Alumni Annual Magazine 2008

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Alumni

The LUMS Alumni Annual is here again, with news from LUMS as wellas your fellow alumni. This year’s class notes again speak of achieve-ments and new efforts by you all despite the political upheaval in thecountry as well as the erratic economics of the world in general. TheLUMS alumni community is now a very strong professional network theworld over with numerous and varied experiences. Therefore, alongwith various interviews and articles, we have incorporated this year thealumni perspective of the workplace. We thought that you all can relateto what these alumni have to say about the real work environment.

The year 2008 has taken LUMS through quite a few changes but onething that stays constant is the alumni bond with the university. TheHomecoming in December 2007 saw a huge audience. Similarly thechapter reunions in 2008 not only had heavy alumni participation butwere also supported by volunteer alumni in terms of organization. TheIslamabad Reunion was hosted by an alumnus at his own restaurant.

The Alumni philanthropic efforts continue with financial contributionsfrom various classes as well as individuals. Your ideas, feedback for im-provements in systems and your participation in the LUMS projects andresearches gives all these endeavors remarkable strength.

We thank you all who took the time out to compile the class notes or towrite articles. Like every year, this year’s issue has also been structuredthrough your ideas and written contributions. We look forward to yourfeedback on Alumni Annual 2008 as well as your ideas for the nextyear’s issue

Dear Alumni,

Regards,Amna Arshad AliAlumni Relations Office

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The year 2008 sees the joining of the first batch of SScchhooooll ooff SScciieennccee aanndd EEnnggiinneeeerriinngg, a school

that aspires to provide science & engineering education that our country has not previously known.

The SSuulleemmaann DDaawwoooodd SScchhooooll ooff BBuussiinneessss and the SScchhooooll ooff HHuummaanniittiieess,, SSoocciiaall SScciieenncceess aanndd LLaaww are

progressing with more diverse educational programmes coming up every year. The National Out-

reach Programme is continuing to be a source of providing quality education to talent from the

underprivileged areas of the country.

Like every year we hear of our Alumni reaching greater heights in their professional journeys. The

achievements of our Alumni are always a source of pride for us and of course we hope that the

progress of your University will be an inspiration to you. You, being Alumni are the most important

stakeholders in LUMS as you, more than anyone else, can realize all what we stand for and all

that we aspire for. We therefore, look towards your active involvement in the form of ideas as

well as valuable feedback.

I wish you another year of professional and personal achievement.

Pro-Chancellor’s

Dear Alumni,

Syed Babar Ali

Syed Babar Ali in Nepal, February 08


Lahore University of Management Sciences has been enriched by the commitment and dedication of manypeople, and it is now ready to become a source of national renewal and international leadership. As we developand implement a vision for LUMS in the 21st century, we ask alumni to help fulfill the promise inscribed inthe famous LUMS insignia, “prepared for life.” You are uniquely qualified to contribute to the envisionedstrengthening of this wonderful university and for improving the LUMS educational experience as a prepa-ration for life. It is my aspiration that LUMS alumni enjoy a lifetime of networking, learning, and leadershipby staying connected with their alma mater. We hope to engage you more than ever before in creating the nextvision of this university. A first step towards this goal has been the formation of a dedicated office under theleadership of a very capable LUMS alumnus, Sheikh Ali Hussain, who will spearhead this renewed commit-ment to reach out to our alumni. I ask you to reflect on my thoughts below and suggest any new ways in whichyou may be able to help LUMS attain new heights. You are a source of strength and symbol of success forLUMS and I hope that we can continue to count on your unwavering support as we begin to shape LUMSas a world class university.

Alumni will be vital in developing a 21st century vision for LUMS by

Joining in the Focalpoint Forum programs to create a vision for the future

Identifying opportunities for changes that will benefit students

Participating in continuing education, mentoring students, and joining in activities such as university

events, alumni lectures and alumni outreachIdentifying corporate sponsors and partnership opportunities for LUMSContributing funds for scholarships, awards and general operating money

Making visible their identity as LUMS alumni in their professional, civic and personal lives

For the past 26 years, I have been a professor of civil engineering, an associate dean of engineering, a re-searcher, and the sponsor of new initiatives in business and social entrepreneurship at one of America’s leadingresearch universities, Rice University, in Houston, Texas. Recently I have been active in bringing together sci-entists, engineers, and social scientists in developing new approaches to earthquake risk mitigation in Pakistanand South Asia. I am honored and delighted to have been chosen to lead LUMS, and I deeply cherish the op-portunity to contribute to higher education in the country of my birth. Dialog and discussion are crucial toachieving our goals, and alumni must have an important voice. I invite you to contribute to this excitingdialog and look forward with great expectation to your active involvement in the advancement of your almamater.

AlumniAhmad J. DurraniVice-Chancellor of LUMS

Ahmad J. Durrani, PhD, MBAVice Chancellor, [email protected]

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The LUMS experience, whether it’s for a stu-dent, an employee or a faculty member, is al-ways memorable and incomparable. LUMS andits students share an exceptional bond, whichmakes them stay connected even when the stu-dents become alumni. This closeness with theiruniversity has resulted in many of the alumni re-turning to the place that had maybe been theirsecond home at one time.

An Alumna from the first batch of BSc. (Hons.) atLUMS and who then, stayed on with LUMS for MS

CS degree is Hajira Kureshi. She started her firstjob with UNIDO, but switched shortly to Techlogixin 1998. She worked there till mid of 2003, the timewhen she got married. She came back to LUMS in2005 and assisted Syed Babar Ali in a project. Shewas soon offered a position at the LUMS School ofScience and Engineering and joined on as ManagerAdmissions and Financial Aid in 2007.

LUMS alumni always demonstrate the LUMS tradi-tion of hard work and perseverance for the sake of

acquiring knowledge. One such example is of Dr.Umar Saif, a highly talented individual, who studiedat LUMS for his BSc. (Hons.) in Computer Science.After completing his undergraduate from LUMS in1998, he left Lahore to pursue his doctoral studies atthe University of Cambridge and in 2001; he becamethe first Pakistani to receive a Ph.D. from the presti-gious school. Indeed, an honor for us all! Subse-quently in 2003, Dr. Umar Saif acquired a Postdoctorate from MIT in Computer Science, and alsoworked and taught at the MIT Computer Science andArtificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2001 to2006. Dr. Saif’s connection with his Alma Mater, ledhim to join the LUMS CS Faculty in 2006 as an AssociateProfessor. LUMS is proud to have Dr. Saif on this panelof distinguished professors that have made countlesscontributions towards this institution.

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Mubarika Aijazuddin of BSc 1998 worked in the Pakistan In-stitute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT),Community IT Innovators (Washington DC) and completed anumber of short-term consultancies with Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB), FC College and the World Bank. She then came toLUMS in September 2005 as a Consultant for Centre of Manage-ment and Economic Research and later shifted to the VC’s officein December 2005 as Assistant Manager where she has beenworking since with her usual zeal.

Mehreen R. Hussain presently working as Senior Manager atthe Rausing Executive Development Center LUMS is from the1992 batch of LUMS. She joined as Management Trainee at ANZGrindlays bank and worked there for three years, an experiencewhich taught her a lot about banking, management and leader-ship. She is now one of the key members contributing to thesuccessful running of the REDC.

Atia Tul Mujib, alumna MBA 2003 batch had her taste of thecorporate world early in her career. Her first job was at CaltexOil (Pakistan) Limited as Zone Manager. She then moved toher next experience at Telenor in 2004, where she started off asa Business Development Executive Sales & Distribution Associ-ate. After a year and a half, she switched internally to SegmentPlanning & Development Executive and was in that role for 18months. She finally moved back from Islamabad to Lahore andjoined LUMS as Assistant Manager Marketing in Nov 2007.

Zainab Nawaz, a seasoned marketing professional whose ex-perience encompasses a full range of marketing disciplines,completed her MBA from LUMS in 2004. After completing herstudies, she became a lecturer in GIFT University, Gujranwala,where she taught marketing and communication to the MBAclasses. She finally decided to work for her own university aftera year and joined the Marketing & External Relations Depart-ment as an Assistant Manager. After two years of challenges,she was promoted to Deputy Manager in Marketing and TestingServices Centre, Suleman Dawood School of Business.

The work experience at LUMS is also unique and quite a few ofthe faculty and staff return to this institution after various aca-demic or professional pursuits. One of the key individuals atLUMS is Dr. Shaukat A. Brah, the Dean of the Suleman Da-wood School of Business since July 2007, where he is also aProfessor of Operations. He joined LUMS from 1989 to 1991 asan Assistant professor of Production and Operations Manage-ment. To further his research pursuits he accepted a position atthe National University of Singapore’s where he taught forabout 16 years. Dr. Brah has been very active in executive ed-ucation and has lectured on a broad range of open and cus-tomized executive programs for various MultinationalCorporations; Samsung Asia, Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper Corpo-ration and Toshiba Asia. LUMS places pride in having a valu-able resource like him as the Dean of Business School!

Another important faculty member Dr. Anwar Khurshidhas been affiliated with LUMS since 1994. During this pe-riod, he has also worked at Bell Laboratories, USA for twoyears. He has extensive experience in teaching, researchand consultancy in international universities and hasmade countless contributions to LUMS in the positionof Dean for three years and Associate Dean for twoyears. He has designed, developed and conductedmany training programs for the students and is oneof the university’s strongest resources.

Rizwan Rashid, a key person in Plan-ning and Coordination at LUMS, hashad a diversified professional life.Over the span of his career, he hasworked in quite a few MNCs likeSchlumberger, Intel and UNDP.He has also worked as an inde-pendent ICT consultant. Mr.Rashid has a Master’s in com-puter engineering from USAand Business administrationfrom University of WarwickUK. In the early stages of hiscareer, he joined LUMS fora period of three years asManager Computer Re-sources. From 1996 on-wards, he worked atUNDP Islamabad andMalaysia for a fewyears. To further hisinformation andplanning experi-ence, he againjoined LUMS in2006 as DirectorPlanning andCoordination.The year 2008saw his ap-pointment asthe Directorof Informa-tion Tech-nology atLUMS.

“I am a local boy,” says Dr.Shaukat Ali Brah with unmistak-able pride and a broad smile.The present Dean of SulemanDawood School of Businessstarted his academic career inLahore - from Garrison Schooland Government College to theUniversity of Engineering & Tech-nology as a student of Mechani-cal Engineering. With a host offond memories and a solid foun-dation in place - courtesy someof the best institutes in the coun-try - Dr. Brah set the stage for hislater successes.

Following his scholastic ambi-tions, he departed to the US toadd the much-coveted title of

‘Doctor of Philosophy’ before hisname. He completed his PhDfrom the University of Houston,where he was given the opportu-nity to work on a research proj-ect on NASA’s Space ShuttleProgramme.

“I was very fortunate to get thatkind of exposure and experience,”says Dr. Brah, “as it openedmany doors for me.”

To name just a handful of somesuch opportunities: He spent 16years as a faculty member in theNational University of Singapore’sBusiness School – consistentlyranked one of the top threeschools in Asia and among thetop ten outside North America.He was the Production Editor ofAsia Pacific Journal of Opera-tional Research for a number ofyears, worked as a guest Editor

for a special issue of Interna-tional Journal of Service IndustryManagement, served as an Asso-ciate Editor for Asian Case Re-search Journal for over five yearsuntil recently, and is a member ofthe editorial board of DecisionSciences Journal. To furtherstrengthen his portfolio, there arenumerous refereed papers, casestudies, conference papers, etc,that Dr. Brah has contributed to.What’s more, since July 2007 hehas been spending his days andoften late evenings at LUMS asthe Dean of SDSB.

Dr. Shaukat Brah is not new toLUMS. He has been here before.Prior to his NUS experience, he

served LUMS as an AssistantProfessor for two years in thelate 80s and early 90s. At thattime, the school was still in theprocess of establishing itself andhence, there was not much em-phasis on research.

“The motto at the time,” recallsthe Dean, “was ‘Businessman’sBusiness School.’ “Being more re-search-oriented, I was looking forsomething more in that direction.”

Driven by his ambition as ascholar, he eventually decided toleave LUMS with a heavy heartand accepted a position as a fac-ulty member at the NUS Busi-ness School. Though not beforegetting married! Six months intothe marriage and the young cou-ple was en route to Singapore,ready for exciting new chal-lenges, both in their personal as

well as professional lives.

Moving up the academic suc-cess ladder at NUS with his re-freshing demeanour and positiveattitude, Dr. Shaukat Brah alsokept an active interest in execu-tive education, teaching in abroad range of open and cus-tomized executive programmesfor industry leaders like, Sam-sung Asia, Indah Kiat Pulp andPaper Corporation and ToshibaAsia, etc. As a mature academic,he enthused a new life into theBusiness School with his pro-gressive policies and a wholenew set of goals…not just for thestudents, but also for the School.

“I believe that in order to makeyour mark, it is important to bearin mind the four ‘Rs’ as the mainingredients of success– Rigour,Relevance, Reward and Recogni-tion,”

Dr. Brah enumerates with gusto.Elaborating on each, he states,

“Rigour or discipline and hardwork is absolutely the most es-sential, for it instils in the studentsthe stamina to take on difficultchallenges and deal with themunfazed in the real world. Thencomes relevance, it is imperativethat the institute provides the kindof education to its students,which reflects the environmentthe students are meant to enter asprofessionals. Without Relevancein coursework, there is not muchmerit in the education. From thepoint of view of the students,


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IntroducingDr. Shaukat Ali Brah


a relevant education enhances, infact,confirms their success as pro-fessionals, as they are able toadd more value to the industrywith their hands-on knowledge.As for Reward - the educationprovided should have the merit togroom well-rounded individualswho become an asset to the insti-tute’s name and integrity. On theother hand, the students wouldbe rewarded for their hard workwith success in the real world. Fi-nally, there is the final R – Recog-nition. It is the ‘WOW factor’inspired in others that is the realproof of recognition for both, theinstitute and the student.”

Incidentally, the four Rs havenow found a new home in LUMS,along with several initiatives thatthe new Dean has introduced.His pride in his work and his un-abated enthusiasm is infectious.Perhaps that is what is generat-ing a whole lot of energy in theBusiness School these days witha flurry of activities all around.There is a new building for SDSBin the offing, expected to be oc-cupied and fully functional by De-cember 2009, while structuralchanges within the administra-tion are keeping everyone ontheir toes.

“I have just one goal,” declaresthe Dean, “and that is to makeSDSB an internationally recog-nized school of global standing.”

Considering the distinguishedhistory that LUMS enjoys, he hascomplete faith that the universitywill achieve this goal sooner thananticipated.

“In 22 years, LUMS is probablythe only university that has estab-lished itself as the best in thecountry and one of the top insti-tutes in the region,” he states in-dulgently, “In such a short span, ithas grown considerably with 3schools already in place and

maybe more on the way. It istruly dynamic; in fact, I reallythink that there is no other placelike LUMS.”

According to him, LUMS is nowmoving from the initial, creativephase, which he describes asbeing “entrepreneurial” to a moremature stage that will allow forthe building of a sound structure.Presently, the university followsa mix of both, North Americanand British models, but the Deanis in favour of implementing theformer in its entirety. Being a truedemocrat at heart, he claims,

“My task is to introduce policies,but it’s up to my team to approve

or disapprove. There is no mov-ing forward without that.”

Encouraging his colleagues, fac-ulty and staff members alike, inthe decision-making processthrough participation, he aims tocreate an environment of mutualtrust and gratification. He hasidentified a few things that needfine tuning in the administrativedepartments, like more special-ized training for areas like Corpo-rate Communications andAdvertising, but on the whole thenew Dean is appreciative of thestaff and considers them to be“very skilled and a great support”

to the university.


One aspect that the Dean espe-cially feels strongly about is re-search and is enthusiastic aboutthe fact that there is considerablymore emphasis on it in this sec-ond, more mature phase ofLUMS. In keeping with the formerVice Chancellor, Dr. Syed ZahoorHassan’s vision of making LUMSa leading research institute, Dr.Brah is designing definitive poli-cies for SDSB with his team ofesteemed faculty members to re-alize this goal.

Regarding plans for the future, hestates that at present the main

focus is on inducting more stu-dents for the undergraduate aswell as postgraduate pro-grammes. “The more competi-tive students we have, the moreSDSB will flourish,” he beams. Hebelieves in the uninhibited cre-ative energy of the young stu-dents as being the driving forcebehind any prominent educa-tional institute.

“If you get the cream of the cropand nurture them without re-straint, then you are bound to getthe best results. I follow this phi-losophy and often tell my stu-

dents that I’m not here to put roadblocks in front of their ambitionand energy, for it is this energythat will take the school forward.”

In the same vein, moving fromthe present and potential stu-dents to the former ones, he ap-plauds the alumni for theirsuccesses and for making SDSBand indeed LUMS proud. “We areproud of the alumni,” he says,“and hope they are proud of theiralma mater and that they keepgiving their valuable time, energyand contributions as always.”

L U M S S S EA LUMS School of Science and Engi-

neering (SSE) aims to provide a

world-class education to the best

students in Pakistan, independent

of their financial background. Start-

ing fall 2008, SSE will be the first

private research school for sci-

ence and engineering in Pakistan,

providing an environment compa-

rable to the best research univer-

sities of the world. SSE aims to (i)

set a new standard for science

and engineering education in Pak-

istan, (ii) produce technically com-

petent graduates and innovative

problem-solvers, (iii) create useful

knowledge that can help address

pressing local and global issues,

and (iv) provide an opportunity to

students from less-privileged back-

grounds who would otherwise

have little chance of obtaining a

world-class education.

It takes five things to create a

world-class research school: a rig-

orous well-designed curriculum,

excellent research-active faculty,

world-class infrastructure, rigorous

but need-blind admissions

process and very strong financial

foundations. SSE’s curriculum is as

rigorous as that at the world's best

universities. It has recruited some

of the best available faculty,

trained at places like MIT, Caltech,

Opportunityto

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Berkeley, Stanford, Oxford, Cam-

bridge, Harvard, Princeton, Impe-

rial and Yale. Its infrastructure

and laboratories have been de-

signed using global best prac-

tices. It has created an

admissions process modeled on

the best research universities;

and it is raising resources to

build a sustainable science and

engineering research infrastruc-

ture, as well as to offer truly

need-blind admissions.

SSE is premised on a hope; that

by getting the best minds of Pak-

istan and providing them with

world-class education, it can in-

fluence the destiny of this nation.

SSE hopes that its graduates will

be change-agents who will con-

tribute to the frontiers of knowl-

edge and transform life as we

know it. The school is committed

to locating the best students in

Pakistan from every section of

society and from every socio-

economic background. As ad-

mission to SSE is need-blind,

applicants are admitted based

on their academic qualification

without regard to their financial

circumstances. If a student is ad-

mitted and the Financial Aid

Committee determines that

he/she cannot afford to pay, a

customized financial aid package

is created to enable that student

to complete her/his education.

SSE’s inaugural admissions cycle

has received an overwhelming

response with around 7500 stu-

dents applying for 200 seats. Be-

cause of the limited opportunities

in quality science and engineer-

ing education, and because of

SSE’s need-blind admissions pol-

icy, the demographics of this ex-

tremely competitive applicant

pool includes people from

widely varying backgrounds and

financial circumstances. The final

admitted students are some of

the best in Pakistan. The quality

of their interviews has been ex-

cellent and their performance on

the SSE Admissions Test, im-

pressive. Around 70-80% of the

admitted students have indicated

a need for financial aid. In keep-

ing with its promise of need blind

admissions, SSE has been ex-

ceedingly careful to make sure

no one who was admitted and

deserved financial aid has been

denied assistance.

Though the SSE has successfully

catered to the financial needs of

its first batch, there is a pressing

need to raise funds for future

batches so that the promise of

need-blind admissions is hon-

ored. For this purpose the school

is trying to establish an endow-

ment for scholarships. Current

SSE tuition is set at approxi-

mately 60% of what it costs the

school to educate a student, so

in a sense all students receive a

significant subsidy. However, for

less-privileged students, that sub-

sidy is not enough. The school

needs to fund their entire educa-

tion. In this endeavor SSE needs

societal, governmental and cor-

porate support to build a large

scholarship endowment, and to

offer scholarships which would

have reasonable certainty of con-

tinuity.

Alumni support is essential to

SSE’s vision of building a suc-

cessful research school in Pak-

istan. By contributing to this en-

dowment fund you have the

chance to touch a life and make

a difference for the better. By in-

vesting in the future of these chil-

dren you are essentially

investing in the future of Pak-

istan, helping make SSE a Door-

way to Opportunity which will

allow our deserving youth to take

our country forward.

For any ideas, feedback and sup-port please contact us at:

School of Science & Engineering Sector U, DHALahore Cantt 54792, PakistanTel: + 92 42 572 6670Fax: + 93 42 572 2592Email: [email protected]://sse.lums.edu.pk

After graduating from LUMS, I had the opportunity to spend a year at theCisco Sales Associate Program (SAP), a year long training program in Ams-terdam where candidates were imparted with sales and technical knowl-edge after which they were sent back to their home countries. The best wayto describe this experience would be to walk you through a typical day.

6:00 am: “Trinnnng!!! Triinnnggg!!! Triiiiiinngggg!!!!” Damn I hate thesealarm clocks.

6:15 am: I still hate these alarm clocks.

6:30 am: I get out of bed despite hating these alarm clocks.

7:30 am: I walk out of the house and prepare myself for thechallenging day that would begin at 8:30 am sharp. I lookat my watch and realize that the challenge might be begin-ning a little earlier; in order to catch the last tram to reachwork on time I would have to cover the 10 minute walk tothe tram station in just 5 minutes. What a start to the day!

8:27 am: I arrive at the office with three minutes to spare.Just enough time to grab a quick cup of hot warm cappuc-cino. I think about the week that lies ahead. We have an ITNetwork Troubleshooting exam, a product presentation togive and a commit meeting with the sales team all in the spaceof a mere 5 days. I take a deep breath and mutter, “It is goingto be a typical week at Cisco.”

8:30 am: The day begins. Our managers, Chris and Jochen walk inand greet us. We are to begin the day with an impromptu hot spotrole play exercise. Our managers lower the projector and we have fiveminutes to read through a scenario. “Oh my God, it is about ISDN andFrame Relay connections, my weakest topics” The managers are eyeing theroom to pick one out of the 30 of us. They look around the room, their eyesfreeze on me. I put on the most innocent look I can but it seems as if a miracle is faraway. I walk up to the front of the room.

My task is to obtain additional customer requirements, and based on these requirements

By Uzair Haroon Moosa BSc 2004

The Learning Goes On


A Day at a Workplace


come up with a customized Cisco solution allwithin the space of 20 minutes. The role of the

customer will be played by the audience. I look at my audience; 29exceptionally motivated Engineers, 3 highly experienced managers

and 2 well qualified technical trainers. It is not going to be an easy task. As I present the Cisco solution, I amconstantly questioned as to why I have chosen a particular product family,, why the particular product within that family,what value added features does this product have which competition does not provide. With the wide portfolio of productsthat Cisco offers, the dynamically changing nature of the technology market and the technical adeptness of my audienceI have to leverage my technical and soft skills to the best of my abilities.

Chris, our manager calls, “Time!” and we move into the feed back session. Feedback from 34 people; 34 peoplewho have been making detailed notes on how I have conducted myself during the role play, 34 people rep-resenting 16 different countries - each bringing a unique perspective on the role play, 34 people who re-ally want to see me grow!!! I pick up my notebook and start making notes of the constructive feedbackthat I am receiving. I marvel at the ability of my colleagues who are able to pick even very minute de-tails, those details that would enable me, a good presenter, to become an effective presenter.

9:00 am: Technical training starts. Today, we are covering the troubleshooting course material. Tom,our technical trainer is explaining the Cisco best practices to troubleshoot a problem. “It is alwaysgood to isolate a network problem into a particular OSI layer before applying either the top-

down, bottom-up or divide and conquer approach.” he explains.

12:00 pm: Lunch break. I just grab a quick salad and join my colleagues at the lunchtable. I look around and notice that not two people at my table are from the same coun-

try. Such cultural variety is very enriching.

1:00 pm: Back in class and ready to do some of my own trouble shooting

5:30 pm: Still deeply involved in the trouble shooting exercises. Hmm…the access router can ping the core router. How-ever, a telnet to the core router fails. The network, data link and physical layer must be working fine. I decide to apply thetop down approach to troubleshoot the network problem further.

6:30 pm: I pack up and leave for home. The walk to the tram station is really nice. I can feel the spring wind blow gentlyon my face and at this point in time it makes me forget about all other worries that I have.

8:00: Have just had a nice dinner of chicken curry with some freshly baked chapatti. That shouldgive me enough energy to start studying!

11:00: Decide to call it a day. Reflect back on the previous 5 months. Icould have never imagined that my skill set would improve this drasticallyin such a short time span. At Cisco, there was guidance at each step –guidance to help us overcome our weaknesses; guidance allowing us togrow and yet be ourselves; guidance that served to maintain the unique-ness that makes us who we are.

I look at the future that lay ahead. I had come a long way, but the jour-ney was far from over. At Cisco, I learned that it is about continuous im-provement. There is no denying that overwhelming challenges layahead – yet the resources available to overcome those challengescongruent. It is up to each individual how he/she decides to utilize theunprecedented resources at his/her disposal in overcoming thosechallenges.


Corporate Ayesha Ali Khan and Nabeeha Qazi BSc 2007

Graduation from one’s Alma Mater marks the endof one’s infant years and begins a new chapter intheir lives. For many, this brings an unraveling of theirdreams. For us, it meant making the giant leap intothe corporate pool. From time in memorial, peoplehave dreamt of the glorified corporate world. It isa land of opportunity. It is where young guns likeus are meant to rise to the occasion and take onthe corporations for all they’ve got. So with highhopes, we burst into the corporate arena. Yes in-deed, this corporate world was ‘way cooler ’ thanthose dorky deputy student years.

Previously we had gaped in awe at the lavishlifestyle which had become a code of young bud-ding executives. Now we were proud members ofthe same clan we had so idolized. Life was indeedgood. We were attending high profile meetings.We formulated strategic business growth models.We had our gourmet breakfast meetings. We hadour mobiles configured to receive critical emails atany time of the day. We were right up there. This

corporate image was catching on to us real fast.

But then, the second week of our induction began.The corporate cloud began to clear slowly and wewere able to see our true relativity. Our crucial rolein these high profile meetings, revolved around tak-ing minutes and a few nods. Our contribution re-mained vital to the formulation of strategic businessgrowth models in the back end market research sup-port we provided. Our gourmet breakfast meetingsinvolved daily congregations at the water cooler.Finally we eventually learnt modern mobile commu-nication was not a blessing but a deterrent to an un-available status.

And where was the high powered, high culturedWall Street executive disappearing to? Was it notabout talking the talk and walking the walk any-more? Was it not about flying the corporate jet andhaving team building sessions in the Maldives? Wasit not about watching the cricket final sitting in theVIP box sipping cocktails? No it wasn’t. The

hyped up corporate arena slowly revealed its truecolors. You eventually realize you never did takethat giant leap into the corporate pool. In fact itseems you never left high school. Everyday as youenter, you see the arena so passively categorized.You see the corner reserved for the jocks, the tableoccupied by the cheerleaders, the hunched awaynerds and techies, the swaying of the hippies andthe lurking of the bad boys. They all come togetherworking whilst remaining loyal to their alias. Justlike in high school, one person would rule the mostlikely to succeed category.

Perhaps the corporate world was a glass house ef-fect or perhaps it was something for us to shapeup. Our peers have risen to the challenge and haveproven their worth. Many have gone places wor-thy of their potential. Perhaps eventually everybodywill be classified under the most likely to succeedcategory. It is just a matter of how one defines theirsuccess.

The

Illusion


Methods and MemoriesThe LUMS MBA

By Saroop Gul MBA 2006


The beauty of the LUMSMBA case method of studyis that it gives you a goodfeel of the real work environ-ment. This is in contrast tothe lecture method, wherethe frameworks andmethodologies narrated bythe professor are forgottenas soon as the studentsleave the classroom. In thecase method since theframeworks are applied onreal life scenarios, the re-tention levels rise exponen-tially.

However, this you do not re-alize till you enter the realwork environment. I thinkthe most valuable lesson Ilearnt is that every situationis unique. ItÊs funny; back inclass it seemed that onlycertain courses were veryimportant, the rest werenice-to-haves. This mightsound cliché but, it is reallytrue that each moduleteaches something signifi-cant. I have lost count of thenumber of times when I havementally referred back tocases while dealing with a sit-uation on the job.

For example, some of theaspects, which we tend tooverlook but which, if prop-erly understood, give youthat extra edge, are:

Culture and norms (reli-gious, traditional etc.) arevery important. I rememberthis case from China wherethe narrative about the cen-tral character in the situa-tion marrying a local Chinesegirl was ten pages long. (Iagree, that was stretchingit a bit too far). In todayÊsglobal village more and moreof us are working abroad orhave regional reportinglines. Even if most Gen-Yconsumers watch the samesitcoms and movies, at thecore they are all dif ferent.So while deciding to launch a

new product you have to besensitive to local needs.

The general impression wasthat HR and OB courseswere „dabba‰. You under-stand their relevance whenthese „dabbas‰ fall on yourhead, initially when you haveto „manage your boss‰ andlater when you have to „man-age your reportees‰. Every-one has their unique style ofworking, the key lies in un-derstanding and exploitingthis uniqueness. Forcingyour reportee to work latewhen he has a family to takecare of, can wreak havocwith both his professional/personal life. „Know the re-sistance point‰, a key take-away which has helped me innot just business negotia-tions but also in other deal-ings.

The tendency to do all yourstudent projects withfriends also backfires. Notworking outside your coregroup effects your teambuilding skills. In real life, youhave to work with all sorts ofpeople. The irony is that usu-ally you end up working withthose you donÊt like. Trueyou canÊt like everyone andthere are times when youhave to stand up for whatyou believe in. Still you haveto learn to keep your profes-sional and personal lives sep-arate. To excel, you have tohave a working relationshipwith everyone. Very easy topreach, very dif ficult to fol-low but these are the rulesof the game.

You canÊt run away fromnumbers. Usually a CPbased on number analysisto justify your decision washighly regarded. Same is thecase in real life. If you knowhow to use data to deducemeaningful information, peo-ple will regard you highly. ItÊsa myth that by not working in

a bank you will be able toavoid Finance. At the end ofthe day profits rule. DoesnÊtmatter which business ordepartment you end upworking for, there will be atime when you will be pullingyour hair out while reconcil-ing numbers. So its betternot to avoid taking that Cor-porate Finance course be-cause trust me it comes inhandy.

