere he is the Head of Marketing. Hewas last seen visiting Lahore along withwife Nazia about two years ago. He hasthree kids, Wardah age 11 in class 6,Rania age 10 in class 5 and Afraz age6 in class 1).

Even if you want to hate Haris Ahmedeither for no or for all the reasons you’llstill end up loving him for his good na-ture and manners. He is the Barclaysbank’s Regional Head for commercialbanking and is based at Lahore. Heloves tikkas, spicy curry, marinatedchops and his twin boys Wali and Razi(both aged 5 in KG class), but in reverseorder. Haroon Khalid got a promotionand is now the Chief Risk Officer forBank Alfalah -based in Karachi. He willbe signing a contract for his upcomingbook with a UK based publisher. Furtherdetails on this book are being kept bythe gora publisher but we are told thattickets for its launch ceremony have al-ready been pre-sold to capacity be-cause of accompanying dinner anddance party. Haroon and wife Sophiacan often be seen visiting Abu Dhabion alternate weekends. They have twokids; Rafae age 7 in class 2 and Emaadage 3 in nursery.

Jayikar Vaidya did provide an updateto us last year on his exploits in Kat-mandu but changed his email addressthis year. Till we are able to establish anew contact with him you may con-sider him missing in action! MirzaHashim Baig’s previous role modelswere the talibaans that he has now re-placed with Warren Buffet this year. Heasks us to “realise that the end is ap-proaching fast and to start preparing forthe final destination”. This he said whileinspecting his new diamond-encrustedwatch. He manages risk for Burooj Prop-erties in Abu Dhabi and lives in AbuDhabi along with his wife Aysha and kidsFatima age 13 in class 7, Maryam age6 in class 1 and Zainab age 4 in KG.

Maimuna Arshad is a homemaker liv-ing with her husband Arshad in the USAand says that she’s awaiting the timewhen cooking, cleaning, grocery shop-ping and kids’ homework are not herdaily worries!!!. (Kids: Ahazz, age 8 in

class 2 and Mina age 3 in preschool)Nauman Chughtai and Sobia are bothsettled in Lahore where Nauman headsthe credit review function at MCB Bankand Sobia heads corporate marketingfor HBL’s huge base of customers innorth. Nauman’s favourite pastime ishunting sparrows with his Colt revolverbut time and sparrows are both inscarcity for bankers these days. Theyhave two kids; Saad age 12 in class 8,and Ayla age 9 in class 4). Sajid Saeedhas not informed us but he too appearsto have shifted jobs. He is now with GulfOil Saudi Arabia as its CEO, while theCEO at home is his wife Sumbleyina.They have two kids Safa age 11 andSelina age 3.

Mumtaz Kazmi along with wife Symarecently moved from the USA to join in-vestment banking field in Dubai. Merg-ers and acquisitions is now his specialty;Amreeki experience counts with Arabsand it is 10 years in his case. The couplehave two kids Mekaael age 5 andZahra age 2. Romana Malik is settledin Dubai along with her husband Kashifand kids. She recently left work to givemore attention to her kids Zain age 4and Zoya who is mashAllah now 4weeks old. Saira Hameed was lastheard working on the investor relationsside at UBL in Karachi. She has adaughter Fariha, age 13 and a sonMustafa, age 8.

Saira Shafi is based in Karachi manag-ing her furniture business. She has threekids; Sara, Sana and Alisha. I’m thesame old Salman Qutb you knew butthis time I’m challenging you to a roundof golf in Lahore! Please contact me atMCB Bank, where I’m in the Basel-II/ RiskManagement. Supervising study andhomework of our 3 lovely daughtersZehra, Zeyneb and Eleena is managedentirely by my wife Saima. It’s been al-most two years ago that our ShamoonChaudhry joined the Boubyan Bank inKuwait as its Investment Advisor to its In-vestment Group but he still has to pro-vide an explanation to us on the originand meaning of his employer’s name !Shamoon and his wife Rahla are settledin Kuwait along with their kids: Shaheerage 7 in class2, Abdul Rafay age 3 andSiddiq age 1.

Syed Ali Athar manages his dailytravel to and from Nestle’s plant somedistance from Lahore on Sheikhpura

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Road in addition to his responsibility asGroup Manager Distribution Opera-tions. Old habits continue so he contin-ues to deliver lectures to both his staff andto his wife Tehseen and kids Nasir age 6and Zujaja age 4. After 15 years KashifShah left investment banking and begana new career in petrochemical industryas Sponsors’ Advisor to Bosicor Group inKarachi. New refineries and chemicalfactories coming up! They have threekids; Saniya age 8 in class 3, Alizehageage 7 in class 1, and Zara age 2 classPre-KG.

We were finally able to trace ShaziaKamal who works for Kashf Foundation inKarachi. A micro finance specialist, shelives in Karachi along with hubbyNadeem and kids Farishteh age 9 andMalhaar age 3 months.Tahir Aziz beingthe Group Head for Corporate and In-vestment Banking at Askari Bank claimsthat his job has also given him new insightinto the tact of loan recovery and the artof chasing a customer be it a he or a she!He lives in Karachi along with wife Ayeshaand their kids; Taimur age 10 in class 4and Nadir age 8 in class 2.

Usman Hassan heads Credit Risk Man-agement at MCB Bank and is based at itshead office building in Lahore. He isheavily involved in building his housethese days and has four kids -two girls andtwo sons. Doc Usman Bhatty is not thesame good old doc any more…… hehas just signed up for a lead role in amovie to be called “Hell’s Angels GoneWild in Lahore”. Using his job of CountryBusiness Manager Nutrition at Nestlé La-hore only as a front, he can be seenstealthily riding heavy bikes in those darkcold nights. To keep him inside, wifeAmana is looking to install stronger lockson the front gates of their new house. Hehas two kids; Abuzar age 9 in class 5 andAli age 7 in class 2.

Usman Khalid has worked his way up onthe corporate ladder at Nestlé Pakistan inLahore. Currently he is the Controller forMilk Collection and Agricultural Services.He has sold all his vintage cars to a film-maker in Bombay and resultant emptyspace in his house is now converted to avegetable garden by his wife Saima. Hehas two kids; Hamza age 10 in class 6and Ayesha age 7 in class 2. Love of La-hore has brought Yousaf Hussain back tothe city after 13 years, now he works forFaysal Bank as its Regional Head-North.He and wife Tanzeela along with their

daughter age 5 are busy furnishing anddecorating their new house in DHA for itshouse warming party.

Those few who continue to stay awayfrom the limelight year after year with nonews or updates are Aamer Naseer, AmirChistie, Ayesha, Lubna, Nabigha,Saman, Ubaid, Uzma & Zahra.

MBA 1995Coordinator

Taimur Shaique HussainHabib Bank Limitedtaimur.hussain@hbl.com

In today’st rans ien tworld, jobsc h a n g eovernight,g e o -graphicallocat ionsvary continuously, and even spouses maycome and go! Contrary to what hashappened in the past, we do not desireto limit this year’s Class Notes to a narra-tion of where everyone is working, howblissful their married life is, or how manyoffspring they’ve raised into veritable ge-niuses.

As Zahid Mustafa once said, “Life aver-ages out.” Looking around us objectively,most of the members of the Class of 95are professionally and personally well set-tled, and – over the past 14 years – havebrought to practical life many of the loftybut time-tried ideals that we learnt atLUMS – the values of hard work, loyalty, in-tegrity, team work, fair dealing, personalmaturity, and freedom of speech.

This year, for the Class Notes, we leaveyou with a few photographs to revive thehappy memories of days gone by andnever to re-turn. As forwho’s work-ing where,let’s collec-tively echoAli Aslam’swords as he

spoke them at our 10th class reunion, “Wecame to conquer and ten years later wehave conquered the whole world. Weare on all five continents; in all perceiv-able industries; some at the highest levelsof success and others getting there; andall existing as responsible members of ourrespective communities. And, this is only10 years down the line…..”

To commemorate the newest edition ofthe Alumni Annual Magazine, and tothank the editors to allow us an opportu-nity to express ourselves, I take the libertyof submitting three photographs from the

days of yonder on behalf of our class.

After all, a picture is really worth a thou-sand words.

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Ahsan Afzaal AhmadEngro Chemicalaaahmad@engro.com

Aamer Manzoor is married to Beenish.They have a 4.5 year old daughterMaaha and are residing in Lahore. On theprofessional side his venture/companywith Shafi group, WOL, got acquired byOrascom Telecom in 2007 and as part ofthe acquisition he started working forOrascom Telecom’s internet arm in Pak-istan. In 2008 he launched LINKdotNET inPakistan which has recently been mergedinto Mobilink. Currently he is working as thehead of corporate solutions for the Broad-band & Carrier Division (BCD) division ofMobilink. Abdus Sami was last seensomewhere in Karachi walking between aPSO and a Shell petrol pump. AdeelUmar Farooqui has just quit P&G after along, unsuccessful career and after steal-ing a formula for the detergent with thewhitest dhulai; he’s going into business on

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his own. Ahmad Imran ul-Haque,Roohina Jamshed, Ishrat Khan, Mir Fa-rooq Mazhar, Romana Malik, no newsfrom them, which is always good news.

Ahsan Afzaal Ahmad has tried unsuc-cessfully to be kicked out of EngroChemical for 10 years. Is doing thesame at Engro Foods and having ablast. After a few successful psy-chotherapy sessions (for the therapist)he has now completely lost his marblesand is not rowing with both oars in thewater. He is still waiting for a movie offerfrom Siki. Ali Hameed is working on atop secret project for a beef companyin Nicaragua that invented the swine fluand the bird flu before that. You may re-member them from that late 70s Oscarwinning flick ‘One flu over the cuckoo’snest’. Ali Tariq has finally realized hisdream of making it big in the intoxicat-ing world of international high finance.Well, part of the dream actually – the in-toxication part. Amir Iqbal Khan,Chaudhry Tahir Masaud, MuhammadAli, Rashid Haleem, Amir Shafi, all is inthe well with them. Amir Masood hasnot lost his cool and has managed notto raise his voice over 15 decibels.

Amna Waheed Khalid and Zia AkhterAbbas are still together. Aqib Salam hasjust been interviewed and rejected forthe top slot at tehrik e talibaan Pakistan.Rumour has it that he was found to betoo hardcore a fundamentalist for theposition. Aresh Manek Mehta is workingfor the Iraqi cultural centre in Karachiand was last seen wining and dining AtifEllahie at Roasters behind Hina’s back.Asif Umar Sheikh is secretly involved inall the good work that goes on in La-hore. He has recently acquired awomen’s hockey team and is preparingthem for the 2024 summer Olympics.Atif Ishfaq Ellahie and Hina Baig arebased in an unislamic country and arestill married since Hina has no clue thatAtif has been seeing Aresh behind herback.

Azhar Saeed is based near the moun-tains and has made huge profits work-ing for the non-profit sector. He workspart time and parties full time. AmirShafi is still working at one of his familyconcerns i.e. textile weaving companyas executive director. He is settled in La-hore and has two lovely daughtersMashAllah. Emaan is 8 and Eshah is 4.5years old. He sends his best wishes to allof you. Dilawar Khan Bajauri is helping

the cause of his fellow Bajaurians, livinga plush life in the US with an entrepre-neurial venture that sells small handi-crafts made from sheep skin. DuraidQureshi and Momina Arif have cov-ered all angles of the media industry.

Fahed Amjad Khan is working at MCBBank as Unit Head in Corporate Bankingfor the last three years. He got marriedwhile at LUMS so it’s been 13 years now.He is the proud father of 3 kids (2daughters and a son). Elder daughterIman is 11 years and younger Maham is6 while Momin has turned 4. FaisalAkhtar Rana is also working for Nestlé.There is a prize for finding at least 3more on these pages who are also atNestlé. Buy 1 get 3 free deal? FarooqAhmad Saeed lost his way in puranianarkali a few years back and has stillnot found his way back home. FatimaAsad-Said has dropped her last nameand with her husband's transfer, is backin Lahore working at Abacus Consultingas HCS Director and also managing theInternal HR and Corporate Communci-ation portfolios for the firm. A proudmother of two beautiful sons Moham-mad Ghazi Said and Mohammad Has-san Said, life is wonderful and hecticespecially the days when she finds ahappy balance between home andwork

Hafiz Muhammad Zubair Naseem isfollowing in the footsteps of his rolemodels of high finance, Milken, Boesky(not to be confused with the inventor ofa type of kurtas for Pakistani men) andMadoff. He is at an undisclosed locationin the US. Hameeda Jamshed andKashif Rasheed are happily married.Hameeda still has an interest in the Eng-lish language alphabets. After goingthrough H, she has graduated to K, witha few Is and Js in between. She is look-ing for an L (any volunteers?). Kashif hasapplied for French nationality so that hecan change his name to La Kashife.Hassan Jawed Ahmed has acquired athick French accent and is working for aBoulangerie in Islamabadmaking thosehard, long, cold sub type sandwicheswhose name I can’t recall.

Hassan Ahmad is working in a zoo inCongo studying the mating habits ofthe gorilla. In his spare time he playshopscotch with them and spends 4hours a day dropping/picking his 2daughters up from school. He wants tobe in a movie too. Hassan Yousaf Shah

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finally gets married. Long awaited, pa-tience pays off and Shahji strikes gold.Hassan Zia is still working for the Frenchconsulate in Botswana, and just appliedfor a transfer to Karachi for the 15th time.Imran Alim Mufti working with Shell forthe last 11 years. Based in Lahore and re-sponsible for the implementation ofProduct Lifecycle Management projectfor the East Zone Shell operating units.PLM is a real complicated area and ismostly focussed on supply chain end. Ifanyone is really interested, they maycontact Imran.

Imran P Siddiqi… even LUMS does notknow what his middle initial stands for.Well 12 years have passed and its timeto declassify it Mr. Pasha. Kashif RahimSheikh is working for his 7th telecomcompany since graduation. One won-ders what the industry did to him, whenhe was a child, to deserve this. KhurramJaved Maqbool is working for Nestlé inLahore and is responsible for all the goodmarketing work that you see from them.Khurram Zia is working for Nestlé in La-hore is responsible for all the goodmar-keting work that you don’t see from them.What’s the deal there? Should I changemy name to Khurram before I apply?

Malik Faisal Qayyum is with Telenor forthe last four years, currently working as Di-rector Sales and Distribution for, based inIslamabad, looking after country widesales of Telenor. He is married with twokids, six year old son Abdullah and fouryear old daughter Zainab. MasoomZehra is still masoom, 12 years aftergraduation. Mohammad OmarFaruque and Muhammad HamayetHossain are embroiled in a mammothcompetition to prove who is the prettierof the two and who will be the next fi-nance minister of Bangledesh. Muham-mad Omer Gajjial is working for anun-Coke company in un-Pakistan. Thelast I heard from him, he was wasting histime trying to contact everyone in US(Saad, Dilawer, Atif, Hina, Najeeb, Sha-heera ....) to give me one consolidatedwrite up. Sorry buddy, time’s up and youmissed another critical deadline.

Muhammad Salim after destroying thecurrent generation with his escapades isworking on the next one at BeaconhouseSchool System and that too in HR.Muhummed Tariq Saadat is the chiefdesigner for a textile company in Lahorethat has designed a trouser so tight thatthe only way to wear it is as a child and

then grow in them. He has 2 patentspending registration. Nadeem-uz-Zaman joined Coke so he could moveout of Karachi. He now wants to join Pepsibut can’t find a city in the world wherethey would hire him. Najeeb AhmedHashmi is seen lurking outside the cor-porate offices of Microsoft waiting for hischance after Mr. Gates passes away.

Najeeba Khan has washed away heracademic sins by getting a degree inlaw and wants to defend Musharaff(Parvez from Prez and Haye from Uzi).Nasir Mohayud-din is running a smalloperation refining, packing, branding,transporting, distributing Afghanistan’sbest known export.Omar Khalid is mar-ried to Juwayria with two kid, Minahil (7years) and Saad (4 years). Recentlyshifted to Karachi and working for a Sin-gapore based company Meinhardt asProject Director. You can still see him jog-ging in fluorescent shorts on Sea View.And let me tell you, it’s not a very prettysight. Rana Tariq Habeeb is working atNestlé Pakistan head office in Lahore asSales Automation Manager, married withtwo kids, aged 4 and 1.5 years.

Saad Parvez Aslam is working for MerrillLynch in NY and has one daughter whowill be headed to 2nd grade in Septem-ber. Saira Latif after completing her PhDdecided to get back at the US and hasstarted teaching in a university. SajeelButt had invented a pedestal fan freshout of LUMS that gave off cool air in win-ters and hot air in summers. He has beentrying to reverse the sequence for the last12 years working from a secret lab in Gu-jranwala. Sajida Ali and Yahya Iqbal, notmuch has changed at their end. Sajidaand Yahya still live in Dubai and have alovely son, Mustafa. He will be turning 7this month. Yahya continues to work forABN AMRO while Sajida is brewing someinteresting entrepreneurial ventures. If youguys are in/around Dubai do look themup.

