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group has been winning FPCCI Export Trophy for several years adn
accounted for exports worth Rs 1 billion in 1996-97. The group comprises
of at least seven companies namely 1) JK spinning Mills (formely Zeeshan
Textile) 2) JK Fibre Mills (formely Shahid Textile Mills) 3) JK Energy Ltd 4)
JK Tech (Pvt) Ltd 5) JK Sons (Pvt) Ltd 6) JK Pesticides (Pvt) Ltd 7) Fine
Fabrics (Pvt) Ltd. The JKA group comprises 1) JK Brothers (Pvt) Ltd 2)
Razia Textile Mills, 3) Abid Faiq Textile Mills and 4) JA Textile Mills.
Naveen Group: Another export-oriented group comprising 1) Naveen
Industries (Pvt) Ltd, 2) Sakina Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd 3) Naveen Exports
(Pvt) Ltd and 4) Ahmad Oriental Textile Mills.
One can go on listing the names of persons and groups who have unlimited
resources at their disposal and avail privileges for which ordinary taxpayer pay. It
is these people and their like who own and operates Pakistan.
The Ethnic Divide of Business
As early as 1960 and 1970, Prof Gustav Papnek of Bostan University and Soviet
scholar Sergi Levin took great pains to establish the ethnic background of
Pakistan's leading business elite, evidently because they foresaw that ethnicity of
the insiders ( the sons of the soil) and migrants was to play a central role in the
economic and social well being of the people of Pakistan. The clash between the
insiders and outsiders was slated to have a disastrous effect on the psyche of
Pakistani businessmen and economic development of the country.
Papanek established that almost all the major industrial families of the postindepenent
Pakistan belonged to five ethnic groups i.e Memons, Dawodi Bohras,
Khojas, Punjabi Sheikhs and Chiniotis. The top 42 industrial groups ranked by
him included only six, Hoti, Premier, Packages, Ghulam Farooq, Colony and
Noon having roots in areas that now constitute Pakistan. All other were migrants
and were active on the other side, in pre-independent India.
The morale of these business communities was to become critical to Pakistan's
economic development or lack of development in post-Bhutto era. It continued to
be so even in 1977. Three of the five communities identified by Papanek i.e
Khojas, Bohras and Memons had their roots in the Indian port city of Gujrat and
made Karachi their home in post-independence Pakistan. Ironically, of all the
Karachi-based businessmen only Razak Dawood shifted to Lahore when others
of the flock preferred to shift abroad during the adverse days of Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto.
Razak Dawood-A Memon in Lahore.
Razak Dawood presently heads Pakistan's biggest construction and engineering
conglomerate known as Descon group with an estimated turnover of at least Rs
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