„So what have you de-cided?‰ A line oft repeated inevery class, at the end ofeach case. You have to gothis way or that. There is noin-between.Interestinglythere is no one particularanswer. Each option has itspros and cons but the mostoptimal has to be chosen.You have to use your judg-ment knowing that evenafter all the analysis, if thatone assumption goeswrong, it will all fall down like ahouse of cards. In class itwas just your CP on the line.In real life the stakes aremuch higher. Timing is thekey. In class you have to thinkon your feet and tailor yourCP as the discussion pro-gresses, likewise on the jobyou have to decide to launchthe product at the righttime lest the competitiontakes advantage and be-comes the leader.

The two years of the LUMS

MBA just fly away but they

arm you with all the skills re-

quired to excel in the real

world. The added bonus is

the ton of cherished memo-

ries to keep you going

through the harsh realities

of real life.


The Music Society has always been committedto providing great exposure to musical entertain-ment at LUMS. The current Society President,Shibli Mansuri and Vice President AmmarRashid, both from the Batch of 2008, alongwith their team took newer and bolder steps inthe year 2007-08, resulting in the attainmentof newer heights for the society, as well as forthe music loving LUMS community.

The year started like any other, with an un-plugged gig for the new batch of 2011, wherenew and budding musicians were encouragedto perform without any restrictions on songs orthe number of songs. During the autumn quar-ter, The Music Society hosted one of the mostinnovative and exhilarating internal events everwitnessed at LUMS. Held late in October, theconcert, known as the “Thriller Night” wasbased along the lines of Halloween, where notonly the performers, but also the crowd wasasked to dress up in costumes. It was quite asight in LUMS with people dressed as scarilyas they could. Prizes were given out for the bestcostumes.

The Music Society then hosted one of thebiggest external concerts in the history ofLUMS. In collaboration with The Music, theconcert was known as the “Rock Drive”, and itincluded a number of famous performers andbands from Pakistan, including Siege, Akash,

Annie, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Roxen and Call.The concert was an instant hit, drawing a largecrowd. Highlights of the night were Shafqat’sclassical solos without music and Call who notonly did their famous numbers but also coveredBon Jovi’s “It’s My Life.” The Music Societyalso collaborated with the LUMS Entrepre-neurial Society and helped them organize theYLES ’08 concert in the Sports Complex. Thiswas another huge event, featuring bands likeMauj, Noori and Josh, drawing a crowd ofmore than 3000.

After “recuperating” from all the excitement, theMusic Society took stage again in spring, wherethey hosted another ground-breaking event, the“Maula-Jutt Rock.” It was an internal eventwhich cateredonly to Pak-istani music,t h e m e daround ourvery own Lol-lywood, wherethe backdrop includeda picture of Maula Juttholding a guitar. Itwas a new tradi-tion, cateringonly to Urdus o n g s ,vowed to be

continued over the years.

The year-end was marked by another internalunplugged gig held in the new student lounge. Itfeatured mostly the 2008’s, the graduatingbatch, a perfect goodbye to them. Apart fromthese events, other positive steps include im-provement in the new music room, which has

been shifted to thesports complex and pur-chase of new equip-ment particularly

guitars.

The Music Society is nowlooking towards the next year,with plans to hold panel discus-sions as well as instrument (gui-

tar, drums as well as tabla)lessons. A new recording studio isbeing set up so that the musiciansmay record their originals in LUMSitself. All in all, The Music Societyplans to continue with their efforts forpromoting music within LUMS andalso motivating the talented aspiringmusicians here.

By Mohammad Hassaan Aslam

A happening year with the LUMS Music SocietyThriller Night

Josh - Rocking the YLES Concert


TThhee DDrraammaattiiccss SSoocciieettyy aatt LLUUMMSS

Dramaline, the dramatics society at LUMS, holds the prestigious position of being the oldest society in the university. We are an en-tertainment based society with a mission to bring out the creative talent amongst students, be it in acting, direction, production,or script writing, along with providing quality entertainment to the student body in general. Over the years Dramaline has organizedmany events.

In the academic year 2007-2008 Dramaline organized three events. In January2008 it organized a stand up comedy show where the nationally acclaimed“Four Man Show” performed before an audience of more than 1200 people.The event was a tremendous success. The popular group came up with someriveting political satire that left the audience in fits of laughter. The humorwas taken in good spirit by all.

The second event by Dramaline was its annual “Skitamsha 5”. The 3 day event was held at the largest scale ever, attracting anaudience of more than 600 people daily. Audience included LUMS students and outsiders eager to watch some quality theatrical per-

formances. For the first time, teams from outside of LUMS also partici-pated in the event. The event truly showcased the tremendous talentLUMS has in the field of theater.

The third event and the largest event of Dramaline this year was its annualplay, “Marta Kiya Na Karta” an adaptation of the Italian playwright DarioFo’s “An accidental death of an Anarchist”. Preparations for the play in-cluded a 10 day long theater workshop which was taken as the basis toselect the cast and crew. The workshop offered a unique blend of learningand education to the participants. The play showed at the Al hamra hall

from May 21 to 25, 2008. It attracted a house full audience of over 600 people daily.

Dramaline, due to the scale and frequency of its events, is categorized as a very active student society at LUMS. In the comingyear the council hopes to replicate all the success of the previous year and hopefully set the bar even higher.

by Hassan Ijaz Saeed

DRAMALINE


Sports at LUMS (SLUMS) is one of the most active societies atLUMS and believes in providing opportunities to the studentbody that ensues to inculcate a sense of sportsman spirit, dis-cipline and responsibility during all sporting events.

Sports at LUMS is the largest society in LUMS which caters toapproximately 60 % of the entire student body. Comprising of17 different sports (Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket,Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Snooker, Squash, Table Ten-nis, Tennis ,Softball, Swimming, Weightlifting, Boxing and Vol-

leyball), it caters to the entire LUMS student body as it rendersto be a platform to challenge one’s athletic abilities and pro-vide the opportunity to pursue a sport one already knows oryearns to learn. SLUMS successfully manages to host variousinter and intra university tournaments every academic year.These entail annual fixtures with various universities, partici-pation in the large scale annual Higher Education Commission(HEC) Sports tournaments and participation in All-Pakistansports tournaments.

Sports at LUMSBy Umair Rao

The highlights for the last year were two internationaltrips. The first one was the result of the proactiveRugby team that participated in the International 7sRugby tournament in Dubai where they played the bestteams and faced tough competition.

The Basketball, Volleyball, Football, Table Tennis, Ten-nis and Badminton teams participated in the Interna-tional Sports Festival in Turkey held at and hosted byBogazici University in Istanbul. Our claim to fame wasour tennis team; the final was played between MuteebPasha and Said Khan (both LUMINITES) and won byMuteeb Pasha. Shaza Fatima and Zainul Abideenwon the third position in mixed doubles in bad-minton, whereas Misha Rehman bagged the thirdposition in Tennis.

SLUMS last year had the honor to host and organizethe biggest ever National Inter-University Table Ten-nis Tournament in which 40 universities from all overPakistan participated. This tournament was heldover a period of four days and Karachi Universityemerged as the champion after beating Punjab Univer-sity in the final. The society also hosted the Nirala FutsalChallenge that attracted 32 teams, both university andschool level, to play “6 a side” football matches. Therewere three fields where matches took place at one time,attracting loads of students, teachers and supporters forexternal teams. This first of its kind tournament was verysuccessful. The Clash of the Volley bulls was also anotherhuge event which took place at the beach court and inwhich approximately 16 teams participated. Sponsoredby Red bull, this three day tournament ended with acelebrity match in which cricketers, models and athleteswere invited. Here the girls’ teams also participated andthat was indeed a boost to their sporting abilities andinterest.

For all other sports; namely tennis, cricket, squash,hockey, badminton, basketball and rugby, a numberof regional and national levels inter university fixtureswere organized and played with great vigor, enthusi-asm and sportsman spirit. SLUMS hopes and aims to takeall the sports to new heights in the next year by providingtraining sessions for aspiring sportspersons and organiz-ing all sorts of tournaments to encourage participation.Warid Telecom sponsored most of the events organizedby SLUMS thus helping to promote sports at the universitylevel. Their support is highly appreciated.



All night All right-Happening Music-Interesting food- In the heat of August and the winds of December - Students across thebatches are seen at no place other than the Volleyball Courts. Introducing to you our "Claim to Fame" for the term 07-08 andour love of life: VOLLEYBALL.

Volleyball at LUMS is not just a mere sport; it's a sport which involves excitement, passion, and enthusiasm and most importantlythe love for the game. We invite you to come and witness this passion and excitement directly live from LUMS volley courts (Beachcourt and Hard court). These are the courts where we have learned to enjoy play and play, where many have learnt after us inawe, inspiration, imitation and most importantly mere interest and passion.

Thus we proudly claim that Volleyball is currently one of the most famous sports here at LUMS with the highest turnout in tour-naments and the biggest support base.

We had a number of tournaments during the last year; including a 3 on 3, 6 on 6, an Intersociety Volleyball tournament andValentines Volleyball tournament.We participated in the annual HECtournaments where both the boysand girls teams performed reallywell .The LUMS Boys Volleyballteam even attended the Turkeysports festival hosted by BogaziciUniversity. As reps for this year wehosted the Redbull "CLASH of theVolley bulls 07." It was a uniqueand exciting festival, as it was theonly Beach (Sand) volleyball tour-nament to be held in Pakistan,which featured, both male and fe-male teams playing simultaneously.

We tried our best to take Volleyballto new heights this year and we'dlike the new sports representatives to work harder on the popularity and skill of the sport by conducting more training sessionsand encouraging those individuals to play who are interested but currently don't have the skill or incentive to play.

By Anum Basir & Qasim Hasnain

The Passion for VolleyballA message from the volleyball representatives


During last year the LUMS Literary Society hosted several wellattended events. In collaboration with the Social Sciences De-partment of LUMS, LLS started a series of lectures by promi-nent literary figures in Pakistan. The series started with a verywell received evening with Iftikhar Arif, a very senior poet ofPakistan, who came in

from Islam-abad and hadtwo sepa-rate ses-sions atLUMS. Thefirst dis-c u s s i o nwas fol-

lowed by a beautifulrendition of his verses. He also treated the audience to

some of his unpublished works. Friday Times covered the wholeevent and remarked that “Iftikhar Arif’s lectures at LUMS re-minded many of Pakistan’s rich history and literary tradition.”Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi was invited from Karachi in a continu-ation of this series; this session also featured in the FridayTimes. He read his works to a full house in Saeed Saigol, thelargest auditorium at LUMS. For two hours the audience --which included prominent literary figures such as Amjad IslamAjmad, Professor Khurshid Rizvi, Attiya Sayyed and others --was amused with his wonderfully witty and hilarious writings.For the next lecture in the series, Zehra Nigah was invited fromKarachi who talked about her experiences as a female poet be-fore beautiful rendition of her poetry. Very recently a sessionwas conducted on contemporary French literature by FrenchScholar Marie Descas. Recordings of all these sessions are avail-able in the LUMS Library.

The society celebrated Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s birthday on the 14thof February. On this occasion a new work on Faiz Ahmed Faiz bya student of LUMS was presented and highly appreciated.Ateeb Gul prepared a complete concordance of Faiz’s work which

he presented to the audience. A similar work on Ghalib -- com-plete concordance of Ghalib’s poetry prepared by Taimoor Shahid-- was also presented on the occasion. "Interestingly enough,this kind of work had not been attempted so far in Urdu crit-icism, the irony of whose production in an English-speaking uni-versity is mitigated only by the devotion of its authors andthe inspiring supervision of literary giant Dr. Nomanul Haq," Fri-day Times commented. On this occasion Faiz’s daughterSaleema Hashmi recollected some old memories and told anec-dotes from his life to the audience. Harris Khalique, who cameespecially from Islamabad, also recited Faiz’s poetry to the au-dience. Dr. Nomanul Haq, who is also the patron of LLS, talkedabout the beautiful metaphors in Faiz‘s poetry while Dr. Waseemtalked about the relevance of his poetry to contemporarytimes. This event was followed by a Ghazal night which was or-ganized in collaboration with the LUMS Community Service So-ciety. The first hour of this night was dedicated to Faiz’spoetry. Students of LUMS, supported by trained musicians inclassical genre sang beautiful ghazals. This was a charity eventand the funds thus raised were used to help the supportstaff at LUMS.

LLS also conducted a threehour long calligraphy workshopfor the students of LUMS. 70students attended this work-shop conducted by prominentcalligrapher, Sajjad Khalid, who hasstudied from NCA and is in Pak-istan’s Calligrapher’s Guild. The so-ciety plans to conduct a similarworkshop in the near future.

LLS aspires to continue with these events and has severalother upcoming plans such as a bi-weekly reading circle, build-ing up a library of literary talks and events, conducting amushaira at LUMS and publishing a literary supplement everymonth.

LUMSLiterarySociety

Commitment

Scholasticto

pursuitsBy Taimoor Shahid


Some Achievements…Compiled by Rabia Roh

ail

Laurels in Floriculture & Horticulture

LUMS stood first in the gardens category of the universities in the 150th Annual Flower Show Compe-tition organized by the Horticulture Society of Pakistan at Bagh – i- Jinnah. The Gardeners and their Su-pervisors, Mr. Altaf & Mr. Kabir & lawn mower technician Mr. Muzaffar deserve special praise for theiruntiring and concerted efforts.

LUMS T20 - Stars swarm to the LUMS Cricket GroundLUMS cricket club organized a match including real cricket stars of the Pakistani Team. Watching ImranNazir, Shabbir Ahmad along with Junaid Zia and Abdul Rehman playing at LUMS cricket ground was ex-hilarating for many.

LUMS Alumna wins FellowshipThe Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced the selection of 29 Charlotte W. New-combe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2008. Among them is LUMS alumna Nosheen Ali, now a Ph.D.candidate in sociology at Cornell University. The 2008 Newcombe Fellowship, a highly competitive na-tional award, provides $23,000 for 12 months of work on a dissertation in the humanities or social sci-ences that addresses questions of religious or ethical value.

LUMUN has done it again! We take pride in the fact that the LUMUN team has been declared WorldChampion for the third consecutive year. This year Harvard WorldMUN or World Model United Nationswas held at Puebla in Mexico. There were 1600 delegates from all over the world and top class Univer-sities like Oxford, MIT, William and Mary, West Point, Berkley, and Princeton etc. were competing forthe Outstanding Delegation Award. It is very significant that this year all eight delegates of the LUMSteam won individual Outstanding Diplomacy Awards which is a rare happening in the history of HarvardWorldMUN. Collectively the LUMUN team was awarded the coveted Outstanding Delegation Award. Thisyear’s achievement of the LUMUN team is indeed a tremendous performance by the students.

LUMUN Wins World Championship

Donors Acknowledgement Event

On June 14, 2008, LUMS NOP teamarranged a special event to acknowl-edge the generous support of the LUMSNational Outreach Programme. Thisevent, hosted at LUMS, was sponsoredby Zong (China Mobile Pakistan) and hadparticipation of more than 200 sociallyresponsible guests including representa-tives of corporate identities, individuals,alumni, students and colleagues. Thiswas the 5th Donor’s AcknowledgmentEvent organized in honor of supporters

of the National Outreach Programme. The evening started with a welcome ad-dress by Sheikh Ali Hussain, Director Re-source Development and Alumni Affairsfollowed by a presentation overview onthe National Outreach Programme by DrSyed Zahoor Hassan (former Vice Chan-cellor, LUMS). Dr Hassan emphasized onhow LUMS had, in the last twenty threeyears, managed to establish itself as aninstitution of repute by adhering to itscore values of merit, diversity and excel-

lence. He also shared the rationale be-hind need-blind admission policy ofLUMS and future aspirations of the Na-tional Outreach Programme. Mr AbdulRazak Dawood, the Rector of LUMS thenshared with the audience, his thoughtthat went into setting up the universityand the dire need of programmes likethe National Outreach Programme forPakistan. The event ended with a spec-tacular performance by the legendaryTina Sani.

Making LUMS Accessible to All!The LUMS National Outreach Programme(NOP) has continued to make a differencein the higher education sector of Pakistanby providing a unique educational op-portunity to the brilliant yet financially dis-advantaged students of Pakistan. Sinceinception, the National Outreach Pro-gramme has been successful in inducting190 students in LUMS at undergraduate

level through the NOP stream; this in-cludes the 83 NOP scholars inducted thisyear as well as the students currently atvarious stages in their 4 year programme.13 NOP Scholars have graduated to date,3 of which received Fulbright Scholarshipand joined top universities such as Har-vard, Cornell and Columbia. 3 are enrolledin National University of Singapore, Lake-

head University and Pantheon SorbonneUniversity respectively on fellowshipswhile those who opted to work havejoined leading organizations such asUnilever, Standard Chartered Bank, ColonyGroup, Al-Ghanim Industries Kuwait,Habib Bank AG Zurich and Habib BankLimited.

National Outreach Programme



In the year 2008, 7500 highly talentedstudents from across Pakistan appliedfor admission into LUMS through theNOP. After conducting the evaluationtest in 16 cities, 700 candidates wereshortlisted for LUMS Admission Testscoaching. The coaching sessionswere arranged at 9 different centerssuch as Lahore, Rawalpindi, Pe-shawar, Multan, Kohat, Attock, Sahi-wal, Faisalabad and Karachi. Theseremote coaching sessions were madepossible through the support of ourpartner institutions, current studentsand alumni. The candidates coachedin these sessions would be eligible tojoin LUMS from Fall 2009. At least 100of these students are expected to beinducted at LUMS at that time. It is re-

ally encouraging to receive such ex-ceptional results, which would nothave been possible without the per-sistent efforts of the NOP team andsupport of the LUMS family includingalumni, faculty, staff and a large num-ber of well-wishers. The growing population of NOP schol-ars requires greater support from theLUMS family as well as socially re-sponsible citizens. It has become nec-essary to generate sufficient funds tosustain this noble initiative and meeteducational expenses of young menand women of Pakistan. BSc gradu-ates of 2002 came forward to set upan endowment fund to sponsor twoNOP Scholars. BSc Class of 2006graduates have sponsored the tuition

fee of a NOP Scholar for the secondyear in 2008. The generosity of thesealumni and their support toward theLUMS vision shows that the LUMSspirit stays with the alumni at all times.We are truly grateful to the alumni forcontributing their time in our identifica-tion process for brilliant and needystudents as well as for helping us fi-nancially in this endeavor.Future plans include inducting stu-dents in graduate programmesthrough the National Outreach Pro-gramme stream. We look forward toyour help in turning this dream into re-ality. It is only with your support andencouragement that we have beenable to change lives and will continueto do so in the future as well.

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Benefactor (Endowment for two students) Rs10,000,000 / $ 162,000

OR

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Patron (for full program) Rs 1,500,000 / $ 25,000

Guardian (for 2 years) Rs 1,000,000 / $ 16,670

Supporter (for 1 year) Rs 500,000 / $ 8,334

Friend Any amount

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National Outreach Programme

* Please note:A complete form should be sent to LUMS for referenceThe payment can be made in half yearly instalments

Donate Online via Visa / MasterCard (preferred option)

Please follow the stepsa) Visit LUMS web-site: www.lums.edu.pkb) Select ‘Pay Online’ link c) In step 1/4, choose “Donors (NOP Donations, Donations for Scholarship Fund, Other Donations)”.d) In step 2/4, make the relevant choice for you (‘LUMS Graduates’ or ‘Other Donors’).e) In the next screen of step 2/4, fill out your details (Name, Organization, etc.) and the amount for your

contribution (in Pak Rupees).f) In the ‘Purpose of Donation’ box, be sure to mention: “NOP Scholarship”g) In step 3/4, confirm your details.h) In step 4/4, please enter your credit card details.

Cheques/Bank Drafts are to be madein favour of:

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

National Outreach Programme Office

Lahore University of Management SciencesOpposite Sector U, Phase 2,DHA, Lahore Cantt. PakistanTel #: 92-42-572 2670-9 Ext #: 2185, 2293, 2287Fax #: 92-42-572 2591Email: [email protected]

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Limited Swift Code ABNAPKKA

Final Beneficiary Account Number 520216-415 Account Title. Lahore University of Management SciencesAddress: 4/5, Cavalry Ground Branch Lahore Cantt.

Contact Person:

Ms. Zainab AmirSenior Officer, National Outreach Programme

Ph #: 042 572 2670 Ext #: 4216Cell #: 0300 843 8175


The Alumni Office, like every year, hosted a number of events to strengthen the alumni bond and further this network.

Homecoming 2007

The Alumni Annual Homecoming 2007 washosted at the LUMS grounds on Saturday Decem-ber 15, 2007. Alumni from various years gatheredto meet their friends and teachers. The eveningstarted with a brief welcome from the Alumni Of-fice followed by addresses by Pro Chancellor SyedBabar Ali, First Vice Chancellor Dr. Syed ZahoorHassan, Dean of Business School Dr. Shaukat Brahand Dr. Jamshed H. Khan. Alumni Irfan Khan andSheikh Muhammad Ali also exchanged their viewswith the audience. A scrumptious dinner was fol-lowed by a swinging concert by none other thanStrings. The support of generous sponsors con-tributed a lot towards the success of the evening.

The next afternoon, the alumni were invited to theHomecoming Sunday Sports at the sports centre.The current sports society competed with the pre-vious popular sportspersons of LUMS at varioussports, during the afternoon. The day ended withtea for all participants at the executive dining hall.

2008 Batch Alumni Orientation

The MBA 2008 graduating batch was welcomed to the alumniworld on April 03, 2008. The LUMS Alumni Relations Depart-ment hosted the event at the LUMS Executive Dining Hall with apresentation focused on the role of an alumnus in the growth ofa university and benefits of being in the LUMS Alumni Network,followed by tea. Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan and Dr. Shaukat AliBrah also talked to the batch about their upcoming professionallives. The rationale of this forum was to enhance the involvementof these soon to be alumni in the university activities and most im-portantly, develop a life long relationship with their alma mater.

Similarly the BSc 2008 batch was welcomed to the alumni worldon May 14, 2008. These prospective alumni were given detailsof all the benefits and responsibilities of being LUMS alumni. Dr.Syed Zahoor Hassan in his talk emphasized on the importance ofmaintaining a strong link with the university even after leavingthe campus with their degrees. The evening ended with tea in thecentral courtyard.

ALUMNI EVENTSBy Amna Arshad Ali

LUMS Alumni UAEChapter Reunion 2008The UAE Alumni had a reunion at AlDhiyafah Ball Room, Crowne Plaza onApril 25, 2008. Syed Babar Ali and Dr.Syed Zahoor Hassan attended this event.The alumni gave ideas for the develop-ment of the university and discussed vari-ous issues with each other as well as theLUMS team over dinner.

Karachi Alumni Chapter Reunion 2008

LUMS hosted the Karachi Alumni Chapter Reunion at the Karachi Sheraton,Ballroom on May 31, 2008. A large number of Alumni attended the eventincluding many young professionals as well as high profile corporate enti-ties.Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan gave an update about the growth and changes inLUMS over the years. He also highlighted the importance of alumni partici-pation for the advancement of LUMS and how their contributions can makea big difference in helping the National Outreach Programme students. Hediscussed some future projects and plans regarding LUMS and its differentschools. Dr. Shaukat Ali Brah then talked about the Suleman Dawood Schoolof Business and the new SDSB Building that is being constructed. ThereafterMuhtashim Ashai, an alumnus from MBA 1992 shared his experiences atand since LUMS. Muhammad Yaqoob Baqapuri, an alumnus of MBA 1988,the first batch of LUMS, also said a few words, reminiscing about his days athis Alma Mater

The evening proceeded with stand-up comedy improvisation by Saad Ha-roon and Danish Ali who kept the audience entertained with their hilariousperformance. A lavish dinner concluded this fun filled evening.

Islamabad Alumni ChapterReunion 2008

The Islamabad Annual City Chapter Reunion washosted at The Monal Restaurant, on June 29, 2008.The beautiful location in the Daman-e-Koh Mountainsadded to the evening of meeting friends and renewingold ties. Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan and Dr. Shaukat Brahaddressed the alumni with updates on the university fol-lowed by Alumni Salman Abdul Wassay and LuqmanAli Afzal’s expression of their bond with LUMS. Theevent was successful due to the generous support andhosting at the Monal by Alumnus Luqman Ali Afzal.


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Class notesBSc 1998

CoordinatorHaroon SheikhBooz Allen Hamilton [email protected]

Adil Sherwani is still working for Mi-crosoft and doing a part-time MBAfrom Duke. He started a part-timerock band as lead vocalist, with leadguitarist Saad Ansari of BSc 2001fame, and a couple of other guys atMicrosoft. They are working on thealbum, have 3 original songsrecorded, a couple more in progress(search for "TMB" on Facebook) andhoping to play some big stagessomeday...

Ali Pervaiz is the resident BSc 98 ty-coon in Lahore – managing a textilebusiness and always on the lookoutfor the next big business idea! Thefamily has grown – Ali & Sara havetwo children; Mahnoor & Hamza.Aliya Khan said goodbye to the BigApple and moved to London earlythis year. She has entered the Londonart scene and is organizing her firstexhibition this autumn. She is alsoworking on a project to promote Pak-istani artists in Dubai, Europe andAustralia. Her son Adam, who is nowtwo and a half years old, has startednursery school, is already showinggreat talent in the arts and is proba-bly the youngest child playing thepiano with such enthusiasm and seri-ousness. With her crazy travel sched-ule around the world and weekendsin Paris and Venice, she doesn't thinkshe can come back to the corporateworld just yet.

Amber and Shahid are still in theWashington, DC metro area and nowhave 2 little` boys: Ayaan Masud wasborn on Aug 4, 08 and Izaan Masudturned 3 on Aug 9, 08. Shahid left

AOL after 4 years and has gone backto consulting. He joined a small firmin DC, OST where he has been man-aging one of their large scale/longterm federal government technologycontracts. He has been based at theHousing and Urban DevelopmentAgency in DC for almost a year.Amber has replaced Shahid at AOLwhere she leads performance meas-urement and strategy developmentprojects in the Business IntelligenceGroup. When they are not spendingtime with their kids, Shahid andAmber are constantly entertaining orsocializing and trying to figure outcreative ways to avoid any housework.

Bilal Ali Nawaz has just completeda tour of duty in India, teaching thema thing or two about software andlearning a thing or two about his lovefor non-veg food! Bilal’s work withTechlogix takes him to many univer-sity campuses across the land, imple-menting management solutions. Bilal,Ayesha and Hamza live in Lahore.Erum Tarin and Omer Ghaznavi areknee high in diaper changes and ro-tating the middle of the night feedafter welcoming their first born -Princess Mahnoor Ghaznavi into theworld in July 2008. Following theirmove back to Karachi - OG is pursu-ing his dream of private equity place-ments while at the same time gettingpaid for what he does best - talkingabout ManU, F1, Wimbledon etc as aRJ on FM89 and Sports Analyst onCNBC. Erum is head of InvestmentBanking and Advisory at Pak BruneiInvestment Company.

Fahd Shah is in Melbourne, livingvery happily with his wife and work-ing as a consultant with a companycalled DSTi, currently supporting theirfund accounting and unit registryproduct for global clients. He also in-vests in financial markets in his sparetime. In their free time the coupletries to explore different parts of Vic-toria and Australia. HaleemaSalman is living in Lahore, has a three

year old son and is looking forwardto seeing entire BSc 98 at the 10-yr re-union.

Haroon Sheikh, Amira, Ali and Aminlive in Dubai where Haroon day-dreams of becoming a retail entre-preneur and of someday returning toLahore! For a day-job, Haroon is astrategy consultant, traveling exten-sively across the GCC. He retains hispassion for Ferraris, F1 and tennis. Is-fandyar Khan has not progressedtoo much from the last update. Pro-fessionally now you find him mostlyin Istanbul and in Eastern Europe.When he is not spending time fixingthe financial sector in these countries,he is writing travel guides. He main-tains a residence in Washington DCand is happy to entertain batchmates who are passing by

Khurrum Shakeel says there is noupdate really… same job, same loca-tion, 1 wife, no kids at present…same car and house … everythingelse is good. Mahmud Yar Hiraj gotmarried, moved to Toronto and is ahigh profile I-banker at JPMorgan!Mohammed Ishaq Burney wel-comed the latest Burney – Inaaya,into the world. He now spends lesstime on the golf course and tries togive his legal advice to the AustralianSecurities and Investments Commis-sion as fast as possible to returnhome for quality time with the family.Mohammed Jawaad Chawla and‘Mrs. Me’ moved to Dubai from AbuDhabi. Jawaad is a high-flying invest-ment banker structuring mega-deals.In his spare time, he indulges his lovefor fine dining and finer cars…

Naureen Madhani is in Dar esSalaam, enjoying lots of sunshine,beautiful beaches and a rewardingjob as Associate Director at the AgaKhan University. She has a five-year-old daughter who looks like her andsounds like her (eerie). She still lovesto read, to laugh and to have fun al-though she has got her act togetheras a single mom! The world is open

Class notesin terms of next move so keep intouch! Noman Yakoob is still theunder-cover ‘seth’ of the batch. He isnow a family man, who ‘misses homein Karachi’ between his business tripsto China, Dubai … he spends all avail-able time following everything relatedto football (and cricket and golf and…)

Rizwan Aftab moved to Torontofrom US and is enjoying life thereworking for CIBC bank technology so-lutions group as architect. SamirShaikh lives in SFO, is married andhas a son. He works for Avaya.Shahzad Khan is living in Ottawa,Canada with his wife Zeba and twochildren Hakan (4) and Melike (1).He's finally done with his PhD in Cam-bridge (UK) and is now working as asenior scientist with DISTIL interac-tive, researching techniques to teachand assess skills via computer games.He has also been working on buildingintelligent agents that can employ lan-guage to demonstrate emotions andpersonality. Shahzad has taken upbiking and manages 25 kilometers aday commuting to work and back. Ifanyone comes by Ottawa, he invitesthem to visit but suggests that youavoid the winters though, unlessyou're man (or woman) enough tobrave negative thirty Celsius temper-atures, blowing snow and black ice.