Salman Beg has a grandson, 4 years oldSalaar, who is the light of his eyes, his eld-est daughter Sarah is married to AbbasAizad and lives in Abu Dhabi, the sec-ond, Sehr Saba has done her MBA fromNUST and is working with Attock RefineryLimited, and the youngest Saleena hasjust completed her BBA, also from NUSTand is intending to work in the develop-ment field. Salman continues to be withAga Khan Cultural Services Pakistan, thathas projects in Hunza, Baltistan and since

2005 in the Walled City of Lahore.SaqibAhmed Buksh is still the nice guy that healways was, despite selling you boxershorts that send you back by a week’ssalary.

Shaheera Ikram is based in US, clonedher husband successfully through theirson, Bilal, who just turned 9 months. Sheis in the process of relocating to Zurichand will be living between US and Zurichfor the next 2-3 years. Do look them upif u happen to be in either of the twocountries, she’s on Facebook, alwayslikes painting the town green and whitewith good old like-minded desis! ShahidRasheed is working for a coal mine inCanada after realizing that ‘moon kalakarney kay eik say ziada tareekayhain’.Shahzad Ahmad Malik is finallyparted from Azhar Saab – damn the mo-torway. Shehryar Kasuri is on his way to-wards becoming our next foreignminister.

Sikander Malik was last seen headinginto the mountains of Gilgit in search ofthe ever elusive Yeti. All he saw therewere the Marmots. He still has not real-ized his dream of working in the adult en-tertainment industry of California, insteadwasting his time on the awakening ofMuslim ummah working from a secret fa-cility in Islamabad. He is very glad andgrateful that I am compiling these noteson behalf of this "lawaris" class. He reallymisses LUMS because it was such an"elite/premium/super/ultra" school andthat was the last thing of value that heaccomplished.

Sohaib Ahmed is lost in the big bad city.Sohail Nawaz Awan is responsible for thecurrent energy crisis in Pakistan becauseof the work he did not do for PrivatePower Investment Board, or was it be-cause of the work that he did there?Syed Ali Sarosh was last seen pawning agold medal to buy a pao of channay.Syed Mohammad Ali Abbas is workingtowards his third PhD after realizing thatthe first two did not help him even a littlebit in teaching ‘murghiyaoon ki munafabukhsh nighaydaasht’ on virtual university.Syed Najam Ahmed Shah is schemingto take over the world – well as soon ashe can find a ‘mini-me’.

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Nauman KhawajaExpress Enterpriseskhawaja.nauman@gmail.com

Once again, there was not much inter-est in writing Class Notes from any cor-ner. So, I decided to take up the taskyet again to be able to have the pleas-ure of supplying inaccurate andcooked up information, but I guess in-accurate information is better than noinformation! So, please accept myapologies beforehand. Here I go:

Abbas Bokhari AKA Fokee is suppos-edly still with Maersk (unbelievable feat).He should still be in Italy. Rest of the de-tails are unknown. Abdus SamadGoraya is the Head of Business Devel-opment at Presson-Descon and isbased in Lahore. Samad is a frequentflyer. He has two sons. Ahmed Jahangiris heading operations at Nishat Dyeing.He still speaks a lot and is still fun to bewith! He has three children. AhmedNawaz is nowhere to be found. We willalways remember him by his broadsunny smile and occasional but emo-tionally charged CP, during which onehad to look towards a calendar ratherthan a watch! Ahmed Salman is run-ning his software export house by thename of Sigmatec Solutions. He is hap-pily married to Sobia Haqqi, of course.

Ahsan Sheikh also known as ‘Ahsan Ni-hari House’ is one vital person responsi-ble for keeping the class together.Besides throwing regular biannual ‘Ni-hari’ bashes at his place, he is also run-ning a Telenor franchisee business andanother business with Salman Danishcalled Media Logic. Ahsan has two

sons. Akbar Ayub is working with Pak-istan Tobacco Company and is basedin Akora Khatak, according to somenot-so-reliable sources! Akbar Moghalis working as the Head of CRM andeBanking for Atlas Bank and got mar-ried in December 2008. Earlier, he hada year long stint in HBL as the Head ofDeposit Access and eBanking after fi-nally moving out of a long and travel-intensive tour of duty with NCR as aBusiness Consultant and Project Direc-tor. Al Hani Khawaja is based in Karachiand running his own business. Till lastaccounts, he had a daughter.

Amira Saleem, now Amira Haroon issettled in Dubai caring for her hubbyand a son. She has also launched anaccessories and clothes brand lastyear which is being distributed throughtwo fashion retailers and four outlets.Aun Mehdi is with PTCL as Head of Con-sumer Business Development in Lahore.Aun still has one wife (official, as per hiswords!). He has twin sons. Asif Habib isworking with Standard Chartered andbased in Lahore. Asim Hafeez is work-ing in National Commercial Bank,Saudia and is based in Jeddah. He has2 sons and a daughter. Al-Haaj Asimmust have performed countless Um-rahs and Hajjs by now. Asim Hussain isstill with Cupola, managing KFC restau-rants, a long association of almost 10years. He is settled in Lahore and liveswith his parents. On the family front,Asim and Amaira have three adorablechildren Aiza, Shahzaib and Inaya.

Atif Qayyum is in Dubai and works for amedia company. He has reportedlyfound his ‘beachy atmosphere’ and‘cozy music’, not to mention his ‘iden-tity ’! He is happily married with a son.Ayesha Baqir AKA ‘Chandi’ is reportedlyselling beautiful candles and believesin alleviating poverty and promotingentrepreneurship. All of you are en-couraged to buy candles, crafts andaccessories from Kaarvan shops.Ayesha Karamat is teaching some-thing somewhere in Lahore (LSE, as perlast accounts). Ayesha and husbandSamie are proud parents of three love-able daughters. Ayesha Niazi is ahomemaker and reportedly has a sonand a daughter. Azim Abbas is workingfor Bell Canada in Toronto. He has alsoventured quite successfully in real es-tate business. The only real thing I man-aged to gather successfully from

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his old 214 word update e-mail is thatsome guys never change! He has twosons and a daughter. Faisal Niaz is run-ning his family owned packaging busi-ness by the name of Anipack and isbased in Lahore. Faisal has a son.

Faisal Salim is nowhere to be found. Hewas seen a few years back in Lahore inconnection with his industrial suppliesbusiness. Faizul Hassan Ansari, accord-ing to an ancient Chinese proverb, relo-cated from Saudi Arabia to Dubai lastyear and is working with a pharmaceuti-cal company. Dr. Faiz has three children.End of CP! Faraz Khalid has recentlymoved to Dubai as Head of Policy Unse-cured at Standard Chartered Bank, afterspending a few years at the same bankin Karachi. Faraz still manages to beamong the select bachelor crowd of ourclass. Farid Ahmed is the Director Mar-keting with Mobilink in Islamabad. Mo-bilink sales are said to have increaseddramatically since he joined the com-pany, as everybody wants to ‘agree withTHE Farid’!

Fawad Haider is working with WateenTelecom in Lahore, besides co-manag-ing his chain of Bonfire restaurants.Fawad is reportedly engaged and prom-ises to get married in December, which,we hope, don’t turn out to be like his pre-vious 10 yearly promises!

Gunasegaran once again kept hisrecord for being out of sight since he leftLUMS. I hope no one calls him ‘Guna’ tobe translated into ‘sin’ wherever he lives.Hajira Buttar is married and lives in Ver-mont, USA. She works part time as an in-vestment advisor for a private company.Hajira has a 2 year old daughter.Hashaam Ashraf is settled in the UKalong with his wife. Not much is knownabout his job, what’s important is that hebought a BMW Z4 last year. Still going fast,Hashaam?

Hasnain Ali is endeavoring into new busi-ness ventures, details of which are notknown. He has two sons and a daughter.Imran Gilani after a brief stay at LUMShas moved back to Multan to continuehas teaching, preaching and academicactivities. He is pursuing a Ph.D. IrfanAhmed Khan is the Head of CorporateBanking with Faisal Bank in Karachi. He re-portedly has a son. Ismail Arif is lookingafter his textile spinning business in La-hore. Ismail is happily married with twochildren. Jalal Khalid is still working as VP

in Citibank Dubai looking after creditcard products; he’s been with the bankfor 7 years. He indulges in golf along withsquash and occasional volleyball. Jalalis happily married with a son. KamilJamshaid is with Emirates Islamic Bankand drives his SUV on the sprawling (nowempty) roads of Dubai. He has twodaughters.

Kazim Mujtaba is with the wi-max divisionof Mobilink in Islamabad. He is seriouslypursuing golf these days. Kazim has adaughter. Khalid Khawaja used to bethe nice no-nonsense guy of our class.That is all that can be said about him, asno one I know has any contact with himsince he left LUMS. Khawar Khan is theCEO of Presson-Descon and is based inLahore. Mansoor Siddiqui is still with StateBank of Pakistan in Karachi. Mansoor hasa daughter. Manzer Nauman is still run-ning his medico-legal transcription busi-ness which has been expanded into aBPO operation by the name of ParadoxInternational. Contrary to popular belief,his office is not in Raiwind! He is based inLahore and has two sons. MubbasherOmar is with Shell in Karachi. He report-edly has two daughters. MudassarGondal now goes by the name Mr. An-derson and lives in a virtual world calledThe Matrix. He occasionally makes trips tothe ‘real’ world, where he is known by thealias ‘Neo’, and confirms his wellbeingfrom time to time.

Muhammad Rizwan is running his 2 tex-tile sourcing businesses by the names ofBusiness One and Softwood since Jan2007. He aims to use his alpha power toeradicate riba from Pakistan, any volun-teers? He is sporting a small beard forquite some time now. He has 3 daugh-ters and counting, Alhamdulillah! Mu-jeeb Ahmed, the godfather of our classis running his ice cream and dairy prod-uct distribution business. Mujeeb saab re-portedly has 3 grandchildren (justkidding!)Muzaffar Ahmed resides some-where is North Africa, oops, I meanNorth America! The rest of the detailsare not known about him, as that’s theway it is supposed to be! Naeem Buttdoes something and resides some-where in Canada. Whatever you do orwherever you live Naeem, we will al-ways remember you for your British ac-cent!

Nauman Khawaja is managing a tex-tile sourcing business in Lahore by thename of Express Enterprises. He is also try-

ing to venture into the poultry businessand a few other businesses just to provethat entrepreneurship doesn’t work! He isstill married to Sonia from MBA 2000 andthey have a 2 year old son calledTaimoor. Naureen Akbar is happily mar-ried to Douglas and they have shifted toDubai, though they don’t seem to like theplace much and are thinking of movingback to the UK. Both Naureen and Dou-glas enjoy the company of their 2 kittens.Omar Cheema still works in Ericsson. Heis also the life president of the EricssonLoyalists Club. Omer Tareen, after livingin the US for about 7 years, moved toSaudia (Riyadh) and has joined SambaFinancial Group. Omer and his wife Fariahave two kids Ibrahim and Zara. He is try-ing his best not to hit a mid-life crisis.

Qazi Jibran is working for HBL as HeadRetail Agri, is married and settled inKarachi. Raana Osman was last seen atShazia’s wedding, it was reported thatRaana had a son at that time. No otherdetails about her are known. Rabiya Ali isin Ireland living with her husband Haroon.They have a son and a daughter. Rajen-dran Mahalingham is where he belongs.He is in Kuala Lumpur and is successfullyrunning a school. He is still single .I man-aged to get this update from Qazi Ji-bran, the authenticity of which cannotbe challenged, of course! Rizwan Fazalis reportedly with Mobilink and is based inRawalpindi /Islamabad. He performedHajj 2 years ago. Sources say that he hasinclined more towards religion after HajjMashallah. He has three sons Alhamdo-lillah! Rizwan Yousuf is with Nestlé and isthe National Field Operations Head in theNutrition Division. Dr. sahib is happily mar-ried and has a son and daughter. SaadMahmud is in Mobilink Lahore. In additionto being an avid golfer, he has recentlytaken up photography as his latesthobby. Saad has a son and a daughter.

Saima Sandhu is married to Montasir.Both are in Corporate Banking with Stan-

dard Chartered in AbuDhabi. Saima, I haveheard, still manages tosport that nice trademarksmile of hers, come rainor sunshine. They have ason called Hariz. SalmanAmjad is reportedly theDirector of Treasury atMashreq Bank in Dubai.He lives with his wife and

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Logic in partnership with Ahsen Sheikh.Salman is settled in Lahore with his wifeand a son. Salman Ishtiaq is working inAbu Dhabi with Abu Dhabi National OilCompany (ADNOC). He has a daugh-ter and a son. Saman Jawed is stillworking with ABN Amro (now RBS) in La-hore. She is heading 3 branches and isdoing a great job managing them andremembering their locations! She has ason. Saman has her own mobile now,for incoming calls only, of course!

Saman Jilani is still with Standard Char-tered, still underpaid and still over-worked (aren’t we all?). She has recentlyearned the critically acclaimed awardof ‘Quotation Queen’ on Facebook!Saman continues to enjoy the eternalbliss of bachelorhood. Samar Hayat iswith P&G Saudi Arabia in Jeddah, bythe last account. Saqib Salman is work-ing as a Loan Sales Manager for Amer-ican Equity Mortgage in Saint Louis,Missouri. Saqib, his wife Fatima anddaughter Dania enjoy traveling withinUSA. Saquib Karamat after havingcompleted his second MBA fromWharton, worked briefly at a consultingcompany in Dubai and managed tomilk them for a hefty amount asgolden handshake (who says the re-cession is bad!). He then returnedhome and got a job as VP Risk at UBLKarachi. Saquib recently got married toSabeen.

Shafaq Javed AKA ‘TP’ is living inKarachi with her husband and two won-derful boys. She is working as GM HR atEngro Foods. Shahab Ashraf is still work-ing for Strategic Systems International inLahore. He is happily leading his life withhis wife Natasha and two daughters,Emaan and Myra. Shahzad Bashir isheading mid-market corporate busi-ness at Barclays Bank in Dubai. He is ona downsizing drive these days, if youknow what I mean! He has a son and adaughter. Shazia Iftikhar resides some-where in the UK. She has done a Mas-ters degree in Communication and isproducing soap opera shows for TVchannels based in Dubai. The ‘boxes’for these soaps are being supplied byher, which she has in abundance! Sheprobably has a son.

Sohail Hassan Mirza is reportedly inEgypt and working for Barclays Bank.Sohail has a son and a daughter. TahirMasood is someone missing in action.Tariq Razi is working as Head of Unse-

cured Financing in Dubai Islamic Bank,Dubai. He is still faithful (that’s what hetold me) to his one and only Sherry(Scherezade) and is enjoying the com-pany of his two sons and a daughter.Sherry is working as Treasury Manager inKraft Foods. Tariq Zaman is lookingafter his family business Bareeze. Hehas also endeavoured into the dairybusiness. Tariq is married to Uzma Butt,of course. Umar Javaid is enjoyng run-ning his foam business by the name ofJoy Foam. He has two sons. UmerShami is based in Lahore and is lookingafter the current affairs for his group ofnewspapers (Daily Pakistan and others).

Usman Hameed is still with HBL inKarachi as VP in the Corporate HeadOffice. Usman is known for his bankingknowledge and stern stance in the in-dustry, a killer combination, Usman!

Usman Rasul isrunning hisfrozen fish distri-bution andmarketing busi-ness by thename of MahiFoods. He hasa daughtern a m e dHamna. Usman

plays golf in his free time. Uzma Butt isstill married to Tariq Zaman and is work-ing as head of HR with Nestlé in Lahore.Waqas Khan is reportedly with Shell inKarachi.Waseem Akhtar is successfullyrunning his stitching unit called CottonWeb in Lahore and has made quite amark in the industry. He has two daugh-ters and a son.

Wasim Ahmed Sheikh is running hiscapital asset brokerage house calledFairway. He is also actively involved withAl-Mawrid and Mr. Javed Ghamidi, andalso with Rizwan saab in heated de-bates about the position of Riba andthe status of Islamic Banking. Wasimhas a daughter and son. Yousaf Yaqubmay be the Head of Auto Financing atUBL in Lahore by the last account, butmay have moved back to the MiddleEast. He has a daughter and a son.Zeeshan Shams is reportedly with P&GCanada according to some un-reli-able sources. He has three children.

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Affan says, “I am still with Telenor and thismeans the same industry, same positionand same tasks (Boring? Maybe). I havemanaged to start my own businesssomehow and the future looks promising(partnership with friends). The most im-portant update of this year is the additionof my son Khan Mohammed in our fam-ily. Alizeh is going to pre-school and shenow knows things that are not taught byus (and we try to guess what poem is this).Baaqi sub acha hai, Alhamdulillah.”

