First of all - I don't work for PILDAT and I am not getting paid for this post! :P
PILDAT was founded back in 2002 when PMLN was almost non-existent in Musharraf era. It was founded by a few independent, able minded team of people. Looking at the board of directors and members, they are all very reputable, educated, folks, each working at a well known organization. Blaming them of generating biased or ill intended surveys will be very unfair.
As political party supporters, we are never ready to accept anything that is said or written against our political leaders. We can't accept truth if it is pointing against our leaders. Unless we opened our eyes and ears to truth only, regardless of where it comes from and from who, nothing can be fixed!!!
Just a quick intro of the folks at the higher up chain at PILDAT!
PILDAT was founded back in 2002 when PMLN was almost non-existent in Musharraf era. It was founded by a few independent, able minded team of people. Looking at the board of directors and members, they are all very reputable, educated, folks, each working at a well known organization. Blaming them of generating biased or ill intended surveys will be very unfair.
As political party supporters, we are never ready to accept anything that is said or written against our political leaders. We can't accept truth if it is pointing against our leaders. Unless we opened our eyes and ears to truth only, regardless of where it comes from and from who, nothing can be fixed!!!
Just a quick intro of the folks at the higher up chain at PILDAT!
| [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Board of Directors[/FONT] | ||
| Mr. Javed Nawaz: Acting Chairman Board of Directors Mr. Javed Nawaz is the Managing Director of AgroDev in Oman. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1980-1983). He established 3 schools while he was the Chairman Board of Governors, Pakistan College, Muscat. He is a Law Graduate and has a post graduate degree in Business and Statistics. Mr. Nawaz was member of the First Group Study Exchange Team sponsored by Rotary International to visit California, USA in 1974. | |
| Mr. Abdul Latif Mirza: Board Member Mr. Abdul Latif Mirza has served as Manager Production Support, Technology Services, Saudi Hollandi Bank, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Head, EDP Saudi Hollandi Bank, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is currently based in North America. | |
| Mr. Ismet Amin Khawaja: Board Member Mr. Ismet Amin Khawaja is General Manager for Foundations Building Contracting Company, Ltd. He is Chairman of the Institution of Engineers Pakistan, Eastern Province Sub-Centre, Saudi Arabia. In October 2001, he was appointed Honorary Investment Counselor for Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia by the Board of Investment, Government of Pakistan. Mr. Khawaja has been involved in a number of international projects. | |
| Mr. Mohammad Haroon: Board Member Mr. Mohammad Haroon is Senior Vice President / Assistant General Manager at United Gulf Bank, Bahrain. He has served as an Investment Banker at Investment Corporation of Pakistan at Karachi and Peshawar; Manager, Senior Manager (Development), Acting Zonal Head, Senior Manager (Credit & Marketing for Gulf); and as Commercial Manager, National Bank of Pakistan, Peshawar, Abbotabad and Bahrain, 1974-1981. | |
| Mr. Mohammad Jameel Bajwa: Board Member Mr. Mohammad Jameel Bajwa is Vice President at the National Engineering Services of Pakistan (NESPAK), one of the largest multi-disciplinary consulting firms in Pakistan. His expertise is in Infrastructure Development. He has worked in Nigeria as Project Manager of Kaduna State Housing Authority and has executed mega-scale projects in his field including housing projects in Pakistan and abroad. | |
| Dr. Sania Nishtar: Board Member Sania Nishtar, SI, FRCP, Ph.D, is the founder and president of the Heartfile, an NGO think tank. Her areas of interests are health systems, global health, broader issues of governance and public-private relationships. She is also the founder of Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum and provides support to many agencies in an advisory role. Internationally, she is a member of many Expert Working Groups and Task Forces of the World Health Organization and is currently a member of the board of the International Union for Health Promotion and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health, etc. She speaks to audiences around the world and has been extensively published in and quoted in the media. Sania Nishtar is the recipient of Pakistan’s Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the European Societies Population Science Award, 16 gold medals and many accolades of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge and the American Biographical Center. Sania Nishtar holds a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a Ph.D. | |
| Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob: President and Secretary General BOD The founder President of PILDAT, Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob has over 25 years experience in senior management and advisory positions and over 8 years experience in design, planning and implementation of projects in the field of Parliamentary development, strengthening democratic institutions, democratisation, political discourse, election monitoring and dialogues for reconciliation. Mr. Mehboob is considered an authority on political, legislative and electoral affairs of the country. | |