Syed Ali is living in Lahore with adaughter and another on the way. Hesays life is good, other than having torethink on his move back to the landof the pure given the president andthe prime minister. He is beginning torecall the interesting and articulatepro-army epilogues, and how theperceptions have changed now. Hehopes things look better for Pakistanthe next time this magazine gets pub-lished; otherwise it'll have anotherpost on "migrated to ....."

Syed Vomic Nur is ‘well hidden’ in aplush district of London. Mr. and Mrs.Nur (Marilena) are both jet-setting in-vestment bankers at Citibank. Vomic

spends every spare moment awayfrom the office at his Blackberryworking and directing his staff! As ex-pected, he’s one of the most success-ful bankers in the City! Vomic retainsa passion for Pakistani politics andmay secretly harbor ambitions of re-turning one day as PM!!! Umar Saifis the father of two boys - Hadi (3years) and Ali (1 year). He won theIEEE Percom Mark Weiser Award2008 (highest award of recognition inhis field of research). His research ondeveloping-world technologies wasfeatured in New Scientist in Nov 2007and his three startups launched pub-lic beta in the recent few months:www.BumpIn.com (contextual chat),www.chOpaal.pk (social networkingover the SMS), and www.seeNre-port.com (citizen journalism).

Usman Rauf and Amina live in AbuDhabi where Usman is a whiz at busi-ness and financial research. His re-ports have far-reaching impact on thestock markets and in determiningcompanies’ future in the UAE. Usmanhas developed a passion for gourmetfood and German cars… Waqar andAmena reside in Lahore and are ex-pecting their first baby in November'08, inshallah. Yanaal Khurshid hasreturned to live in Lahore but contin-ues to work in the financial marketsin New York! The bachelor-at-large isdefining the ‘good-life’ in Lahore…

BSc 1999

CoordinatorAmeel Zia KhanMBA Melbourne [email protected]

It's 2008, which means there is oneyear to go before our class’ 10-yearreunion. Where will we be, what will

we be doing, and will any of us man-age to get together to celebrate adecade since we graduated? I guesswe'll find out next year. Meanwhile,here's what everyone is up to now.

Abdul Mannan Abbasi is working inLondon with Morgan Stanley. He ishappily married and is missing NewYork. Adeel Janeed Meer is workingin Jersey City. Adeel Jamil Siddiquiand Nadia Hussain recently movedto Washington DC with their 2 yearold daughter. “Marhoon” He hasbeen working on the healthcare sideof the computer industry and hopesto finally do something more mean-ingful than coding at work. After fi-nally putting some weight on hisskinny bones, Adeelo now spendsmuch time trying to keep it off (ratherunsuccessful so far). Adil Paracha,who has been working in the UK forthe last 3 years, recently joined Kim-berly Clark Europe as EuropeanBrand Manager on their bath tissuebusiness. He is the proud father of aboy and two girls. Adnan Bhuttaand Naira Latif Chaudhry have avery cute son named Mikail and areexpecting another one in late August.Adnan is still working at Microsoft.Ahmed Hamidani is working in Sin-gapore. Alefia Lotia and hubbyHuzaifa are sweltering – constantly! –in Irving, TX. Chatterbox Zainab (3+)and 6 month old Zahra the Grabberare enjoying school, pool, and naps.Aliya Salahuddin is working in Lon-don. Amanullah Jiffrey Kariapper,after spending a couple of years inGrenoble (France), is back in Lahoreand back at Strategic Systems Inter-national (SSI). He's looking into teach-ing computer science, especially inpublic sector institutions, and isworking to raise political awarenessamong the youth (particularly stu-dents) of Lahore. Amber Riaz isdoing her PhD from Oxford.

Ambreen Gilani (formerly IqbalMalik) got married to Adnan, has justmoved to New York, and is loving allthat the city has to offer.



Class notesAmeel Zia Khan finished his MBAfrom Melbourne Business School andplans to stick around in Melbournefor a few more years while his wifefinishes her PhD. He is an active blog-ger and you can read his professionalblog at insanityworks.org/acme andhis personal blog atinsanityworks.org/randomtangent.Amir Ali Jafri is working for Mi-crosoft in Seattle. Aqib ElahiMehboob is at AKD Securities inKarachi. Ashab Naeem Iqbal isworking for American Express in Lon-don. He got married last summer andis planning a move back to Dubai.Asif Amjad made some big movesthis year: he left Saudi Hollandi Bank(ABN Amro) to join Credit Suisse inRiyadh and, during this period, some-how found the time to get hitched toSana. Asim Butt is making art inKarachi after graduating from IndusValley School of Art and Architecturein 2006.

Asim Memon and Mariyam Mansurare both working for Microsoft inSeattle. Assed Jehangir and TaniaTariq are enjoying their stay in En-schede, the Netherlands, whereAssed is going to get a doctorate de-gree this year. He also loves to playwith Ayaan (2 year old son) andAlaina (1 year old daughter). BabarGhias is rock-steady in NYC withRabia and his 6 month old babydaughter. Faisal Wahab continues torun his pharma and toiletries businessin Karachi. He also recentlyjoined a brokerage houseas Head of Brand Develop-ment. Faisal Wasey gotmarried and is (still) lovingit. Farheen Lotia (formerlyAlwi) is in Karachi. FarooqMustafa Alavi is workingfor Standard Chartered inKarachi. Fatima Ashrafstill calls Houstonhome. She keepsbusy entertainingfour year old Ahmedand one year old Sophia.She is going to start taking piano les-

sons soon. Fatima Muzaffar is livingin London.She's busy being a full-timemom to her three year old sonMikaeel. Feroze Gulzar is busy play-ing polo while running his family busi-ness on the side (i.e. whenever hemanages to find the time away frompolo). He got married to Hina Kharlast December. Fuad Ghazanfar isworking for Nestle in Lahore.

Hassan Ali has joined NASA in SanFrancisco (in their animal space ven-ture program!). He got influenced bysufiastic Islam and took a recent tripto Mauritania to get blessings from a100+ year old sufi shaykh! HassanJaved is in Redmond. Hina Kharwon her seat in the 2008 electionswith a strong majority and is now aspecial assistant to the PM on eco-nomic affairs. Way to go Hina! Shegot married to Feroze Gulzar in De-cember 2007. Hina Khawar Aslamis married to Akbar Ahmad and hassettled in London. They have a won-derful daughter Zara (3+). IftikharRafi got married and is currentlyworking for a Swiss bank in Dubai.Imran Ahmed is working as a SalesPlanning Analyst with the handsetsdivision at Motorola Middle East andis doing an evening MBA from theUniversity of Strathclyde. Junaid BinJahangir is probably in Canada.Khawaja Bashir Uddin is living inDubai with his wife (Sana) anddaughter (Zaynah). He is working asSales Manager for EMS, which is

BlackBerry's Partner inMiddle East & Africa.Khurram Khaliq Khangot married to FatimaHayat in May 2007 andtogether they started anew interior design com-pany FK Collezioni. Khur-ram is still working withhis company QuadraTechnologies and their in-ternational partners

Deutsche Telekom, Daktron-ics, and BMG. Kiran Nanjiani is

probably in the UK. Maha Ahmed,after a successful career at the World

Bank and the UN, decided to pursuean academic life and is working to-wards her PhD in Holland. However,she is often found jet setting to Mar-bella or Mallorca. Mahira Daha andFareed Zaffar are both in Lahore.

Mahvash Akram has moved toDubai from London with her hus-band, Yusuf, and has three kids (aboy and two girls). Makhmoor-ul-Hassan is working with Shell in Lon-don as a financial consultant forGlobal Mergers and Acquisitions. Stillall of 5 feet tall, he is regularlystopped by the Bobbies for randomfull body searches. Marium Naeemis currently in London where she isworking with Shell as the EuropeanCredit Manager for the Aviation Busi-ness. She can usually be found in var-ious European cities as she continuesto clock air miles. And yes: she,Makhmoor, and Marium still form theBSc '99 power group in Shell London(Sameer left them for sunnier skies).Mariyam Mansur has a beautiful lit-tle girl. She is working in Microsoftwith her hubby Asim Memon.Marukh Aftab is working for Nokia-Siemens Dubai as a telecommunica-tions consultant and recently had abeautiful baby girl. Mehreen TanvirButt just attended her five year grad-uate school reunion in Boston and isshocked that it’s been so long sinceshe entered the "real world"! Thesespace scientists should stop wastingtheir time demoting Pluto and startworking on that time machine.Pronto!

Mehwish Zaman is a full-time momin London. Her son Zorane is 15months old. Moazzam Ali Khan isworking for Unilever in London andhas a baby boy. Mohammed RazalMinhas is still in the US. MonazzaAslam got her PhD and is now work-ing towards a post-doc in Oxford.She recently had a baby girl, Zara.Muhammad Amaan Akram is work-ing in London and has two beautifuldaughters. Muhammad HasanMuzaffar is finally getting to spend

Class notesmore time at home in Dubai withMarukh Aftab and his two monthold baby Zaria. There are rumors thathe sold his soul to McKinsey and onewonders if he'll ever quit the consult-ing life. Muhammad Omer Iqbal isstill happily married and working forMicrosoft in Seattle.

Muhammad Oosman launched sev-eral online services from Silicon Val-ley. Zavaj.com, a Muslim matrimonialportal, is the oldest service and isfree. After starting www.LeLeDesign-ing.com (a website designing com-pany), he soon launchedwww.LeLeCart.com (providinghosted e-commerce websites formerchants). Recently he venturedinto mobile marketing area by launch-ing a website for real estate market-ing www.TxtAHouse.com. MustafaZulfiqar Rakla completed his MBAfrom INSEAD and is now working forMcKinsey. He and Marzia recentlyhad a daughter.

Nabeeha Jafar is in Karachi and isvery busy, teaching at both the Con-vent of Jesus & Mary and Le'cole forAdvanced Studies. She has a fourand a half year old daughter, Iman.Nasir Masud Khan is currently work-ing at eBay, Inc. as a Senior SoftwareEngineer. Nauman Akbar is in La-hore. Neda Mulji is in Dubai withSameer Anees and their daughterAlesha who is very chatty, just likeher dad. Nirmal Babar is in the US.Novira Sabir is in London busybeing a mom to her two daughters,Alizeh (1) and Manal (6), and runninga small business of her own, Rusum(www.rusum.co.uk), which doesphotography and make-up forbrides. Omer Mehmood Asad iscurrently working for Network Appli-ance after rejecting an offer fromGoogle. In a global survey done re-cently, 100% (up from 99% last year)of respondents refused to believethis claim. He is happily married toMaira and lives in sunny California.Rida Zaidi is living in London andplans to spend this year being a serial

failure at the driving test. Her hus-band who took three times to pass isprepping her so hopefully she's insafe hands! She is now with Fitch andis the primary reason behind the sub-prime crisis.

Runaas Deheem is happily married,living in Jeddah, and managing Pan-tene for the Arabian Peninsula region.He has left the party lifestyle and isworking hard to adopt a religiousone (with limited success). He can befound in Makkah praying hard for hisnext assignment to be in Beirut. Ru-mors are abound that he has startedexercising for the first time in his lifeand has vowed to overtake SalmanAhmed as the second-least-muscularguy in the batch. Saara Salim is busybeing a mom in London. SalmanAhmed works for Goldman Sachs inLondon. He recently got his US visaafter a two year wait and also re-cently failed his driving test! SalmanKhalid is working in a cube for Mi-crosoft in Seattle like many other BSc'99 folk. Salman Mahbub is based inDC and helped get the BSc '99 crowdto hold several re-union parties inLondon. Salman Mahmood is hap-pily married and living in Texas.Saman Sheikh is working for PBS inChicago -- that too in the most dan-gerous neighborhood in America!She shuttles between Pakistan (whichshe can't ever have enough of) andthe US to work on exciting/life threat-ening journalistic projects in bothcountries to compensate for not hav-ing become the first Pakistani Formula1 driver. Her future plans includebreaking barriers and promoting loveand tolerance for humanity at large.If she's ever lucky enough, the onlyperson she'll run over with her Ferrariwill be Razal.

Sameer Mohammad Anees recentlyleft the Royal Dutch Shell Group inLondon and is now a Dubai-basedstrategy consultant with Arthur D. Lit-tle. Happily married to Neda Muljiwith a soon to be three year olddaughter Alesha (pronounced Ali-

Sha), he continues to love the soundof his own voice and offend peoplewith his strong views on just aboutevery topic under the sun. He isproud of the fact that his waist line isexactly the same as it was in college.In fact, nothing much has changedexcept that his hair is just a littlegreyer in certain places and his atti-tude is just (just) a little tamer than itused to be. Samir Zahid is marriedand back in Australia with his wifeSaira. Sarah Fatima Zaka is workingas a development economist andconsultant in Lahore. She has twodaughters. Sarah Naeem Qureshihas two boys and is working as a re-altor in the DC/Virginia area. SehrSheikh is busy with her son Zayaanand excels at making fantastic birth-day cakes.

Sheikh Mohammad Ali managesHilal Technologies in Lahore.Shahzad Hasan is currently tradingLatin America credit derivatives atMerrill Lynch in New York City, wherehe spends most of his time worryingabout the vagaries of the Latin debtmarkets. There is still no desi girl in hislife (please note the "desi" part ofthat last sentence). Shazia FarooqRahim is in Karachi. Shayan MehdiZaidi has continued to maintain hisposition at the top of BSc '99ers MostEligible Bachelors list -- all those wildpictures on his Facebook profile dotell tales, after all. Still based inChicago, he has racked up a few mil-lion miles travelling coast-to-coastwithin the continental United Stateswhile working on various projects.His current goal in life is to acquiredouble platinum status with all themajor US airlines before they gobankrupt or shut down their opera-tions altogether. The best place tocatch him is at Chicago's O'Hare In-ternational Airport. Syed MustafaBilal is in Seattle and is also workingfor Microsoft. He got married in De-cember 2007.

Syed Salman Zaidi is on the tradingfloor at Deutsche in Singapore.



Class notesSalman tries balancing his timesbetween getting his butt kicked by hiboss at work and by Samreen athome. Tayyab Rafiq Balagamwalais working for his family business inKarachi. Umair Jalil is an entrepre-neur who launched Web and Mobile(WAM), a softwaredevelopment/consulting businessheadquartered in Dubai. WAM hasdeveloped software solutions usedby 4500+ companies in 90 countriesin 18 languages. Umair is happily mar-ried and has 2 beautiful babies: Ab-dullah (3.5 years old and currentlyundergoing cancer treatment at Sick-Kids hospital in Toronto for stage 4neuroblastoma -- may Allah cure himcompletely and give him a long,healthy and blessed life in this world;please pray for him) and Aayan (2years old). www.umairjalil.com.Usman Waheed is working as aBrand Manager at Nestle for ChildrenHealth & Nutrition (Nestle NIDO). Heis happily married and has a two anda half year old daughter namedReem. Usman is happy to touch basewith you on LinkedIn and Facebook.Yasir Ali is still planning on how toget his children into Harvard. Zee-shan Mansoor is working for his fam-ily business in Karachi.

Classmates not included in thesenotes: Aisha Hassan (formerly Ma-sood Rashid), Anita ManzoorChaudhry, Hasanat AhmedHaider, Laila Bushra, MohammadRizwan, Mohammad Zakria Khan,Muhammad Rashid, MuhammadUmer Farooq, Nadia Rehman,Rana Sajjad Ahmad, SabeenPirzada, Shama Saeed, SyedHasan Hasnat, Syeda ShehrbanoKazim, Waqas Ahmed, HaseebHadi, and Wasif Tanvir. This is thesecond year we have successfullycompiled our class notes online. Ifyou weren't aware that this compila-tion was happening, you're probablynot in touch with the rest of us onMyFamily.com or on Facebook.Please do get in touch with us be-cause we really would like to know

what you're up to, even if all you giveus is a one-sentence update on yourlife.

BSc 2001

CoordinatorAbid MohsinMcKinsey & [email protected]

Another year goes by, and twothings happen: (a) People becomesmug and have better things to oc-cupy their lives (family, kids, a newjob, etc.) and therefore fall out oftouch with old friends; (b) Technol-ogy progresses at a cumulative rateand makes it easier and easier to getback in touch Here is what is upwith the BSc 2001 batch, as collectedthrough Gmail, Facebook, LinkedInand cheap telecommunications. Thepeople not mentioned are eitherdoing the same thing as last year, orhave shunned human contact andbecome reclusive hermits. In order ofresponse received…

Umair Bashir has been happily mar-ried since 2005 and is currently kick-ing butt as Software DevelopmentManager at Amazon.com in Seattle,Washington, USA. Previously, he wasa Software Consultant at McFadyenConsulting in Vienna, Virginia, USAand finished his MS in Systems Engi-neering from George Mason Univer-sity in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. MunibKhalid Siddiqi is single and workingthe night shift at Accenture, a highlyregarding consulting firm. He movedthere from his dayshift at AdvancedMicro Devices. A very timely move,just before Intel came and ate AMD’slunch. Fatima Kardar and Ali Alviare married and are both working atMicrosoft in Redmond, Washington,USA. They would like to say: “Still atMicrosoft, still married, still no kids .Ali & his band, TMB, are planning toopen for Ali Azmat in Seattle & Van-

couver this coming month and areworking towards an album. Releasedate: sometime in the future.”Beenish Malikwrote: “In the last oneyear, a lot has changed...I quit ICI,moved to the UK with my husband,worked with him for a year in thefamily business, and had a baby girl It's been a GREAT year! For the timebeing, I'm experiencing being a full-time mom and housewife...and lovingevery moment!” Bilal Malik is work-ing as a Project Manager at Confiz So-lutions in Lahore, Pakistan. He ismissing his friends from BSc 2001 alot and wishes everyone best of luckin their careers.

Haroon Jan Baryalay tied the knotlast year after completing his LLBfrom London University, and an LLMfrom Harvard University. He is cur-rently working at Haidermota & Co, inKarachi, Pakistan. Some thoughts:“Sometimes can’t really believe it’sbeen 11 years since the LUMS en-trance test, and 7 years since gradu-ation. Whether it was the weather orthe AC's were turned on very low,LUMS seemed like a cold detachedplace at first, but it did eventually be-came like a second home, as I’m surethose in the hostels would under-stand even more! I miss the greattimes on the soccer field, the hilari-ous annual student shows, and ofcourse, the “all nighters”. Always de-luded ourselves to think we wereworking when sitting in study groups.We actually smoked more cigarettesthan turned pages, but why wouldyou need to study when RehmanKhan could teach you all the mathsyou needed to know a day beforethe test. Other memories are (somewould say inevitably) more blurredand hazy, for reasons known only tothe initiated. To gauge how much lifehas changed, most of our class hasnow settled down, and the more farsighted of us are probably makingplans for their children's education atLUMS! Best of luck to everyone!”

Haroon Jan then added a note on

Class notesHaroon Sheikh: “Life has moved onsince our time at LUMS, but unfortu-nately we lost one of our class in2003 to a tragic accident in Memphis.Haroon Sheikh was a sincere andloyal friend to all those who knewhim, and is missed dearly. Sheikhjoined LUMS after leaving the airforce, because he said he couldnever own a Ferrari on a pilot’s salary.Why anyone would even look at aFerrari once they had flown an F-16was beyond me, but I’m glad the Fer-rari made him change his mind aboutthe air force. Despite troubles, Sheikhkept his chin up and I never heardhim complain or flinch. Because hewas so mature for his age, he gotalong as well with our parents as hedid with friends. He had an outstand-ing mind, and a vast breadth ofknowledge about the world. Wenamed him 'Luqman Hakeem' duringa trip to Islamabad because he madethe rest of us feel ignorant with his in-formative views. Haroon Sheikh wasa truly outstanding person. Hetouched the lives of those he be-friended, and will be remembered asa great friend, and a good person.He will always be in our prayers.”Nice work Janay. We easily forgetthose that are no longer with us.

Well, this year Mohammed FarooqNaseer finally called me a “cutie”. Ilike you too! Rather than try and re-phrase his email, here are his wisewords: “Abid, you cutie! Look there’snothing much changed since lastyear... (I am at LUMS, teaching anddoing lots of research work). So Iwould just like to share this coupletwith you and the rest of the equallysingle folks of 2001. I read this manyyears ago on the walls of a hotel inAbbotabad, written in riotous redcolors of a well-chewed paan brew:

‘Um bhi besahara, khocha tum bhibesaharafitay moo tumhara aur fitay moohamara’”

Graduate at the top of your class, do

some outstanding work while doingyour PhD at Yale, and then learn someinsight from the ramblings on a ran-dom wall in Pakiland. Brilliant!

Kiran Aslam, now Kiran Ahmad Zu-beri, is married and enjoying Karachiwith her husband, Ahmad Zuberi,who is the MD of Aaj and Play TV. Shehas a son who is almost 2, and is ahistory teacher at Karachi AmericanSchool. She also works part-time withher mom who is a designer calledNeelo Allawala, also based inKarachi. Beenish Pervaiz is currentlybased in Lahore and works at Nestleas Brand Manager Beverages. MehrShah is doing her MBA at SyracuseUniversity. Like most Pakistani stu-dents, she was recently in Pakistan“enjoying” the summer. Maleeha Aliis at Lend Lease LLC, in London,United Kingdom. Previously, she wasat KPMG in London, completed herMSc from University of Bristol in Eco-nomics and Finance. She is also a fullycertified professional ACA, whichWikipedia told me stands for “Associ-ate Chartered Accountant”, not Ala-bama Cattlemen's Association. Allthese acronyms are so confusing.Ahmed Khan is now in Pakistan,after completing his studies at Cam-bridge University and then becomingindefinitely employable all over theworld by doing a stint at McKinsey &Co. He is currently on leave from theDubai office of McKinsey & Co. and isrunning his family business, whileteaching at FC College and doingsome private consulting.

Syed Salman Jan writes: “Dear2001ites, I am back to studies i.e. ageneral MBA from FC College led byDr. Bashir team. Dr. Wasif keeps myhumor alive and active and my heartever young. Relationships? Yes, manybut not married as yet! Maybe, I'll fol-low Salman Khan's diktats. Summingit up, I have been working as an HRprofessional in Descon, Avari and soon. I am based in Lahore and sociallyquite active. One request: Fellas,please keep in touch!” Syed Qasim

Ifzal is married with kids, workinghard at ISC Lahore, while completingMS in Software Project Managementfrom FAST. Previously, he was work-ing for Softech Systems (Pvt) Ltd, Pak-istan. Umair Tariq is still single andwilling to mingle in London, UnitedKingdom. He is working for StandardChartered on emerging market creditstructuring in US and Europe. Aftercursing me for a few minutes, as is hisnorm, Sultan Akif finally came to thetopic at hand: “Work is going on asusual at Microsoft but it’s the otherstuff (i.e. life) that keeps things inter-esting. We are expecting our firstchild in January so it’s really an excit-ing time for us. Traveling is going onbut not as much as I used to. The re-cent hobby is hunting and I will begoing bear hunting in northern On-tario in September with my 12 GaugeSemi Automatic. Hopefully, this won'tturn into an episode of the huntergetting hunted!”Ummm… dude, what the ….’?!

Adnan Zafar Khan is at Wateen Tele-com, Lahore, since 2007. Previouslyhe was at DVCOM Ltd., Islamabad.He adds: “All is well at my end. Amworking on business planning & de-velopment in my company focusingon international markets.Am consid-ering taking a break from these activ-ities though and am weighing myoptions between starting my ownventure, doing further studies orgoing on long vacations.Perhaps I'lltake the last option before anythingelse.” An excellent idea, me thinks.Kashif Rafique got married, com-pleted his MBA, and is running hisown imports/distribution businesssince 2000 in Karachi. Way to gohomeboy. Saad Tawwab Khan Raois currently the Assistant Brand Man-ager for Pantene at P&G in Karachi.He says: “After working for 3 years inthe software industry I went back toLUMS for MBA. For the last two yearsI have been working as an AssistantBrand Manager at Procter andGamble in Karachi. I got married to



Class notesSaroop Gul from MBA 2006 in Nov'06 and both of us now work at P&Gin Karachi.” Mansoor Mirza writes: “Icontinue to consult with companiesin the Silicon Valley, and at the sametime am working towards setting upmy company Techtronix(http://www.techtronix.biz) in Pak-istan. Among other projects, my com-pany is building a website forPakistanis living in Pakistan, andabroad, to get quick access to infor-mation, reviews, ratings and photosof businesses in Pakistan. The websitecan be seen at http://www.starz.pk.Also, I'm happy to be spending moretime in Lahore and hope to be backin Lahore permanently by the timethe next year book comments aredue!”

Saad Ansari is still at Microsoft buthas branched out into a bunch ofhobbies. He runs marathons and al-most broke 2 hours in a halfmarathon (which for those not famil-iar, means doing 21 kilometers or 13miles in 120 minutes, about 5-6 min-utes per kilometer… crazy! Saad musthave bionic knees). He plays “musicshuzick” with Ali Alvi and opening forAli Azmat soon. Omar Ansari gotmarried in Jan 2007, and is based inDubai, United Arab Emirates workingfor Start Consult, a management con-sulting company. Saima Alvi gotmarried last year in October, and iscurrently living in Karachi with herhusband and volunteering as afundraiser for The Citizens' Founda-tion. She was previously working forthe Asian Development Bank. Shesays: “I keep hearing that there arequite a few BSc 2001s here in Karachibut save for Jawad Saleem andKashif I haven't run into anyoneelse...those who are around, plz bein touch!”

Bilal Siddiqi writes: “I'm back in Ox-ford midway through my PhD in Eco-nomics - which currently involvesleading a 15-strong motorbike-surveygang to unmapped villages acrosssubmerged bridges and winding

trails in pitch darkness and pouringrain.” Now that’s awesome NaumanAzhar and Ayesha Waheed choseto write me funny Facebook mes-sages rather than reply with some-thing I can put into the class notes,but I know that they are doing verywell and living with their daughter inSan Jose, California, USA. Nauman iscurrently at Oracle through an acqui-sition. Azmat Ali Pasha is currentlyat Google after spending manymoons at Microsoft in Redmond,Washington, USA. He can now beseen riding his new bicycle aroundthe roads of San Francisco, dodgingtaxi cabs and pedestrians. KamranAhsan got married and lives in Vir-ginia, USA, close to Washington, DC.He is working for Capital One, a fi-nancial institution specializing incredit cardsand othercredit prod-ucts. Ali Jaf-fery isworking for ahedge fundin New York,USA. He gotmarried lastOctober and goes back to Pakistanpretty regularly. Sumair Parvaiz justhad a baby boy, named ZidaanSumair. I guess Sumair and/or hiswife are huge French soccer fans

Omer Suleman finished his PhD atOxford University and trades FX Op-tions at Lehman, in London, UnitedKingdom. He is married and has a 1year old son. Cheers! Ali Azizmovedto Pakistan in July 2007 to work forOracle Corp as a middleware sales-man for the South Asian growtheconomies. He is currently living inLahore. Asim Saghir became the firstperson in our batch to have twins.He is living in Lahore, running his fam-ily business and taking Arabic classeson the side. Hammad Rahman tiedthe knot with Amina Aijaz last De-cember. He is working for McKinsey &Co. in the Dubai office. SheheryarChannah is living in Brussels, Belgium,

and working at Accenture. ShehryarPiracha will start his MBA at INSEADthis year, once he returns from vaca-tioning in Pakistan.

Muhammad Farhan Khan is stillworking with Royal Bank of Scotland,previously ABN AMRO Dubai, andhere is what he has to say on his lifeso far: “It has been a fast paced, fun-filled yet pressure intensive 3 years atDubai. If the work doesn’t kill you, themassive traffic jams will surely do buton the brighter side the drive-time isthe only time where I get a momentor two of my own ... away from bothmy at-work boss and my at-homeboss (i.e. my wife). I got married thisJanuary and am having a great time.Am in touch with Baba, Omer Ansari,Shehzad and Asjad here. Wish you all

the very best in life and pleasewhosoever drops by in Dubaidefinitely get in touch.”

And so what is up with me,Abid Mohsin, 2007 was apretty good year. Got my pro-fessional life sorted out byswitching from a Sr. MarketingManager position at a Silicon

Valley startup (www.oDesk.com) tothe San Francisco office of McKinsey& Co. Got my health sorted out bydoing an Olympic distance triathlon.And got my personal life shot to hellwith crazy work hours . C’est la vie.

BSc 2002

CoordinatorNausheen LotiaThe Lyceum [email protected]

The most significant and heart-warm-ing development of this past yearwas the Class of 2002 Scholarshipthat was initiated by UmarKarim Khanand passionately followed up by the

Class notesrest of our batch. This perpetuityfund donated by all of us is antici-pated to provide the scholarship of adeserving candidate at LUMS everyyear and forever! This is an achieve-ment that surely does us proud.

2008 also marks 10 years since we allfirst met each other! Here’s findingout what the Class of 2002 has beenup to this past year.

Ahsan Javed Chishty has movedagain! Well more like moved back toBMA Capital where he is now in-charge of the international equitysales desk. As part of a crack team ofsalesman/traders, he spends hismornings, afternoons and eveningsconvincing overseas investors (whoare crack in a different sense) aboutthe potential in Pakistan equities. Onthe personal front, he has proveddoom-sayers wrong (read HasanRahim) and has managed to remainmarried for 1.5 years. On a differentnote, he invites his fellow 2002alumni to ignore those lawyers andcome invest in Pakistan. No seriously- it’s still a great country.

Arsalan Ijaz Anwer got married inDec 2006. Has had a very busy 2007with a new life at home and newerchallenges at Nirala, where he wasbusy setting up a new business unit.After 5 successful years at Nirala,starting July 2008 he will be shiftingto full time consulting with SapphireTextiles Ltd. being his next majorclient. He also plans to move to theUK early next year. Atique-ur-Rahman, after slaving away for twoand half years at UFone, is back atLUMS pursuing his MBA degree. "Thisplace has changed a lot since BScand i miss my batch!"

Ayesha Aslam has breathed a sighof relief since her son Eisa (turning 3in July Inshallah) started going toschool and is now working part-timefor AboutUs.org as a Content Editorin their Lahore office. Faisal Chishtycontinues to slave away at KPMG in

oh-so happening Saudi Arabia in thehope that they would recognize histrue talents and pay him to just cometo the office everyday. On the per-sonal front, Faisal has finally given upthe reigns of his freedom to a mem-ber of the fairer species, and contem-plates attending business school withher. It has been a crazy year for Pak-istan, and Faisal hopes everyone andtheir families are doing well. FarazShahid Khan is working at Deloitte &Touche Philadelphia as a team leader.He became the proud father to ababy boy late last year. His name isZain Faraz Khan. Faraz Sheikh thinkshe has had a very exciting year butgiven that he has spent most of histime finishing his PhD coursework inReligious Studies at Indiana UniversityBloomington, it does put a strain onthe word 'exciting'. He hopes to takehis PhD Comp exams in Dec 08, finishwriting his thesis in a year or two andfinally unleash his long-suppressedpedagogical talents upon the unsus-pecting undergraduate students inAmerica, encouraged as he is by theaccomplishment of an analogous featby his wife earlier this year. He sendsjoy, peace, friendship, love andblessings to you all. Hassan Rahimis exactly the same, same job, samecity, same status...