Mehrukh Burki feels like she’s a part ofthe furniture at CBG, HBL. She says, “Nowpeople refer to me as 'Madam' insteadof 'Miss'. I loathe admitting that I preferredthe latter. Ten years have flown by and I'mstill doing what I began my career with:corporate banking, i.e., glorified paper-pushing. In the process I have learnt avaluable lesson or two. One, your wordsinevitably come home to roost. Two, life isnever linear. Uncle KJB, you are havingthe last laugh. And I can live with it.”

Ali butt has changed jobs (finally) for thefirst time in his career. He left Nestlé afteralmost 9 years and joined Givaudan(flavours and fragrances) as financemanager of their Indonesian operations.He was blessed with a second son(Raahim). After changing 3 jobs sinceleaving LUMS, Murad strongly feels thathe has found a long term place wherehe has been for over 5 years now. How-ever, the curse of corporate life is againengulfing him. So, he is actively lookingtowards the Middle East when everyone islooking back towards home. He says,“Only time will tell how foolish I am.…Onthe family front, I am kind of competingwith Affan for the ‘largest family’ cup.Khadijah, 3 years old, and especiallyAhmad, 10 months old, are alreadydoing a fine job of keeping me and Oslyawake most nights. With the new additionexpected in mid June there will be somenon stop entertainment.” He’ll update onthat story next year, Insha Allah.

Zeynab Zaidi is currently working with ENIin Karachi (a head hunter) as their seniormarketing & sales consultant and ab-solutely loves it. She has two kids (a 4 yrold and a 2 yr old girl) who keep her upand running for most part of the day.Naveen is currently living in Japan andhas been here for almost 5 years. Her sonis now 1.5 years old and the love of herlife. She is currently a housewife but is itch-ing to do more. At the moment they arelooking at relocation possibly to Budapestin the coming months. She is hoping torestart on the professional front in oneway or another once there. Saima Khalidis living in Hong Kong for the last 6 monthsand totally enjoying the place. She hastwo kids, a 4.5 year old son and 2.5 yearold daughter. Teaching them Urdu, Eng-lish, Mandarin and something about Godtakes up most of her time these days. Sheis exploring new things about Hong Kongevery day.

Khurram J. Butt, from the land of (almost)free petrol says, “When I'm not badgeringMurad for mass-mailing fast-track ticketsto heaven, I try to work in the structuredfinance division of Banque Saudi Fransi asthe senior executive manager in the proj-ect finance department. Still selling thesame old goods (money with "haram" in-terest), but now I almost always wrapeverything up in green (Islamic) silk andtie it up with the "Shariah Approved" rib-bon. Longest stint so far, finally havingcrossed the 3-year "psychological barrier"on 26 February 2009 in my third job inbanking. The number "three" seems tohave acquired special significance thisyear as, after the triple pipe-fitting in Sep'08, I am now waiting to welcome mythird child to the world in three weeks'time. Yes, it’s a boy, and yes, I know whatfamily planning means, but hey, I'm inSaudi. Three IS small here. Oh, and I willbe going for my third Umrah sometime inMay, after his birth. (Unlike Murad, I preferto go it slow, you see). And in threemonths’ time, I'm going to turn forty.”

Sheeraz Khan is still with PTC / British Amer-ican Tobacco. He moved to Hong Konglast August. He is still doing brand man-agement for more brands and morecountries. Sheeraz says, “I am learninghow to cook. Mostly stir-frying differentstuff with some other stuff. Turns out goodmost of the time. Am trying to get to thegym and not succeeding. Walking aboutwith my wife, enjoying the nightlife ofHong Kong. Thank God for the kids grow-ing up, sleeping through the evening (if

not the night...) and a great maid! Takingthe kids to different play areas and otherinteresting places...Watching them growand try new things. Worrying about thecountry but remaining optimistic (thanksZiyad!). Fantasizing about a newer, bettersound system that I will not use enoughlike the one I currently do not use. Fastgetting used to a public transport systemthat actually works and getting out ofpractice of driving a car...Being shamedinto praying by a 4 year old son whoprays more regularly than me. But always,always thanking God for a great life!”

Nauman Jaffar is in his 6th year inToronto; both he and his wife are workingfor the same telecom company onefloor apart (so not much he can do thereanyways).He says, “I am trying to revolu-tionize Canadians by developing tele-com products that can help them workfrom home / anywhere / anytime (imag-ine the benefits). I get some time to runsmall business on the side, lecture atMAKs (Mohammad Ali Khan's College /University) and write on industry forums. Ihave two boys (2 and 4 years) and theyare fast turning me old with their energy.Looking forward to spring and summerwhich is the best time here in Canada.”Rabia Ejaz says, “8th year in Austin, TX!Seems like this is home for now; but withthe direction the economy is going whoknows ;) I recently quit my job at Dell Incas a program manager. My husbandAsim works for a bio tech firm based offAustin. Currently I am at home takingcare of my two kiddos; Zara 5 years andRaza 8 months. I am enjoying them,MashAllah as I have been told they growup too fast:) Alhamdolillah, I cannot thankGod enough for all the blessings He hasbestowed on all of us.”

Asad Mir says, “Life is as stable as it canbe. Still with same employer (2.5 years),same wife (15+ yrs), same no of kids (3),same car (2 yrs) and same friends (noNauman Jaffar, you are not one of themuntil you pay at least 2000US$ for MBA1999 NOP fund). The only changes are,obviously, hair- and waist- lines. But I guessthat change is like a ‘constant’ for all ofus (except Hasan, whom I bumped intooutside Zouk a week ago). For details,please contact Hasan. However, I didmanage to reset (theoretically) my countof mice after performing Haj.”

Asim Naseer invited everyone to his wed-ding in Islamabad this March to get a firsthand update about him.

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Murtaza Mankani has been with BritishAmerican Tobacco (10th year running,so this bit is getting boring).He movedto the head office in London in No-vember 2008 in a regional role forAfrica Middle East. UK is the 7th countryhe’s lived in since graduating 10 yearsago, so is hoping to stay there a littlelonger than his average stint. He’s alsogetting used to life in London and nowattempting to get back in shape a bit.On the personal front, he got engagedto someone he met in Karachi end oflast year. He says he’s enjoying thecourtship period and hasn’t decidedon a date for wedding yet but wouldlike to see as many friends as possiblethere.

Talal Mahmud says, “I am still with Stan-dard Chartered (not that we bankershave much choice these days), how-ever I moved into a new role in Feb. Inow manage the MNC team within thecorporate banking (we call it OCC atSCB) division in Dubai. Sophia continuesto put in unrealistic amount of hours perday in her role as a "full time Mom". Sehr(now 8) and Omar (nearly 6) continueto be a handful. She says, “Our initialprogram (when we came here in 2004)to return to Pakistan by 2009 (end) iscurrently on indefinite hold pending im-provement in law and order backhome. All in all, life is great; God hasbeen very kind to us both on the per-sonal and professional front.” BasitAmin is with Telenor Pakistan , working inthe finance division in Islamabad. Hehas two children, Orva 9 years, andBasara 2 years. Haroon Panezai con-tinues to live and work in Ireland despitethe failing promise of global warmingto produce warmer climates. He is mar-ried to Rabiya (MBA '98) and has adaughter Zoha (5 1/2) and a son Yusha(2 1/2).

Wajeeha Malik says, “Life has beenpretty constant over the last couple ofyears. Still in my soap manufacturingbusiness in Karachi and additionally as-sociated with a consulting group inKarachi in the capacity of a senior con-sultant for strategy and marketing. Atthe personal front, my two girls keep mepretty much on my toes at home! :).”

Saadullah Bashir moved to sunnySouthern California last September tostart a Ph.D. in Economics. He is livingnear LA, enjoying Southern Californiaand being a student.

Khalid Iqbal Sheikh is “Working in Net-Sol Technologies as Vice President andheading the Business Development forthe Middle East region, Alhamdulillah.On the family side, I have two daugh-ters MashaAllah; Hafsa nearly 6 yearsold and Khadija 1.5 years old. Alham-dulillah everything is fine. Allah hasbeen very kind.”

Zia Danayal is happily married with 2daughters, Zoya and Fatima. Based inKarachi, she heads the banks’ team infinancial institutions unit of StandardChartered Pakistan. Kanwer AnwerSaeed says, “After having done my stintwith Engro Foods for two years, I re-cently moved to Engro Chemical Pak-istan Ltd. I have three daughter and themost recent addition is Tia who is turn-ing one this month.”Muneera Arif says,“After completing a three year initialstint in the corporate world, I have forthe past few years been busy raisingmy 3 sons, who include Shehryar, 6,Daniyal, 4 and the latest addition,Momin who is 6 months old. I hope tostart working again on a part time basisin a few years’ time, when the youngeststarts school.”

Ahmed Zeeshan is still in the UK, doingthe same SAP work as a contractornow. Ahmed says, “Alhamdolillah, fam-ily is well and still the same 2 kids.. Weare moving to a new house in amonth’s time, so that’s the exciting partfor the next few months.”

Umair Hameed has been in Saudi Ara-bia for more than two years now, work-ing for Tasnee in strategy and planning.Umair says, “Family front remains un-changed with one son. Overall, I amenjoying the Saudi life style but some-times feel that it is time for a change toget out of this country, however, still un-decided on this issue.” Hasan Razak isworking in Pepsico Pakistan in Market-ing. He has a daughter and a son andis enjoying their different stages in life tothe utmost. Life’s simple and goodoverall for him. Shyam is in Nepal run-ning his own small business. He has a 2year old daughter Sanskirti and is ex-pecting another child in July. Life's cooloverall for them. Rehan Ahmad Akhtaris working with Telenor, in Islamabad,and completed 10 happily marriedyears - a big milestone achieved on apersonal front. Life goes on otherwise

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longest time I have spent with any or-ganization. I am still with Citibank, for al-most 5 years now. Currently, I am lookingafter Cards Portfolio for MEA & Pak regionand based out of Dubai, UAE. Latest ad-dition in the family is my daughter, Enaya.She is 9 months old now and we are en-joying parenthood.” Majid Jilani hasbeen working for the same U.S Companysince the past 10 years but is now basedin Islamabad. He is blessed with 2 girls-Karima, a year and half and Zaaina, twomonths old.

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Mariya AkmalThe Boston Consulting Groupmakmal@chicagobooth.edu

What is the common thread that links Pe-shawar to Vancouver, Multan to Beijingand Dubai to Singapore? LUMS MBAclass of 2000!

Not only the diversity in geography butalso the diversity in professional and per-sonal life choices is what makes this classquite an interesting collection of individu-als. The following classifications are inten-tioned to highlight this diversity andprogress 9 years after graduating fromLUMS.

(The Pakistan Bankers Club)

Citibank remains the largest employers ofbankers in our class. Tariq Korejo, nowTrade Head of Citibank Pakistan, is abanker with a heart. I know it’s a mis-nomer. He is an ardent environmentalistand serves as a non-executive directorfor a non-profit aiming to achieve a richer& greener Pakistan. Muddasir Khan, is aCitibanker to his core as evident in his 8+years commitment to make Citi a betterbank which ‘never sleeps’. Ali Tahir’s lovefor Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) paral-lels Muddasir ’s adoration for Citibank. Alihas been with SCB for 7 years now, first asa corporate banker and now as a treas-ury specialist. Wasif Shiekh, decided tocarve out a unique spot for himself andchose HSBC as his banking partner andHSBC reciprocated. Wasif heads the

global banking unit, North region Pakistan.Najeeb Ahmad, remains the regulator in-charge as chief manager at State Bankof Pakistan.

(The Middle East Mafia)

Standard Chartered is the only British bankincreasing its dividend payout and dolingout bonuses this year. Khurram Shakeelcouldn’t have made a better selection.This daddy-to-be remains well-insulatedfrom recession as a corporate banker atSCB in Dubai. Our Gordon Gekko, AliOmar Iqtidar heads the Citibank invest-ment banking unit for utilities & trans-portation sector in Dubai. The remainingmafia resides in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.Faisal Bokhari is a corporate banker withHSBC, Ahsan Hammad is an investmentbanker with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bankand Zahid-ul-Islam is with Al Hilal Bank.Moeez Khan chose the holy land for hisbanking pursuits and is with Arab NationalBank in Riyadh. May the mafia thrive &proliferate over the coming years.

(Ladies of LUMS)

Sara Khalid is a superwoman as withthree kids she is working as marketingmanager with UniRush Financial Servicesin Cinnanati Ohio. In the neighboringstate of Illinois,Mariya Akmal, finished yetanother MBA from the University OfChicago Booth School Of Business and isnow embarking upon a career as man-agement consultant at The Boston Con-sulting Group in Chicago.Maryam Afnanhas proven that initiative is all about inter-nal drive. Maryam is in Beijing and is theLiaison Manager for VIVA and PakistanWomen’s Association.She is also workingon a book and is promoting Pakistani cui-sine in Beijing by offering cooking classes.

Najia Wasif is giving back as a teacherand is passing on the great words ofShakespeare across generations as anEnglish literature teacher. Samia Beg is inthe beautiful city of Vancouver, advisingrich people on how to get even richer asa wealth manager at Bank of MontrealNesbitt Burns. Fareeseh Chaudhury is atrail blazer for all of us who want to beprofessional and yet work from home.She is based in Sweden and is the HR per-son in charge of designing expat com-pensation packages for all who joinProcter & Gamble. Sara Lodhi and SanaMahfooz have taken a break from theirhigh powered professional lives to be fulltime moms. Arshina Khan is a corporate

banker with Barclays in Leeds and oursolo ambassador in the UK. More powerto all the ladies and well done on all thatyou have achieved.

(Story of Shell) Yasser Effendi joined Shellafter graduating from LUMS and is the re-gional manager of its B2B business. Ju-naid Parwaz is also part of Shell. SohailIftikhar and Waqas Ahmad also joinedShell post graduation but have takenother professional routes since. Sohailafter 5 years at Shell, joined SENSYS, an in-dustrial automation software company,and is now the Sales Director of Americaregion. His personal journey is interspersedwith blog writing, guitar playing and beingan avid patron of all nightclubs in Hous-ton, USA. Waqas Ahmad thought there ismore to life than convincing Pakistani’s touse more oil so he decided to leave Shellafter 7 years and instead decided tofocus on convincing Pakistani’s to take onmore loans and joined RBS. He is happilyemployed as the level of consumer debtsoars.

(Telecom Tycoons)Wasif Mustafa as a Di-rector at Mobilink Pakistan continues tohelp realize his dream of making Mo-bilink, Pakistan’s favorite cellular serviceand Aniqa Afzal at Mobilink also sharesthis dream. Adnan Nusrat however has adifferent vision for the telecom space inPakistan and is part of Telenor. Well seemslike Adnan is onto something as after all20 million subscribers is no small marketsize.

(The Enterprising Entrepreneurs) Baseer isa leather tycoon and continues to dazzleus with amazing Pakistani leather. AamirParvez owns a fabric manufacturing op-eration and needs to talk to Arif – highmerger possibility. Arif Jalil Paracha is theCEO of a high end bridal & ladies fash-ion house, Nayana, an event manage-ment company, Evenement, and a testpreparation company, Smartprep – whosaid you can’t do it all. Shahzad Ahmadruns his own petroleum trading businessand with the current swings in oil pricescould have ended up as a millionaire inour midst.

(Sole Agents) Saad Karim is the financemanager for life science businesses atICI. Moeez Karim has had the longestprofessional relationship possible withPackages and is the marketing managerfor their consumer products. Moeez isone of the very few remaining single peo-ple in our class which has an overall

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married rate of 93% (this is based onthe 39 respondents for the class notes).More power to you Moeez. IrfanAhmad is jet setting across Pakistan asmarketing manager at Asian Food In-dustries. Anjum Fayyaz is giving backas Programme Head of SME Clusterand Network Development Programmeat UNIDO. Other class mates who areworking for improving the SME space inPakistan are Sarmad Hussain & AliKhan at SMEDA. Usman Anwer is withGWE, a company of BAUR group in Pak-istan and is passing on his knowledgeas visiting faculty at International IslamicUniversity. Our solo ambassador in Sin-gapore, Junaid Iftikhar, is with RBS in itscredit portfolio management arm.Syed Omar, as a business develop-ment officer at Pakistan Tobacco Com-pany is engaged in increasing themarket size of smokers in Pakistan. Allthe best to our sole agents!

(Gene pool propagation) The 39 re-spondents to these class notes havecollectively reproduced 45 children ofwhich 16 are boys, 26 are girls and 3are expected soon. So the gene poolhas definitely been reproduced athigher than replacement level on acollective basis which is such a hugesource of relief!!

MBA 2001Coordinator

Amer FarooqAskari Bankamerfarooq@yahoo.com

It is now eight years since we gradu-ated from LUMS. Sometimes it seemslike ages ago. At the same time, somememories are so strong that it seems asif they happened yesterday. Well let’sscroll down the class list once againand see what endeavors have keptMBA 2001 busy since.

