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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43611)	2/17/2003 8:22:41 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Great comments Ike. Do you think US/Britain will be able to get this action off the ground with the strong anti-war position of the UN? Btw, seems Pak appears to be on the road to recovery. Definitely a good thing to see. Finding Opportunities in Post-9/11 Pakistan Growing Economy Sparks Return of Capital, Expertise washingtonpost.com LAHORE, Pakistan -- Terrorism, nuclear threats, a history of political turmoil and military rule -- when it comes to scaring off investors, Pakistan seems to have covered all the bases. Unless your name is Zia Chishti. A U.S.-born Pakistani American entrepreneur who made a fortune in Silicon Valley while barely out of Stanford Business School, Chishti, 31, is now devoting his energies to building a new call-center company here that provides telephone services -- such as taking orders for merchandise -- for businesses in the United States. So far, the bet is paying off. Operating from a seventh-floor office in this ragged, energetic city of 5 million people in Pakistan's Punjab region, the company uses satellite and fiber-optics technology to handle customer calls for about 50 U.S.-based clients, including a major newspaper and a toy company. (Chishti asked that the clients not be named, citing confidentiality agreements.) Chishti's call-center company, the first of its kind in Pakistan, employs about 150 people and is soon to be listed on the Karachi stock exchange. [.....] Ansari, whose firm recently introduced online trading, said that in the last several months he has received "a couple of dozen résumés" from Pakistani investment professionals in the United States. "The biggest benefit is not the dollars," he said over chips and salsa at Karachi's trendy Arizona Cafe. "The biggest benefit is we get 10,000 educated, influential people back." He added: "If we had asked God to design a scenario for the salvation of Pakistan, we couldn't have asked for more." [cont'd...]