After 3.5 long years with the AtlasGroup, Jawad Haleem has joinedLive Securities as Head of Equity Re-search. Married now for 3 years, hisson's crossed 18 months and who(like father)doesn't blink aneye when thelikes of Aish,Sush, Kat, Pri-ayanka etc. areon the televi-sion. So fellowcolleagues withbeautiful daugh-ters... Beware ofthis dude! On amore seriousnote, Jawadcompletely sec-

onds Ahsan Chishty's point of view:"this is still a great country!"Kulsum Abbasi is practising Econpresentation skills on unsuspectingGCE candidates. Kulsum still feelsyoung at heart but regular contactwith adolescents puts her in herplace.Mahira Ilyas as promised hadmade changes in her life. She movedback to Pakistan in August '07 andjoined 'Xavor' Consulting. She is en-joying her work as a Software Engi-neer and likes the place and peopletoo. She has also finally gotten herwish of doing MBA and will be join-ing the MBA programme at LUMSstarting in August. She prays that allstays well in Pakistan and she is ablepursue her MBA with ease Inshallah.On the personal front she went forHajj in December 2007 and had agreat experience and recommends allto go for it ASAP.

After spending a year at UT Austin,Mansoor Jafry dropped out of thePhD program and can officially beconsidered a corporate sell out. Henow works at Microsoft as a ProgramManager in Windows Mobile. MehrBajwa has gotten engaged, is stillworking in the development sector inLahore - but has shifted from the Min-istry of Industries to USAID, at a man-agement consultancy, J.E. AustinAssociates Inc. - and can't believe itwill be 10 years since everyone firstmet each other at LUMS!

Mobeen Yaqub has been living inBritain for the last five years and is themother of a four year old. After apost-graduate degree in EconomicPolicy she's working for a little whilein London and wondering where lifewill take her next.Momina Piracha isthe mother of two beautiful kids,Faizaan and Mahum and enjoyingevery stage of their growth. Still livingin Southern California and enjoyingthe abundance of parks andbeaches, she can't decide whetherto turn into a soccer mom, or goback to graduate studies. Muham-mad Waqas Asif Wyne is doing an



Class notesMBA in Finance from the UK and willjoin his bank after completion of hisdegree. Nosheen Ali and JahanzebSherwani are hoping to become Dr.Nosheen and Dr. Jahanzeb by theend of the year. In addition to writingup their dissertations, they'll be flyingto various fun destinations under thegarb of academic conferences. Ja-hanzeb also would like all of you tovisit his recently made websitewww.touchpadpro.com.

Omair Hafiz and Nausheen Lotiagot married earlier in December.Omair is still at it in the family busi-ness while Nausheen is keeping thespirit of Lums alive in Karachi by giv-ing surprise quizzes and catching un-suspecting cheating A-Level mathstudents at the Lyceum. After yet an-other year, Qasim Saeed is still con-fused. Saaid Anwar Khan is stillworking for "the man" at Microsoft asa Program Manager for Visual Studio.He along with Shaikh Qaseem iskeeping a keen eye on Mansoor Jafry(the corporate sell out) and his ex-tracurricular activities. He also praysand hopes that everyone had a great2007, and continue to have an evenbetter 2008, and that through somemiracle the people and the countryof Pakistan can heal themselves fromthe events and tragedies of recentand not-so-recent times. SalmanAkram has been juggling time be-tween family and daunting job com-mitments. Wife is mostly complaining(as most wives do ) on the cost ofkeeping his new employer happy. Hehas just recently changed jobs andstarted working for HP in the UK. Heplans to continue on the learningcurve and dreams of becoming aSAP Consultant in the near future. Hewould also like to thank Faraz ShahidKhan and Usman Aijaz for helpinghim in the preparation for the strenu-ous interviewing process at Deloitte.Samreen Khan graduated with MScEconomic Development (Distinction)from University of Glasgow and is fi-nally back with her family. These daysshe is actively looking for a job in

Qatar, misses Glasgow badly and atthe same time is searching for furtherprospects in research. Apart fromjob hunting, she is catching up onstories and events (that took placewithin the family), is watching moviesand has started painting again (gladto see that the touch has remained in-tact).

Shaikh Qaseem lost his father earlylast year. He also got nikahofied laterin the year (yes moving in with him-self worked . ) Happy and content,he's still at Amazon.com. SheikhNauman-ul-Haque continues towork in the family business. Proud fa-ther of daughter Rania Haque andson Sheikh Armghan-ul-Haque, he isenjoying the best of family life. Godblessed SM Irteza with a boy late in2007. His name is Mohammad Ibra-heem (following the footsteps ofUsman Aleem). Irteza continues towork at Prosol Technologies. He lovesto spend time in the evenings inmasjid activities, and is enjoying theblessings given to him by Allah (es-pecially fatherhood, and having bothparents around). Tahir Mobashir gotmarried earlier this year, and is still liv-ing in Silicon Valley, working atVMware, and hoping that all his stockoptions would be worth a fortune bythe time they fully vest.

Umair Qazi finally changed jobsafter grinding it out as a consultantfor 5 years in Dubai. In September 07he made the jump from Start Consultto Abu Dhabi Investment Company(ADIC) and joined their Private Equitydepartment. The change of jobs alsobrought about a change in base andUmair has moved back home to AbuDhabi after a long 9 years! He agreeswith Ahsan that Pakistan is a greatmarket to invest in and is trying toconvince ADIC of the same. UmarKarim Khan is still in Jeddah, work-ing for P&G's Middle East & Pakistanbusiness. He's gotten used to spend-ing nights in transit and planes, andsleeping during meetings. In freetime, he watches (and mimics) GEO

TV, plays squash or drives down toHaram. He is thanking everyone forthe great spirit and passion in con-tributing for BSc 2002 NOP scholar-ship. We've already collected over25,000 USD, with commitmentsworth 65,000 USD. We'll get to the100,000 USD number in a couple ofyears - but have already started talk-ing with LUMS on how to utilize whatwe have collected. Will keep youposted!!Zaineb Waheed said a tear-ful goodbye to Pakistan and shiftedto Calgary, Canada late last year. Sheis the proud mother of one year oldMuhammad Ebrahim. In her sparetime she can be found playing scrab-ble on Facebook or watching CSI onHD.

BSc 2003

CoordinatorMuneeb AliPhD Candidate [email protected]

This year Bsc2003 continued usingtheir wiki for compiling the classnotes. Muneeb Ali and SanaShahid edited the final notes, butactually the entire batch is the authorsince we don’t know who con-tributed what! Here we go:

Assam "Vex" Khalid moved to UTAustin on a Fulbright Scholarship. Heis regularly found on various livemusic scenes at Austin and occasion-ally enjoys a cigar. One of the firstthings he did after landing in Texaswas to buy a guitar. Yes that is moreimportant than food. Aruba Irfan isworking in Islamabad for UFone.Aadil Khan and Shabana Abdullahlive in Dubai and are enjoying thenew addition to the family, their 3-month old daughter, Amani. AamirAlvi is married to Hajra Rizvi, whohas made an honest, punctual (itwould appear) man out of him

Class notesand, after Bangkok and Jakarta, isposted in Singapore currently (youmay find them in the MBA 2005 classnotes). He is with the internationalmanagement program at what is nowthe Royal Bank of Scotland - post theABN-Amro takeover and has still notlost hope with Pakistan no matterwhat he says to make you believeotherwise!

Aamir Ghulamani moved back toKarachi after so many years in theUSA! Aamna Alamgir and JawaharAhmed Sajjad are currently in Ger-many working on a consultancy proj-ect for their MBA degree, graduatingin July 2008. Abida Nagra is finishingher masters at Georgetown Univer-sity. She is a Fulbright scholar. AbishToseef Khan graduated from Har-vard and is living the crazy Wall Streetlife in NYC. She is working for Gold-man Sachs. Adeel Khan is workingtowards his DPhil at Cambridge, UK.Adeel Qaiser is still at NCR Karachi.Ahmad Ajmal is doing his Masters atUIUC on a Fulbright scholarship.Ahsan Fazal is living in Karachi andjust got married in June 2008. Ali"Moscow" Akram is completing hisMasters at Yale. He just got marriedto Zahra Niazi (BSc 2004) and will becontinuing at Yale for his PhD follow-ing his nuptials in the summer. AliFarid has left UBS and now tradesemerging markets equities for ahedge fund in London. Wife,Mubashira is also a fund manager foran emerging markets fund. He is afounding partner in a venture capi-tal/investment firm, Oxford Global In-vestments. Ali Fayyaz was recentlyspotted traveling in Europe. He is liv-ing and working in Islamabad. AliGardezi is still in London, working forAccenture.

Ali Habib has managed to survivevisa delays and odd interviews byBritish airline staff and is finally atDuke doing his Masters in EngineeringManagement on a Fulbright Scholar-ship. He is amused that people in theUS think he's fresh out of college. Ali

"Mochi" Irshad is in Singapore afterhis MBA at the National University ofSingapore (NUS)! Ali Afzal Malik isin Los Angeles. He has completed hisMS and is now pursuing a PhD inComputer Science from USC. Hisstudies are being sponsored by Ful-bright and HEC (Pakistan). Ali "ANK"Nawaz Khan is still working forUnilever based out of Dubai. He gotmarried recently. Ali Zia Khan is stillwith Nestle. You can see some of hisgood work on TV in the form ofEveryDay commercials. His baby girlis a true dolly always smiling exceptwhen it is food time of course. Aliand Mehr took a vacation to Malaysiaa short time back and since then Ali ison a look out for head hunters inMalaysia. The couple would be visit-ing Istanbul shortly for a Nestle mar-keting workshop!

Amit Pinjani is working at LondonEconomics as an energy consultant inthe US. Amina Hasan is a lawyer,done with Columbia and working inNYC. Amna Bilal just recently gotmarried to Saaid Anwar Khan (BSc2002). Asadullah Rathore is a datawarehouse consultant and is inSheffield , England. Ashar Aziz isworking as software developer forOracle Corporation in Montreal,Canada. Asma Aleem finished herMSc from Oxford and then joinedPwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) as aFinancial Services consultant. She is inLondon and apart from PwC, is finish-ing work on an academic book thatshe is co-authoring! Atif Ikram gotmarried to Sonia Salam (BSc 2005) inJune 2008. He is working towards hisPhD at Arizona State University.Ayesha Salma Kariapper is theDeputy Coordinator of the Interna-tional Coordination Office of WomenLiving Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)in London. She has been traveling ex-tensively and hopes to get a chanceto stop and smell the flowers oneday or join grad school - whichevercomes first! Azeem Niazi is workingfor a management consulting firm inIslamabad. Got married in December

2005 and has a 4 month old daugh-ter. Beeee Khan is having fun on Ful-bright and showing up at every singleUS city with a Bee-bang. All the LUMSfolks in the US are SO happy that sheis hereeeeeeee! Oh before we forgetshe is at George Washington Univer-sity. Bilal "Billi" Ahmad is fat andmarried, well at least technically. Hedecided to get "nikaofied" and forgotto invite his close friends on theevent. Let’s hope, for his own good,that he doesn't repeat this mistake onthe wedding.

Cyril Almeida is working for a rep-utable law firm in Karachi while mak-ing regular appearances on DawnNews (TV). We randomly comeacross articles written by him inDawn and Friday Times! He also man-ages a blog (www.cyrilalmeida.com)in his spare time. Danial Ranjhamoved to Australia! Danny Afzal isdone with Stanford and moved toNew York. He is working for LehmanBrothers. Danish "D" Mujeeb gotmarried to Mehreen Shams in April2008. He has been working for Mor-gan Stanley as a Technology Associ-ate in New York City since graduatingfrom Cornell University in Dec 2006.These days, you would find Mehreen& him hunting down furniture and liveJazz performances. Danny Afzal livesin the same apartment complex!

Eman Majad is happily married andworking in Canada. Fahd Gilani iswith Paypal and is enjoying the Cali-fornia sun. Faiza Ather and Omer"Momers" Sheikh tied the knot onDecember 25th in Karachi. Theymoved to Islamabad soon after thewedding. Faiza is working forUnilever and Momers is working forTelenor. Farees Shah is at INSEADdoing his MBA. His extremely fast-paced INSEAD life style is a sharpcontrast to his chilled out days in theLUMS dorms! He is currently interningin London. Farhad "Freddie"Nadeem finished his MBA fromLUMS and is at Unilever, Karachi.Fat ima Ansari i s in Montrea l



Class notesraising a hell raiser son. She is work-ing on moving to Germany for a fewmonths while her husband works inHeidelberg. They plan to use theweekends to travel all over Europe.Fatima Yazdani is working on aUSAID project for J.E. Austin Associ-ates in Lahore. Fawad Memon isworking for Proctor and Gamble inDubai. He recently got engaged toBeenish Abbasi (MBA'06). Beenishwas Faiza's (Bsc2003) roommate dur-ing MBA - small world! Fawad Mirzais happily married to Shala Agha andis working for ICI, Karachi.

Ghazia Aslam is attempting to finishher PhD in Washington, DC by end ofthe year 2008. After working for ayear at the World Bank, being a fulltime student is such a bliss....till June2008 at least. On the side, she is alsoattempting to restore and developdemocracy in Pakistan through differ-ent forums. She wants to assureeveryone that this is not a 'noble' pur-suit but only a pleasure seeking activ-ity. She feels that DC has officiallybecome a home now (although shehates being asked questions like'where do you want to eventually set-tle?') Haaris Haque is a dad!! Sayhello to Haaris Haque Jr i.e., Zain andcongrats to Annie (Bsc2004) as well!Hasan Ateeque is working for Bar-cap in London. Haris Aziz got mar-ried to Sana Javeed in December2007 and rushed off to Geneva forthe honeymoon with his lovely wife.Haris is finishing his PhD from War-wick University and apart from takingstrolls in Kenilworth or getting to theBUSA tennis finals, he can be spottedat the international algorithms andgame theory conferences. HammadQazi finished his MBA from LUMSand got married.

Hamza "Hamster" Javed is stillcrazy and creative. He is enjoying theNYC fast life while working towardsa Masters at NYU on a Fulbrightscholarship. If you haven't seen hislatest animations yet, you are missingout! Check them out at

headbump.blogspot.com. HaseebBin Aziz is an Assistant Director onthe US Desk at Pakistan Foreign Of-fice (he is in charge of giving final ap-proval for Fulbright scholarships!).Haseeb is getting married in Marchthis year. Hina Shaikh is still workingfor Human Rights Commission of Pak-istan and working as a consultant forthe Asian Development Bank in La-hore. Hunaid Lotia was in Swedenfor a while and now is in Seattleworking for Ericsson. Imran Aslamis going to INSEAD this fall (Hope-fully)! and currently working at Mo-bilink Islamabad after switching overfrom Warid. Ibrar Javed is workingas a Program Manager for XellerationLLC at their offshore Office in Lahore.He is planning to start his Master'sstudies soon.

Muhammad Imran "Sheikho" Tahiris working for Emirates Airline inDubai, U.A.E and getting married on8/8/8 (08th August 2008). Anyoneand everyone in Karachi / Dubai atthat time are welcome to attend!!Jawad Khan is working for McKinseyand Company in their Dubai office.Currently he is working on projectsbased in Pakistan. Jawahar Sajjadand Aamna are currently in Germanyworking on a consultancy project fortheir MBA. They will be graduating inJuly 2008. Junaid Tahir is workingfor IFFCO in their Supply Chain aftercompleting his MBA last year. Kash-mali Khan is studying for her PhD atOxford after teaching at LUMS forsome time. Students in youngerbatches report that she was their fa-vorite teacher at LUMS, while stu-dents from older batches wish thatshe was. Khadija Hassan Aftab is inLahore raising two boys, Abdullah (5)and Omar (born in March this year).She launched her first book (super-humanly also in March two days be-fore Omar's birth) called "RevivedThe Journey Within," as well as hercompany "Still Waters Publishing."Khwaja Fahd is doing his PhD incomputer science from LUMS. Hetaught analysis of algorithms in the

autumn quarter and spends a lot oftime with his camera. Check out Flickrfor some of his photography! Khur-ram "Goofy" Ghufran has left KASBto move to Global Investment Bank inRiyadh. He recently got married.Kiran Khan is working for theShaukat Khanum Memorial CancerHospital & Research Centre (SKMCH& RC) as the Marketing Rep for theGulf Region.She is based at the Inter-national Humanitarian City, Dubai andis trying to live up to her SS beliefs tostay away from the Cruel Corporates.She is also a passionate supporter ofThe Citizens Foundation, Dubai. Kiranand Qazi Owais got married on De-cember 14th 2007 in Multan. Theyare both living in Dubai with only theweekends to breathe.

Madeeha (Bamby) Bajwa is in Is-lamabad working for the United Na-tions. Bamby has quickly climbed theladder of the development sectorand currently has scored a stint withdrug control at the UNODC! And no,you may not contact her for designerdrugs. Madiha Ahmed is now at theWorld Bank, negotiating the muddypolitical waters of the donorcommunity and well on her way tomaking that island retreat a reality!Mahrukh Saeed is working for Ernstand Young in London and was get-ting married in July 2008. MannanAmin is wrapping up his stay at Stan-ford and moving back to Pakistan.What he will do once backhome...nooooooooo idea!!! But asusual he's hoping lightning will strike.Mansoor Ahmed Ali recently gotmarried in Karachi to Raania. MehrShaukat is kept busy by her baby girlwhose antics are increasing day byday. Besides the responsibility ofmotherhood, she is busy globe trot-ting with her husband (Ali Zia Khan).They recently had their vacationin Malaysia and would soon be off toTurkey for a short trip. Mehru Asadis settled in England and works forUK Research Councils.Moazzam Daris working as a technical consultantfor ITS, Saudi Arabia and is getting

Class notesmarried in December 2008. MohsinSiddiqui is alive in Dubai. He recentlypaid a fine of AED 6400 for 74 trafficviolations. Murtaza "Gullu" Halai isstill with Amazon in Seattle.

Muneeb Ali is enjoying his last daysin Amsterdam and will start his PhDat Princeton. Apart from his Dutch re-search job, he was a visiting re-searcher at Stanford (summer 2007)and a guest lecturer at the AbdusSalam Center for Theoretical Physics,Italy (early 2008). Mustafa Saya is inNew York working at Moodys In-vestors Services. He is planning tomove back to Pakistan. NaimaSaeed is currently finishing her Mas-ters in Public Administration at Cor-nell University and will be back inPakistan by June. Noman "Polls"Siddiqui is leaving MCB, where hewas an AVP in Investment Banking de-partment, to head out to Bahrain. Hewill be working at Gulf One Invest-ment Bank.

Omair Hameedwill be moving soonto KL after working in Bangkok for thelast two years. He is looking forwardto his new assignment as a SeniorConsultant for Middle East & Asiawith Schlumberger Information Solu-tions. He recently got engaged.Omer "Prado" Farooq Khan gotmarried in June 2008 to Khuban Has-san (BSc 2004). Omar "Sasha" Fa-rooq graduated from York Universityand is in Canada somewhere. Notmuch information, but hey it’s betterthan nothing! Omer "Momers"Sheikh tied the knot with Faiza Atheron December 25th 2007. Theymoved to Islamabad soon after thewedding. Omer is now working forTelenor. Owais Qazi is working atFullerton Financial Holding (Temasek).Owais got married to Kiran Khan onDecember 14th 2007 and is based inDubai. Apart from work, he is a seri-ous golfer (really).

Rabea Malik is still at the Human De-velopment Center (the Mahbub-ul-Haq bit remains unpronounceable

and audibly confusing, particularlyover the phone) and wondering why.She has managed to kick herself(though notable mention for her fam-ily and friends for the added punch)to apply for further studies as it ap-pears research and academia has, ac-cidentally and not through anyplanned directed effort, become thecareer of choice. She is also suc-cumbing to road rage on a regularbasis and strongly advising peoplenot to commute long distances inPakistan.

Rai "Inzi" Usman Mujahid is work-ing for Barclays in Dubai and enjoyingevery bit of it! Rizwan Bajwa has de-serted enviable prospects in Ger-many and is back on home ground.He is now, less glamorously, workingfor the Asian Development Bank in Is-lamabad. Saad "Jaggu" Khan isworking for P&G after his MBA fromLUMS. Sufian Hashmi "Sufi" has re-cently resigned from Warid and hasmoved to Islamabad. Currently he isworking for CMPak and was gettingmarried mid of 2008. Saad Moham-mad is finishing his MBA from Pur-due. Sabeen Malik is supermom.She and husband Naveed KChowdhry (MBA 2003) are raisingtheir devilishly naughty daughterShezy (aged 4) and building theirnew home in Lahore. Sadaf Rehmangot married to Zeeshan Ahmed lastyear, and is now living in Karachiagain. She's helping underprivilegedkids with The Citizens Foundationthese days and still painting on theside. No exhibitions yet though.Sadaf Shams is working as a Soft-ware Engineer at Liberty Mutual andfinishing up her Project Managementcertification. Sadia Ali has recentlymoved to the Bay Area and is work-ing at 4HomeMedia. She is stillshocked with the housing costs inthis area. Sadia Zaidy is working forNestle in Lahore. Samar Deen isback from the States, busy being amother (and that is a full-time job) tothe two most adorable girls Dina andRania.

Sameer Noorani graduated from IN-SEAD and is working for McKinseyand Company in Dubai. SanaMekhari is raising her daughterNabiha in New Jersey with her hus-band Fawaz Allahwala. Sana ShahidHaq moved to Paris on the 10th ofMarch! Yes, Paris! You heard us right.Paris! Woohoooo. She joined Schlum-berger in October 2007 as the globalHR Analyst for their core businessgroup - Wireline - and is working outof its Head Office in France. Most ofher free time is spent getting lost inthe streets of Paris and speakingabysmal French. Sara Shah just fin-ished her Masters from University ofLiverpool, England. Sarah Tariq isworking at NVIDIA. Sattar Qureshi& Sanniya Rasheed are married andraising their daughter in Karachi. Sha-bana Abdullah is busy raising ababy girl, Amani. Shahzad "SIM" Is-mail Mian is working as a Profes-sional Services Consultant atTeradata, Islamabad.He is also an en-thusiast hardware tech journalist atwccftech.com. Life of Islamabad isslowly seeping into him; he is work-ing out to gain some pounds, andtries to meditate regularly as a Sufi.Siraj Vakil joined the JS Group ear-lier this year after moving back fromDubai, and is enjoying the private eq-uity hall. He hopes to squeezethrough the last CFA exam this sum-mer and is also getting married in thelast quarter of 2008. Sobia SamadKhalid is working for Mobilink, Islam-abad and enjoying life with hubbyUsman Khalid (see MBA notes for up-dates on Usman). She is behind therecent success of BlackBerry! Can youplease send us one for free? Yes thatred one righttttt there!

Umair "KT" Siddiqi is working forNestle as the Assistant Brand Man-ager for confectionary in Lahore.Umer "Spikey" Mehmood is donewith his MBA from LUMS and is withUnilever, Karachi. Usman KhanLodhi is currently doing his MBA atCass Business School in London.



Class notesUzma Ali is raising her two kids inLondon. Uzma Hussain is workingfor ADB in Islamabad.Waleed Sarafis currently working for a real estatedevelopment company in the UAEand is moving to London in the sum-mer to start his MBA at London Busi-ness School. Zawar Qayyum is inFrance working towards his PhD andis a proud father of a baby girl. Zee-shan Zaheer Khan is in England withhis wife Masooma. Zehra Hasanainis living in Kuwait with her husband.Zoaib Nafar is at UIUC on the Ful-bright Scholarship doing his MS inBusiness Administration (TechnologyManagement), and graduating in Au-gust 2008.

BSc 2004

CoordinatorsAmna MasoomBank Alfalah [email protected]&Sabrina SaeedLeadership for Environment& [email protected]

Not as detailed and comprehensiveas last year’s, mainly due to the lazi-ness trait inherent in all of us, buthere it is; the “what’s happening” forBSc 2004 in the year 2007-2008:

Aiaza Izhar is enjoying being ahousewife, looking after her 2 yearold girl and struggling with her MBAassignments. She has joined the fanclub of Barney and Tweenies, andhas developed a passion for travelingto good holiday resorts. ArsalanTariq a.k.a arsi is still at Bank Alfalahand has successfully managed tomake his boss resign so as to avoidany hindrances that may occur inway of him climbing the corporateladder. Apart from work, Arsi has

also been displaying immense danc-ing talent during the wedding seasonreminding the onlookers of his per-formance in the farewell video.Faryal Sajjad joined the matrimonialclub, which seems to be growingquite quickly. She got married lastNovember and is now enjoying thewedding bliss in Faisalabad. HinaButt can often be seen gracing thepages of Sunday Times at various so-cial gatherings and openings. Her lifeseems to be exciting enough, as seenthrough facebook updates. She isalso the proud mom of a sweet look-ing baby boy. Kanwal Ahuja isclimbing the corporate ladder, nowan AVP at UBL. Not only that, shemanaged to make it through the IBAEvening MBA session, essentially liv-ing a 12 hour schedule for the lastthree years. She took a recent trip toMalaysia and Thailand with friends tobreak the cycle. More importantly,Kanwal is preparing to tie the knot inDecember and make a move out ofthe country to New Jersey.

Maliha Cheema is still in the seem-ingly never-ending process of gettingher PhD in North Carolina. She keepsmaking regular trips to Pakistan to re-live the oh-so-relaxing LUMS mo-ments and work on the never endingresearch for her thesis. HamzaThanvi finally has a lot going for him,with his new job at Citibank and theaddition of his better half into his life.In the words of those who are regu-larly in touch with him "thanvi kokabhi itna khush nahi dekha". Hopethe luck continues for you! Ahsan isworking towards becoming a "baraaaadmi" with his business now goingglobal which has given way to vari-ous Europe trips. He has elaborateplans for a two month relaxing sum-mer in USA. Things have taken apleasant turn in his very monotonousand boring personal life as he re-cently got engaged. Junaid a.k.aJonny is steadily learning how tomake it through the LUMS MBA witha sane head. He must be doing wellenough as he has full plans of going

to Bangalore for Fall Semester. Foranyone who's seen him lately,Jonny's pulling off a much youngerlook with his longish hair, trying notto look like a father of two amongstthe MBA babas.

Raza "Mutton" Saeed, when askedto say a few words regarding up-dates in his life, preferred to keep itsimple and concise by saying "I amchilling". Surprisingly enough, eventhen his company is still running welland he is STILL partying, probablymore than the rest of us combined.Makes us wonder what we're doingwrong! Annie is loving the weather,the load sheddings and water short-age of Karachi and has completelyembraced the idea that it's the onlyway to live. She's also spear-headinginto the next phase of her life…moth-erhood. We'll know soon enough ifit's going to be a pretty little girl or abratty little boy. Good luck to you!Rabia made a move from Lahore toKarachi and then onwards to Islam-abad with Usman a.k.a. Tando aftertheir wedding last April. Tandomeanwhile is working at Ufone.Shaza Bari made a permanent shiftto US after her wedding. She's beentraveling around the country with herhusband, enjoying married life with-out any tension of work. She hopesto start a more monotonous 9 to 5routine once her work visa comesthrough.

Khurram Ali is still trying to convincepeople not to call him Kaala since heis a hi-fi product manager at Citibank.Khurram's life is apparently quite hec-tic and nothing can be done to fix iteither. His free time is spent eitherwith his family or with his not-so-single-anymore LUMS gang. TaimoorAkhtar is almost done with his Mas-ters at Cornell, but life just seems bet-ter there, which is why he plans tostick around for a PhD. So let'sjust get used to the idea of "Dr. Kupi"who might just be roaming thecorridors of LUMS in a few years,a' la Aslam Butt. It 's however

Class notessad to know that due to enormousamount of workload, he is unable toparty. This harsh fact often leads himto think he would've been better offhad he opted for a university inFlorida. Tasmia is a mommy of twonow, Hassan being a two year oldbratty monster, and Sabeen an ab-solute sweetheart at nine months.Tasmia has currently put her mastersat a halt and plans to join back assoon as the kids let her. Amna has avery uninteresting work life so she'sdecided to omit it completely fromrecord...not that there's much elsegoing on to tell. She managed to es-cape to Australia during the swelter-ing Lahore summer, is in love with theplace now and is just trying to find aneasy escape route there. Till then,she’s hoping her social life will jumpup a notch or so with the variousweddings lined up. Sarah Halai,since her move to Toronto after herwedding in 2005, has probably doneit all. From traveling to Egypt andCuba to working at IBM in their salesdepartment, she's even managed tomake time for a very social life. Sarahis also a part of the mommy-clannow, having a very cute baby boyDaniyal. With this new developmentin her life, her social life has taken aback seat which is evident from thefact that her recent trip to Karachiwas mostly made up of days spent athome. As per her, it's all worth it!

Hannanah recently graduated fromGeorgetown University with a Mas-ters in Communication, Culture andTechnology. She is currently workingon a book chapter for a book oncommunication of national identity.Hannanah will be returning to Lahoreover the summer to start work.Muhammad Adil Waqar a.k.a.DirTy completed his MBA from TexasA&M in December, 07, after which hejoined the Copernicus Marketing Con-sulting & Research firm in Boston, MA.Adil got married in March 08. Theyare happily settling into their new lifein Boston. Uzair Moosa continues toexcel at keeping the false promises

made to his customers. He has re-cently been promoted to CommercialLead for Cisco Pakistan where henow has a whole team to do thesame task. He plans to continue livingthe corporate lifestyle as long as theykeep flying him to exotic places forsupposedly attending business con-ferences and trainings.