Asad Aman is scaling the educationalheights and is in his final year of PhD inMarketing at Lancaster University Man-agement School, UK. Best of luck. Ourclass has its fair share of bankers. Myold friend Asadullah Saleem is at AtlasBank head office in Karachi in Opera-tional Risk Management. For those whowant advice in the currently hot field of

Risk Management, you know who toturn to. Aqeel Hayat is presently atAskari Bank head office in Rawalpindias Vice President Consumer Financing.Azam Haq is now a successful invest-ment banker working as AVP in Gulf In-ternational Bank, Bahrain. Faisal Waseyis with Samba Bank as Vice President inCorporate Banking. I am working forAskari Bank in Corporate Banking in La-hore and have been here since 2006.The job has given me great challengesbut also great professional satisfaction.

Elsewhere, Adnan Cyprian is now livingin Riyadh and has a beautiful littledaughter. He regularly posts his photoson Facebook. The entrepreneurshipspirit is making its presence felt in MBA2001. Osman Maqbool left Microsoftin April this year and is now setting uphis own business venture. AhmadNaeem Bajwa is the Managing Partnerin a Consultancy called Supply Chainbusiness solutions. Ahmed Umair is run-ning his own business of manufacturingagri-chemicals and in the evening isteaching at Punjab University. He hasalso started swimming to stay fit. That’sthe spirit. Work hard and play hard!

Salman Amjad is working in Nestle, La-hore along with Fraz Pervaiz andImmad Ali Malik. Aaminah Saeedmoved to Pepsi Co from Nestle. AbdulMalik is working for Agha Khan Foun-dation. Ali Zayad switched industriesand is now working at Standard Char-tered Bank in Lahore after working for USApparel. Amna Sajid was last heardworking for World Call Group. ArshiaHassan has moved to Doha, Qatarfrom the UK and is busy searching anursery school for daughter Zara. As-ghar Hayat Khan is working for BHP Bil-liton. Faisal Saif is at BAT. Faisal Wahabis happily working for his own pharma-ceuticals business in Karachi. His occa-sional get-togethers in Lahore aremissed.

Farhan Ahmed Khan is now settled inJeddah working for a multinational.Please let us know which one! JavedIqbal has also been working in Karachifor some time now. He is with EngroFoods. Khalid Abdullah is in Vancouver,Canada. Khawaja Bilal Hussain is inthe UK. Khurram Sarfaraz is working forPepsi Co Snacks in Islamabad.MariamZubair Khan has made a successfulcareer at Pepsi Co where she is now Di-rector Marketing. Mohmmad Hassaan

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Idriss is in the UAE with Reckitt Benckiser,whilst wife Samia Shahnawaz is withCitibank. Mohammad Shafiq-ul-Islam isworking for Bangla Telecom inBangladesh. Talking of job loyalty, Mu-dassir Shafique is working with EngroChemical in Karachi since 2001. He gotmarried to Mahwish back in 2002 andnow has two lovely daughters Fatima andZainab. Mohammad Usman Bajwa hasbeen working as Director Treasury, Mo-bilink for the last 5 years. MohammadUsman Khalid is in the UK with StandardChartered Bank. Mohammad JaudatAmin is settled in Karachi and is at Bayer.Ayesha Akmal is with Shell in Karachi,whilst husband Omayer Arshad (CaptainSb) has returned from Dubai. Saad Ali isrunning his own business. Sabha Qureshiis living in Jordan and raising her children.Shaharyar Ali working as CFO for ArmyWelfare Trust in Rawalpindi.

Shahzad Nazir is in Saudi Arabia. Syed AliAbbas is with Nestle in Dubai. Ali Murtazais with Citibank, London. Arif Raza, knownas Dr Evil, is working with Barclays in Egpyt.He is happily married with two beautifuldaughters Zoha and Maha. Kashif RazaBukhari is working in Standard CharteredBank in Lahore and seems to be enjoyingevery minute of it. Tahir Ejaz has recentlybeen elevated as Corporate Head Is-lamabad with Habib Bank and hasmoved there. Well done.

Waqas Javed is with Unilever in Dubai.Saira Khan was last heard having movedto BP. Ahmad Salman was also last heardworking for Unilever. Nadeem Chawhanwas running his own Mexican food chain

and I was fortunate to bump into him inLahore last year. Salman Altaf is at Te-lenor. Raza Moinuddin is at Mobilink inthe Customer Retention department.Naveed Khalid Chaudhry is at Medipak.

As for those of whom we got no news orupdate, the list of names are; AamirSagheer Chaudhry, Adnan Kareem,Kashif Habib Mehdi, Mohammad Ghaz-anfar Ali Shah, Mustansir Saleem, ,Rabia Basri, Rabia Fida, Chaminda Het-

tiarachchi, Omair Mohsin, YasserQayyum , Zille Ilahi , Arshad MajeedKhokhar , Adil Qureshi and lastly AyeshaAziz. Please do get in touch wheneverpossible.

This is the first time I have written the classnotes. I hope I have given a fair and ac-curate account of those who sent theirupdates. Thank you to all of you who tookthe time to do so. Until next year, farewell.

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Safi MalikAl Hilal Banksafi.malik@gmail.com

Once again I missed the deadline for theclass notes by a month or two. However,this time I have someone else to blamebesides myself, in fact not one but two,Atia and Shuja. You guys should have re-minded me of the class notes moreoften! Here is a very brief update on whatour class fellow are up to

Danyal is still working hard at Citi, Islam-abad and has been promoted to AVP. Heis engaged to be married in Octoberand is busy enjoying the last of his bach-elor days. Hur is still with HSBC in Lahoreand like Danyal is also engaged to bemarried soon. No Nofi they are not en-gaged to each other. Zain continues towork at his family business in Faisalabad.He like Hur and Danyal is also engagedto be married soon. (Availability of eligi-ble bachelors must be really short forthree Do Hazar Teen guys to be gettingmarried within months of each other.)Aabdara has been teaching at thePreparatory School in Islamabad for overa year. Incidentally it is the same schoolwhich her children attend. Poor kids can’tget away from Mom even at school! Whywould you do that to your kids Aby?

Shariq Bukhari has moved from sellingSIMs to seeds as he has left Warid forMonsanto. He has moved to Lahore andspends his time between Lahore, Dubaiand Singapore. Mahmood is still with SilkBank which by the way is a financial insti-tution, so stop calling him to check on theprice of silk cloth. He is still in Islamabad

with his wife and son Faris. Hussain con-tinues to enjoy single life in Islamabadand has been with Ufone for over 4 years.Jawad is still serving the public at PTA(Pakistan Telecommunication Authority).He has recently returned from UK with yetanother degree and will probably haveto go for several others before he experi-ences all that places of higher learninghave to offer. Kyon JD?

I called Jehanzeb in order to get infor-mation for the class notes. When asked ifhe had any passion other than work in hislife he claimed that he is a devoted fa-ther and husband. He further claimedthat he spends all his free time with hisfamily. He also stated that these days heis mostly in Lahore where he claims to bebusy with his construction projects. No in-dependent verification of these claimshas been obtained so far. Shuja has re-cently become the proud father of abeautiful baby girl, Warisha. He is living inSargodha where he divides his time be-tween working at Shell and… uhh um,working at Shell. Taimur is enjoying mar-ried life in Islamabad and has completedfive years with Telenor (I wonder if that hadanything to do with Atia and Ali Famvicleaving Telenor).Hassan Nasir is still withSurvier (almost four years) and is enjoyinglife in Lahore with his wife and kids. Adeelis managing his family business and is ex-panding it to manage other people’sbusiness as well (long story). He is happilymarried and in Lahore but you have towork extra hard to find him these days.Shariq M(ustafa) continues to burn themidnight oil at Nestle. He is in Lahore dur-ing the week and spends his weekends inIslamabad if not in office. Mustafa stillworks with Nestle and vacations in Dubai.His second son, Muhammad Faateh wasborn a few months back. He spends hisweekends in office.

Dr. Salman has moved to Nestle, Lahorein January 2009 after several years withBD. However this report remains uncon-firmed as no sightings of him have beenmade in Lahore yet. Zulfiqar Hameedcontinues to lead the war against terror-ism in Lahore even after his house wasdestroyed in the Rescue 1122 bombingrecently. His wife and kids, Mohad, Azhadand Abdullah are all fine. He continues toserve his country as SSP Investigations, La-hore while ignoring the various deaththreats he receives on a regular basis.Saqib moved from SCB to Al Hilal Bank,Abu Dhabi almost a year back where he

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is the head of Retail Risk. He divides histime between office, driving to andfrom Dubai, learning English from hisdaughter Fariel, getting swimming les-sons from his son Hamza and trying toteach golf to Ali Sultan.

Ali Imran aka Famvic has moved fromSialkot to Lahore. He has decided toleave Telenor and setup his own busi-ness. Jaffar is enjoying the recession inDubai. He continues to work forMashreq Bank in investment banking.Farhan has managed to disappear al-most as well as Subasan. He is rumoredto be working for Tetrapack in Lahore.Ammar continues to work for the Gov-ernment in Lahore and Islamabad. Hewill be leaving for USA shortly for furtherstudies. Yasir is still with Saudi Franci inRiyadh and still gaining weight. I amsure most of you remember his kidsShahnawaz and Shehreen from LUMS,well I met them last month and theyhave grown up soooo much.

Nofel is working with SCB and hasmoved to Lahore. Rumor has it that heis being followed by a few companiesfor country level positions and might beleaving SCB soon. Engro Foods contin-ues to benefit from Imran Haider’s ef-forts in sales. He has been with thecompany for over a year. He is still look-ing for a shop that sells quality Hawai-ian shirts. Waqas continues to build hisbusiness empire out of Multan. He hasrecently added oil and gas refineryequipment for power stations to his ex-isting line of generators. Imran Khurrambecame the proud father of a babygirl, Janat. He continues to work at hisfamily business. Nauman is said to belooking after the Retail Asset and SMErisk management for Barclays bank inDubai these days. What he actuallydoes is any one’s guess.

Dr. Haroon continues to work with SaudiHollandi in the Corporate Bank atRiyadh. He misses LUMS a lot. Zulqadarmoved from Citi after spending overfour years there to Al Hilal Bank, AbuDhabi. There he is (ir)responsible for thecredit policy for Personal Loans andSME. For some reason he has devel-oped a strong aversion to Subwaysandwiches. Mutahir continues to beinvolved with his family business in La-hore. He is second to only Farhan andSubasan in disappearing for longstretches of time. Fahad is also with hisold company, Dupont Pakistan. He has

been there for over 5 years now andhopes to be there for several more. Hehas recently had a new addition to hisfamily, a baby girl, Fatima.

Ahmah Farooq continues to work hardfor the construction business he set upover ayear ago. He is busy with severalprojects in Lahore and expects to seemore expansion in the coming years.He offers architectural services, interiordesigning, turnkey construction ofhomes, investment based home con-struction with offices at two locations -Model Town and DHA-EME sector. Fa-rooq, I will charge a 5% commission onany business generating from this ad-vertisement.

The less said about Tariq, the better. Heis busy with his communications busi-ness as well as his family’s textile busi-ness. He is based out of Lahore andknows the Lahore – Sheikhupura roadpretty well. Amir Faiz is planning tomove from his current job and is busythese days marketing himself. ImranSardar is still with PTCL in Islamabad. Hehas moved to HR where is said to bedoing some not so nice things. Thecompany is apparently letting go of alarge number of people and our friendis one of those responsible for informingthose who have become redundant.Not an enviable position. Haroon-ur-Rashid has been working with BSRMSteel for almost six years now. He is mar-ried and is back on the Yahoo groupafter a long absence.

Mian Amer is in Karachi where he con-tinues to grow his business. As alwayshe is available for a chat whether dayor night. Subasan continues to be miss-ing. Zulfiqar Barry is enjoying the mar-ried life in Karachi where he is busythese days with the planned openingof a third store (Optic Studio) in De-fence Karachi. After having proved her-self at HBL Karachi, Saima has movedto Singapore with HBL corporate bankto conquer new shores. Rezwana is stillworking hard to improve the quality ofeducation at centers for higher learn-ing in Pakistan. She continues to work forthe Government at Higher educationCommission (HEC). She has been withthe organization for three years. Henahas moved to Stockholm where she isworking for Tetrapack. She spends a lotof her time traveling to different parts ofthe globe for her company and is en-joying her job thoroughly.

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Hassan Zubair continues to help Levismake quality jeans wear. He is based outof Lahore and is reported to be in pos-session of some discount vouchers.Would appreciate if someone can verifythe existence of any such vouchers.Haseeb is still is in US where he continuesto slave in the financial sector (yesHaseeb, I forgot the name of your em-ployer). Nadia is still in London with herhusband and her son where she is work-ing for HSBC in product management forthe unsecured lending business. ZaheerSb continues to work at Bank Al Habibwhere he is the Senior Chief Manager. Hestill prefers to drive to Lahore rather thanflying there.

After spending the last few years as abanker Faiza has decided to switch ca-reers and has become a full time momto her two wonderful kids Marium andHarris. Ali Sultan continues to devisestrategies for Standard Chartered inDubai. After having frustrated Saqib’s ef-forts at teaching him golf Ali is now prac-ticing his FIFA 09 moves and expects tobeat Shuja (as soon as hell freezes over).Atia is Deputy Manager at LUMS whereshe is responsible for marketing and(mis)communication, something which Iam sure she is doing wonderfully well.And she is once again thinking of gettinga new hair cut.

I moved to Al Hilal Bank, Abu Dhabi lastyear. Like Zulqadar and Saqib I am livingin Dubai while commuting to Abu Dhabion a daily basis.

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Muneeb WahadDuMuneeb.Wahad@du.ae

By the time you would be reading thisAdnan Zahid would have become Dr.Adnan after completing his PhD - so alleyes on him whether he would becomepart of the LUMS faculty or pursue aunique A.D. path!!! No change as far asAhmed Saeed Tahir is concerned - still aslively and lazy as ever and continues tobe with the HBL Corporate Banking team.He always chuckles when he sees the TVad with the tag line "Choo lo zindagee."

Aiza Shafiq continues to successfullygain market share for Samsung in thePakistani market. Ali Akbar as the FMCGsupply chain guru continues to be loyalto Nestlé. The same way HPs and CPsdidn’t use to make much difference to AliAsad- the economic recession has hada similar effect with Ali continue smoothsailing for Dawood Islamic Bank.

Ali Siddiqui is all set to enter the recordbooks as his longest job stint continueswith Tetra Pak. However a surprise exitcannot be ruled out! Asad Inayat hascompleted one year in Etisalat Saudi Ara-bia as Manager Value Added Services.He has been blessed with a baby boyand is thinking of moving from the SaudiKingdom. Ayesha Wahid becomes thesecond CXO office from the class. Shehas left Oracle after spending almost 5years and is now working as the CTO atEmmaculate. She is enjoying her life with2 kids and hubby in Karachi. Azhar Ikram,undeterred by the economic crisis, con-tinues to sign investment deals for his em-ployer, Banque Saudi Fransi in Riyadh. Afortune teller in Lahore told him that 2009is going to be the year when we will seehim tie the knot!

Beenish Abbas Malik is based in UK andenjoying life with her daughter andhubby. Fahd Reaz has been blessed witha baby girl. He is still with Noor IslamicBank and waiting for an end to the ad-verse economic conditions in order toturn it into one of the leading Islamicbanks of the world. Fahd Salam has bidfarewell to the corporate world and nowmanages his family business in the edu-cation sector in Dubai. Faraz Siddiqui leftDell to come back and work for Inbox.He’s making loads of money as he is al-ways on a jet plane vacationing in exoticlocations. Even today the entire classawaits an email on discounted laptop of-ferings from their second CXO class fel-low! Fateh Muhammad is still withNational Bank of Fujairah as its 2-I-C (sec-ond-in-command) in Dubai with his eyesset on the top slot - which is a year or twoaway if not more. Gul Buhar Khan is withHabib Bank and has contributed in manyways other than playing rubab to thebosses, in making the Pakistan opera-tions one of the profitable ones in difficulttimes.

Hasnat Ahmed Haider is the most soughtafter jewelry designer in Lahore thesedays.Huma Khalid continues to be withthe HBL Corporate Banking Group and

has been heard preparing for the CFAexam. Kahif Khaleel a.k.a Kiddco is withNestle and based in Islamabad. It hasbeen ages since we got to hear of his re-cent heroics!Mariam Qaiser got marriedand has left her job at Pepsi Foods andshifted to Islamabad with her husband.Mohammad Zulifkar Ali Khan is still withStandard Chartered Bank Dubai and hasbecome even heftier. Muhammad AdilHaneef got promoted as a Senior Man-ager and continues to head InternationalRoaming at Mobilink. However, he has fi-nally left the comfort of home in Lahoreand moved to Islamabad. The highlightof the last year for Muhammad FahadYousaf has been the launch of ZONGpostpaid brand. The campaign was sucha success that apart from his team, noone was able to get the message theywere trying to communicate. Still as al-ways Fahd is persisting with the sametheme! His number is 0300-5 420420and his network is Zong! He gets all-nightfree calls and his phone is always en-gaged from midnight till 6am.

Muhammad Hamza Aleemi got marriedand is still with Wateen. In case Wateen isbought out, Hamza is still expected to behanded over to the new owners with thesame responsibilities.Muhammad ImranFazal, the sardar of tharkees at LUMS hassaid farewell to the world of tambakooand paan by resigning from PTC and join-ing the telco sector. He is working as theTrade Development Manager for Telenorand based in Islamabad. Last heard, hewas enjoying his brand new car on theroads of Islamabad. He is happily mar-ried. Muhammad Javaid is happily sin-gle and joins the privileged few in themost eligible bachelors list. He heads theHR department of a recruitment firm andcontinues to be based in Lahore.Muhammad Khurram Waraich got pro-moted as Senior Manager Business Plan-ning at Mobilink and has been doing alot of community work over the last cou-ple of months! He is known as Mr.Reliablein his neighbourhood. MuhammadShahid Qureshi is inching closer to hisPhD at the University of Berlin in Germanyand enjoying himself as a guest facultymember. Yeah!

Muhammad Shoaib Ata Khan is proba-bly the only Area Sales Manager in La-hore who keeps on exceeding his targetsmonth after month! Muhammed AliKhan is loyal to Telenor and was recentlypromoted as Manager PMO &

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Investment Control. He misses his Mit-subishi but has accepted the new Cityfollowing the foot steps of his highnessMr. Imran Fazal. At other times he isfound in the beautiful valleys of Europewhere he likes to vacation frequently.He is happily married with a beautifuldaughter. Muneeb Wahad Khan hascompleted three years with Du as Man-ager Strategic Marketing. Much to thechagrin of DXB bachelorettes, he hegot married and continues to bebased in Dubai. Murad Salman Mirzabuddy a.k.a good-on-ya-mate is stillwith the University of Sydney as an Ora-ganizational Development Consultant.All underage girls have been advisedto keep away from this handsome hunkfrom Texas. Nadia Wasim is working forShell as a marketing implementer in theRetail business. She is based in Karachiand is ecstatic on the addition of ababy girl to her family. Nadia Williamsworks for Standard Chartered Bank inKarachi as the Product Manager ofAmerican Express.

Rabia Khan is enjoying life with herdaughter and hubby in Tokyo.Nestle ishonoured to employ the services of HisHighness Rizwan Aziz Khan. He is livingin the glory of "Azaad Adliya" and was afront runner in rallies for the restorationof the CJ for which his namesake Mr.Nawaz Sharif is ever grateful. He is nowwaiting for a party ticket to contest thenext general elections. We wish him thevery best. Rizwan Chughtai continuesto be with the Central Bank and isbased in Karachi.Safdar Hussain is stillloyal to Mian Sb at Al Rehmat Textiles asDivisional Head, Garments. In spite ofhis repeated efforts, Mian Sb doesn’t lethim go. Saima Khan has been suc-cessful in kicking out her boss in orderto take his position as Manager Pricingat Telenor.

Sleeping with Commander Safe guardeach night has done wonders forSalman Ghani Butt. He has beenshipped out to Geneva at the P&G of-fice to look after the soaps bar cate-gory. He has been exploring Europeand can be found in an exotic locationevery weekend. Salman Hafeez is suc-cessfully running his own business andconstantly working to diversify thesame. Samar Farzand Najmuddin isstill working for TRG in the UK. ShaheryarIdrees is with Telenor heading the Prod-ucts & Platforms team. The only emails/ phone calls / SMS he responds to is

those of his boss - else he doesn’t be-lieve in calling or replying back. Hecontinues to tour the world meetingvendors in order to buy new platformsfor Telenor.

The last time we heard about Major Sb(Shahid Mahmood) was when we hadinvested in the stone crushing businessalong the Salt Range. He has finallybeen released by the army. ShakeelAhmed Memon, this gift to our classfrom MBA 2002 is working for the soledistribution company of P&G and is re-sponsible for sales in S&B region. Hisside business of kidnapping people ininterior Sindh has picked up pace. Heoffers special discount to class fellows!Shehryar Khurshid is working forUnilever in Karachi and responsible forthe marketing and sales of Beverages.Sheikh Gulraiz Pervaiz though headingCustomer Services of Warid, is desper-ate to get out before he gets sur-rounded by the representatives of thenew Warid owners at Sing Tel. ShezeenHyder Ali is enjoying life with her two kidsand hubby. Shoaib Awan has lost hisaggressiveness and still works for thebanking sector in Dubai.

Sohail Mumtaz Bajwa will enter therecords books by 2010 as the guy own-ing the most ALTOs whose registrationnumbers end with 330. Syed Abbas AliShah is running his own business suc-cessfully in partnership with SalmanHafeez.Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi is missingin action!West Pakistan has finally suc-ceeded in getting back Syed Atif Razafrom East Pakistan. He now works asSenior Manager Pricing & Strategy atMobilink.

Syed Hassan Javed is the RegionalCorporate Head for RBS (ABN AMRO)and is waiting for the new owners totakeover before planng an employerswitch. Syed Taha Magrabi is still withShell and working as the Subject MatterExpert for the roll out of a globalstreamline project in the Retail Businessin Pakistan.

Syed Yawer Rasool became a proudfather recently. Life is tough with the es-calating prices of nappies but yawerpower will survive! He works for Reckittas the Brand Ambassador & Managerfor Cherry Blossom. :-) Tahir Shamimcontinues to be with the HR depart-ment at Unilever managing its factoryemployees in Punjab. Usman

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Mahmood has taken a new start in lifeand has taken photography as a serioushobby. Usman Saeed Malik has proba-bly opened up another super marketafter successfully running the first one inRawalpindi. Usman Tariq Qazi (UTQ) isworking as the Pricing Manager for Ufonehowever is eager to move out and graba good opportunity.

Waqar Ahmad Khan has been blessedwith a baby girl and is busy helping his IPPowners in selling off their stake. YasirAhmed Malik is based in Karachi and isworking for Shell's Supply Chain Depart-ment in a virtual role, responsible for theroll out of a streamline project in MiddleEast Asia region. His job takes him placesaround the world and with the end of hisbachelorhood nowhere in sight, NationalGeographic has approached him tohost a "spicy" "babes-oriented" travelshow for them. Zainab Nawaz has takenthe challenge of MBA placement atLUMS and is expected to do a great jobin spite of the tough conditions of the jobmarket. Zhang Zejun is with Nestle Chinaand thinking of ways to get around theone-child-rule in his country. Bilal AhmedKhan is a mystery and by the time thenext edition of the class notes is out, won’tbe surprised if he is history.

MBA 2005Coordinator

Zainab Waheedzainebw@gmail.com

Zaineb Waheed was promoted to adminof MBA 2005 Facebook group. Employ-ing her superb entrepreneurial skills shecurrently runs a home-based grocery de-livery service in Vancouver. Asim Mehr fi-nally tied the knot! He is proudly workingas Manager, Products & Platforms at Te-lenor. However with the deteriorating con-ditions of Pakistan he has applied forMalaysian Immigration. Tamania Jaffri,impressed by Zaineb's rapidly progressingcareer, got married and migrated toCanada. She is currently in Edmonton try-ing to make the perfect shaped Koftaaafter mastering the Paratha. Bilal AhsanMalik a.k.a BAM BAM is hoping to spendthe 5th year of his PhD doing fieldwork.After August, you can meet him andZulekha for chai at the Bhera inter-change. Omar Moeen Malik is still work-

ing for Telenor and living in Islamabad.Deserted by Fooqi and dumped by Sally,he continues to enjoy the crazy Isloonight life, partying away all night at clubssuch as "Food 24" and "Shell Select". Notsurprisingly, he's gained a few pounds(much to his wife's dismay).

Inspired by the current financial crisisAmnah Ajmal is pursuing a degree in Fi-nance at the London School of Econom-ics and continues to work with CitibankLondon. Salman Ahmed a.k.a. Sally re-cently tied the knot. He works with ABNAmro Pakistan. Ali Anwerzada is still study-ing. Muhammad Umer Farooq a.k.aFooqi is still on a paid vacation in the US.Zain Tayyebi became a daddy this year(a real one and not the weird kind), withhis son Mohammed arriving in to theworld. Tayyebi Dawakhana's Marketingand Sales is still being managed by Zain,although he has faced some resistancefrom animal rights group on testing his lat-est naughty medicines on hamsters. Nowthat he has promoted Zaineb to Adminof MBA 2005, Adnan Tariq a.k.a munshiwill be giving his undivided attention toNestle's Market Research, which is actu-ally his cover for trying to end his bache-lorhood. He never shared Omar Akram'sambition to remain a bachelor till theend of time…

Atif Saeed a.k.a. theeta apparently im-pressed by Farzad, did not like the cor-porate world and started graduatestudies, not in Electrical Engineering, butthis time in economics. So nowadays heis enjoying his paid studies in USA. SalmanKhalid has a lot more time available de-spite his Private Equity career (thank youglobal financial crisis), and is spending hisweekends fishing on the tiny speck of dustin the straits of hormuz called Bahrain andplanning a backpacking trip across Eu-rope. Taimur Cheema is still the ManagerSahab in Ufone; and still tries to act as ifhe is very busy and has no time; actuallyhe is just a little shy of Islamabadi girls andavoids them as much as possible.He re-mains single and his avoidance strategyis going very well (mashallah). Ali NawazKhan a.k.a. ANK is still selling deodorantsfor Unilever Arabia based out of Dubai.He continues to convince the Arabs thatdry armpits will lead to salvation. OmerNazir is happily tucked away in Francepretending he is studying at INSEAD. Hisprivate activities remain a secret.

Hamza Mudassir is still working in Mobilinkas Manager Marketing - Value Added

Services , which is the longest he hasworked any where...like, totally. He looksforward to parading around in Tanzaniawith his wife, who is busy planning theirnext vacation to the glorious land ofAfrica and making sure that they go therebefore the next global recession arrives.Hassan Munir a.k.a. EX -maila is workingin China Mobile (aka Zong), and has re-cently moved to the company's market-ing department as Manager Segments -Post Paid. The key opportunity here is thatpeople think that it is a Gas Ka Gubhara(Balloon) brand than a telecom one,which makes selling Zong Post Paid ex-ceptionally easy on children's birthdaysand carnivals. Kiran Qureshi needs to beseen to be believed. She has found somany dimensions to life, she thinks sheshould do a PhD now! There is no otherway she can justify her existence. She isstill in Nestle because she can’t find abetter time pass. Mohammad OmarAkram finally got married and has hencegone back on his claim to remain abachelor till the end of time. He is in TetraPak where his core job responsibility is togo on paid vacations.

Hussain Raza Khan is working for TetraPak as Key Account Manager. 2008 hasbrought the biggest joy in Hussain's lifewith arrival of his beautiful child Mahnoor.Farrukh Aziz is still in Ufone and doing thesame job since more than a year now.He has been blessed with a cute daugh-ter. Maliha Shahid is still a Career Bankerwith MCB, which is a highly career ori-ented bank for Career Bankers. SarahPervez and Suneel Sarfaraz Munj wereblessed with a beautiful daughter Zainah.Bilal Ahmad is looking after strategy atWorldcall Telecom Limited. He tied theknot earlier this year with Arooj Saba (BSc2005).Muhammad Abid is found chang-ing destinations on his google chat sta-tus. Khizer Bilal Usmani a.k.a KBU hasmanaged to keep his job so far in reces-sion-hit Dubai. Abidoon Nadeem wasblessed with baby Abdullah this year. Heis settled in Lahore with his family and isworking on expanding his business ofbeing busy all the time. Owais Qazi is upto something in Dubai. Sajid ShahzadSufi has joined the ‘do a lot and look idle’club, working on water business with abeautiful addition of a daughter to hisfamily.

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Toronto with his wife and now managesthe messaging portfolio (SMS & MMS) ofBell Mobility. Maham Yasmeen hasshocked Servis with her consumerknowledge and perspective. Hopethey recover from the shock soon.Salman Tahir has left SKMCH, and nowSKMCH is completely LUMS-free. He hasstarted his own business and has beenblessed with an adorable son.WaleedSadiq, like a true MBA, has once againreorganized the team and relaunchedthe Telenor Persona. Abdul Moiz Penkarhad to move somewhere this year too,but his wife refused to move to Pe-shawar or Quetta so he's now back inKarachi! Omer Bin Tariq aka OBT hasbeen promoted to AM Segments andis now the guardian of a 'Loyal' CHOTA;that he is very possessive of! He alsohad the honor of representing TelenorPakistan in India this year and made itsafe back home - to the disappoint-ment of his boss :) Also his hair is gray-ing at an alarming pace... Maybe he'sworking too hard and needs a vaca-tion.

Aamir Altaf left his beloved Nestle tojoin China Mobile, where he works asManager Segments. Unlike HassanMunir, he has found his inner Yun Maand is hence very happy with himself.Javed Ahmed is working as Risk Man-ager in Meezan Bank, which hasproven to be very risky for MeezanBank. Talha Khalid has learnt a lot thisyear and feels truly value added. He isthinking of writing a novel on it. Furthermore, he is in Telenor's Segments de-partment and looking forward to a longvacation in Goa. Usman Muneer is veryhappy with his Head & Shoulders andstill works at P&G. Danish Jabbar Khantries his best to be a family man butcan’t kill his oh-so-wild spirit.

MBA 2006

Coordinator

Faiza Kazmi MawjeeStudent at NYUfaiza.kazmi@gmail.com

Three years after we wrapped our lastcase, moaned and groaned our waythrough the final projects and moved

out of our dorm rooms across thecountry and beyond, the class of MBA2006 updates are here:

Ahmed Bilal Mansoor a.k.a ABM re-cently moved within Nestlé from SupplyChain to the Marketing department. Onthe personal front the change is evengreater as he was married last year andis currently reveling in marital bliss in La-hore. Also within Nestlé, Shamyle Javedand Raja Muhammad Ishaq seemedto have their own LUMS alumni partner-ship going and both are heavily en-trenched in bovine matters. Raja is aSenior Strategic Manager and in hisown words – “I’m getting ahead inlife…I’m close to having direct interac-tion with cows and buffalos”. Mean-while Shamyle truly is the “Chilled” DairyManager for operations and sales inPunjab.

Mansoor Aziz left Nestle last year to joinhis family business, which surprise sur-prise, is NOT manufacturing rugby gear.These days he is to be found promot-ing the game all over Lahore and as farafield as Malaysia to participate in in-ternational tournaments. He is tying theknot in August and we wish him luck!Another alumnus to go the family busi-ness way is Nabeel Ilyas. He is currentlylooking after Marketing, Sales, HR, Fi-nance and New Product Developmentat GFC Fans. When he isn’t singlehand-edly running the family business he canbe found visiting his wife who is a Ful-bright Scholar at Brown. His future plansinclude a PhD and the diversification ofthe GFC Product Range.

Rana Shuaib is currently working in UBLas a credit risk analyst and teachingMBA students at Bahauddin ZakariyaUniversity in Multan. After tying the knotlast year he is now also the proud fatherof baby Aleeza. Both Hasan Kabir andFarhan Riaz are bankers in Lahore. Al-though the recession has slowed workat Habib Bank, Hasan recently found agreat life partner which has brightenedhis outlook somewhat, while Farhan isenjoying the single life while working asa corporate banker at Dubai IslamicBank.

Muhammad Abubakar is still workingat Standard Chartered corporate in La-hore and recently sustained a head in-jury during the construction of his familyhome. Here’s hoping that you recover

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soon. Khurram Mushtaq is back in Lahoreafter a brief hiatus abroad and is currentlyself employed. He is looking forward tocelebrating his upcoming nuptials at theend of this year.

In between flitting off to Europe to lead ajoint venture between a European com-pany and Sapphire Textiles, Omeir Zahidsecretly indulges his passion for the artsand is recording an album for the onlyband to emerge from the batch – 3.0.We look forward to seeing more musicvideos and creativity in the future!

Yasar Rashid recently shifted fromKarachi to Lahore when he defectedfrom the State Bank to Bank Al Falah. Heis cramming for his CFA Part (III) thesedays and ardently wishing that there wasa CP portion in the exam! He is also hop-ing to soon become a faculty memberat LUMS to teach commercial banking tosecond year MBAs.Mehtab Haider stuckit out at the State Bank and is now a jointdirector. After the replacement ofShamshad Akhtar at the SBP, he can nowspend more time with his favourite girl –his baby daughter, Fatima. In his sparetime he can be found socializing with theother Karachi walas.

In other news from Karachi, Waqas Zafarhas remained true to Shell and is now aretail network planner and wants every-one to know that if you wish to open a re-tail gas station anywhere in SouthernPunjab, Balochistan or Sindh he is theman to contact. He has developed anewfound appreciation for the country-side after living in Karachi for three yearsand in his spare time he can be foundvolunteering with TCF as a program facil-itator with their “Rahbar” program workingwith schoolchildren. Mian Usman is alsoworking at Shell as the brands and com-munications manager for Lubes. He tiedthe knot with Shazia Gohar of IBA last yearand claims that the wedding and run upto the event and post marital festivitieshave bankrupted him…warning for thewise!