Shamsulhaq has recently leftCitibank after 2 years there and istaking time off before proceeding forhigher education at INSEAD. Shamshas also discovered his true calling asa photographer, please do go andcheck out his work atwww.flickr.com/shamsulhaq. UzairShah completed his MBA (Strategy)from Nanyang Business School, NTU,Singapore in November 2007. Atpresent he is working as GeneralManager of Buffer Trading, UAE.Barkha was working in Singapore asa Researcher at the School of Interna-tional Studies, NTU, Singapore till No-vember 2007, after which she movedback to Pakistan. However, her stayin Pakistan was brief and she has re-cently moved to Sharjah, UAE. Cur-rently she is busy looking for a job.Abbas Fazli is working at METROCash & Carry Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. La-hore. He was recently promoted toBuying Manager and now finds hislife extremely hectic. He got marriedto Tayyaba Wiqar (BSc. 2005) in July2007. Congratulations on all frontsAbbas! Amina Ajaz is happily mar-ried to Hammad Rahman (BSc. 2002)since December 2007.

Faiza Naeem has remained true toher first employer and continues towork at AKD Securities in Karachi.Khuban Hassan got married toOmer Farooq Khan (BSc. 2003) inJune 2008. Noor-e-Ain Rizvi com-pleted her Masters in Financial Math-ematics from University of Chicagoand is currently teaching at LyceumKarachi and the Princeton Review.Silal Shafqat and Tanya Javed arehappily married and settled in La-hore. They joined the parental club in

November 2007 and are proud par-ents of a cute baby boy named Sikan-der. Sobia Ali is happily married andcelebrated her son, Zaid's first birth-day in January. Yasmeen Rabbani ishappily married and working in Sin-gapore with the Citi group. ZaheerKhan has shifted to Sharjah as a Fi-nancial Analyst to Sports Cities Inter-national, Al-Bukatir Group. ZahraAman Niazi has graduated from Har-vard and got married to Agha AliAkram a.k.a. Moscow (BSc. 2003) inJuly 2008. Zahra Lakdawala has de-clared the year 2008 as the year of'making things to happen'! She hasstepped into the last phase of herPhD work on the academic front.Muhammad Ali Raza, more popu-larly known as Khamba is pursuing aPhD in South Asian History in Oxford.He plans to live up his dream of tip-toeing over the Snow Lake this year!

Nadir Zia is at Cisco Pakistan andthis is what Nadir had to say whenasked about an update "currentlytouring Africa studying gorillas in abid to prove Bao is not a HomoSapien". Speaking of Bao, he has alsobid adieu to his bachelor status in De-cember 2007. He is working at Stan-dard Charter in Karachi. Aftercompleting his B.Sc. at LUMS, Amirworked for the Standard CharteredBank in Karachi as a ManagementTrainee for about 2 years. He is inFrance these days completing hisMBA from the IAE Graduate Schoolof Business, Aix en Provence. He hasbeen traveling around Europe and re-cently was at the Cannes Film Festivalfor the Indiana Jones Premiere. He in-tends to start working by the end ofthe year. Kenan is Senior Manager &Human Resources Strategist at HBL.He is currently posted in Lahore foran additional assignment besides hisresponsibilities at the Head Office,Karachi. He is married to HumairaKenan who is working as a Frenchprofessor at various institutions inLahore. Harris Shahid has made itto Wall Street and is with Deloitte& Touche. Just to recap, after



Class notesgraduating from LUMS he completedhis MBA in Finance from The Univer-sity of Scranton. He plans to moveback to Pakistan and work in a multi-national.

Jamshaid Musaddiq completed hisfirst year of MBA at Joseph L. RotmanSchool of Management, University ofToronto; the school was placed atNo. 6 in the world in Financial Times2008 MBA Rankings for specializationin Finance. Jamshaid joined Invest-ment Banking Group at Citibank dur-ing the summer break and continueswith his second year in the MBA pro-gram at present. Amina Ijaz hasbeen with Coca-Cola since her MBAgraduation in 2007. Has survived thejitters of her first major campaignlaunch, juggled between multiple-brands and bosses, visited five coun-tries and gets to have free Cokeeveryday! Asad Anwar Butt joinedthe PhD program in Computer Sci-ence and Engineering at the Pennsyl-vania State University in fall 2007.After two semesters, it seems that thecourse work is going to take forever,and his goal of getting this over withASAP seems difficult to achieve. Hav-ing endured his coldest winter ever,he plans to enjoy the hot summer inPakistan, along with the load shed-ding.

Mariam Malikmoved to the US afterher wedding in January 2008. She isadjusting to life in North Carolina andlikes it so far. Ayesha Usman gotmarried in December! She is currentlyworking for Habib Bank Limited asBranch Manager in their Lalik JanChowk, Defence branch. OmarMubin is still living and working in theNetherlands and doing what he wasdoing last year, (read as Research orknown in some places as a PhD,pagal hogaya dimagh, patiently hop-ing for a degree, etc). Not much haschanged, except for the fact he ismarried now, yes, really nothing haschanged. Omar has also been havingfun traveling around Europe andhopes to travel a lot more during the

year. Sabrina Saeed and Ali Zaidihave finally tied the knot in June2008. Sabrina is coping with thewarm welcome in Karachi while AliZaidi is getting used to life as CMKHead Pakistan at P&G. His new roleentails hop scotching between Mid-dle East and Pakistan. Nadya andRaza Saeed are settled in UK for thetime being. Raza is finishing his mas-ter in Human Rights from Warwick.Nadya is working for a company thatdoes consultancy for NGOs. Duringbreaks they take time off to exploreUK. Rabiha Gareeb has perfectedher culinary skills by hosting a gazil-lion guests at her home in New York.She has also managed to take herGRE and get intograd school andis looking for-ward to goingback to school inSeptember 2008.

Rehab has relo-cated to the UAEbut is still jet set-ting across conti-nents. She hopesto be settled byfall and start herjob hunt.Mehreen Pashais enjoying motherhood and has alsotaken upon the tough task of contin-uing her studies from SOAS. RafiaDar is the proud mother of a babyboy and is looking forward to hermove from Finland to Germany sometime this year. Samreen has beenpartying at University of Chicago,GSB. After a hectic summer intern-ship at Morgan Stanley London shetook time out to tour Eastern Europe.Naveed Ejaz’s Phd is work inprogress from Imperial College Lon-don. His thesis involves catching andtesting on poor flies. Adnan Mill-wala has remained true to his name,has said good bye to philanthropicfluff and is all set to be a part of thecorporate world at Deloitte UK. Hislife motto has become “to makemoney by day and party at night!”

Adnan Adil a.k.a Chu chu is doneand over with his MBA from LUMSand is working for a private equityfirm in Dubai. Ahmed Ali a.k.a Popeis a big shot regional sales managerand is doing well at HSBC Karachi.Murtaza and Muneeza tied the knotin October 2007 and have moved toJeddah on account of Murtaza’swork with P&G in the Middle East.Azfar Khan is working in Singapore;we don’t have more details as he wasin the process of moving into his newapartment at the time. I hope we getto hear from him in detail next time.Behzad Anis is with UBL Karachi.After a trip to KL/Thailand he has de-cided that globe trotting is his newest

passion. ShirinAmin continues towork at Citibank.Khuldoon is back atAKD. Nadia Dadais working at anNGO while Sadia isat a PR agencycalled CMC. Hoti isin Shell and basedin Islamabad.Mauda is back atLUMS for MBA.Fayaz Rizvi has tiedthe knot and contin-ues to work at P&G.

Fazeela Rattani is with P&G UK.Bilal Kidwai / Bilu is a Fulbright fel-low at University of Chicago and isdoing his masters in political science.Muneeb Shaukat is working as an ITconsultant for a British governmentsocial research project. He has beennikkah-o-fied. Goshi a.k.a SohaibSiddiqui is finishing up his mastersand getting ready to start his job inthe IT department of an investmentbank in London. Youshey is finishingup his masters in Sustainable Devel-opment at Oxford. Mariam Muftihas moved back to Lahore where shehas started work on her thesis forJohns Hopkins and writes op-eds forthe daily time. Sadaf Fawad Khan isplaying mommy to a very adorablebaby boy, Aayaan. This essentially

Class notesleaves time for very littlepersonal/social life, but she’s thor-oughly enjoying it. Usman Hafaz isstill working at ICI in their marketingdepartment. He managed to makethe year eventful by graduating fromCambridge, and getting married inApril.

Shadia recently got married and isenjoying living in the beautiful city ofAuckland (haven for bungee jumpingenthusiasts!!). She's also working sideby side as a QA analyst in the ITS de-partment at University of Auckland.Omar Khalid is currently working atToyota-Indus Motor Company as anAssistant Product Manager forCorolla, and finds the automotive in-dustry to be fascinating. Realizing thatKaizen is applicable to his daily life,Omar now has a very organized wal-let and manages his other passions,Music and Art, remarkably well.

BSc 2005CoordinatorRabia [email protected]

Hello BSc 2005!! Mashallah the pastyear had been a very successful onefor the Batch, and I wanted to high-light all the professional and personalmilestones that people haveachieved so far. However, it shouldnot be seen as showing off fancy jobtitles, top tier schools and big brandcompanies. We are all successful inour own way, and I know that we arebetter than to fall into society's shal-low definition of what is successfuland what is an achievement. Our suc-cess does not say in a single thingthat we do, but everything that weare. I am proud to be a part of LUMSand especially BSc 2005, and I hopethat you will continue to respect, sup-port and appreciate each others'choices. Here's just some of the stuff

we've been up to this year:

Ammar Barray has just finished the1st year of MBA from Carnegie Mel-lon's Tepper School of Business, join-ing the huge gang of 2005 people inPittsburgh. He's going to be startinghis internship soon and we all wishhim the best of luck. Haris Durrani isstill coming to terms with the lingo ofpinstriped, blackberry toting golfersand continues to discover the intrica-cies of excel while consulting for Al-lied Irish Bank in the land of Guinness.He still doesn't know who he worksfor. Salman Faiz Cheema was lastseen in Maastricht boarding a planefor Copenhagen as he desperatelytries to do all of Europe in 3 weeksand 300 Euros; rumor has it he worksfor Teradata. Umer Sarfraz being theloyal kharbooza that he is has takenon the colors and followed JD to Te-lenor in his honorable battle to savethe environment from cheesy market-ing strategies. JD (Junaid Moham-mad) is still trying to figure out thewhat, where and how of grad school(like many of us lost people), and re-cently saw a man climb up the EifelTower in protest. No wonder he isjust plain confused!! Sabeen Ihsan isone of the few remaining people leftat Mobilink. Hassan Javaid after abrief stint at Google has now given into the power of the red bricks and isback ARP poisoning the M1 LAN ashe purses a PHD among other thingsin LUMS.

Umair Siddique is now married andrunning his own business hiringslaves to churn out low qualitypython for high quality clients. Hehas become comfortably fat. Dr.Hisham Akbar is busy corruptingthe youth of MAJU as he teachesthem circuits. His attempts to give thewhole class A's have so far failed.Noorulain Masood has completedher 1st year of MPA in InternationalDevelopment at the Kennedy School.She lost all capacity of making senseof the real world after she sacrificedherself at the altar of economic as-

sumptions and freaky mathematicalequations. Talha Anwar after hand-ing out Fullbrights to everyone atUSEFP is now thinking of applying forone himself; best of luck! ShahzadAlam is regretting having joined De-loitte after having to pull off two con-secutive nighters to pass thecorporate tax exams. He is currentlyin running for the Best EBay trader inthe category of most mobile phonessold and bought. Faraz Kamlani isalso still at Deloitte in London.

Nabeel Akhtar is back in Californiaand is now working at QualComm. In-shallah he plans to return to his coun-try in September and then will seewhat should be done. Nasar Shakilis on his way to Africa again. Thistime he will get a chance to visit the"Paris of Africa", Cote D'Voire. He isstill in Warid and thoroughly con-fused about what he should do withhis future. Samir Masood and HirraSulanki are happily married andlooking forward to their 1st anniver-sary on June 1st. After working forDeloitte New York for 6 months,Samir has now started work in Lon-don with a Financial Risk Manage-ment software vendor firm as aFinancial Engineer. Other than that, heis cooking up wishful fitness plansthat apparently keep getting post-poned. Hirra is studying for her CFALevel II after a fortunate stroke of luckwith CFA Level 1. Besides that, bookpublishing in Cambridge is keepingher busy. Fahad Tanveer is decidingthe continent he wants to pursue hisMBA at. He is super busy, runningTouchsky Media which includes anadvertising agency, offset printing fa-cility, and Paperfunk. Higher educa-tion would be a welcome vacation.

Usman Khalid is done with the 1styear of MBA at the University of Cali-fornia Berkeley's Haas School of Busi-ness and considerably happy abouttaking this two year vacation of work!In true western style, Sana Nazir isworking from home for MentorGraphics and is trying to keep



Class notesup with all the new lingo and gizmosof the trade. Faiza Khalid has takensome time off to enjoy her marriedlife and settle well in Chicago. She'snow preparing to start her MBA atthe Kellogg School of Managementand is anxious to know how many ofus are out there in Chicago. FawadAhmed is with Unilever Pakistanworking as a Category Manager forHome and Personal Care productsfor Modern Trade which is a fancynomenclature for essentially sellingsoap and detergents to Metro,Makro, Carrefour and Spinneys.Jamal Osman has almost finished his1st year of MBA in Japan and he hasenjoyed every bit of it. He is lookingforward to working in Tokyo for thesummer and then going to the US forthe fall exchange programme. HinnaAftab and Ahmad Hafeez have tiedthe knot this year! Having turnedaround the level of "quality" at Warid,Hinna is about to resign from theQuality Assurance deptt. and go forher MBA to the University of Califor-nia, Berkeley this August. Ahmad, en-joying the northerly city and his lastfew months of student life, is aboutto graduate from Lancaster Universityof Management Sciences (LUMS).Mustafa Mahmood is enjoying chillyChicago and planning to go for a PhDonce he's done with his MPP at theUniversity of Chicago. He's having agreat time with all the economistsand philosophers, dreaming to beone of them some day! Hassan AliSyed a.k.a. snully is rocking Coloradowith his best moves and grooves!Fortunately, he is also doing quitewell at all his MBA courses at the Uni-versity of Colarado.

After a long committed stay at PakKuwait Investment Company, ZainabJaved decided to move up the ca-reer ladder and is currently workingas Credit Research Manager at MCB.Soon she will be found hangingaround the Eiffel Tower as she will bemoving to France with husbandImran Aslam, who will be joining IN-SEAD this fall. Muhammad Younas

is enjoying his last few days of free-dom before tying the knot in August.After finishing his MS from UT Austin,he is now working with Bayt.com inDubai. Afreen Pervaiz, the baby ofthe batch has now had a baby of herown, a beautiful girl by the name ofMariam. She is still learning to jugglework as a media analyst with her newmommy status. Ayesha Sultan andAhsan Nazar recently got engaged;Ayesha is still in Karachi working forHBL as an Analyst, and Ahsan hascompleted MS in Industrial Engineer-ing & Operations Research (plz con-tact Ahsan for a translation) fromColumbia. Faryal Khan and her hus-band have moved to the MiddleEast, and the ecstatic couple just hadtheir first son called Rayyan in midMay. Qudsiah Khan just completedan MS in Computer Engineering fromPurdue University in Dec 2007 andstarted at Microsoft Server and Toolsright after. Sana Naveed is also atMicrosoft and Babar Ismail cele-brated his 1st anniversary there on14th May.

By the time you read this, HadiaMajid will be on her way to a PhDafter having spent the previous twoyears brainwashing students atLUMS. Where she goes will be de-cided soon, though she is leaning to-wards inconspicuous college townsto keep a low profile while she plotsher ascendance to global domina-tion. Meanwhile, Saad Akhtar willbe living in Islamabad making yousing annoying jingles from incessantlyplaying Telenor commercials. This isjust another step in his plans of be-coming a Media Mogul. You’re wel-come at his Pad anytime. The grandplans for Saad & Hadia are offset byFate’s Fancy which destines them notto live in the same city long enoughto get married. Ahsan Mughal isworking the cogs at Inov8 Ltd in thebusiness technology departmentpowering wireless enterprise solu-tions. In his free time he enjoyswatching the Mall road lawyersprotest from the relative safety of his

5th floor office balcony. As far as Iknow Danish Khaliq completed aMasters in Operations Research fromColumbia last year but his current sta-tus is unknown. Ali Hasanain contin-ues his quest at George Mason.Amber Rehman is still working forTetra Pak Pakistan. Amena Raja andKanita are successful Fulbrighters atColumbia, doing MA in somethingthat can only be described to a lay-man like myself as being very SS.Maliha Qadri also went on the Ful-bright, and is proudly representingthe girls at Cornell Business School.By the time you get this AmmaraMaqsood will have completed Mas-ters in Social Anthropology from Ox-ford. Aqsa Yahya is still MIA.

Danish Muneed Qureshi and SarahKarim are Mr. and Mrs.; she finallygave up the CDO to be with him inKarachi where he's working forUnilever. Rizwan Ahmed Chaudhryhas been brave enough to continueon his path to PhD-dom at John Hop-kins. But I am happy to mention thathe took out enough time to get mar-ried to our own Sanam Humayun. Anumber of us were brave enough toreturn to LUMS in pursuit of an MBA,and the list includes: ZainabCheema, Shumyl Akram, AyeshaAli and Atif Shah. Ali Zaman got en-gaged to fellow luminite Sophia Tah-seen ('07), and can often be foundtravelling between Pakistan and theMiddle East for work. Arooj Saba isstill finding good people for Kashf.Asim Maqbool is at CMU Australia.Sidra Rehman has returned to PK,and is working in Islamabad. SanaMirza can often be seen drivingaround Lahore. Saria Mansoor (nowSaria M. Usman) tied the knot in Au-gust 2006 and joined the LondonSchool of Economics for her MPAin October the same year. She wasblessed with an adorable littlebaby boy, Azlan in March 2008. Rightnow she is busy with diapers,burpsand sleepless nights and oh! Ifanyone needs advice on babyshopping, she’s the one to contact.

Zain Masood and Sana Khosa havealso gotten married; Zain is continu-ing his PhD at Uni-versity of CentralFlorida, andSana is doingan MPAthere. Bas-sam Fawadleft GlobalSecur i t iesto becomea FinancialAnalyst (Pri-vate Equity)at Abraaj Capi-tal, and can befound between Karachiand Dubai. As far as I know, AminaAnsari is still at Global Securities.Nadia Farooqui is at City UK GradSchool in London. Fatima Kamran isone of the few people I know who isstill at their first job, happy and doingvery well (Corporate RM for HSBC Is-lamabad). If I’m not wrong YasirBaghpati is also still at HSBC.Mohsin Fazal is still with ABN andhas spent most of the past year trav-elling around South East Asia (lastsighting was in Singapore). ArslanMohyuddin a.k.a. Arsee has success-fully completed 1st year of MBA atPurdue, and will be interning atCharles Schwab this summer to showoff his impressive new skills.

Nazia Zaman graduated from Stan-ford and is now working for Mi-crosoft in Seattle. Sara Tahirgraduated from Carnegie Mellon andis also working in the US. UsmanMunir is in London carrying out re-search on the Health/Pharma indus-try. Shahzaib Zulfiqar a.k.a. Shezi isworking for GlaxoSmithKline inKarachi and I’m sure he's selling themhis own special brand of medicine.Zainab Kapadia hasn’t changed onebit and I'm wondering how the peo-ple at Columbia are keeping up withher. She is halfway through her MAAnthro and has great plans of travel-ling around the world. Yusra Balochwill have graduated from George

Washington University by the timeyou read this, with a Masters in Fi-nance. She also got married to RehanAkbar. Atif Gul Hashmi is a grad stu-dent at Uni of Wisconsin. AyazKarim is assumed to be still at P&G.Farwa Mahmood has taken quitewell to married life, and has appar-ently become a pretty good cook.Fatima Wajahat is still in Floridaand will be graduating fromFlorida State University this sum-mer. Hina Barlas is still in Londonwith her Husband Atta. Qazi bhaia.k.a. Ihsan Ayub Qazi is stilldoing well at his pursuit for the PhDat the University of Pittsburgh, so isMuneeza Alam at Yale and NazimAshraf at Uni of Central Florida. Ne-hdia Sameen is studying CognitivePsychology at NYU and QuratulainSaeed is doing MS in Maths. TaniaSaeed moved back from Cairo, andis now on her way to Oxford for aPhD. SaadiM a n s u r igraduatedfrom IBAand is nowan AreaSales Man-ager forN e s t l e .S a m a nAmin isstill at Maersk.Sharjeel Musa isaccording to him, semi-engaged andwill hopefully be out of his cast bynow.

Mahvish Shami a.k.a. Misha is hap-pily married (for almost a year now!)to Lauge Skovgaard a fellow PhD stu-dent at the London School of Eco-nomics and Political Science. Most ofher time these days is spent trying (orat least she thinks she is trying) tosolve all the woes of Pakistan, cour-tesy of a PhD in Development Stud-ies. She still hasn't lost her love forrural villages as most of her summerthis year was spent walking aroundthe depths of rural Hafizabad (avg.temperature being 42 degrees).

Mobeen Faiq is doing very well as aCommercial Relationship Manager atCitibank (which is what I’m doing aswell and I like to think I’m doing oktoo). Ahmed Kamal Pasha is alsopart of the Citigroup family. ZainabAmir is in fact a total mystery. She isSTILL at LUMS. She never compro-mises on the quality of work but shenever seems to work. No matter howsmart one thinks he/she is, ZainabAmir is the person who can make abig time, rather biggest fool of alltimes out of him and yet that veryperson will still be admiring andpraising Zainab. Zainab Amir is verydetermined to spend the rest of herlife at LUMS. She was the Right Handof Sheikh Ali Hussain but now it’sprobably the other way around……!She recently got engaged….ALLAHknows better what she will do to thatINNOCENT SOUL!

Unfortunately I don’t have an updateon the following people, but felt thatthey should be mentioned: AbdulWasay, Ahmad Iqbal, Ali Iqbal,Amer Awan and Sahar, NavinAli, Aman Pervaiz, ArsalanArif, Ayesha Raheem, FahdMajid Hassan, Fahd RafiqueDogar, Fahd Khan, HassanSandila a.k.a. Sandy, Hina Kabir,Irfan Ahmed, Jasim Sheikh, MairaHameed, Maryam Mustafa, Moaz-zam Ahmad, Mobeen AhmadChugtai, Navin Ali, Nazim Ashraf,Nukhba Khan, Obed Sohail a.k.a.Dexter, Quratulain Memon, Ra-heel Baloch, Raza Kazmi, SaraSohail Siddique, Saadia Hassan,Saleha Siddiqui, Sana Farooq,Sana Khalid, Sanam Kubra Sid-diqui, Shakir Razzaq, Saad Hus-sain, Ali Hamza Almakky, SaadMalik, Talha Farrukh, Umer Mobinand Zainab Hamid Qayyum.Apologies for any incorrect info ormissing anyone out. Hope you allhave a great year!


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Class notesBSc 2006

CoordinatorAthar [email protected]

Abdus Samad Javed is currentlyworking at Standard Chartered Dubaias a relationship Manager. Do ask himfor any other details you require.Adeel Samad (aka Gandhi) has fin-ished his MBA from IBA, Karachi andwill now be settling in Lahore. De-spite job offers from the banking sec-tor, he is still searching for betteropportunities. These days he is busygoing around giving interviews, takingjob offers and rejecting unapprecia-tive employers. Ahmad Abdul-Karim is planning on leaving GallupPakistan where he has been workingin the Customized Research Depart-ment so that he can run off to Har-vard for a degree in Education. AliWasim a.k.a. AW tied the knot in De-cember last year and is settling wellinto his new life. He is planning to dohis MBA from LUMS this year and re-enter the competitive job market. Heis missing his buddy Ahsen a.k.a.Tony who has gone to the Holy landfor work. He is still on the run to docommunity service activities on theweekends.

Ambreen Hamza a.k.a. Ambz is cur-rently based in Singapore working onthe Private Banking Integration of For-tis with ABN AMRO in Asia and is ex-tremely excited about joining theMBA class at Wharton this fall. AsadAnwar a.k.a. "skel" recently moved toKuwait and started working as a Net-work Design and Optimization engi-neer in core networks at NSN - NokiaSiemens Networks after successfullyworking at Ufone, Lahore ... Recentlyhe put his creative skills to use andstarted photography as a hobby andmight be thinking about starting hisown business. For his work, visithttp://sk3l.deviantart.com. Other

than that, he is enjoying life with hisloved ones. Athar Hameed a.k.a.Saeen quit his job at AboutUs.organd is now struggling to survive onhis own. Ayesha Saeedwrapped upan amazing year at the University ofNotre Dame studying how to bringpeace to the world (seriously!). Sheis looking forward to spending thebetter part of 2008 in Jakarta, intern-ing at Catholic Relief Services and re-searching for the dreaded Mastersproject. She will then return to the USfor the last semester of grad schooland will attempt to make the next bigdecision. Bilal Tanweer is at Colum-bia University, reading and writingstories for a living. Among the thingshe has discovered in a year are: Lon-don is a cleaner version of Karachi'sSaddar and that the real thing isstory-writing - rest is gup shup. FahimShelot moved to Bahrain in Januarythis year. He was caught betweenBahrain and Kuwait but finally de-cided on Bahrain. He is now workingas a consultant for Ernst and Youngin their Islamic Financial ServicesGroup. The going is good but theCFA exam is taking a toll on his sociallife. He is hoping to clear Level 2 thistime. He believes that the two mostimportant things in a guy's life are"naukri" and "chokri". He has gottenthe naukri but is still waiting for thechokri...............................

Faizaan Ahmad a.k.a. Fijju has cometo terms with his life in Karachi andhas in fact started enjoying it. He re-quests everyone living away fromhome to enjoy this sort of life to itsfullest no matter where they are, be-cause when it ends (by means ofgoing back home or getting married)they will regret not having made fulluse of it. He is also now very happywith his decision to go to Unileverand not P&G (something that tor-mented him for a long time). Moral:Things DO always turn out for thebest! In other news, he will be tyingthe knot sometime within the next 12months and is really looking forwardto his fiancé coming back to Pakistan

after completing her MSc from War-wick. Fouad Shahnawaz is still work-ing in Warid but now supervising theMNP team. He will be moving backto Saudi Arabia in August for good.This time his plans to leave are con-firmed. He is planning to settle inKSA. Psst. He still lives with AtharHameed and Qasim Nouman aboveEnglish Book Centre.

Hasaan Butt a.k.a. I don’t knowwhat all, from YaRRRRRR to Khasaaanto Buttttttt to ...the list goes on, ismirthfully (fingers crossed) employedat Microsoft, only to see for how longit stays considering the fickle attitudeof his .... Only he, who wonderedduring his university days if spacetime continuum could bend, nowhopes if the weekdays and week-ends could switch places, let’s seewhat’s next in line..... These days he isreally happy about playing MAFIAafter AGES ... But is so NOT koolwith being voted out after the veryfirst nightfall, though nobody is to beblamed for this bias towards him ...there is more twist in the tale whichhe promises to tell later so that 'nazarna lag jaey' Hassan Abbas (a.k.a.Doctor) is completing his Masters inComputers from the US. He plans towork in the US software industryafter graduation. Hira Khalid is stillpursuing a marketing career with Mo-bilink in Lahore, while hunting formuch more challenging avenues. Sherecently married her fiancé in an inti-mate ceremony at her house at-tended by family and friends. She ishoping to move to Canada soon andmaybe do her MBA.

Izhar Siddiqui is still working atKASB Capital as an Investment Bank-ing Analyst and has not lost his faithin Pakistan’s economy. He has prom-ised the Governor of State Bank ofPakistan that he will personally bringin US$2 billion into the economy asforeign direct investment. MadihaAziz is soon going to leave her job asa teacher of World Affairs at LGS,where she will terribly miss her

Class notesstudents, who remind her of thegood times she had before steppinginto the world of adulthood and re-sponsibilities (not to mention leaveher fun notes on exam papers andgive her gifts). Meanwhile she is(im)patiently waiting for her visa sothat she can go join her husband inEngland. Maryam Hadi as usual hasdisappeared into thin air although afew sightings have been reported.She tied the knot in December amidstall the drama caused by the BB inci-dent and moved to the Holy Landwith her hubby. She misses herfriends (honestly) and does not likethe fact that it costs 10 times more tocall Pakistan from Saudi! She has fi-nally come to terms with the fact thatthere is one and only one color in herlife "BLACK" (abaya). MehreenKhalid has been working at CitibankCommercial Banking since gradua-tion. She's enjoying her work life, buthas been remembering the goodtimes of LUMS quite frequently, andis wondering what to do next.

Moizuddin Sabri is now working inan oil firm (ENI) in Milan (Italy), thor-oughly enjoying himself. He tries totake advantage of any and all oppor-tunities to meet up with LUMS peo-ple, so there's always a place forsomeone who wants to visit Milan!He still finds taking care of his apart-ment a huge chore. Mustafa HassanHamdani a.k.a. Musto has latelybeen showing acute interest in ex-tremism (a sharp contrast to his muchadored peaceful instincts). To fulfillthis newly discovered passion, hehas been travelling from Afghanistanto Poland in the last couple ofmonths. Siemens is doing a good jobin holding onto this brilliant creatureby giving him his childhood object offantasy: the IN! He is climbing the lad-der to become a corporate tycoon inthis growing capitalistic society al-though lately he has been heard say-ing, "We will be having a nuclear warsoon, so just do what you reallyenjoy doing." Muzammil ShahidBhatti has been busy pursuing his

MBA from IBA on weekdays, whileon weekends he is seen at theweekly LUMS 'Qahwa' a.k.a. GreenTea get together. Apart from this he isbusy planning his career and thinkingof getting a motor cycle to beat themorning hour traffic of Karachi.

Nabeel Khan, after nearly servingtwo years in the microfinance indus-try, is contemplating the feasibility ofworking in the non-profit sector,transporting himself abroad to do anMBA or traveling the world (or so hethinks!) Natasha has finished herMasters of Engineering in CS fromCornell and is now starting her MBAfrom there. Newal Osman com-pleted a one year Masters degreefrom the London School of Econom-ics in 2007 and is currently workingat the Sindh Education Foundation,Karachi. She plans to start her PhDfrom the University of Cambridge inOctober 2008. Nida Rasheed, afterfinishing her stint with AIESEC inJune, is moving to Brazil for the sum-mers, after which she'll be starting aworld tour which will lead her toTurkey amongst other places. Sheshould be back in Pakistan in time forClass Notes 2009. Omair Gillanigraduated with a Gold medal in hisMS EE program and is now workingat the Seattle/Redmond office of Mi-crosoft as Software Development En-gineer in Test (SDET). Rabeea Haq ishappily...no not married...happily em-ployed at Kashf Foundation, con-tributing in whatever manner she canto alleviate poverty in Pakistan. Herplans for the future include decidingwhat to do with the red wall in herroom, travel a bit and enjoy bache-lorette life to the fullest.