Muhammad Bilal is also looking to tie theknot with an IBA alumnus (Sadia) this sum-mer and has remained loyal to Dubai Is-lamic Bank in Karachi, where he iscurrently working in the wealth manage-ment department. Khalid Farid also tiedthe knot and while most of us had fearedthat the wedding might take place in in-stallments, the actual event took placelast year – all in one go. He is still at P&G

and is the only person in our batch tomake it to the Guinness Book of WorldRecords (so far!)

Another P&G-er recently jumped shipand gave in to the siren song of hishometown of Lahore. Yes, Jaggu (a.k.aSaad Munwar Khan) joined Pepsicola In-ternational as the brand manager forsnacks (Lay’s and Cravy’s). These days hecan be found reaffirming the halal cre-dentials of his products on Facebook,playing Saturday night cricket andlamenting the loss of his friends to whathe likes to call “the menace of marriage”.Still at P&G is the original MBA power cou-ple – Saad Tawab Khan Rao and SaroopGul. Saad thinks of ways to spend themarketing budget on his brand (Pampers)while Saroop thinks of ways to savemoney in her job as the cost savingsmanager for Arabian Peninsula and Pak-istan.

The other MBA couple, Sanaa Shah andArsalan J. Sheikh are based in Islam-abad, where Sanaa continues to enjoyher work at Mobilink with the Infinity Broad-band wi-max business. Arsalan has finallyleft Teradata and joined IBM in a positionin national sales. When they aren’t beingtechies they host game nights at theirnew home in Islamabad and this is anopen invitation to all batch mates to par-take in the festivities. Afzal Khan Shinwariis currently in the process of salvaging hisfamily’s real estate business in the after-math of the global recession and the cur-rent military action in the North. Heshuttles between Kashmir, Kohat and Pe-shawar and after a day’s hard work goesback to Islamabad where his wife Sanaworks at a dental practice. While thehousing industry seemed to have been ina decline, Haroon Mohmand Rashid re-ports that when the tobacco industrywas rising he took a sabbatical from hisjob as an area manager (and gave upa move to Uganda!). While we don’tknow whether or not that was dodginga bullet, he has a year to devote to fam-ily and decide whether or not he wantsto return to hocking tobacco or pursu-ing further education.

Hammad Kabir recently left Mobilink tojoin Telenor as the segment manager forD Juice. His family has grown and he isnow the proud father of two little girls, themost recent addition being little Arifa.Congrats Hammad! Faisal Iqbal is hap-pily married and is also working in thetelecom sector, at Ufone. He is currently a

senior executive for products and pricingand in his spare time compiles acronyms(he is planning on doing another PMP toupdate to PMBOK 4 – another level of theProject Management Body of Knowl-edge!)

Imran Sargaana recently resigned fromEricsson to join Powerwave Technologiesas the regional account manager forPakistan. He is based in Islamabad andenjoys spending time with his two sons.Junaid Lodhi is still with Microsoft in Is-lamabad. He has also set up his ownbusiness on the side and markets snackscalled Frendo in his spare time and islearning that snacks and software don’thave the synergies that he had initiallythought. Babar Javed Cheema recentlymoved to Karachi and is now lookingafter the supply chain at Engro Chemi-cals. Junaid Ata is also working for Engroas a regional manager and is finallybased in Sargodha after a whirlwind tripto numerous countries. When he is nottraveling he spends time with his wife – Dr.Nabiha.

Many from the MBA batch movedabroad after graduating- some for work,some for school and some after mar-riage. Their travels have taken them farand wide.

Yasir Nafees remained loyal to Ericssonafter graduation and is working as an ac-count manager in Congo and is lookingforward to moving to Ericsson Ghanasoon. When he isn’t traveling all overAfrica, he looks forward to spending timeat home with his baby son, MuhammadAhmad Yasir. Adeel Mubasharmoved toDubai and is an associate at StandardChartered. He got married to Uzma last

year. No, no, not Uzma Ali,she is still single and fab-ulous and still working atCitibank Dubai. Adeeland his wife Uzma areexpecting a baby on Au-gust 3rd …coinciden-tally, also Adeel’sbirthday.

Hassaan Munir also remained withCitibank in Dubai and according to vari-ous reports, shares his apartment with La-Z-Boy recliners and has developed apassion for the guitar. Beenish Abbasimoved to Dubai last year after her wed-ding and is currently working at StandardChartered as a product manager in thecredit cards department. Asim Shafiq

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Baig is still working at Ernst and Young inAbu Dhabi and has cultivated an en-tire range of new hobbies in addition tohis existing ones (swimming and fastcars), including sailing, snowboardingand sky diving. Another recent additionto Dubai is Nadia Zubairi who is tryingto settle into domesticity after almostthree hectic years of shuttling betweenDubai and Karachi working for Stan-dard Chartered.

After relocating to NYC, Faiza Kazmiwas torn between the joys of trying tocoordinate with the batch, being ahousewife and returning to school. Sheis currently looking forward to attendingNYU in September. Majnun Mam-madov has continued at the financialadvisory services department and De-loitte and Touche in Baku and is cur-rently also preparing for his CFA exams.On the personal front Majnun is lookingforward to being engaged before theend of the summer and we eagerlyawait an invite to the wedding.

MBA 2007Coordinator

Ahmed S. ButtTelenor Pakistanahmed.butt@gmail.com

Contributions by Farooq Soomro, FizzaIjaz and ‘Significant Others’.

The year 2008-09 has been a toughyear for everyone. While unstable polit-ical and security conditions of ourcountry continue to haunt us, recessionhas taken its toll globally and alreadywe can see its after effects. There havebeen casualties and losses all aroundus. Some of us have been affected fi-nancially; some mentally; while some(like me) physically as well. But Alham-dulillah, we all stand up high on our feetdetermined to face the growing chal-lenges with the same courage andspirit with which we all entered the cor-porate world.

This year also marked the sad demiseof our beloved finance professor Dr.Naim Sipra. Words cannot do justice tothis person’s sheer brilliance, knowl-edge and command over his subject.Not only was he a genius at mind, he

was also a very kind-hearted, soft spo-ken, composed and down-to-earthgentleman who treated his studentswith respect and never left an opportu-nity to share his humor with them. Withhis death, LUMS has lost one of its bestprofessors whose replacement cannever be made. May his soul rest inpeace!

Here is a one-to-one highlight of thisyear activities of our batch mates:

Abubakar Siddique has been gainingrich experience working as categoryspecialist at Nestle looking after theproducts Nido, Everday tea whitenerand Nestle Cream. His comprehensionon the dairy category came in handyin his suitor pursuit, as a Kashmiri familyhas agreed to commit their girl withhim. Adeel Allawallah says that Life hasbeen really hectic post LUMS. He sellscigarettes during the day at Phillip Mor-ris International and cakes in theevening at Masooms. Everybody is in-vited to have a free cigarette with acake slice at his franchise. Adnan Nisarreports being engaged and will soonbe changing his status to happily mar-ried. He has been loyal with PTC andafter his short stint in South Korea, hasbeen appointed as Area Manager inFaisalabad. He has been planning andstrategizing to increase cigarette salesfor PTC brands but he himself has yet totaste one.

Ahsan Ahmad Maykan continues towork at Telenor doing segmentation forTalkshawk. He insists that his campaignshave nothing to do with the commer-cials that get aired on television. Afterhis split-up with Ali Zafar, he now listensto Annie and Amanat Ali songs on longdrives.Ali Abbas Pujanis is based inSharjah where he is working for HabibBank AG Zurich, and happily settledwith his wife. Puji has become a proudfather of baby girl and has alreadystarted strategizing investment plans forher. Alii Maaz got married last Decem-ber but did not give much relief tobachelors by getting back immedi-ately with his ‘cooker’ stories. He is stillwith Electronics Retail and was a starperformer last year. He significantly ex-ceeded his Kitchen category budget,only to find out that his bonus was tiedto corporate performance. He has notlost the need for a larger audience andhis appetite for class participation, for-mer being reluctantly offered by

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bachelor brotherhood.

Aly Abdul Rehman has got engaged.Now we have a ‘Bro’ and a ‘Sis’. AlyYousaf has also got engaged and plansto get married in December. He is still atUnilever in working in the Finance Depart-ment. Amina Ijaz is presumed to be atCoke, getting free passes to all Coke Stu-dio sessions. Ammar Butt is busy revolu-tionizing the Bicycle industry byimplementing ISO-9001 and web-basedsystems in his company; creating a goodexcuse for the current downward salestrend. He’s happy spending his last bach-elorhood years playing online poker andNintendo at home. Anwar Kabir took abrief stint at LUMS as Head of CorporateCommunication for SDSB in early 2009,however, he was pulled back by Lowe &Rauf (his third time employer in the last 5years) as Business Director for their largestclient “Nestle” in Lahore. Anwar spendsquite a bit of his time at Nestle, for whichhis company works as advertising andcommunication partner for leadingbrands like MilkPak, NesVita, Nescafe, Yo-gurts and others. Anwar went on a worldtour last year and his pictures/travelogueis available at his 900+ Facebook friendssite. He spends most of his free time get-ting his house constructed near LUMS andalso dreaming and planning his next va-cation trip later this year. Anwar recentlybecame Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary In-ternational and continues to have a veryactive social life with Rotary Club andotherwise. Our ‘Shahzada’ is still singleand got the title of “most eligible bache-lor” from his close friends, with not manybright chances of getting married any-time soon. Let’s all pray he finds his “sig-nificant other” this year.

Arshad Moazzam has shifted to VAS de-partment at Mobilink and is currently at-tending a training course in Singapore.His daughter turns one this year. Recently,Asad Mahmood got the opportunity tocut loose of Wateen's lair, but at the sametime remained in Abu Dhabi Group'sfarm joining the healthcare sector. He iscurrently serving as Manager Marketing inAl-Razi Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. He got mar-ried last October. His Sheikhness AsadShafiq is working with Supply Chain at Al-ghanim Industries. He has long been dis-appointed with society’s failure toappreciate his ideas and act accord-ingly. Now he mourns every disappoint-ment by eating more and his everincreasing waistline is a reflection of hisanxiety. He has also started playing football.

Ashhad Saeed is enjoying his 07:00 amto 04:00 pm public lifestyle at Etisalatwhere he is working in the Strategy & Plan-ning department. It is heard that hisbrand loyalty has led him to reject all in-coming calls from a non-etisalat number.He is expected to tie the knot by the timethe class notes become public. AzamatAkbarov is serving the oil and gas sectoras Financial Analyst at Eriell Corporation,an oil and gas drilling company based inTashkent. He has become quite an ac-tive visitor of Facebook owing to his plansof changing his bachelorhood by theend of this year. Babur Rais is still workingfor Investment Banking at BMA Capital.He recently won the award for secondbest M&A deal in Asia Pacific by theBanker Deals of the Year 2009. That’swhat you get for putting in late hours inoffice. He plans to remain single for themoment.

Badri Nath Baral is working for a leadingIPP company in Nepal named ButwalPower Company Ltd. as a Financial Ana-lyst. He is happily married with a six monthold daughter. Bilal Javed Bhatti hasmoved to Electronics Retail after seeingout the whole life cycle of his former divi-sion. He got married in September andrecently visited the pyramids. The“jawaan” who used to dodge speedingcameras now spends time sleeping be-tween them. Bilal Malik is currently in Mel-bourne to study how females of thehuman species have evolved differentlyon the two continents viz., Asia and Aus-tralia. It is an intensively research orientedproject interspersed with occasionalguess-work and recourse to divine inspi-ration. To legitimize his stay in Australia, hehas enrolled for public policy studies,which he is least interested in. By the endof 2010, he intends to share the findingsof his ground-breaking research with themost important stakeholder group i.e.,Perennial Bachelors of Pakistan, having il-lustrious members like Mr. Anwar Kabirand Mr. Jasim Waheed. Instead of thebenefits, Mr. Malik remains more inter-ested in the fringe-benefits of the project.

Dilafruz is looking for MOP notes, any-body wants to share? She has to learnhow to play "blind, deaf & dumb" gamewithout playing it. She is proud of making60% more sales than a year before for asmall category. Only percentages aremaking her days! This year has been verykind to Fasahat Feroze who got first pro-moted to Assistant Manager Product andPlatform at Telenor, then got engaged

and later hair started growing back on hishead. The last miracle was courtesy ofthe laser hair treatment he got from hisbonus. His nick has now changed from‘Goldie’ to ‘Goldilocks’. Fizza Ijaz hasonce again been on-the-go. After hav-ing worked in Global Markets at DeutscheBank London for a year and a half, shedecided to move to the more glitzy worldof marketing. She is presently working asAssistant Marketing Manager for Homeand Personal Care at Unilever Dubai. Sheis enjoying being with family and the newwork-life balance as opposed to the hec-tic hours and cold of London. Being thekind-hearted person that she is, she ismaking her share of foreign remittanceand investing heavily in Dubai economyby buying herself a new car and rentinga new apartment.

Haleema Muniba spends her workinghours as Assistant Demand GenerationManager; managing a team of 60 non-Luminites at ICI Paints. She insists that shehas forgotten everything learnt at LUMS;while we still question the ‘learnt part’.Hamza Ahmad is found flirting with SyedNoor on the set of the hit show ‘Hero Ban-ney Ke Tarang’. Engro Foods is helpinghim fulfill his dream of becoming a superstar. We won’t be surprised if Hamza getscasted in Pakistani film ‘Dostana’ alongwith John Rambo and Resham. HusnainAlam recently joined IBM and went to seeEgypt in his very first month on his job.Husnain insists that ‘wohi aik chaal be-dhangee si, jo pehley thee so ab bheehey’; we however doubt it. On publicgatherings, he never hesitates to en-lighten the audience with his views on life,politics, religion and everything else. Eversince Imran Hafeez has gotten married,his mobile is always found on ‘not re-sponding’ status after 05:00 p.m. He isemployed at Ufone and insists that hehas nothing to do with either Ufone pric-ing or its ads.

Jasim Ahmad is still at Adamjee Insur-ance working as Senior Manager head-ing a branch in Lahore. He recently haspassed his CFA level 1 exam with flyingcolors; another milestone added to his‘bachelor’ profile. Kamilia Iftikhar hascompleted the most air miles among theKuwaiti community. She has already fin-ished the Pakistani quota for UK visas andhas been the reason for rejections for therest of the people. Despite major restruc-turing she is holding her position firm inBusiness Development at Alghanim.Kanza Fida is getting married.

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Electronic copy of the wedding invita-tion will be e-mailed one week prior tothe big day. Those wanting to congrat-ulate her can catch up with her at Wa-teen. Engro brought Kashan Yaqoobback to his hometown place Karachiafter spending nearly a year at village-cum-city Sahiwal. He got promoted tofatherhood with an adorable sonnamed ‘Shafay’. He is recovering froma minor slip disk. We all wish himspeedy recovery!

Kashif Munir insists that there is nothingbetter to do than to get married duringrecession. So, he has got himself en-gaged quietly and plans to completehis conquest in December. Consul-tancy continues to be his line of busi-ness at Xavor. Khurram Mir’sentrepreneurial venture Kualitatem,previously known as Kraysis, continuesto make headlines every now andthen. From being declared as BestStart-up for Pakistan and Asia Pacificseparately, to contracting with bigclients like Wateen Telecom and NetsolTech., Kualitatem has already becomea success story that we should all beproud of. Khurram has got engagedand is looking forward to getting mar-ried later this year. Khurram Saleem isstill working for Xavor where he is cur-rently consulting with Warner Bros.Home Entertainment, helping themwith their supply chain. He is currentlybased in Burbank California which ishome to most major studios (both Filmand TV); and enjoys the Southern Cali-fornia summers where the maximumtemperature is 28-30 degrees Celsius.His son Ibrahim turned two this June.

Khwaja Faisal is still a proud bachelorand is always found in middle of chicks,chicken and gossip. He has been aprime target of sermons by Usman lur-ing him to get married. He is working inFMCG division and has lately been re-sponsible for importing chicken fromBrazil. Naturally he did not want to stopthe importing there! He is the owner ofinfamous “kotha” which has been ameeting place for the Kuwaiti gang.Luqman Awan became a proud fa-ther of baby boy he named Sulemanand not ‘Suleman Dawood’ (becauseof strict adherence to copyrights). Hisongoing commitment with MBA-07 En-dowment Fund has resulted in gener-ating Rs. 1 Million which has beeninvested in Islamic mode of Finance.Kudos to Luqman! Presently, he is head-

ing one of the business categories of3M in Lahore at National level.

Mehdi Raza is busy making ‘tons ofmoney’ working as Financial Analyst forUch Power. He is celebrating the na-tion’s newly discovered judiciary free-dom with full zeal and vigor. MehtabLasharie returned from her sales train-ing (others insist paid vacation) in Ams-terdam last July. Having spent a yearwith individuals from 41 different na-tionalities, she took up other excitingcareer opportunities as linguistics ex-pert, Europe tour guide and biryanichef to name a few. She settled forcontinuing to work for Cisco, as a Serv-ice Account Manager covering globalaccounts for Middle East and Africa.After spending a couple of years in thescorching heat of Sindh and enjoyingmetropolitan life of Karachi, Muham-mad Anis Sajid is back in Lahore. Per-sisting with Shell and still sellinglubricants, he is always looking forwardto bump into any old classmate.Muhammad Farhan Tayyab left P&Gearly this year and came back to La-hore to attend to some family matters.During this time, he made a brief stintat Wateen Telecom in their Solutions di-vision. He is now back at P&G as Assis-tant Brand Manager ‘Ariel’ and islooking forward to continue his streakfrom where he left.

Mian Murad is working for Kimmco, in-sulation material manufacturer andhas become a SAP guru over past twoyears. Following the legacy of Mard-e-Mujahid Mr. You-Know-Who, Muham-mad Ali Imam is looking after six sigmaand leadership development interven-tions at Engro Chemicals as Organiza-tional Development and QualityManager. His children are growing fastas Ali turns 5 and Zainab turns 1 thisyear. After spending almost a year to-ing and fro-ing between Dubai and Ab-erdeen (Scotland), Muhammad AliJawed has returned to Sharjah forgood. He is currently engaged withPetrofac's ERP implementation projectand enjoying a happy married life.

Muhammad Ayaz Karim, being thepeaceful, disciplined and self still stick-ing individual that he is (NOT!!), still worksfor Habib Bank AG Zurich Dubai in Cor-porate Banking. He is found active inthe Dubai social circle and is seen onone too many occasions attendingpremieres of Bollywood flicks.

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His weekend usually includes a trip toSharjah to visit his relatives and he is a fre-quent flyer to Karachi as well. Muham-mad Bin Shahbaz spends his leisure timecursing his competitor Gourmet for givingNestle water a hard time in Lahore. Heprefers to drink Sufi Water for himself.Muhammad Faisal Amin has takencharge of planning of the Engineering di-vision. He is a regular member of thefootball team and has transformed intoa no nonsense defender.

Muhammad Farooq Soomro, the not soholy disciple of His Sheikhness spendsmost of his time connecting over smok-ing pot. He still dreams of load sheddingin the scorching heat of Karachi while sit-ting in his chilled room in Kuwait. He hasbecome an expert in writing macros andhas been planning to use them to findanswers to God, the Universe and every-thing else. Previously, MuhammadHamid Khan worked as a Business De-velopment Manager and headed theGraphics and Animation division in amultinational software company. Thisyear, he rejoined his family business andis now working on consolidating the dif-ferent work sites in to one factory. He is stillsingle and looking... and giving seriousthoughts on relocating himself to UK.Muhammad Niazi Malik is still at SAMBAworking as RM corporate.

Muhammad Shahid Bashir continues tomake his mark as an entrepreneur. He re-sides in Lahore and is working on threebusiness projects; a transformer manu-facturing unit that he runs as a CEO, ex-panding the ethanol unit to include asteel mill to utilize excess electric energygenerated from in-house sources, andlastly setting up a dairy farm in Kasur of ahead count of 500 and establishing salepoints for milk and beef in different neigh-borhoods in Lahore. His son is fast learn-ing to become a footballer.MuhammadUsman became a proud father of ababy boy named Omar. Working at P&Gsales, he is currently posted at Lahore.

Muhammad Usman Ahmed is workingfor Home furnishing division at Alghanim.He got married in December and sincethen has disappeared from everyone’ssight. It rumored that he is planningsomething fishy. However he is still con-scious of his social responsibility and con-stantly sends emails, marked yellow attimes to highlight misconduct and to nipevil in the bud. Muhammad UsmanKhan is looking after Key Accounts Busi-

ness Development with Nestle. No won-der the chances of finding Nestle prod-ucts at Utility Stores are higher these daysthan plain flour. He will be getting marriedthis autumn.

After making his way up the ladder to-wards becoming a manager at Zong,Muhammad Umar Tanwir realized thathe needs to start all over again as an ex-ecutive at Mobily. UT has gotten marriedand will be moving to Saudia Arabia bySeptember. He is busy collecting homeentertainment content for his Saudia stint.Natalya Nicklaevna is with Petrofac inSharjah and prefers the burning heat ofDubai over the freezing cold of Moscow.Nizam Ahmed has gotten fed up ofmaking finance CP’s and has moved intoICT development sector where he enjoysmaking Dabbas for a change.Afterspending his honeymoon period at KualaLumpur, PTCL has placed Omar Ahmadat a remote location called ‘Akora Khat-tak’ in Pakistan, which according to Omaris in the middle of nowhere and he is fac-ing tough competition from local co-caine producers.

Omair Yunus is rising up the corporateladder and very soon it will be difficult tofind him a suitable boss. He has been in-strumental in developing the toys andseveral other categories within AlghanimElectronics. He is mostly found on planesto different destinations across the globe.Rabia Raza Tirmezey has successfullycompleted over a whole adventurousyear in Dubai. She has proudly clearedCFA Level 1 and is working for MashreqBank Treasury as a Derivative Structurer forCommodities and Rates. (Who says fi-nance was only the ‘guys thing’ atLUMS?!!). Visitors to Dubai can catch herup on either a premiere of a Bollywoodmovie or on inbound flights betweenDubai and Karachi. Rafael Alimoved toUAE last year and is working with Descon.He is enjoying life with his wife and twosons in Ajman. He was last seen on YasirMemon’s wedding dancing on the song‘menu yaar daai waiya uthaay naachanveei daai’.

Rai Usman has gotten engaged ac-cording to our sources. He is still at Bar-clays Bank posted at Dubai UAE.Raza-ul-Haque got promoted atChevron and is now working there as Sen-ior Zone Manager. His guest appearancein the TV show ‘Happy Hour withRukhsana’ resulted in a massive flow ofmarriage proposals subsequent to his

saucy exercise-cum-dance perform-ance.Raza Rehman is working as Assis-tant Brand Manager at Nestle and ismanaging complete NIDO Portfolio forthe past 8 months. Raza was blessed witha son last year. He continues to live hispassion for site seeing and trekking innorthern areas and went to Nanga Par-bat Base camp (South Side) and Hunzathis year. Saima Ansari is sticking to herguns working as ABM Surf at Unilever. Sheregularly adds her photography work onher Facebook profile.

Sajjad Ali Khan has gone back to whathe does best - music. He recentlylaunched his demo song on the websitewww.sajjadkhan.net and is expected torelease his own Rock music album soon.In the meanwhile, Wateen Telecom con-tinues to be his professional homeground. Salman Ahmed Khan is workingfor an organization where employerturnover is higher than employeeturnover. He is designated as RM corpo-rate for RBS which was previously knownas ABN AMRO, and will soon be called asMCB. Saud Mukhtar keeps his mind andheart occupied to extra-curricular activi-ties thanks to his 09:00 AM to 02:00 PMjob timings at SECP and his non-maritallifestyle. He has become a fatherly figureof LUMS Alumni Islamabad chapter andwas last seen collecting funds from LUMSAlumni for an Islamabad chapter reunionat gunpoint.

Saqib Mubarak’s division acquired anailing business and now struggles tomeet its own budget every month. Hespends day and night devising strategiesand models which, to his credit, at least“forecast” the past accurately. His leg-

endary bat carry inwhich he did not scorea single boundaryhelped Alghanim Indus-tries clinch a corporatecricket trophy. He wasrewarded with a toasterfor his efforts. He is still ascolourful as ever andhas the widest collec-tion of dazzling shoes.Shafiq Sobhan has

moved to Melbourne Australia and livesthere with his wife. Shahrukh andMaryam moved to UAE last year andhave been hopping around Abu Dhabiand Dubai since then. They spent theirlast year going through their ‘Pursuit ofHappiness’ life stage. Shahrukh now worksfor Bank of Oman.

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Shahzad Ahmed was last seen hikingaround an endangered species andwildlife resort at Makhspuri trek in NathiaGali. Faisal Bank continues to be hisemployer of choice.

Shehreyar Mehmood can be found atOracle working as marketing managerfor Sage West. His colorful language vo-cabulary is a treat to listen to in all ‘Isloo’gatherings. After commoditizing her skydiving experience in Dubai, the nextagenda on Shelina Ramzan Ali Khoja’slist is bungee jumping in Seattle. The firstbatch of her pictures has been up-loaded on Facebook as I am writingthese lines. She has been moving fromdepartment to department in the In-dustrial division of Alghanim during thepast one year. Calm and composedSiddique Ahmad was last seenscreaming and cheerleading atMaykan’s apartment for team Barcelonain UEFA Cup 2009 final match. He nowprices prepaid Jazz at Mobilink.

Sohaib Hashmi turned out to be a trueLahori acting as a great host to yourstruly and Umair Butt during our trip toDubai. Not a huge fan of clean-up, wediscovered 73 empty water bottleslying unattended below his bed. He isstill at Habib bank A.G. Zurich. SureshShrestra is working for the Departmentof Transport Management under theMinistry of Labor and Transport Man-agement Nepal. Both of his daughtershave started their schooling; one study-ing in Grade-1 at St. Mary's High Schooland the other enrolled in Nursery at Eu-rokids International.Syed Aamir Asifcontinues to work as part of the Invest-ment Portfolio team at Mashreq Bank,overseeing the Hedge Funds Portfolio ofthe Bank, where he is still popularlyknown as “Mr. Touch-me”.

Syed Ali Haidermade a successful jobhop in the recession stricken Dubai citywhere he moved from Habib Bank AGZurich to Barclays. He is enjoying his stayin Dubai with his wife and his littledaughter who is soon turning two. SyedAmmar Yasin switched from Telenor toenter the cheesy world of water, milkand juices at Nestle. Having declaredhimself as an ‘IDP’, he came back toTelenor where he now works in FinancialServices Division and spends his timeresearching names for his upcomingproducts. Doctor joined the parentsclub earlier this year with the birth of hisdaughter.

Tahir Masood has been promoted tothe position of Chilled Dairy Managerfor Central Zone. He controls the Yogurtsupply-line for Punjab which makes himthe second most influential person afterShahbaz Sharif. Taimur Karim now doesbudgeting for KESC while controlling theelectricity supply to North Karachi. Herarely makes public appearance thesedays due to inherent controversial na-ture of his job. Thanks to UmairMukhtar’s wife, they are enjoying theluxuries of a ‘Sarkari’ apartment in G7 Is-lamabad. He continues to inspire PTCLwith his profound strategies. UmairShabbir Butt is still single and insists onmaintaining the status quo during re-cession. He hasn’t left Wateen nor hasWateen left him. Juggling between cor-porate and consumer segments ofFiber and Fixed Network, he spends hisfree time gaming on his Play Station.

Unilever’s two ABMs Umer Farrukh andUmer Mehmood reside together inKarachi, one looking after Energile andthe other looking after Walls. Conse-quently, they have unlimited supply ofenergy drinks and ice-cream at theirapartment. After a year at Citibank,Wasif Sikander Butt decided to headback to Lahore. He is now working withStandard Chartered Bank - Global Cor-porate and enjoys the long hours prettymuch! He is still single but plans to rec-tify this status shortly.Yashrah Masood isstill working with SOUL Collections (sisterconcern Service Sales Corporation)since graduation and is leaving nostone unturned to win the CEO Excel-lence Award for 2009. Despite her ef-forts to behave like a typical corporatesugar coated pill, she is recognized asthe one having the loudest vocalcords.

For Yasir Suleman Memon, life has be-come quite calm and composedsince his marriage last year. His busyschedule starts in the morning workingat Unilever in the Modern Trade division,and continues at night involving clean-ing dishes, dusting and laundry. Zenu-bia Qureshi has moved to Bahrain withher husband Arsalan and is currentlywaiting for her CPR; it’s a resident visastatus - not to be confused with Car-diopulmonary Resuscitation. Inspite ofour tiring efforts we could not get up-date on Ahmad Raj, Abdul Jawwad,Hassan Ismail, Sarmad Balouch,Shuhrat and Zeeshan Saleem Bhutta.We wish them good luck for their futureand that they are fine and hope to

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hear from them next year.

And lastly, your class note coordinatorAhmed Shiraz Butt vowed a New Yearresolution of having ‘a new job, a newbabe and new weight’ by the year’s end.After experiencing a four months longnon-stop mental torture of job insecurity,he managed to dump Wateen just-in-time and joined Telenor Pakistan as SalesPlanning Executive in their Postpaid de-partment. Consequent to his move to theland of opportunity ‘Isloo’ and his flirtatiousnature, his family decided to hook him upfor good. And as further consequent tohis engagement, he has been forced toshed some pounds and has left the fastfood industry for good. In short, his NewYear resolution of having ‘a new job, anew babe and new weight’ has beenachieved successfully. II would like to endthis article with a quote...

Wherever you go, no matter what theweather, always brings your own sun-shine. (Anthony J. D’ Angelo)

MBA 2008Coordinators

Jalila Ahmed AliNetSol Technologiesjtariq@gmail.com

Gibran MalikTetra Pakgibran.a.m@gmail.com

Hi everyone, we have finally gotten downto doing the class notes. All we can sayafter this exercise is: thank God for FaceBook and linked in! Note: If anyone hasany complaints, Ahmed is to blame sincehe was let loose on the document after Iwas done with it.

Since graduation Haider Ali Khan hasbeen based in Lahore, working with Tetra-pak. It has been noted that since Gibuleft for Islamabad, Haider’s work life hasapparently become much easier. Otherthan that we don’t really hear much fromHaider but know he’s around and enjoy-ing his new Bravia. Osama Ashfaq Buttaris currently working at Alcatel – Lucent astheir Manager Sales-Enterprise BusinessGroup. Osama and his lovely wife;Shafaq have recently been blessed witha baby daughter Momina. The past year

has also been a very eventful one forUsman Gul who has gotten married andblessed with a baby boy; MuhammadIbrahim. Gulgee has finally settled downat the Imperial Electric Company, butonly after breaking the hearts of many anemployer in Lahore.Muhammad TayyabSafdar is working with Pepsicola Interna-tional as their Area Sales Manager.Tayyab recently got admission in Cam-bridge for an M.Phil in Development Stud-ies. He and his wife Shan will now soon beleaving Lahore for England. Tayyab hasbeen one of the most active members ofthe Lahore alumni chapter, showing up ata moments notice for any class get to-gether.

Jibran Khurshid is working with PTC andhas moved to Islamabad after spendingtime in Jhelum. Jibbi is going to be mov-ing in with the Isloo boys i.e. Gibu and theboys. Rumor has it that he is going to besharing rooms with Gibu. Saad Asif Ali isworking in Coke as an MT for the SupplyChain. He is looking forward to gettingmarried at the end of September. Re-cently he has developed a syndromewhich makes him think that he is losinghair, and as a remedy he is using“Tarpeen ka Tael” to stop the apparenthair loss.

Kashif Iqbal joined the First Gulf Bank inAbu Dhabi after his graduation and is stillthere. He has made a couple of tripsback to Pakistan. In the winters Pathan,Tayyab, Khurram and the boys went on aroad trip to Murree, the details of whichare not available. One of our brightestclass fellows, Nimerta Sirichand, joinedUnilever soon after graduation and is cur-rently in Singapore on rotation. JamalNasir is working in his family business herein Lahore as expected. He also recentlygot married.

Khurram Javaid is working in Telenor inthe Products and PlatformDepartment.He is based in Islamabad.Usman Nazir is in Pricing in Mobilink and iscurrently Gibu’s room mate in F-11. Priorto Mobilink, Usman worked atEmaar.Umer Javed Hashmi is busy ex-panding his family business to Lahore, thecurrent update on “Wood-n-Style” is thatthe construction of the factory hasbegun. These days he is quite unreach-able because of his busy schedule. How-ever we are certain that he has alreadystarted building a customer base. Gibubeing UJ’s roommate at LUMS, has prom-ised that he will definitely have his Jahez

made from Wood-n-style. The last weheard of Ayesha Hamid was that she wasdoing an RA’ship in LUMS. JahanzebKhaliq Toor is working in Wartsila Pakistan,as their Sales Coordinator. He got marriedin April and is based in Lahore with his wifeFatima.

Babar Salim is currently working in KESCas their Manager Business Strategy andOperations and is based in Karachi.Adnan Adil is working as a Financial Ana-lyst at HBG Holdings in Dubai. And eventhough he’s so far he still finds ways tomotivate people to take such initiativesas writing class notes. It’s been a whilesince we have heard from Chuchu; newsfrom Moiz is that Chu and Fuad are hav-ing a blast in Dubai - going clubbing andpainting the town red. Ehtesham ul Haqis currently working in Ernst and Young, La-hore as the Manager AABS, and much toevery ones surprise, he is intending toswitch jobs soon. Toqueer Ahmed Butt re-cently joined the Bahrain Financial Ex-change and is working in FinancialProduct Development. He is currently en-joying his last few days in Pakistan as hewill soon be joining Armaghan in Bahrain.