Saad Waqas a.k.a. Saadiboy™ isbrand loyal to KPMG. He has shiftedto KPMG Riyadh recently, afterspending one and a half year in theLahore office. He spends most of histime crunching numbers with his girl-friend, Microsoft Excel. After takinghis CFA level 2 exam, he is teachinghis KPMG colleagues to play DOTA

and pawns them big time in theprocess. His gaming training coursesalso include CS, Age of Empires andQuake. Samia Sohaib Siddiqui isstill developing software for SMARTTechnologies in Calgary, Canada. Shesomehow managed to survive thedevelopment and release of not onlyversion 1.0 but also 1.1 of SMART'snew collaborative meeting room soft-ware in less than one year! When notat work she can be found shopping,playing her Wii, planning her next tripto Pakistan or cursing Calgary's unpre-dictable weather. Sana Ejaz recentlygot Nikahofied and is busy with wed-ding preparations these days. She isstill working with NetSol and will bequitting soon! Shaheer is going tomove to Islamabad this summer afterworking for 'The New School' for ayear and a half. He has given up look-ing for funding and has said good-byes to acceptances from Harvardand Stanford. All eyes on the Ful-bright now while he gets ready toteach Mathematics at Headstart Is-lamabad for the next academic year.Somira Soomro is running her ownsoftware division under her father'scompany, e-Solutions in Saudi Arabiaand planning to do her MBA soon.

Sumayya Zubair a.k.a. *Sumzz*,moved to Melbourne in January thisyear, after getting married, and is lov-ing it down there! She says “I am cur-rently working as a GIS SpatialAnalyst at the Dept of Planning &Community Development, where Ihave been 'busy' half the day-readingthe news, sending emails for ourbeloved Scholarship Fund or master-ing the art of Google talking. Recently,I have been busy giving interviewshere and there; might start workingsomewhere else soon since thisyear’s Scholarship Fund collection isdone and I'm a little bored of thenews and g-talk!” Syed MuhammadHussain started his PhD in economicsat the University of Rochester in Au-gust 2007. He is a long way fromcompletion but plans to remain steadfast in his quest to attain a doctorate.



Class notesTehreem Husain spent yet anotheryear of her life at LUMS attempting tomaster the terrain of economics. Dur-ing her one year program, shebrushed up on her economics skillset and was discouraged to furtherany attempt at studying the subjectin case she develops characteristicsto the likes of the doctors residing inthe econ wing. Umair Haleem is in-volved in his family’s textile businessand enjoys the long drive to officeevery day.

Umer Gul a.k.a. Shadi Gul a.k.a.Umeromair a.k.a. Guli Gulz ... is get-ting the glamour and vigor he wantedfrom his corporate life. Shopping atthe Dubai Shopping Festival at hiscompany's budget and taking anamazing 2-week Euro trip lately (onceagain on his company's expense), itwas not surprising for the world atlarge when he ditched the option ofgoing for an MBA from LUMS in favorof continuing his job. Rumor goesthat he only started exploring otheroptions to make his manager givehim a 53.3% increment, by far amongthe largest Ericsson Pakistan has everoffered. Umer Hafeez is still workingat ABN AMRO (Royal Bank of Scot-land), in Karachi, now as a ProductManager for Branch Banking and Pre-ferred Banking. During the day hebusies himself with things like currentaccounts, savings accounts, term de-posits and branch marketing whileduring the nights he dreams of seeingEurope. Usman Ejaz a.k.a. Ozzya.k.a. Mandela has moved on fromBSc. 2006 Class Notes coordinator(last year) and is currently masteringthe art of multi-tasking through g-talk-ing, chatting to the colleagues atwork...and yea...the occasional worktoo. He has moved up the corporateladder a bit since his last note...andyes...still plying his trade at HBL - In-vestment Banking Group, fulfilling hisresponsibilities as an investmentbanker (HA!), recruiter for IBG...andyea...also moving towards acing hisCFA Level III Exam (InshAllah!).Usman Ilyas's whereabouts are still

unknown. There were reported inci-dents where he was spotted quad-biking in Qatar, whilst at large inIslamabad where he is workingcovertly as the Consultant Ninja foran organization called Teradata androcking (as always).

Vikash Ahuja is working the last fewmonths in his current job (as a Con-sultant Research Assistant at the Col-lective for Social Science ResearchPvt. Limited) before he leaves forMasters of Public Policy at Universityof Chicago. “I guess, the time is ripefor moving beyond the much-hypedbut actually stagnating (to the mind,at least) career in financial sector.Well, I might just come back to it tomint money” he says.

BSc 2007

CoordinatorsRamish HashmiFive Rivers [email protected]&Shafaq [email protected]

Hello and welcome to our very firstclass notes! We’ll start with the A’sgoing all the way to the Z’s so bearwith us! Ok so, Abdal AhmedChaudary is hoping to clear a couplemore Society of Actuaries (SOA)exams soon. He is currently workingas an actuarial trainee in the GroupBenefits Department at EFU Life. Heis also planning on working in UK bythe end of this year. Abdullah M.Rana is in Lahore, working as an Ac-count/ Business Development Man-ager in IBM Italia. He plans to start hisown IT Company by the end of thisyear. In the mean time, Ahmed Wa-heed has been slacking off at DawnNews while producing three showsafter ditching ABN AMRO sales just

after 20 days on the job as he is notvery fond of banks. . Aisha AroojAshraf Khan is a month away fromcompleting her Masters in EconomicPolicy from McMaster University,Hamilton, Canada. After which sheplans to start working but has no cluewhere or when or why. She hopes tosettle closer to family and friendswith a decent job and waits to seewhat life has in store for her next.Aisha Siddiqa Azim is back in SaudiArabia. Her life remains largely asedentary affair whose details shewould prefer to leave shrouded inmystery. However, she admits that acertain portion of it is spent cod-ing/writing/designing for freelanceprojects. As for the future, anythingis possible from further sedentarinessto thicker clouds of mystery. After ayear in oblivion and fighting with hisdemons (and he still believes that RA-ship was an invaluable experience),Aqeel Akbar has decided to hop tothe other side of the world in Fall2008. He plans to mingle with foot-ball jocks and cheerleaders (what-ever works for him) disguised as agrad student at Rutgers. Also, AsharSamdani a.k.a. Jango has joined an-other startup and is happy with hislife. Atif Nazir is studying for a PhDat UC Davis, trying to focus on re-search but getting distracted by on-line social applicationdevelopment/marketing.

Ayesha Ali Khan currently sees herfuture ever so ‘green’ by sweating itout with the big guns at Wateen Tele-com and indulging in strategic busi-ness planning. However she hopesto explore newer grounds and issoon planning on heading downunder by pursuing a post graduatedegree in International Relations atthe University of Sydney in Australia.. Interestingly enough, Ayesha hasnot jumped aboard the contagiousbandwagon to marriage mart.. Funand frolic follows as a result.Ayub Khuhro is managing assets atPak Oman AMC and planning totake over the world, one stock

Class notesa t a t ime ! On the otherhand ,Farjad Tanveer is playingaround with currencies and fixed in-come securities as Inter-bank Dealerfor UBL treasury in the scorching heatof Dubai. Running the corporate racedoesn’t seems to be his bread andbutter so he's thinking about becom-ing a full time philosopher and isblessing Hassan Ijaz with his ideasand company by sharing hisaccommodation with him.After reverting back to the calm andserene ‘isloo’ hills and relaxing fortwo months, Farrah Ilyas realizedthat it was time to use all the eco-nomics she had studied in the lastfour years to make the economy“pareto-efficient”. Hence Farrah ven-tured out and joined the Asian Devel-opment Bank for an assignment withERRA which was a fascinating experi-ence for her as it opened her to therealities of the developing world.Now, she is excited to head off to theworld of Cornell in the beautiful landof waterfalls and gorges in Ithaca.She hopes to return successfully witha MPA/ International Developmentdegree in her hand. Haider Raza isworking as a Business Analyst at anAsian Development Bank projectcalled Business Support Fund wheregrants are given to SMEs to makethem more profitable, productive,competitive...blah blah blah. How-ever what he really does is spend hisentire day on facebook, msn, gmailand cricinfo because most SMEscan't understand the project. Cur-rently he's going with the flow andhas no idea where his life is heading.For any positive advice please con-tact Haider.

Hassan Ali aka RJ's Hali has beenhopping around in Lahori Startupcompanies to make them *great* butis looking to settle for a stable job inthe Middle East. Alumni are re-quested to help! In the meantime,Hassan Pansota is working forWarid Telecom and is thinking of giv-ing a GMAT soon. He is taking care ofthe contracts of Warid and is enjoying

as he gets to know all kinds of dealsby Warid, whether it is a modelingcontract with Ali Azmat or networkdeployment contract with Ericsson.Hussain Ali a.k.a. Ramu is back towhere he started off and has joinedanother startup hoping that this timeit would become a million dollarcompany. Madiha Abid graduatedwith the realization that her allegedlove for economics was mere infatu-ation; she found a job as a marketingresearch executive in Warid Telecomand after four months of extensivestatistical application (not!) she wasmade to work as a forecasting exec-utive in the same company. She iscurrently playing havoc with the com-pany’s 5 year forecasts and will soonflee the country with her husband.She got married in March 08 andwould be moving to Abu Dhabi thisDecember.

Maham Aziz is currently working asan SS TA at LUMS and is waiting forher Fulbright scholarship to pursueher Masters in Creative Writing nextyear. Also, Mahbano Yasmeen iscurrently working in Lahore forGallup Pakistan, a marketing researchagency. She is planning to give herGMAT sometime in November andgetting admission into MBA Market-ing (fall 2009 batch). Mariam Azeezis lost in the world of equations, for-mulas, and n-dimensional vectorspace. She hopes to return to thenormal world in June 2008, when shewill be finally done with her Mastersin Financial Economics from Univer-sity of Oxford. She is tying the knotin this August inshaAllah.Mir HamzaMahmood has moved to Universityof Pittsburgh for MS in Electrical Engi-neering and enjoying a nascent ca-reer in research there. He plans to gobeyond MS but let’s see; he is cur-rently enjoying life. MuhammedFarid Ahmed is struggling hard to re-lease himself from the jaws (fangs ismore like it) of graduate studies. Cur-rently at Cambridge, he doesn't knowwhat do after he graduates; but onething's for sure; his appetite for stud-

ies has been satiated: no more maths,no more economics…his real lifestarts now!

Mudassir Sheikh is missing Lahoreand is having a blast in Dubai. Unex-pectedly, he is working in the finan-cial sector as a corporate dealer inUBL's treasury. He will do masterssoon and is geared up for a road tripacross Europe! On the other hand,Neelma Siddiqui finally has thatMasters in Economics degree in handand is now rewarding herself for allthe slavery she was put through lastyear by trotting the globe like a bo-hemian this summer, preparing forher upcoming nuptials with feverishexcitement and learning how to makechicken biryani. Yes, she's alwaysbeen a multi-tasker. Nishaat Shafi iscurrently working as a research assis-tant and will be starting her Mastersat Stanford University starting Fall2008. She's looking forward to theCalifornian sun, and is riding high onthat dash of excitement and uncer-tainty that makes life all the moreworthwhile. Of course, luckily, Holly-wood will always be nearby; so she'sgot all her options covered! NooraQureshi is totally missing her crazyfriends and simultaneously wonder-ing why life in Lahore has becomesooo "boring". She is working at theMCB Head Office as an OperationalRisk Analyst and hopes to gain somehigh tech experience in Risk Manage-ment then leave for a Masters in Fi-nancial Engineering soon!Noor-i-Hirra Waqas is shocked athow quickly all girls from her batchare tying the knot, and is wondering:wasn't LUMS-brain-wrecking-studyingall about ambitions, aspiration andperusing careers?! Playing hopscotchwith the 'marriage industry'herself, she moved to London tocomplete her postgraduate degreein Development Studies from Schoolof Oriental and African Studies andwill be heading back soon to com-plete her dissertation on either 'pre-dictability of corruption and its linkwith economic growth' or 'increased



Class notesreliance on social capital in slums' –she cannot decide!

Ramish Hashmi is in Lahore, compil-ing the Class Notes for her batch(well, someone had to do so!) whileworking as a software engineer and abusiness analyst with a softwarehouse, Five Rivers Tech. She is plan-ning to apply abroad for Masters inComputer Vision or Graphics soon!Wishing all the batch mates goodluck, and all the married/engagedones happiness in their new lives.Rehan Lalani is currently jobofyingat a media communication companywhere he is making his target audi-ence sick by making them watch aLOT OF ADVERTISING ON ALLMEDIUM. He recently branded a fit-ness program at Ten Sports whichwas perceived very well by thecrowd. He soon plans to give hisGMAT and then apply abroad for hisMBA in Marketing and Communica-tions. Sahar Mahmood is currentlyliving in Prague, Czech Republic, andworking as a Regional Planning Ana-lyst for ExxonMobil Corporation (yes,she involuntarily crossed over to the'dark side' but still tries to do her bitfor the environment by always takingtrams instead of using cars!). In themeantime, Saima Ali is sitting on anisland far far away, sipping a fruitydrink with an umbrella in it … *snapback to reality*... married to Ali In-ayat (from the same batch), and withtons of work that always crops upfrom nowhere, she’s currently work-ing as a Media Executive at the LUMSSchool of Science & Engineering.Having a CS background, she's nowshifting focus to graphic design andmedia arts, and planning to do herMasters in it next year, possibly fromAustralia, and with her husband. Shehas wasted a good number of poten-tially fun days and nights in the labsat LUMS, and plans on making themost of her life to compensate forthat immense loss. Continuing ourlong list of people, Saima Nadeem,who's also trying to figure out thesame thing, is finishing off first year of

an Economics PhD at Stanford Uni-versity in sunny California (they bothare); and in juggling the ugly math,concept cooking and configuring anew world order, finds time for ran-dom adventures in Cali and beyond.

Samreen Sajjad is currently workingas a Relationship Manager at Citi-group. She has gotten the Fulbrightscholarship and plans to go to NYUthis fall to do MA Economics. SanaHumayun is currently working as aResearch Analyst in the Planning andDevelopment Department of theGovernment of Punjab. She has beenawarded a Commonwealth Scholar-ship and will be joining the LondonSchool of Economics and PoliticalScience for a graduate program inEconomics, as well as having plans oftraveling across Europe with friendsover the next year. Sana Malik willhave graduated with an MA in SocialAnthropology from Goldsmiths Col-lege, Univ. of London, September2008, and will probably end upworking in a low-paid, but highly re-warding job in the corner of some re-mote island, studying why Mbumwomen don't eat chicken andwhether the Yanomami people arefierce because it increases theirchances of having children. Well, willtry getting rid of stereotypes, forstarters.

Sanaa Nadeem is figuring out howto make her class notes at least re-motely different from those of heridentical twin sister. Sana Zia isworking at Xavor Corporation as aJunior Management Consultant. Sheis enjoying her time with ShafaqSoomro and Tahira Raza (currently inBeverly Hills!). She also plans to doher MBA next year. Shafaq TariqSoomro has been forced by noother than Ramish Hashmi to compilethe Class Notes for her batch. She ishappily engaged and is working as aJunior Management Consultant atXavor Corporation; she has success-fully dubaofied the company and isplanning to go to Saudia soon and

dubaofy her father’s company now.On the other hand, Sidra Saleem iscurrently working in Gallup Pakistanas an Assistant Manager. She plannedto stay there till September (1 yearcompleted!!).Immediately after thatshe was planning to visit her family inthe US. Next year she plans to starther Masters in Economics, and thatwould NOT be from LUMS! TahiraRaza is sitting on a chair, in a cubicle,on the ground floor, of an office in aland far far away...Living it up in LosAngeles on a project with XavorCorp. and Fox and is planning to doMasters in Software Engineeringsometime soon. Also, Tayyab Javedis working at Confiz Solutions (La-hore) as a Product Manager for Sim-plicant, and loving it! (Wow, howoften do you get to hear that??).Tooba Shah is working as a QualityAssurance Executive at Warid Tele-com. She is also a freelance writer forThe Nation and trying her hand atshort stories. Usman Ismail is at-tending Grad School in ComputerSciences at University of Waterloo,Canada and Umair Arshad is com-pleting MSc. Economics from LUMS,(graduation in June 2008). Tentativeplans were to join NIB Bank in Aug asa Management Associate.

Waseem Ahmed Malik (WAM) isworking as a relationship manager atArif Habib Investments and trying toconvince people to invest in mutualfunds. Facebook, Crossword puzzles,MSN and Newspapers are an impor-tant part of his life at work. In themean time, Yasir Khan is busy in"transforming Asia" through a mastersdegree in public policy from the littlered dot known as Singapore, readingbooks like "Can Asians Think", meet-ing presidents, ministers and ambas-sadors. He will be moving toColumbia from August onwards foranother Masters in Public Policy,probably in International financialpolicy to prove to the world thatpublic policy is not all about NGOsand politics. Youmna Mukhtar isdoing MPhil in Economics – University

Class notesof Cambridge, Class of 2008 and hasbeen admitted into the PhD programat Cambridge. Zainab Saeed isdoing MSc Environment and Devel-opment at the London School of Eco-nomics and Political Science,Graduate Class of 2008. And to finallycomplete our list of people, Zara Li-aqat is currently doing PhD Econom-ics from the University of SouthernCalifornia (Class of 2012) only 20 min-utes drive from Hollywood. Actuallyshe is only a PhD 'candidate' till shepasses her core exam this year! Forall those who have similar plans:don’t worry, if you get a B- in the firstsemester....eventually you'll get used2 it!

We’d like to give our heartiest con-gratulations to all thoseengaged/married people and wepray Allah blesses them with all thehappiness of the world! And we alsopray that all those pursing higher ed-ucation get into the top-notch univer-sities and graduate with flying colors!We would like to wish everyone elsethe very best in life, for whatevertheir planning to do next (Amen).And there we have it, ladies and gen-tlemen, the class notes of BSc2007…collected, complied and al-phabetized! (YAY!) Thank you Ramishand Shafaq! See you all nextyear…same batch, same place, sametime and hopefully different compil-ers! So, stay tuned and keep intouch!

MS 2002

CoordinatorSaad [email protected]

Having the honor of writing the classnotes for the batch is no easy task! Itstarts with informing all to updatetheir status, which then turns to re-

questing, to pleading, to terrorizingand finally threatening to put funkywords against those who do notreply (The last thing worked perfectlyfine!)... Nonetheless, most of thebatch is still on the face of the planet,somehow managing to keep in touch(max once in a year!). Never mind; it'salways good to hear from all of you!

Aamir Shahzad (a.k.a Daakter) hada wonderful trip to Europe visiting al-most all cities, landing back in Islam-abad where he is a lecturer in NIITthese days, giving a tough time topeople hating DSP (God I hatedDSP!). Ahmad Ammar is HOD ofTechnology Initiatives in TUSDEC La-hore, with a lot less hair but moremoney and wisdom (good trade offman!). Asim Shabih Zaidi returnedto SUPARCO Lahore after his educa-tion in the US and got married a fewmonths back. Faisal Aslam thinks hestill needs a lot of education (I don'tknow why), and was discovered as aPhD candidate in University ofFreiburg, Germany. Fareha Bugti hasbeen spied upon and reported byShamsher Haider to be in Beijing,China as 3rd Secretary in the PakistanEmbassy in China. Hope you enjoyedthe Olympics lady!!! Habib-ur-Rehman was in Germany some timeback, didn't appear in the classnotes, I guess because of Germany'sloss to Spain in Euro 2008 (Is it?). Hu-maira Naveed is the senior teacherin NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. IjazAkhtar is still in love with LUMS, stay-ing as PhD candidate. KhalidMehmood Aamir is mixing up hisPhD and job in Atomic Energy, sothat no one knows what he is actuallyupto (secrecy as usual!)...

Muhammad Adeel Ashraf is nowa-days in Cambridgedox, Lahore.Muhammad Farhan Khan was lasttraced in UAE somewhere. Muham-mad Jawad Khalid is Manager CoreNetworks in WaridTel, Lahore andnow a pretty senior guy there.Muhammad Saeed is a lecturer inthe Department of CS in Karachi Uni-

versity, where he is the favoriteteacher of the students!

Muhammad Usman Ilyas (a.k.aFroggy) had lethal intentions of wrap-ping up his PhD and coming back toterrorize NUST students. Good newsfor them is that he has joined Quar-tics Inc. in California, US, so he will bestaying there for a while! OmarNaeem Khan, the ferocious bowlerof our team, is in Toronto, Canada asa professional services consultant forTeradata. Salman Khan Lodhi is inlove with Emirates Airlines, so heends up with it every 6 months!Guess he'll marry the airline in theend ... Shahid Mehmood found hislove for gora-des materialized whenhe moved to the US as a SoftwareConsultant, where he encountersmostly kaala-people instead.Shamsher Haider thinks he is theProject Manager of Punjab Informa-tion Technology Board (he really is!)

Syed Asad Ali Shah is associatedwith NCR in Islamabad. Syed BasitAli Jafri is the proud father of ababy boy, who I think will also endup with Inov8 Ltd, like his father.Syed Imran Jami is a PhD candidatein FAST Karachi, of some disciplinewhich I cannot pronounce; as well asdoing some research work in Aus-tralia (which is the cover-up for all theayashi he does there!). TariqRasheed Qureshi thinks he wasborn for checking out all of the USland, so he is all over the place. He isdoing his PhD. Other than that, youmight see him starring in the next'Head n Shoulders' ad. WaseemAhmad was the first one to reply tothe class notes request all the wayfrom Vancouver, Canada, where heworks for HSBC Bank.

Kamran Aslam was found in Lon-don, UK as Director Software Market-ing of some company. MaimoonNasim is the proud father of a babygirl, and hopefully still works for Ama-zon in US. Mansoor Javed Awan isstill with NTDC, got married a long



Class notestime ago, and apparently hates tomeet old fellows! Just kidding man...Muhammad Junaid Hashmi is thetech savvy in Wateen, Lahore.Muhammad Mudassir Malik waslast spotted in Vienna, and then nofurther news of him. Reward for who-ever finds him!

Omer Javed Butt still survives inWarid technical in Lahore. SaadOmer (a.k.a the poor classnotes fel-low) is in Technical Planning Telenor,Islamabad, where he is all alone tocombat a big force of MBA Luminitesin commercial division! ... SaadiyaWaheed Raza got married sometime ago, and apparently moved toMars as there is no trace despite sev-eral reminders! Salman Shabbirmoved to Telenor IT in Islamabad lastyear after a lot of consultation fromme! Waqar Ahmad is still the princeof cricket and table tennis in WaridLahore... Don't get me wrong, heworks as well!

A big HI to all the ones I could notget in touch with and who are there-fore not listed in the above introduc-tion. Come to the surface“submarined people”, the world isvery small on Orkut and Facebook!The class list is as usual, maintainedon:http://www.saadaan.com/ms2002where you can see the updated sta-tus of whole of our batch, and theyahoo mailing list is also alive athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/the0203s.Have a happy time everyone!

MS 2004

CoordinatorKhurrum MehmoodXelleration [email protected]

This year, we can very well say that

most of us have settled in life; mostof us are working in well reputed or-ganizations and at a very challengingrole, that’s not all; we saw many en-gagements, marriages, new bornsetc. so in short the majority is nowpursuing the better half of life. I’d liketo congratulate all batch mates on an-other successful year and hope andpray that the next year brings moregood news for all of them.

Representing my batch I would liketo take this opportunity to send a for-mal Thank You to the MS facultythrough these notes and to the cur-rent MS students at LUMS I wouldlike to say that ‘Guys! Make the mostout of your stay at LUMS…. No matterwhere you go and where you standin life later, you’ll always cherish andremember your stay at LUMS (yes!nighters whether in labs, dorms orkhoka are the most you miss )’.

Readers! Please read and see howthe class of MS 2004 has been doingin the last year. You will find all flavorsof jobs, businesses and further edu-cation here. I hope to provide youwith more good news and MS 2004successes next year.

Asad Anwar Butt joined the Penn-sylvania State University in fall 2007for his PhD in Computer Science. Hehas been in the US since then, and iseagerly waiting for the holidays tovisit Pakistan. Asad also witnessedlow temperatures of -20 degrees Cel-sius, and found that it was not asscary as he had initially thought itwould be. For Atif Nauman last yearwas a busy year, after all “Shadi karnakoi asaan kaam thore ha”. YES, lastyear Atif joined the married group ofMS 2004 (though no such group ex-ists). Atif got married in October2007. As far as career is concerned,he is still busy with his own business.One thing Atif really wants to men-tion is that he still misses his old bud-dies, hostel life & obviously LUMS (itwas simply great). The last that washeard about Jahanzeb Umair, was

the update in class notes 2007. Aftergraduation Junaid Sharif joinedTechlogix, and then later he joinedPTC. After a year he joined NCR andnow he is happy working at TeraData.Junaid got engaged and we are look-ing forward to attending his wed-ding. Wish you the very best of luck!

No update of Farqaleet Ahsan Kir-mani after class notes 2007. The lastthat was heard of Nadia Alvi wasthat she got married and is now wellplaced in UK. Khurrum Mehmood(myself) initially joined Cattalise Inc.for a year, found it very interestingand decided to pursue a career in IT.He then joined Alliances-IT and thenlater joined Xelleration (where he ishappy and plans to stay) after work-ing for alliances for about 7- 8months. He initially joined Xellerationas SSE and now works as Team Leadfor the company. He also got mar-ried last year and has a busy andhappy life. The fact that there hadbeen a gap between Alumni and stu-dents of LUMS has led Khurramto ini-tiate the concept of professionalGrouping:http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/lumsGraduatesThis successful student alumni rela-tionship link has a complete phonebook, employers ranking (for compa-nies Alumni have worked with andtheir point of view), package detailsetc.

Of Khurram Qadeer, Saqib Ash-faq, Shah Saud and Sher ShahKhan there is no update since2007.After leaving LUMS, ShahrukhArshad joined Systems Limited andworked there for more than a year.During this time Shahrukh’s lifetook a U-turn and he now has abeard (Alhamdulillah) and tryinghis level best to fulfill his duty ofdelivering Holy Prophet’s (S.A.W)message to every person he can.He is now working in AccountancyOutsourcing Services as a SeniorSoftware Engineer. He gotengaged in March 08. He is very

Class noteshappy with his job timings of 9am-6pm, as very rare IT companies thesedays allow such timings.

After leaving LUMS Sheeraz Akram,joined GIFT University Gujranwalaand has been teaching there for morethan one and a half year. He says thestudent years at LUMS were the best.He often visits friends (Aamer Zaheer,Zeeshan Ali Rana, Malik Jahan Khan)at LUMS. SM Irtezawas blessed witha boy in 2007. His name is Moham-mad Ibraheem. Irteza continues towork at Prosol Technologies. He lovesto spend time in the evenings inMasjid activities, and is enjoying theblessings given to him by Allah (espe-cially fatherhood, and having bothparents around).

Syed Mohsin Matloob Bukhari,Syed Muhammad Jawwad ShabbirBukhari and Syed MuhammedKhaliq ur Rehman Raazi were lastheard from in the 2007 class notesupdate. So were Umair Alvie, UmerZia and Yasser Masood

Taimur Nasir is still working for Mo-bilink as a Lead Auditor-InformationSecurity, has shifted from Peshawarto Lahore as “running between thetwo cities was too tiring”. By thegrace of Almighty Allah, he has re-cently become father to a lovely boywhose name is Pir Mus'haf Taimur.Nowadays he is enjoying a busy lifeboth at office and at home. Afterworking at Techlogix for six monthsUsman Chaudry found the softwaredevelopment industry too monoto-nous and a search for more adventur-ous avenues landed him at MotorolaLahore office as System IntegrationEngineer. He has found the Motorolaadventure a roller coaster ride butthen the roller coaster has alwaysbeen Usman’s favorite ride. He is en-joying his stay there, is happily singleand plans to remain that way for awhile. However his friends are push-ing him to get married and join theclub. After leaving LUMS, UsmanTahir joined Integleo, is still workingthere as a PSE and plans to stick with

it for at least a couple of years. Hegot engaged in March 08 and plansto get married end of next year.

Zeeshan Ejaz, Fasih Uz ZamanHaris Rana, Umair ul Hasan are atNESCOM for the last two years.Aamer Zaheer, Khurram NazirJunejo, Malik Jahan, JunaidAkhtar, Hassan Khan, KhawajaMuhammad Fahd KMF, ZeeshanRana a.k.a Peter are still at LUMS

MS 2005

CoordinatorsHussain [email protected]&Wasif [email protected]

Aminah Hamid is now back in LUMSto complete her MS degree. Mean-while, she is gathering hoards of in-formation about all the gooduniversities of UK, USA and Australia.Having said that, she secretly plans topursue a completely different careerby teaching little munchkins ofMontessori. Abdul Rahman, afterhaving a very bumpy ride throughLUMS, eventually settled down wellin Islamabad. He is leading a coreteam of developers in Pakistan for anoff shore company, Optimal Solu-tions. He is looking forward to paceup even more with all his passionand love for Microsoft technologies.Abdul Rauf Muhammad Rana, aftergoing through the list of courses inthe handbook has finally discoveredthat he is done with the MS courserequirements. In pursuit of his ever-lasting wish to have a "Dr." with hisname, he is going to take qualifier thissummer (or a wiser option would be

to have a homeopathic certification).Adnan Ahmed is doubtfully commit-ted and is working at NCR. AdnanWaheed, after sticking with SheriTechthrough thick and thin, decided thatit was finally time to move on. He cannow be found at Mentor Graphics,where he's working as Software De-velopment Engineer. Affan Rauf isworking as a Software Engineer atRed Math. Ahmad Muqeem Sherihas had the honor of being the veryfirst entrepreneur of our batch withhis tech startup, SheriTech, which hadnearly half dozen others from ourbatch until recently. On another note,he (finally) got married in March thisyear.

Akeel-ur-Rehman Faridee hadbeen actively involved with the onand off campus protests post Nov3rd. Had a popular blog 'Rise of Pak-istan' up that kept people informedabout the ground realities when themedia itself was blacked out. He hasdecided to shelve his PhD plans fornow and has started working at Mo-bile Weaver, Islamabad. Ali GhousFakhri pinches himself occasionallyfor he still hasn't come to terms withthe fact that he has actually made outof LUMS in one piece. After over ayear with Strategic Systems (SSI), henow works as a Business InformationAnalyst at Mobilink. Ali Raza a.k.a.Robert ditched NCR after only a cou-ple of months for an opportunity tocomplete his 'doctor-ial' ambitions atUtah State University. Last reportsthat came in suggest that he's doingexceptionally well there. Amir Razais working at Habib Bank as AssistantManager IT Compliance. AmmaraNadeem Malik is happily married toLaeeq Aslam (MS'01). She is currentlyworking in Techlogix as a Senior Soft-ware Engineer. Anoosha Habiba.k.a. Anooshey has finally set foot inthe corporate world of Karachi,where she has joined Lakson as Man-ager Institutional Sales. Asif RazaBaig has been working at SystemsLtd. for the past one-year.

Asim Ali Shah moved to Islamabad,



Class noteswhere he is working at Teradata. As apart time, he's attending weddingsand engagements of his friends andfriends' of friends. He, however, is stillsingle and looking! His roomies in-form us that he's STILL a sore loser atFifa! ;) Ayesha Afzal, the silentdamsel is ironically working for acompany promoting "Aur Sunao"(Mobilink) as an Information SecurityAnalyst, in Lahore since April 2007.Bilal Ahmad Bajwa is still at LUMSand he's still teaching at FCC as a full-time faculty. Bushra Anjum got in-spired by Dr. Harry Perros's book"Connection Oriented Networks" andended up going to USA and beinghis PhD student on Fulbright scholar-ship. She spends most of her time(and grant) in touring places and tak-ing photographs! (Oh yes, in respectof her gold medal, sometimes shestudies too). She plans to return andjoin academia in Pakistan as a profes-sor. Fahad Akhtar is working atUraan Software Solutions. FahdKhan, like most of our batch mates,joined Teradata GCC. He is single anddedicatedly working to change hismarital status. Fahd Mustafa Bhattyleft LUMS halfway through the MS forUniversity of Texas at Austin. FarazAzhar is busy in his own businessventure. He is quite euphoric and ex-pects people to read more abouthim in the upcoming fortune maga-zines.

Fasih ud din Khan a.k.a FUdK up-graded from Khyber 1000cc to Liana1300cc, he is on the verge of becom-ing Lord of the Textiles as he isworking on ERP in Techlogix, de-signed for Textile Industry. Initially, hewas planning to go for an MBA butafter roaming different modules inERP like Finance, Pay Role, Production& Planning etc. he decided its time toteach business grads somethingabout “bijnas” Fawaz SaleemBokhari is one of the rare Full-brighters in our batch. After leavingLUMS, he joined University of Texasat Arlington for his PhD. FurqanAhmed Minhas is working at – this'll

get repetitive, so get used to it – NCRTeradata. Furqan Aziz is a lecturer atNU-FAST Peshawar, where the stu-dents refuse to accept him as theirteacher. His ambitions for a PhD (andRent-a-Sarbala agency) are still strongas ever!

Ghulam Murtaza a.k.a. Murti can stillbe found in LUMS, specifically NEWTLab. He successfully cleared the qual-ifier exam and is now working on hisPhD problem. He'll leave for Indiasoon on a Microsoftsponsored researchstint. HumaNaushad, theprincess, finallyrode off towardsthe Canadian sunsetwith her princecharming, long timefiancé (Mohsin So-hail) and his noblesteed. Hussain Latif Mughal is nowin the land of the royals (i.e. Kingdomof Saudi Arabia, emphasis on theword KINGDOM), working as a Sys-tem Architect on 3G and 3.5G tech-nologies with Etisalat. Along withsuch responsibilities, he bears theburden to count his days till the timehe becomes “CEO” of the company.Imran Khan is trying to convince hisparents that he has gotten oldenough to be engaged like his"younger" brother. Imran is also work-ing with Teradata, ufff… JareerAhsan Hushaam a.k.a. Jheera a.k.aJerry is planning on writing a novel, amanga and directing a short film afterdefending his MS-Thesis successfully(if ever) and then rumor has it that hemight move to New Zealand and be-come a shepherd!!! Khalid Rehmanis working at – hold your breath – Ter-adata… err… like almost everyoneelse in our batch. Laiq Ahmad NasirButt has successfully cleared the PhDqualifier at LUMS and is now puttingall his efforts for defending the pro-posal. We wish him all the best for hisPhD.

Madiha Rahman is happily married

and is on a full time job withMahrosh; cute lil daughter of hers.Mahgul Qayyum is working at Sys-tems Limited and whatever time isleft after office is spent arguing withher sisters… and the big news is thatshe has finally learnt driving. MirzaMuhammad Yousaf a.k.a. Yousi, isworking as a Software Engineer at Ul-timus.He's also perfecting his story-making skills these days and hasadded poetic jingles to his armor –do ask him about the 'Milo Boy' story

if you ever get thechance to meethim. Moeen UddinBandey, too, hasmoved on fromSheriTech and isnow back in hishometown, Islam-abad, where he'slooking for a job.

Mohammad Ali Kirmani, afterLUMS, decided to join the entrepre-neurial effort of Muqeem Sheri, i.e.,SheriTech. He worked his position upto being the Operations Manager,then provided consultation servicesfor Copenhagen-based MobileWeavers APS this winter and is nowworking as New Venture Screener forFounders Fund (Pvt.) Limited.MohsinNaeem Khan is living the ultimatevideo gamers' dream; to build videogames, that is!He's working as a LeadProgrammer at Mindstorm Studios.Mubasher Nawaz Awan a.k.a. Mobihas been globe trotting lately, travel-ing between UAE, India and US of A.He works for Cisco Systems as Asso-ciate Network Consulting Engineer.Muhammad Asad a.k.a. Chips is aConsultant at Mantaq Systems, La-hore. Muhammad Aurangzeb a.k.aZEB can be found in Techlogix, he istrying hard to pull-out Land Mafiafrom work by designing ComputerSoftware codename 'Patwari Cracker'for Government because 'Badel RahaHai Punjab Hamara'. Occasionally hisname appears as author on some ofthe articles published in SPIDER, he isalso hoping to change his N.I.C to

Class notesN.I.C.O.P, i.e., 'going abroad' in nearfuture.

Muhammad Fahiem Ullah has takenhis freelancing to the next level, andhas started his own software com-pany, Horizon Technologies, wherehe's building products as well as cus-tomized solutions. MuhammadIshaq has gone missing… repeatedemails sent to Lost & Found at LUMSturned out fruitless. MuhammadAsim Rafique has left the PhD pro-gram at LUMS and is now moving toWarid Congo – Yes! That's Africa!!Muhammad Abdul Rehman AkbarKhan a.k.a. Mani is happily engagedto Hina Raja and is now working atNCR with the responsibility of (data)mining weird nicknames for his IMs.Muhammad Ahsun Ali is working asa Software Engineer at MobileWeaver, Islamabad. Muhammad AliShafqat did something that no saneman would ever do - he "intention-ally" missed his convocation eventhough he lives only a couple ofblocks away from LUMS. Rumors sug-gest that he was neck deep in playingvideo games on his PS3 and/orXbox360. When not playing videogames at home, he can be found du-eling against his work colleagues atCS at ICWFD, where his official desig-nation is Senior Software Engineerbut is unofficially known as ChiefGaming Officer.

Muhammad Asim Javed dumpedhis plans for a PhD for an opportunityto work at Scrybe Inc., Islamabad.When not at work, he can be foundproviding free consulting services toLUMS hostelites in finding and down-loading "stuff" off LUMS hostel LAN.Muhammad Imran Ansari, afterbeing associated with LMKR for acouple of years, is now engaged witha new tech company in Islamabadi.e., Bleu Rider as a Lead Developer.Muhammad Kamran Nishat a.k.a.Kami is happily married and movedout of LUMS hostel. He's steadily ad-vancing towards his PhD. Muham-mad Kashif Azhar urf Kachhu

Juwariya, should've been a pokerdealer in some underground club,but instead is working as a SoftwareEngineer. Muhammad Omer Raffata.k.a. Omer, moved to Virginia USA,where he's working as a Consultant atMcFadyen Solutions. MuhammadShoaib Hasan is currently working inMobilink. He has been on a certifica-tions spree this past one year andnow feels he's over-qualified for thejob he's doing.

Muhammad Umair Khan a.k.aBuddy is working in a software housein Karachi and doing well. His statusis single so far but looking seriously,genuinely but not desperately (unlikesome other people) for his betterhalf.Muhammad Umar Farooq, too,is working at – another cliché – Tera-data, Islamabad. Muhammad ZahidAli a.k.a. Bhatti, the guy who used tobe mistaken as the first PhD of LUMS,had his dream materialized andmoved out of Pakistan. He's now inChicago, where he's working for atechnology firm and taking his pic-tures with the Sears Tower in thebackground from every possibleangle! Muhammad Sheraz Sharif isworking as a Software Engineer at In-ternational Turnkey Solutions (ITS), La-hore. Munazzah Abdul Ghaffar ishappily married to a sweet, loving,helpful, loyal guy named MuhammadHassan (MS04). She is now living inLahore and these days, she is watch-ing movies at DHA cinema, attendingfamily events and inviting friends toher place.

Natasha Qaisar, now NatashaUsman Butt is happily married, set-tled in the UK and is loving every bitof her new life. After spending awonderful vacation in Dubai, she iswaiting for her next trip to Cyprus...but currently she is trying very hardto get a job and if she is not success-ful, she is gonna try again...! NaveedAhmed became the proud dad of acute little baby girl, Shumaim. He wasa lecturer at NU-FAST but then de-cided to move to industry and is now

working at AKDN. He's in Konduz,Afghanistan these days on a work-re-lated trip (well, that's a first!) QasimAli joined Techlogix soon after leav-ing LUMS and is probably still there.Asher Imtiaz is happily unmarriedbut looking. Deadline to contact himfor the purpose is Dec '08. And FYI,after getting happily married, heplans to spend a wonderful vacationin Dubai (But Cyprus isn't in plan). Heis teaching at FCC (full time) and alsoworking for a new startup, Versonicat Lahore (full time) ... :) and don'tforget, he is still enrolled in MS lead-ing to Phd at LUMS (full time student).

Reema Tariq, now known as ReemaUsama, has moved back to Islam-abad with her husband. She is tryingto make the world better by teachingin Comsats. She is contemplating onways to go for a PhD abroad.Rehman Chughtai has made a namefor himself as a camera-totting anti-martial law activist at LUMS. His pho-tographs were widely published invarious national and internationalnewspapers – although without anydue credits! Saadia Mumtaz, aftergetting her MS done, worked inTechlogix as a Software Engineer. Shewas a part of a team working on pro-viding ERP solutions but managed toflee, and just for the sake of taking abreak from hectic schedule of 9-7,she started teaching. Currently, she isdelivering lectures in GC Universityand Agriculture University Faisalabad.She is still confused whether to pur-sue Teaching as her career thoughshe has found it most rewarding. Sheis also attending weddings of friendsand singing songs on thaap of dholakand misses 'times n friends' at LUMS.Sadaf Ahmed is back in Islamabadand just joined FAST Islamabad as aResearch Engineer, working on an ICTproject. She plans to switch her job,as she doesn't really like the job andthe place. She wants to do some-thing more interesting and satisfyinglike faculty at some university in Islam-abad. Sadia Saleem, the ultimatefun lover, enjoys the busy work



Class notesschedule at her office with expertisein RoR. She finally decided to evacu-ate LUMS hostel and shifted to an-other. Her obsession with mobilephone use will soon land her the‘Most Valuable Customer’ award fromall the telcos in Pakistan. Saif urRehman is a happy man, all thatbotox abuse paid off and has finallyled him to tie the knot. He was work-ing at Pepsi-Cola International as aSAP Consultant but has now movedto PTCL for the same role. SaimaYaqub is playing the role of a re-sponsible freelance developer, mak-ing mad money along the way. She isalso trying to make a meaningful dif-ference in an innocent soul's (herfriend) programming skills by teach-ing her dot net. Sajed Hafeez Malik,the ex-President of Student Council,has also moved to Islamabad butthankfully he's not in Teradata (like al-most everyone else from the batchthat happens to be in Isloo) and he isholding Scrybe Inc. (on his not toobroad shoulders).

Sami uz Zaman has been one of therare loyal employees and has stuckwith Tricastmedia as Principal Soft-ware Engineer ever since he leftLUMS. Sana Jawaid, now known asSana Zubairi, has moved to Min-nesota with her loving husbandMoosa Zubairi. She is having fun filledweekends, dyeing her hair in differ-ent colors, making new friends andattending parties. Chatting with SanaShafi on voice chat, on written chat,on phone, on facebook and lookingout for other known people in herworld. Sana Shafi a.k.a Sana B a.k.aSS, after mastering in CS, is now rigor-ously hunting down BUGS on face-book to report them on time to herfriends. She honored Systems Ltd. formore than half-a-year to get her entireoffice hooked onto facebook. She isplanning a vacation in Dubai at hersister's Place. She is also waiting for'Aditya Kashap' to walk into her lifeand solve all her problems as she is'Geet'. To TOP it all of, she is also get-

ting along side Saadia to sing songson weddings. Saqib Rashid is nowworking at Red Math as a SoftwareEngineer after spending nearly a yearwith NetSol. He can still be founddining at PDC nearly every singlenight and in M2's laundry room overthe weekends!

Shaheryar Iqbal a.k.a Sherry, hasalso joined Teradata. After his die-hard efforts and struggle at LUMS, hehas finally married and found the truemeaning of love (though after anarranged marriage). Sharjeel ShahidSheikh (the jikram look-alike) is stillsingle. He is working at i2c as a Busi-ness Analyst. He is currently savingup for a hair transplant then he plansto tie the knot. Sidra Masood a.k.a.Sid is doing nothing but attendingweddings of her brothers, sisters,cousins, friends and friend of friends.She, however, is still single. Syed AliAhsan Jameel's degree status is un-known but his tech startupAlliance Technologies isdoing great, I hear. SyedFarooq Ali is a Re-search Associate atLUMS and plans oncontinuing hisstudies for aPhD. When hedoesn't havehis head dug upin books, he canbe occasionally spot-ted at the Sports Com-plex playing Badmintonand Table Tennis. Syed MuhammadNoman Bukhari a.k.a Noman bhai fi-nally got done with loads & loads ofhis requirements for MS. His servicesas a squash coach and photographywill be long remembered. He is look-ing forward to settling down in La-hore or Islamabad rather than goingback to his hometown i.e., Karachi.(Umair buddy, take a note of this!)

Talal Ahmed has spurned an offerfrom Xavor Malaysia for a chance tosettle down in Dubai as a Deputy

Manager at Global IT Center, HabibBank AG Zurich. He'll be moving toDubai real soon. Tayyaba Ayaz a.k.a.Pb has finally said farewell to studiesfor good and is working with UnitedNations in Islamabad. Apart from lov-ing her work routine, she is oftenfound making plans for the week-ends Usman Naseem, after spend-ing quite a few months withSheriTech, finally came back to hishome town and has joined the fa-vorite employer of our batch i.e. Ter-adata. Usman Raza Chohan a.k.a.HT is now back at LUMS to completehis MS after a brief research stint inFrance and a missed Fullbright op-portunity for New York State Univer-sity. He's now planning to abandonacademia for good to try out his luckin the industry. Waqar Ali Mirzaa.k.a. WAM is currently working inSystems Ltd. as a Software Engineer.These days he's looking to go abroadfor a job in a tech company. He's also

planning to get engaged in thecoming months.

Wasif Hussain is back inthe city of the living dead(you know which city thatis), where he's trying to re-tain his "Most Eligible Bach-elor" title. He usually spendsweekends hiking through thelush green Margalla hills. In hisspare time, he honors PRALwith his expertise as a TeamLead. Zahid Ali Chaudry canstill be found in LUMS, where he's

working as a Research Associate.Zeeshan Malik is a Senior SoftwareEngineer at DevASP, Lahore. He'sSTILL single and you'd soon see hisads in the classifieds section of vari-ous newspapers! Zelleh HussnainSyed, after working for some timewith Khushali Bank realized that thereis not much in jobs for him. He's nowmoved into real estate and construc-tion business.

Class notesMBA 1989

CoordinatorSahil ZaheerPackages [email protected]

It is unbelievably 19 years since wegraduated from LUMS! And ofcourse so much has changed. Thepetrol prices are an incredible Rs. 86per litre and we get electricity only18 hours out of 24. It is, however,wonderful to keep in touch with allof you.

Due to my contact with LUMS I get tomeet Faisal Farid who is now on theBoard and Management Committeeof LUMS and Arif Butt, AssociateDean of Suleman Dawood School ofBusiness. It is great to see that two ofus are so closely associated with thewell being of our alma mater.

I thank the class also, who re-sponded so quickly via the email tosend updates about them. I may nothave been able to reach many othersand they have thus not been able tosend updates about themselves. Thedeadline for submitting these noteswas ‘yesterday’ and so we must sendthe information that we have accu-mulated. I will start with my own. Iam still working at Packages Limited.The children are growing up. My sonSaad, 18, is now in the Second Yearof ‘A’ levels, the younger one, Ham-mad, 15, is now in Class IX, and myyoungest daughter, Sana, is in Class I.

Mumtaz says: “I am still married toAshraf and have two sons only. Work-ing for Crosby for the past five years.Another consistency.”

Fariha Suhbani writes: “I am still inUnilever Pakistan and Marketing Di-rector for Foods business.”

Arif Butt: “Two sons, Ibrahim andKarim; managing academic career atLUMS and entrepreneurial ventureVariety Books. Major challenge is tomake LUMS Business school more rel-evant to the new socio-economic en-vironment.”

Amer Hadi Khan: “I am looking afterthe Marketing activities at the DesconManufacturing Facilities here in Shar-jah’s Hamriyah Free Zone. It’s been 17years since I joined Descon (no job-hopping). I’ve been here for a yearnow and my family is with me.

Syed Irfan Ali: “I work for the StateBank of Pakistan as Director BankingPolicy and regulations department inKarachi and miss Lahore.”

Iram writes: “I’m working at PakistanCredit Rating Agency Limited(PACRA) at the moment, after havingbeen through rather a bad patch inmy life. Don’t get worried, I didn’tmean any broken relationships! Oth-erwise, still single, footloose andfancy free ;-)”

Ali Rahim says: “I have now beenback in Dubai for over 3 years afterspending a year in Riyadh, KSAwhere I made the transition from con-ventional banking to Islamic Banking.I am now truly committed to Islamicbanking and am currently SVP, Headof Retail Products at Dubai IslamicBank. On the personal front, the 3kids are growing up fast. Anum is 10years, Aadil is 7 and Abbas is due toturn 5 next month, inshaAllah.

Zahid Khan: “I live in Lahore andhave been in textile sector since1989. Initially worked for couple ofcompanies and then started my ownbusiness in 1998. I have two sonsaged 18 and 15. Life is okay so nocomplaints”.

Dr. Qaiser Rashid: “I am still withRoberts contrary to the job hoppingmania associated with Lumsians. Mykids who find LUMS tough get easily

into American Universities. We as acompany have diversified intobranded SEEDS business and RICEexports while shrinking our traditionalCotton Ginning business.”

MBA 1991

CoordinatorAbid NasimGeneralSoft [email protected]

Shujaat Mirza has set up a newdenim company in 2006 and is nowheading it as a managing partner. Thiskeeps him busy for now. On the fam-ily front he has a family of 4, includingwife Tayyaba, daughters Zoya 11, Ma-heen 5, & son Sarim 4. He thinks it isincreasingly challenging to be a par-ent for Muslim children as we don’tseem to have a common value set inthis extremely divergent society. Itseems every household has a differ-ent social structure, putting us all asstrangers within one society. This isquite different as compared to theWest where most of the values aregenerally acceptable.

About LUMS he says he has been se-riously thinking of putting together anIkanway scholarship fund/scholar-ship, which the batch started in 2006.He would need input from the classon this idea, and would also volun-teer to manage this if supported bymost. He still interacts with his almamater regularly as all his top execu-tives have done at least one manage-ment course at REC recently.

Nadeem Sarfraz moved back inJanuary to Lahore after almost 10years in Karachi. He has joined MCBand is looking after the consumerlending business. Abid Nasim iscurrently running GeneralSoft, , Inc.and hoping to expand the business



Class notesworldwide. Jahanzeb Naseer andAnita are still in Hong Kong with theirthree children. Jahanzeb moved toLehman Brothers last year, tradingAsian equities for their hedge fund.He continues to make his pronounce-ments on markets and everything elsein general on the ikanwayforum....which of course the rest ofthe class continues to ignore....kind oflike his class participation. SadiqYusuf Yalmaz is currently ExecutiveDirector at WorldCALL Telecom Lim-ited based in Karachi. He took thisposition in June 2007. Before that hewas CEO of Burraq Telecom for 3years. Mashallah he has 3 kids Farhadaged 10, Zoya aged 8 1/2 andJayyad aged 2. His mother passedaway after fighting with cancer on31st July 2007 at the age of 71.

Inam ur Rahim is working in one ofthe subsidiaries of Engro calledEngro Innovative Automation Ltd. Nojob change since last year. No changein the family either. Both children aredoing well in school especially com-pared to their father. His aspiration ofbecoming a standup comedian re-mains unfulfilled to date although hesays he comes pretty close duringthe board meetings. He says: “Nowthat I am thinking, my employer hasnot given me any promotion sincethe last class notes appeared. Thesenotes are not taking me anywhere Itell you.” Shahzad Ali has two sonsfrom his second marriage Baqir andHashim who are 6 years and 4 yearsold respectively. His eldest son,Qasim, would have already taken hisO’levels by the time these notes getpublished and Zainab, the sweet-heart of the family, would havehopefully cleared 8th. On theachievement front, he quit smok-ing some four years back and hasnot inhaled even a single puff sincethen. He is working with Syed BhaisLighting Limited as its COO.

As for Nile & Sara Awan, Nile leftABN AMRO last year after 13 yearsand joined Noor Islamic Bank in

April, 2007, as Head of WholesaleCredit. He was involved in the settingup and launch of this new bank, achallenging and exciting experience.He has been recently promoted toChief Risk Officer. On the family front,Sara is enjoying being a house wifeand spending Nile’s hard earnedcash! Two kids - Saif who is 14,daughter Noor 13. Alliya Haider hasbeen a full-time (read 25-hour, no-break, no weekends) “home-maker”and mom for the past two years –here in Tampa, Florida where her hus-band’s been posted. Although it is adiplomatic position – you know withdiplomatic immunity an' all – there isno such thing as a ‘Lady of Leisure’that she had been dreaming aboutwhen she quit her job and cameaway to the USA. Son Ali, who’s justturned 16 will be completing his HighSchool this year (a year earlier be-cause of the tenure) and daughterAleezay, 11, is in Grade 7. They planto leave for Pakistan in a few monthsand there are a few interesting proj-ects that Alliya is looking at –andkeeping her fingers crossed (You mayhear about it soon).

Timour Pasha is very much single,work being his marriage... He covers6 countries and regularly visits thesecountries from his base in Cairo. Thejob is quite taxing. Citi is in the newseverywhere so no need to tell aboutthe organization. He hasn't been toPakistan for approx 14 yrs and usedto be based in Dubai for 13 of his 16yrs with Citi where he did attend

one of the LUMS reunionsand met Nile Rabbani (it’sas if time stood still).Hafeez Choudhry re-cently resigned fromABN AMRO Singa-pore and is in theprocess of movingto Jakarta to workfor a Temasekowned local bank.His golf handicap hasimproved to 16 andhe has an increasingly

religious perspective on most things -so you might say God and golf arenow the defining features of his life.He is encouraging children to take upthe same interests, and needless tosay, struggling on both fronts.

Khawer Khawaja moved to Riyadh,Saudi Arabia in Nov 2006 to join theSaudi British Bank (SABB). Currentlyhe is the "Head of Trade & SupplyChain" at SABB. Saadia Bukhari hada son, Emil Salahuddin, in September'07. She is still working with IBM'sPublic Sector practice in the Washing-ton DC area. In the presidential elec-tions she was rooting for HillaryClinton to help USA do what Pakistanand other "3rd world countries" havedone many times over, i.e. elect awoman to the premier's position!!!

MBA 1993

CoordinatorSarah [email protected]

I was asked to do this write up onlya day before the deadline, so my ad-vance apologies to those not men-tioned in detail, as I have littleinformation to go by. Asim andAmena with their daughter Zayna,are still in Karachi, with Asim still mov-ing between Lahore and Karachi.Farah and Shahid have moved intotheir new house in Karachi, withFarah teaching at Karachi GrammarSchool, and Shahid with TameerBank. Sadeed is with UBL in Karachiand settled down very well. ImranParacha and his family are verymuch in Karachi, and he is lookingyounger than ever. (Paracha, samecomment each year, but what to do)!A few months ago I bumped intoDr. Mansoor at Karachi Sunday Mar-ket and he looks just the same,andis working for a pharmaceuticalfirm. From him I learnt that Fatima

Class notesis living in London. Hasan Javed iscurrently in Karachi working for a bro-kerage firm. He has a daughter of 12and a son of 7. Taimur and NaveedChawla are also in Karachi, but I haveno news of them. Aali Shafi is withMCB in Karachi and has 3 daughters.

Osama is an associate law professorat LUMS, and is proceeding to pursuea PhD in law at Harvard Law School.He got married to Maryam Khanwho is also a faculty member atLUMS. Haseeb is still with Nestle inLahore. I think Yahya, Omar Khalid,Khaqan, and Salman Saleem arealso still in Lahore, but I have no newson their personal front.

On the international front, Memoshis still with Henkel, and has movedback to Saudia Arabia with his family.Ali Mehdi, Zulfi, Soofi are with Bar-clays Bank in Dubai. Ossi has joinedAl-Noor Islamic Bank in Dubai, whileAmir Basraa is in Qatar. Qamar isworking with HSBC in Oman as Headof Business Banking and happily eat-ing the cakes and pastries his wifeShumaila makes! According to lastknown sources, Naveed Asghar is inJeddah and Rauf in Dubai.

Ghulam Mujtaba is living in Singa-pore, and teaching at the SingaporeNational University, while FaisalAhmed and Ali Bajauri have madeCanada their homes. Ali works forOlivieri-Maple Leaf Foods as Head ofMarketing and Innovation. He has 2daughters ages 8 and 3. Faisal hastwo kids and is happy living andworking in Canada. Haider Ali finallygot married last year and from whatI know, is working in Jakarta. Fromlast known reports, Ahsan Latif isworking in London. AT and Ali arestill in Hong Kong with their threekids. Sadly, Amna lost her father thisyear. Moeen Khawaja has beenbased in London since 2005 andworking with JS Group in the privateequity fund side. Sabdezar is now aCFA and after having taught at Lon-don School of Business & Finance, is

starting her own financial trainingbusiness here. They have two sons,Zain and Saif.

As for Salman, myself and our kids,Mustafa, Zehra and Faiz, we are nowbased in Zambia, Africa. Salman isstill with Standard Chartered Bankwhile I am being the proverbialhousewife and writing book reviewsfor the DAWN.

MBA 1994

CoordinatorSalman [email protected]

It is so much fun trying to collect up-dates from the class mates many ofwhom love being out of the limelight,who says LUMS grads are just ashow! With so much happening theupdate’s first draft was outdated(jobs changed, children born, resi-dences changed etc. etc. etc.) evenbefore I had finished writing. Latesttrend seems to be to move out of La-hore and into the Middle East. Dubai& KSA now harbor more of our class-mates than Pakistan! So I start thisupdate wishing that everyone of uskeep enjoying the best of health, fam-ily, career and of course not to forget“wealth” in this prayer, as this is thesole motivator for you alumni as perDr Wasif !

Amer Naseem Chistie has his eyesfixed on enhancing profits on invest-ments for Al-Ghurair Group in Dubai.He now prefers Dubai to Lahore andtea to Arabic coffee. Abdul RahimButt works for Standard CharteredBank in Dubai and can be found in hisoffice 24/7, he’s slowly developinginto an international guru on ProjectFinance. Rahim is a frequent flyer onall flights leaving UAE but not head-ing back to UAE as he prefers return

travel by CNG rickshaw. Ali Mahoonbecame the latest addition to brain-drain numbers in Pakistan and cannow be found at Jeddah (Saudi Ara-bia) where he has joined Samba in itsRisk Management area. He is a caringfather to his kids (son Aahmed,daughters Dina & Danya) and a sup-porting husband to his wife who ison track to become a lawyer soon.Ali Nadir Syed & Gul Nigar shiftedto Dubai where Nadir joined Mille-nium Finance Corporation as its Direc-tor & Head of Industrials, he now hasa Porsche sans the driving license….any ‘sifarish’ available ? As for AmerKamal you will not see a more enter-prising businessman in Dubai who ismore set in his career, he smokes,drinks, eat and talks only Shell’s lubri-cants; he was recently asked to sellthese as well, a suggestion that he isseriously considering…………..

Atif Baig prefers noodles more thana ROTI after spending 11 years in thefar-east. He is with Deutsche Bank inSingapore, managing CRM, PortfolioManagement regional function; hasthree beautiful daughters, two ofwhom are twins. Atif still lovescricket but hates making runs. AwaisHassan has made history by break-ing all records of luring in depositorsfor Habib Bank AG Zurich in Dubai; itis so simple, he said in an interview, Itold them. “You better give my bank adeposit or I’ll have you all deportedfrom Dubai”. During holidays he canbe now seen less and less in Lahoreand more in Europe. He has two chil-dren, a daughter Mahnoor, 10 yrsand son Hasnain, 7 yrs. Azeem UllahKhanwas awarded ‘Human Traffickerof the Year’ award by the Canadiangovernment and remains in hiding inLondon from his classmates but notfrom his clientele. Azeem has onedaughter. Behram Limbuvallaenjoys life in Canada; a hard workerduring the day and a party animalby night who loves to crash wild par-ties. So if you ever land in Canadakeep your eyes open and send us an



Class notesupdate on his latest exploits!