Javed Hussain Nayar is still working for theState Bank. Moiz Javed Qureshi is work-ing in Standard Chartered Dubai as a Re-lationship Manager making big bucksand enjoying the good life. He makes fre-quent visits back to Pakistan, and meetsup with us regularly. Dada is going to beheading back to Pakistan for Ramadan.Syed Mahir Salahuddin is working with Er-icsson as their Assistant Account Man-ager. He is probably the only Karachi-iteleft living in Lahore, with his lovely wifeShermeen. The couple tries to be very so-cial and have recently hosted an amaz-ing breakfast at their place. Mian KashifBashir Bhatti is with US.Denim and is theirMarketing Manager, he is looking to goabroad for work in the coming months.Ahmed Shahan Khalid is working in Mo-bilink as an Assistant Manager in Pricingand Strategy. He too shares board withGibu and the boys in Islamabad.

Armaghan Zafar had a grand weddingin Islamabad earlier this year. Most of thebatch made an appearance on his al-most week long function. He is currentlyworking with Standard Chartered Bank inBahrain. Hassan Mahmood recentlycompleted his second Masters in SocialSciences from the University of Chicago.Upon coming back from the States hehas resumed enjoying Lahori food and

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hosting FIFA nights at his place. Zee-shan Mirza and his lovely wife Nabiharecently welcomed their adorable twingirls; Abeer and Areesh into the world.Zeeshan is working with Mobilink as aBusiness Analyst; he has risen to thepost of a team lead and has recentlyhired two fresh MBA’s from the Batch of2009. Rabiya Ahmed just recently gotmarried to Ahmed Hassan. She hascompleted the management traineeprogramme at ENI and continues to bebased in Karachi.

The first inter section marriage was thatof Ali Irfan and Kiran Riaz. Ali has beenwith ICI since graduating and has re-cently become their Assistant Man-ager- Channel. Umair ur Rehman isworking at PACRA as a Financial Ana-lyst and is going to as well as what,whom, where, how, why be gettingmarried after Ramadan this year.Adnan Ahmed Dharra is the Relation-ship Manager in Zong in the CorporateSales department. He had a hugewedding function on Valentines day inFaisalabad this year. Adnan continuesto live in Faisalabad with his wife Sadafenjoying a very exciting life in Faisal-abad. Salahuddin Chaudhary beinghis old enterprising self has begun hisown company S.addin Design Studio.He too has gotten engaged earlier thisyear.

Adnan Mahmood Awan is currentlyworking as the Regional Sales Managerin BOC.He obtained the 4th Position inthe CSS exam and will be joining as aDMG in January next year. Syed Khur-ram Hussain is working in Engro Chem-icals in their sales department. Theupdate on Facebook is that he has re-cently gotten engaged. KhwajaMuhammad Shoaib is working with theLahore Stock Exchange as the DeputyChief Operating Officer. He got marriedin December last year. Sources say thatJupiter Zheng is still at Nestle in China.Omar Bin Ayaz is working with First GulfBank in Abu Dabhi. MuhammadMustafa has found his calling and isenjoying working in on the Zong brand.Furthering his acting career Lucy ap-peared in a TV play and was also spot-ted in one of Zong’s advertisementssipping a glass of “Chinese” water. As Iam writing these class notes Lucy istrekking the northern mountains withHassan Shahid.

Faisal Kasuri is in Canada, Halifax and

is working for American Income Life astheir Agency Manager. Gibran Ahmedbegan working with Tetrapak here in La-hore after graduation. He moved toPTC after a semester and is now work-ing there in brands. Gibran is living in Is-lamabad now with his family. As ofgraduation Hammad Qazi has beenworking with Unilever in their MarketingDepartment. Qazi too got married inDecember 2008 to Sara.The couplehas recently shifted to their own placein Karachi. Zubair Anwer is currentlyworking in Warid as the Assistant Man-ager for Prepaid Pricing and is lookingto hire female executives. And as weall know, Saad Khawaja has moved toDubai along with his family and is work-ing for McKinsey.

Khurram Shahzad Samad is running asuccessful software house by the nameof GenITeam. Fayaz Ahmed Shaikh isstill with Barclays and is currently placedin Kenya. He is looking to go to Egyptsoon. Sadaf Shahid has remainedloyal to NetSol Technologies and is cur-rently an Assistant Manager. She is nowpermanently moving to the US with thecompany to look after sales there.Umair Karim Khan is working in Karachias the Assistant Manager at AXACT.Salman Javaid Butt is presently workingin sales with Abacus Consulting here inLahore. Muhammad Umair Afzal isworking in Islamabad with Telenor intheir Marketing department. He isbased in Islamabad with his family.

Farhan Ahmed Sheikh is working as aBusiness Analyst at Confiz Pakistan herein Lahore. Waqas Safdar is the ProjectSales Manager at Etimaad EngineeringPvt. Ltd. He got married very recentlyhere in Lahore. Ahmed Ali Chaudhry isworking for Wateen as the ProductManager for Internet, the lucky guy andmyself got married last December andare based in Lahore.

After Nielsen, Jalila Ahmed Ali has nowfinally found work at NetSol Technolo-gies in their Global Marketing Depart-ment and is no more enjoying theluxuries of sleeping in late!Aamir Bhattiis working with GWE Pakistan- a com-pany operating in the water & energysector- in their Project Managementteam. Aamir also got marrried and hasnot been seen since.

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graduation. His consulting assignmentsare strictly confidential so I have no ideaof what he does there and nowadays heis enjoying a much deserved break inChina. Ahsan Malik (Chattha) initiallyjoined a local hypermart after gradua-tion. However, the media industry soonbecame aware of his immense ability tospeak and recruited him. He says"(I)Joined Makro Cash and Carry in August2008 and within the next 10 monthsswitched to group m - media investmentmanagement arm of WPP group. Thegroup is a global giant in advertising aswell as the media planning and buyingindustry. In today's cluttered media land-scape and being consultants to brandscommunication and media strategy, thisprofession offers an opportunity to trulyunderstand brand's footing, its reason forexistence, as well as what, whom,where, how, why and when to communi-cate with the target group. Working with asmall group of young, ambitious and ex-tremely energetic professionals is a phe-nomenal experience :) Wishing you allGood luck and a prosperous future."

After completingMBA, Ahson Faizhas gone backto the banking in-dustry where heis leading a 9 to9 life at StandardChartered Bank inthe Corporate Risk Department. For thosewho don't have an idea, it's a combina-tion of Financial Management / Corpo-rate Finance / Economics class!Overtime, he has finally managed tolevel up his excel skills to meet the dailywork requirements! Ali Zulqarnain (AliBhai) says “After graduation I had sometime to do a few consultancies for an in-ternational organization and a few na-tional firms. In March I was posted to GHQin budget directorate which formulatesand allocates the army budget - so unlikeme, right? Independently I have been in-volved in a conference paper address-ing human resource development inrefugee camps of Swat and Bajaur IDPs.The paper has been accepted for pres-entation at an international university."

Amir Manzoor (Amir Bhai or Dr Google) isa member of the permanent faculty atBahria University Karachi and a part-timeIT consultant. He eagerly spends all hisfree time with his family. The wonder ofwonders, the pick of the lot, the guru ofall things financial, our very own Asad

Abbas started off as an RM at Allied Bank.Being the driven and ambitious personthat he is he, he soon outgrew the roleand moved onto Pepsi Cola Interna-tional.

Asim Hussnain is looking for a good joband a good match. He has beenawarded the Acumen Fund Fellowship for2010 and will soon be starting off in NewYork. Athar Mansoor (Athar bhai) wentback to his public commission post in theDMG after graduation. He has recentlyobtained admission into a Masters pro-gram in something like public policy orpublic administration from Harvard, withfull funding from the government and willbe starting that shortly. Awais UmarNawaz says "after LUMS I rejoined ICI inKarachi. Got married lately in July 2009,had a wonderful honeymoon in Singa-pore and now enjoying the married life."Bilal Khan Niazi joined First Gulf Bank aftergraduating. Fahad Farooq joined Pepsi,Shell and then finally settled on BakerHughes.

Farid-ul-Islam Pasha is working as GlobalBusiness Development Manager at IN-TECH Process Automation Inc since May'08. Currently he is based in their Lahoreoffice but will soon be moving to Libya.Allah blessed him with a baby boy (NoorUl Islam Pasha) in July 2008.Fuad-A-Tanjil Hossein has been working in DubaiIslamic Bank, Dubai for a year now. Hedaily routine is as follows: wake up, rush towork, smoke cigarettes, work, rush home,download movies, watch movies, eat,sleep- repeat for best results! As for fa-vorite pastimes, Fuad adamantly insiststhat there is "No clubbing" but "lots ofcigar smoking". Ghufran Khalid's (lala)post LUMS corporate career started off insales at PCI. Nowadays he is recuperat-ing from this traumatic ordeal by polish-ing his poker skills and occasionally goingto the gym. Gibran Ali Malik -accordingto UT- "joined a retirement home aftergraduation and has achieved the statusof best bingo player in the Lahore Region:)". More seriously, Gibran says “I joinedTetra Pak in their sales department and re-cently have switched to marketing. I tookup horse-riding as a hobby, but after acouple of accidents decided to put thison hold. Life is good, I am well and I havea lot to be grateful for.”

Haroon Rashid (Dockey) can be foundeither in his hometown Sahiwal or in Mo-bilink Islamabad's marketing department.His entrepreneurial spirit continues to pos-

sess him from time to time. Haseeb BinHakim: "Right after LUMS, I joined PepsiCo and was lucky enough to work in myHometown Rawalpindi. I am still with Pep-siCo, trying my LUCK again to shift fromtheir sales department to Planning. Sokeep your fingers crossed." In addition tothis Haseeb is currently under the ap-prenticeship of Raza, preparing for theCFA level 1 Exam. Hassan Shahid (Sandy)is a happy slave at Mobilink Marketing. Hesays "Life so far is great both on personaland professional fronts. Red bricks are stillthe best thing that happened in life." Hissoulsearching has led him to snow cov-ered peaks and deserts - as exemplifiedby his recent Naran trip with Lucy. Ac-cording to him, this quest for self has alsomade him take up singing. "(I) miss mybatchmates a lot ... LUV!"

Hira Khalid Raja joined HBG (whichstands for either Haidry Brothers Group orHelping Businesses Grow) in Dubai afterLUMS. She was there till her marriage toOmar Aziz. Nowadays she is also prepar-ing to clear the CFA level 1 Exam.Kabindra Shrestha (Kabby) says "Aftergraduation I went back to my same or-ganization called Nepal Telecommuni-cations Authority. The post I was offeredwas Assistant Director which was thesame post before I joined LUMS. I amthinking about starting investing in powersector and I am working on that. I gotmarried in the month of February 2009.Everything happened so fast but I mustsay everything happened for good."Khurram Shaikh joined First Gulf Bankafter graduation and is currently offeringpilgrimage at Old Trafford - UK "AfterLums, I found out how wonderful i was be-fore 2006, so since 2008 I have been try-ing to find out the person I was and amalmost there. Before Lums, during Lumsand even after Lums, United it was, Unitedit is and United it will be, GLORY GLORYMAN UNITED. And oh yeah, I’m alsohappy so far and will always remainthankful to the One up above :)"

Kiran Riaz, one of the few people whotruly understood Dr Farzad, has beenteaching at UCL for the past year. Case inpoint, one of the subjects she teaches is"Managing Modern Corporations". On amore personal note, she got married toAli Irfan a couple of months ago. UsmanJamil joined Pepsico International as amarketing designate and got himself pro-moted to brand manager for FritoLay(Pepsi’s snack division) a month after join-ing. He can often be spotted in LUMS :)

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and has joined Shapes recently in abid to regain fitness. Maheen BinteShafqat says "I've shifted back to La-hore after working for PTC for a year. I'mliving life here to the fullest with myhubby and kids. Working for DesconChemicals as their Planning, Logisticsand Warehousing Manager, I'm finallygetting to do some work that satisfiesmy self actualization needs."

Mariam Minhas: "Right after LUMS (I)joined the fast paced world of NokiaMobiles doing something I love doingand getting paid for it...Human Re-source :) Slipping into the full Karachi-ite mode and getting used to the tafrihIran with a head scarf and bits npieces of Farsi and now will be found inDubai for the next few months. I havealso given a shot to designing clothesunder the banner of Needleworks dur-ing my time in Karachi. Awaiting thenext exciting challenge in the world ofHR" Fahd Ashraf "joined US Denim Millsand got married in Nov '08. Afterspending a year in a textile company(I) want to join lums and do an MBAagain. Currently working hard to get allPaki females to wear jeans cuz theyare the 51% of the population."

Muhammed Moazzam Ali (Mouzzy) isin UAE working for the Al-Batha Groupas an assistant manager in their groupfinance function. He lives in Greens-asuburb of Dubai- and has recentlybeen blessed with a Spartan namedAbdullah. Gymming and swimmingare always on his mind in addition tohis parttime roleas coupletherapist.

MuhammedUmer Malik (GDP): "I’ve been able towithstand the torrents of financial crisissticking to First Gulf Bank, Abu Dhabi inquite a challenging job as Forex / De-rivatives advisor. Now I’m planning toexpand my horizon further. Personal lifehas never been better. Making friendsfrom all over the world, in fact I find mykind easier than back in Pak. And forthose who experienced my parties inLahore, they have really become fa-mous here too. Oh and still a proudhappy Bachelor!"

Murwa Bhatti graduated to becomethe tallest female in Zong, where shewas working in Corporate Sales. Onsecond thought, seeing as it is a Chi-nese company, she was probably thetallest person overall. Murwa thenswitched to NetSol where she overseesall client interaction/activity for Daimler."I joined Zong and enjoyed to thefullest then shifted to NetSol and neverlooked back" Mustafa Hassan Arif(Mustah Fah - to be read in an AustinPowers sultry British accent) got marriedshortly after graduation and recentlyhosted a haqiqa for his baby daugh-ter. Mustafa keeps himself busy man-aging his footwear business and aninternet marketing firm. Nabeel Hus-sain is back home in Islamabad, work-ing at CPC as a Product Manager ITSolutions, and still dabbling in arts.Omar Azeez Babar (OzzyB) is teachingvarious management subjects at threedifferent institutes: UCL, FAST and BNU.

Raza Ali Zaidi (Raza Bhai) is currentlyworking at PTC as a Finance Analyst forSupply Chain and Planning. This waspreceded by a brief stint at AC Nielsenin the role of Regional Client Supportfor CMEA. Raza had been offered ad-mission to Harvard MBA but he has de-ferred that and intends to apply for aPHD in Strategy or Social Science. Razamay be going for Hajj this year, but thatis still tentative. Salman Ahmad(Tweety) started off at HBL, left it the firstchance he got due to interest issuesand moved to Constellation CK as amarket analyst. Tweety went from sin-gle to engaged to married in recordtime and now no longer dresses as anuncle. Shehryar Zafar's (Sheri Bhai) ca-reer started off at Nestle Supply Chainbut then morphed to Corporate Salesin Zong.

Shehzad Valliani (Valliani) has beenworking at UBL for a little over a yearnow. He started off in Auto Financeand is now in Commercial Assets. Val-liani also actively participates in com-munity service.He is a volunteer,part-time teacher and head of an MISdepartment. Tayyab Gandhi is cham-pioning the cause of Seth culturethrough his many businesses. Tayyabhas also recently tied the knot. UmarTariq (UT) is working for Pakistan To-bacco Company as an Audit Man-ager. He has been enjoying a lot of,and I say this with a pinch of salt, busi-ness class travel and he thanks all thesmokers for their contribution. He was

previously working for HBG Holdings inDubai and after taking the Private Eq-uity Fund to the brink of failure he leftand joined PTC. The Fund is now re-covering. When asked how his last yearwas, he responded "It had ups anddowns but it was my friends (from MBA08) without whom I wouldn't have sur-vived."

Umer Hiyat has been fairly busy travel-ling, with visits to China, Thailand andmore recently Naran. He is employedat Netsol and frequents the gym in hisfree time. Usman Ahmed Bhatti is nowsettled in Islamabad with his family.Herejoined Telenor after LUMS and is cur-rently working on their branchless bank-ing project - coming soon to a mobilenear you! Usman Dastagir (DG) says " Iam currently working in Telenor in theirpricing department and doing prettywell." Usman Javed (UJ) states he"Joined Zong after graduation, soon re-alized Value-added-Service (VAS) wasanything but 'me'...jumped over to PTCafter a month, these days (am) shoot-ing 'Living-in -the-Wild' for NAT GEO inDGK :) and also performing my dutiesas an area manager." I would like toquote Usman Khalid (Producer) ashaving said "I have been travelling theworld", "have taken trainings to be-come a global business leader" and"work at the world's most ethical com-pany". Producer works at Monsanto -the proudmakers of Posilac- in their mar-ketingdepartment. Healsogot married acouple of months ago.

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