Eiraj Saleh Daud recently shifted tojoin Engro Foods from his previousassignment at Supply Chain Div., Cokeat Lahore. He wants to fill up everystomach, every throat, every brain,every soul and all soul mates withEngro’s low fat milk. Faaiz Hassanand Amina Munir said bye to Lon-don and settled in Dubai. Faaizworks for HSBC as telecom specialist& Amna takes care of his stash of cellphones. Fuad Zufer outshined allGoras in his capacity as the TechnicalManager for Alcatel-Lucent and isbased in Kansas, USA. He’s the onlyengineer from our class who man-aged to stay an engineer! Fuad andhis wife have a daughter Insia, 12yrsand a son Foran, 5yrs. Haaris Zafaris now a Director at Royal Bank ofScotland in London. He drives theEuropean energy sector crazy byshort selling energy bonds and notselling call options.

Haider Rafiq who is said to be theonly reason behind the ever risingFMCG prices in Islamabad now ridesan S-series Mercedes; let’s see whathe does to the steel prices now.Hammad Hassan is now the FirstVice President & Head of Marketingat ABC Islamic Bank in Bahrain.Haris Ahmed finally changedhis bank but not himself!He is still the ever smil-ing friend who wel-comes you from thebottom of his heartwhenever you seehim. He now headsthe Northern corpo-rate region for theBarclays bank at La-hore. Haroon Khalid.The banker cum author isnow busy writing his 2ndbook in which he has promised to in-clude pictures for class of ’94. He &his wife have two sons and he worksfor Bank Alfalah as Head of Risk Man-agement in Karachi. At weekends heis in Abu Dhabi defending his busi-

ness decisions with his bank’s BOD.

Jayikar Vaidya as per last intelli-gence report was working on a CFGProject for ADB to strengthen the cor-porate governance in Kathmandu,Nepal. Mirza Hashim Baig is tillworking to establish his world orderand whatever time is left is given tohis responsibility at Abu Dhabi Com-mercial Bank to manage its real estateinvestments. Nauman Chughtai andSobia both can be found in Lahoreand are loving parents to two kids aboy (Saad) and a girl (Ayla). Naumanis now an EVP at MCB and Sobiaheads corporate marketing for thisregion at HBL. Nauman now carries aColt revolver that he recently broughtto tackle Talibans. For all your ordersfor bulk supply of lubricant oil pleasecontact Sajid Saeed who heads Ad-vanced Petroleum Services in Jeddahbut don’t expect any credit as hedeals only in ready cash! MumtazKazmi works for Credit Suisse atNew York and is accessible onlythrough email but with prior appoint-ment. He and his wife are parents ofa son Mekaael, 3 yrs and a daughterZahra, 7months.

Romana Malik is now the Directorfor Planning & Budgets at Dubai Pe-troleum in Dubai. Saira Hameedleads investor relations function atUBL’s head office in Karachi andalso manages to take care of adaughter Fariha, 12 and a sonMustafa, 7. Saira Shafi has ex-panded her furniture ware-house to 16,000 square feetarea in Karachi; 2008 exportperformance award is awaited!She has twin daughters (Sara &Sana) in addition to the charm-ing, 10 months old Alisha. SalmanQutb you can find at MCB at itsnew head office building in Lahore.

He says his batch mates are invitedto drop in for a visit whenever theyare in the city. Salman and wifeSaima have 3 lovely daughters Zehra,Zainab & Eleena. Shamon Chaudhryis proving to be a successful Invest-

ment Advisor at Boubyan Bank inKuwait and recently completed anew branch project in London city;he won praise from the bank’s BODbut told his boss, “no thanks I preferbonus”. Syed Ali Athar now HeadsCountry Distribution Operations atNestle and sits at Sheikhupura. If youdon’t find your favorite confectionaryin the stores then just blame him forit! Ali has a son Nasir, 4.5 yrs and adaughter Zujaja, 3 yrs.

Kashif Shah is at HBL as its Head ofInvestment Banking where he isknown for his persistence & insis-tence in getting his loans approved.Tahir Aziz is the Group Head, Cor-porate & Investment Banking atAskari Bank; in his spare time heteaches his two sons (Taimoor 9yrs &Nadir 7yrs) the art of wrestling.Usman Hassan, another EVP at MCBhas four kids -two girls and two sons.He has also taken up pistol shootingas a hobby and now his children arevery obedient. Doc Usman Bhatti isthe Head/Country Business ManagerNutrition at Nestle & now drives aheavy with vengeance, (no kidding)1930 model Honda-Shadow restoredby a Japanese collector. He has avery supporting wife and two verybright kids (grade 5 & grade 2). “No-body, nobody and nobody disagreewith me”, he said this as he thrashedhis colleagues with a bike chain.Usman Khalid got promoted as Con-troller Bill Collections for Agri-Servicesand then relocated to a new magnif-icent office building on Sarwar Rd.,Lahore. His love for his Peugeot carsis still alive and kicking. He consid-ered taking up watching TV as ahobby instead but gave it up as a TVdoesn’t whirrssssssssssss… YousafHussain is the Head of Global Trans-actions Services at Samba Bank LtdPakistan.

Those few who have managed tostay away from the lime light with nonews are Aamer Naseer, Ayesha,Lubna, Nabigha, Saman, Shazia,Ubaid, Uzma & Zahra.

Class notesMBA 1996

CoordinatorAli [email protected]

With support from Saira,Natasha, Inam, Tehmina, AliAlmakky, Omar Samee,Habib, Shoar, Tauseef, andour classmates’ Facebookprofiles.

It's not been easy tracking down all78 of our classmates, though quite afew are on Facebook – whereTehmina has done a great job by set-ting up a LUMS MBA 1996 group –please join it if you haven’t already!So, some of the ‘spice’ in this writeup is thanks to your own FB profiles.Careers wise, I note that our class isoverwhelmed with bankers, severalmarketers, a smattering of professors/ teachers / educationists, and an in-creasing number of consultants! Ac-cordingly, the class seems welldispersed across banking hubs suchas Dubai, London, NY, as well asKarachi, though there is a strong baseof non-bankers in Lahore.

London & UK

Nauman Amjad is putting downroots in London. He has just movedinto an apartment in St John's Woodalong with Nadia, and their 1 year oldson Zain. Nauman and Nadia bothgo to office in Canary Wharf, Naumanat Citigroup, while Nadia works nextdoors at HSBC. Naima, along withher husband Amin, their two sonsand baby daughter have settled intotheir new home in London's Hamp-stead Garden area. She is an expertnow in home renovation and youmay contact her for advice. AmmarAli Qureshi is working as a BusinessDevelopment Manager with CarbonResource Management (I think he will

help to save the planet!). His rela-tionship status is Single, and heseems like an active Facebook mem-ber (profile replete with books, writ-ers, and philosophers as well asentertainment, e.g. What Flavor AreYou?). Farheen M. Ahmad is also inLondon with her husband Shahzadand their two daughters (her FB pro-file will let you find out her favoriteyoga pose!). Omar Farooq workswith HSBC. Also in the UK we hearare: Faiza Farid, who had a babylast November, and remains very elu-sive and Umar Kitchlew who hasjust recently decided along with hiswife Henna and their two sons tomove on from Rawalpindi, and maketheir new home in the charming cityof Edinburgh.

NY, Rest of North America

New Yorkers at the center of the fi-nancial universe: I think we shouldgrill all of these guys about their rolein the sub prime mess: Sohail Khan(Structured Credit, Citigroup) has twokids, Raaid and Ahmer, and as per FBhas visited 101 cities in 23 countries.Ali Almakky (Strategy & Business De-velopment for Fixed Income, MerrillLynch) – can you believe he has morethan 300 friends on FB?! Zarina (Ali’saccomplice) is devoted to Aadam, 6and Alina, 5 and Ali (when he’shome). Nauman Muzaffar (CapitalStructure Advisory & Solutions, JP-Morgan) is now 2 years in NY, and isbringing up 3 children with his wife.Qumber Hassan is trading strategistcovering mortgage backed securities,Bank of America. His elder son isgoing to college next year, andyounger son sees the wisdom inbeing inspired somewhere other thanWall Street! Saleem Ahmad …Saleem Ahmad (460+ friends onFB!!!) who has been involved withprivate equity and a number of largeleveraged buyouts in his own words(very lightly edited) “very single, andenjoying life involved with a bunch ofPakistan related initiatives, primarilyof a socio-economic nature. Still

keenly interested in and involved in afew microfinance and literacy relatedprograms. Sponsoring a few kidsthrough high school here... dauntingbut gratifying. Actively participatewith a NYC/DC-based foreign rela-tions think tank. Also on executivecommittee of a US based organiza-tion focused on promoting entrepre-neurship amongst Americans ofPakistani descent. Love the art andtheater scene in NYC and the under-ground music establishments ...”

Abid Zaidi and his wife are bothworking with Microsoft, and settledin Seattle with their three children, in-cluding twins! Saadia Munir Ham-mad is settled in Atlanta, Georgia,where she is busy raising her threesons. Tehmina Shah is based inToronto, where she works in CIBC asa Business Intelligence manager! (Youcan find Khalil Gibran and JelaluddinRumi on her FB profile). KhurramBhutta is based in Athens, Ohio withhis 3 kids and is an Associate Profes-sor at Ohio University. Ajmal Saeedis in Sacramento, California workingfor a utility company. He has threekids (ages 11, 9, and 2). He mentionsthat Abid Baloch and Amir Khancame to visit this year and they wentto San Francisco and Lake Tahoe to-gether. Kashif Sarfraz till recently inLos Angeles, California, has just re-turned to Toronto, still working forJohnson & Johnson. He has four kidsnow, after the February 2008 addi-tion of twin girls. And from last year’supdate: Fawad Razzaque is happilymarried to Zara Khan and they have ason Momin, 7 years. They currentlylive in the Seattle area where he isworking as a Research Analyst at Rus-sell Investment Group (a globalleader in multi-manager investing).M. Aamir Khan almost managed todisappear, however we received alast minute update that he has beenin Houston for three years, nowworking for the Energy and Infrastruc-ture Advisory group with ABN(now RBS). Abid Baloch has alsobeen traced to the Washington D.C.



Class notesarea, where after some time withSprint in the Corp Finance/CapitalMarkets group he has recently joineda small tech company called Neustarin the Finance Strategy area. He sayshe has a very active 4 year old boy.Omar Sheikh is also in D.C., wherehe is working with Fannie Mae in therisk management area. And he has a3 year old.

Australia, Africa, Far East, SouthAmerica, Antarctica, etc.

Tehmasip Khan has been tracked inSydney where he is settled withAmna and their 3 year old sonMustafa. Johnny was also last heardfrom Brisbane, Australia, where helives with his wife and two sons.Johnny is in the financial consultancybusiness. Nasir Mian is treasurer ofCitibank in beautiful Uganda, wherehe is settled in Kampala for the last 3years along with Rana and their twochildren, Khadija and Ibrahim. Andwe believe Ayesha Ansari and She-hzad Altaf, together with their twodaughters Aiman and Amani are nowin Accra, Ghana! Shehzad works forFriesland Foods West Africa. Ayeshais a marketing consultant workingfrom home, and on FB you can findout about her many, many interests(including PSP and aspiring entrepre-neur!) Ahsan Masud, is in Singaporefor the last 2.5 years with Bayer Con-sumer Care, with two kids, Mustafa,7 and Abdullah, 2. We hear he stilllooks very young! K.H.K. Nishanthahas been located in Colombo, SriLanka, where he is Director Marketingof the largest stationery business inthe country. He is married with threedaughters aged from 5 to 11 years.And if you ever visit Shanghai, makesure you let Ning Rong know in ad-vance (check the LUMS Alumni direc-tory for contact info). She hasmoved on from corporate life, and isnow engaged in Business & HR Con-sulting (on the family front, Ning ismarried now; her husband runs hisown family business).

Dubai & Middle East

Omar Samee, Afshan, and their twolovely daughters Anushe and Mahelive in Dubai, where Omar switchedjobs over to HSBC last year in theirGlobal Banking group. Per his FB pro-file, Omar supports various goodCauses, and is “Interested in:Women”! Now there is an honestguy. Shoar Hassan has alsoswitched jobs; he is now with aFrench bank (BNP) in Dubai. When Itraced him, he was enjoying Paris!Shahab Fraz Mirza is also in Dubai,where he is Sales Director at ReckittBenckiser Middle East. In addition tohis twins, Shahab added a baby girl,Ayla, to his family recently. He shareswith us an interesting statement: “For-tunately, higher grades in class donot necessarily translate into moremoney in real life!!” – I think he’s in themoney (and didn’t have highergrades). Abdul Rahim Butt hasbeen several years with StandardChartered in Dubai, currently as Di-rector Project Finance. ImranChaudhry joined ABN in their FI area(and had a daughter last year - 4 chil-dren now). Faraz Yahya is in Dubaiwith ADCB and has three kids, twodaughters and a son not to mentionthe lovely wife Mariam. UsmanSaeed Khan, an old-timer in theU.A.E., has now spent 5 years slog-ging away at HSBC in CorporateBanking. Sajjad Leghari has alsomoved to Dubai recently, along withhis wife and four year old daughter,and is working with a companycalled Fonterra. Finally, FaisalBashir Gill … (FBG) has recentlyblessed all of the charming residentsof Dubai with his presence in theshining city.

Elsewhere in the Middle East,Usman Sikander is in Riyadh withone of the international banks there(Calyon / BSF) in corporate finance.Fouad Farrukh is believed to be stillin Bahrain, where he is the countrymanager with HBL. Tauseef Fa-rooqi, in his own words “has now

served another one year as Commer-cial Director with Japanese Group,Marubeni Corporation, in their AbuDhabi based Power and DesalinationPlant. My daughter, Laaibah, hasturned 3, and me and my wife Erumshall be celebrating our 13th wed-ding anniversary on 20 July this Year,with both of us getting one yearolder...........Yoga is the most interest-ing and exciting event in my life at themoment that I am learning as well asteaching (voluntarily).....................”.And Faraz Khan … (SDG) informs usthat he and Samina are living happilywith two kids Maair, 6 and Manal, 4.They are in transition, moving fromLondon to the Middle East.

Karachi

In addition to her own two sons(ages 8 & 6), Fatima Haider hasadopted 500+ children (in 3 schools,part of the Sindh government'sAdopt-a-School programme), andwelcomes support (please find heron Facebook). Ali Kazi is sloggingaway in his twelfth year at Citibank(he's currently working in the MarketRisk area). Saima Irtiza continues tolead The Princeton Review and hasadded another franchise 'Inlingua' inthe last year. On her FB page you cantry (just try) to challenge her to WhoHas the Biggest Brain, Scramble,Scrabulous, WordTwist, TextTwirl...good luck! Nadir Jafarey man-aged to fit in a couple of months inJordan for some intensive Arabic lan-guage training last year, and has alsoswitched jobs to Meezan Bank.Nadir and Sameen have three chil-dren now. On Nadir’s FB page, youwill find some really heavy stuff(books, religion, quotations). AwaisBin Nasim is presently based inKarachi and continues to play a pio-neering role in Pakistan's agribusinesssector. After learning all about dripirrigation from him, we eagerly awaitto know about his next foray into thisvibrant sector. Majid Munir joinedCredit Suisse last year with theirequity research business in Pakistan.

Class notesHe and Sara were blessed with ababy boy in the last year. Shirin iscurrently devoted full time to her hus-band and to her son, and is contem-plating what else she can do. Maybeshe'll enter the school business!Habib Haider has remained loyal toShell, and is in his twelfth year therelooking after Marketing & Sales.Habib has two sons now, Rayan, andthe new arrival Aliyan. Ayesha &Mansoor Nawaz are settled inKarachi with their two lovely kidsIbrahim, 8 and Ahmed, 6. After thesuccessful launch of Olpers milk,Mansoor is working on his next proj-ect at Engro. Ayesha, together withHuma, continues to mount the fash-ion frenzy draping all woman of Pak-istan with fabulous prints and battlingit out with the counterfeits.

Lahore – city of consultants, edu-cationists, textile men, and entre-preneurs

Inam ur Rehman is running his ownconsultancy and training company,and is also teaching at LUMS! He re-marks “Being my own boss meansthat I can give myself time off when-ever I feel like it”! Sohail Moghal isalso doing consultancy, with lots ofwork in the development sector (hiswork takes him to exotic locationsacross the country). Khurram Khan,father of 2 year old daughter Alee-sha, is deputy secretary to the cabi-net of the Punjab government!Shahzad Chaudhry has moved to La-hore, where he is Director Projects &Admin for Fatima Memorial Hospital.Saira Mian is running a school sys-tem, and is otherwise devoted to herhusband and their two children (sherecently had a baby boy -- congratu-lations Saira!!). Aqueela Mumtaz iscurrently involved in establishing acharity hospital near Mardan! Pleaseencourage and support Aqueela inthis wonderful endeavor (you canfind her on facebook). Saima Ranais teaching Marketing at BNU and atPakistan School of Fashion Design,and looking after her 3 boys

(youngest is 10 months old). Kiran isteaching A level students BusinessStudies at LCAS, and otherwise bring-ing up 2 kids. She is also moving toher own place in Defence soon.Huma Javed is the Lahore teammember of the Mausummery Lawnsuccess story. Dr. Farah continues tobuild up Route 2, with various im-ported healthcare brands in thismedium sized business in the phar-maceutical & nutraceutical industry.Dr. Farah says the consumer responseis very encouraging. One of herdaughters is in university in Canada,the second one on her way to univer-sity next September!! We hearUsman Javaid has been exception-ally successful at Nestle, where heheads their Media unit. He is also ex-pecting a second addition to the fam-ily! Usman informs us “I have one son,3 and a half year old and still onewife.” Hmmm. Babar Hamid is Di-rector, Signs Source Limited, thelargest out-of-home media solutionprovider in the country and the onlypublic limited company in Pakistan’sadvertising sector. Amir Saleem,early entrepreneur, is moving his com-pany Chimera into new directions be-yond mobile phone sets (relationshipstatus is “Married”, for those inter-ested). Aamir Amjad, (SVP & Headof Commercial Banking Lahore, HBL)is currently visiting Skardu to dosome landscape photography. Fromlast year’s update: Sulaiman Kayaniis in Lahore since the day of gradua-tion and still working in Nishat TextileMills as General Manager Marketing(weaving div.). He has two kidsTaimur, 9 and Aleena, 6. We hearKazim Nazir is also still in Lahore,and working in the textile sector.Saad Zahur Khan, lives in Lahorewith his wife and boys. His FB profileindicates his interest in some nobleand some interesting Causes, as wellas architecture. Mian Hassan Javedis married to Fatima, and they just cel-ebrated his daughter Hamna’s 3rdbirthday. He works with his father intheir foam business. Faaria Rehman(now blazing a trail of success as Re-

gional Corporate Head at UBL), in herown words: “Still single but happilycommitted. Constantly and passion-ately pursuing my passion i.e. travel-ing” She has an entertainment filledFB profile, which also tells us that shecurrently needs travel tips on Beijing.

Islamabad, Rawalpindi & Pe-shawar

In Islamabad, we have Natasha whois at MCB as SVP Regional Head Cor-porate Banking North. Apart fromwork she is also running a secondshift at home with hubby and twokids, Daryus, 8 and Duaa, 6. Shespent the summer break in the US,and was pretty excited about goingto Beijing to watch the opening of theOlympics! Atif Hasan has stuck itout with PTC, as their financial con-troller. Sadia, new to Islamabad inthe last year, is climbing the ladder atMobilink, where she is the DirectorMarketing. We hear she travelsaround the globe frequently and, iscurrently in Italy! She has a lovely 5year old son – Raamiz. After UmarKitchlew's desertion of Rawalpindi(see UK section), there are no MBA'96 representatives left in the city.And in Peshawar … we have the oneand only Sherbaz S. Jan (COO ofPepsi franchise for the NWFP), alongwith his two children, Mazdak andKashmala.

MBA 1998

CoordinatorFaraz KhalidStandard Chartered [email protected]

The first time I heard the word“broadband” was in the summer of98, when a make-shift rock troupecleared its way to the center stageat one of our farewell parties and



Class notesintroduced itself (hello everyone, weare called “broadband”). Usman andShahab had done a tremendous jobdiscovering this underground actfrom an abandoned café in libertymarket…. Wait a second, maybe theband was actually called “google”, Ican’t remember exactly. It was 10years ago. Fast forward to today, andhere’s how things stand at the mo-ment:

We start our notes with AhmedSalman, who resonated exactly mypoint of view when asked about hiswhereabouts, “What’s in the life of anMBA to write about?”, says Ahmed,adding, “Got a job, got married, hada kid, moved to Dubai, got a betterjob, had another kid, blah blah blah...” To be exact, Ahmed has deviatedfrom the script to quite an extent.First of all, he is still living in Lahore.Second, he left the job scene to starthis own software business “SigmaTecSolutions” seven years ago and is stillmanaging the same, and doing verywell. Ahmed is married to SobiaHaqqi who is also from MBA 98 (offcourse) and who is now also in-volved with this entrepreneurial ven-ture, developing “business processautomation software” for businessesthat need their processes automatedthrough software, I suppose.

There are more entrepreneurs fromour class than we think. And the num-ber is increasing as we speak.Ahmed Jahangir happens to be aveteran in this field, managing a vari-ety of businesses while living in La-hore. Ahmed is married and has fourkids. Ahmed Nawaz Tariq (the manwith broad sunshine smile and anability to merge psychology, philoso-phy and trigonometry in a single CP)has been missing from the scene fora very long time. Although I am quitesure (and I don’t know why), that hewould have joined a pressure groupsomewhere in Europe in the quest togive Pluto back its right to be called aplanet. Ahsan Sheikh whose nihariparties are stuff of the legend in La-

hore, is another bright entrepreneur,managing two businesses simultane-ously, a Telenor franchise and a TVratings com-pany, Media-l o g i c ,determinedto prove thehypothesisthat mediahas somelogic. Ahsanhas twosons.

Al Hani Khawaja is based inKarachi, married, and managing hisown business. And contrary to thepopular belief, Al Hani has not ap-peared on the cover of Forbes mag-azine, at least not yet. Amira Haroonas per last year’s class notes is settledin Dubai with her husband and a son(I copy pasted this update from lastyear’s notes, in the true spirit of anMBA. Sorry Amira, if this info is out-dated) Asim Qureshi who alongwith myself, created history by incor-porating statistical regression andconjoint analysis models in what wassupposed to be an Islamic Ethicspaper (and still got away with P+) isnow living in Saudi Arabia with onewife and three kids, working as Headof Product Development (Lease & Fi-nance) at National Commercial Bank.Asim Hussain who describes himselfas “pukka Lahori and an avid golfer” isworking with Cupola, responsible forKFC and other businesses in North ofPakistan. He is married, has threekids, and lives in Lahore (where heplays lots of golf)

Azim Abbas as per latest reliablesources is working with Bell Canadain Toronto as Associate Director. Hehas three kids. I remember one ofAzim’s CPs which started with an ar-gument about good governance….and which still hasn’t finished yet.Abdus Samad Goraya is workingwith Presson Descon in Lahore asHead of Business Development. Hehas two sons. Faisal Niaz is working

as a Director at Anipack Packaging In-dustries. He is married, has a son,and lives in Lahore. Dr. Faiz HAnsari is finalizing his researchon ancient Chinese medicine,oh no wait a second, Dr. Faiz’sresearch is actually just con-fined to Chinese proverbs(ancient nonetheless).He works with As-traZeneca Pharma-ceuticals in Dubai,

is married and hasthree daughters, two of them

cute little twins.

Fareed Ahmed maintains a brilliantblog, sharing with us his sharp, inci-sive and intelligent viewpoints onmanagement, technology, arts, music,culture and everything in between.You can view it at http://howmany-roads.blogspot.com/ Farid is mar-ried, has two kids, and is working asDirector Marketing Strategy at Mo-bilink. Faraz Khalid (that’s me), isnowhere to be found (and reportsfrom the wonderful state of oblivionthat it’s a pretty decent place to bein for a while). For the uninitiated(and anxious) he is currently headingcredit policy for unsecured lendingand credit cards businesses at Stan-dard Chartered Bank Pakistan. How-ever one word to describe Faraz isyet to be invented. Fawad Haider,as per latest reliable sources, is work-ing with Wateen Telecom and lives inLahore. Gunasengaran has twoclaims to fame in the vicinities of La-hore. One, no one can pronounce hisname correctly (and just saying Gunadoesn’t help either as it means some-thing else in Urdu) and two no oneknows where he lives and what hedoes. Guna, if you get a copy of thismagazine, please get in touch, as weall miss you. Hajra Buttar also miss-ing from the scene, as per last ac-counts is married and lives in Canada.

Hasham Ashraf somehow knew ex-actly when I was going to finally startworking on these class notes (i.e. 3months after the deadline). In his

Class notesemail he aptly explained, “Trying tofigure out what should go into theclass notes about myself is not soeasy”. Hasham is still living in UK, ismarried, and is working for a soft-ware company specializing in retailproduct life cycle management.Irfan Ahmed Khan is the Head of In-vestment Banking Group at FaisalBank. He is married and has a son.Being neighbors in Karachi, Irfan andI frequently meet once in six monthsto discuss weather changes. Irfan isalso a driving factor behind alumnievents in Karachi. Jalal Khalid is stillworking with Citibank Dubai, cur-rently on a six months assignment inNew York and Atlanta. If legends areto be believed, his assignment entailscoaching the New Yorkers how toplay volley ball correctly. KamilJamshed has recently moved to Emi-rates Islamic Bank in Dubai. He is mar-ried and has a daughter.

Mansoor H Siddiqui, even though inKarachi, is completely out of touchwith us mortal bankers, as he workswith State Bank of Pakistan and is in aprocess of perfecting his signaturesfor the future currency notes. Man-soor has a daughter. MohammadAkbar Moghal is heading eBanking(which is a form of banking designedfor people with lots of money and nodesire to talk to actual human beings)at Atlas Bank. Akbar lives in Karachiand got engaged recently. Moham-mad Kazim Mujtaba is working asDirector Marketing for the broad-band business unit at Mobilink. Andno, this broadband is not any rock ‘nroll band. At least this is what Kazimwould have you believe. Moham-mad Rizwan is managing his owntextile sourcing business in a wayonly he can manage (alpha multipliedby weighted average cost of capitalminus the leftover pie, is the exactformulae). He is based in Lahore andhas three daughters. NaumanKhawaja is managing TrusTex Enter-prises, his textile sourcing business inLahore. He is married and has a son.Nauman is an avid photographer as

well. Naureen Akbar as per last ac-counts which could be quite out-dated is living in UK working withHSBC and is married.

Omar Cheema is still with Ericsson,looking after marketing and strategyin Pakistan. He is based in Islamabad,is married and has two kids. Notmuch is known of Omar Tareen ex-cept that he left Microsoft to joinSAMBA financial group in the area ofcorporate finance and investmentbanking. Qazi Jibran works withHBL, is married and lives in Karachi.Rabiya Ali Panezai is living in Ire-land, is married and has two kids. Dr.Rizwan recently moved to Egypt asGroup Brand Manager - Nutrition Di-vision for Nestle North East AfricanRegion. He has two kids. Saad MKhan works with Mobilink as SeniorManager Sales Planning. He is basedin Lahore, is married, and has oneson and a little daughter who wasborn in June 08, just in time to ensurethat she makes it to the class notes.Saima Sandhu is working for Stan-dard Chartered Bank in CorporateBanking. She is married and based inAbu Dhabi.

Salman Danish has left PepsiCo tostart an “entrepreneurial venture”called Medialogic. Now before youget confused, please note that this isthe same MediaLogic which AhsanSheikh also boosts about as his own“entrepreneurial venture”. Both arebusiness partners in this project, onelooking after the ‘media’ while theother is taking care of the ‘logic’.Salman is married and has a kid.Salman Amjad is known with thetitle “Director, Treasury and CapitalMarkets” at Mashreq Bank Dubai. Heis married and has a kid. Salman Ish-tiaq is working with Abu Dhabi GasIndustries. The news from his side isthat he loves the peace and serenityof Abu Dhabi compared to the hassleand rushed up life of Dubai. He hastwo kids. Saman Jilani is working asa Director in Origination & Client Cov-erage heading Standard Chartered

Bank Global Corporates in Lahore.Saqib Karamat just completed hisMBA from Wharton and will beheaded to Dubai to start a consultingjob at Olever Wyman. Shafaq Javed(TP) has recently signed up with IGIfinancial services as Group HR head.She is married, lives in Karachi andhas two kids. Shahab Ashraf is theGeneral Manager at Strategic SystemsInternational in Lahore. He is marriedand has two daughters.

As far as these class notes are con-cerned, Shahzad Bashir is the offi-cial spokesperson of the Dubai / AbuDhabi crowd, as he helped me com-pile the info of all the people, andtheir brothers, sisters and aunts inDubai. Shahzad lives with his wifeand two kids in Dubai and (as he im-mediately points out) is not in Prop-erty Business. He works for BarclaysBank in Corporate Banking. SohailMirza has joined National Commer-cial Bank Saudi Arabia once againafter spending a year in BarclaysEgypt. He is currently heading Busi-ness Planning, Lease & Finance Divi-sion. Sohail is married and has twokids. Syed Abbas Raza Bukhari(Folkie) is still working in the samecompany that he joined 10 years ago.You may call it “old school”, but Folkieis enjoying his current role, that of aRegional CFO for Eastern Med Eu-rope at Maersk Logistics. He is mar-ried and lives in Italy, where GuinnessBook folks are keeping a close watchat his “time spent in a single organiza-tion” feat.

Syed Aon Mehdi can be found par-tying all night long on Dec 25 in truespirit and fervor. He had twins lastyear on Dec 25, a baby boy and agirl. Aon also reports enthusiastically,“I am still the same”. He works withPTCL. The whereabouts of SyedImran Gillani are not known to me.The last I heard was that he has takenup the world of academia as a fulltime resort and is a faculty memberof some university, somewhere inPakistan. Syed Zeeshan Shams is



Class noteswith P&G Canada (and that’s all Iknow about him right now) TariqRazi is heading unsecured financingat Dubai Islamic Bank, living in Dubai.3 kids, 2 houses, 1 wife, 1 Tariq, 2cars and 3 imaginary dogs… this com-pletes the equation of a true brandambassador for Dubai. TR (MBA 98)and Sherry (MBA 99) make one ofthe most hospitable and fun couplein the vicinities of UAE.

Tariq Zaman (TZ) is juggling aroundwith many professions. A textile em-broidery business (the usual) and arecently started organic dairy farmingproject (the unusual). As TZ puts it,“It’s still in the pilot stages but the re-sponse and the potential seem to bevery good”, while as his wife Uzmaexplains “He is the proud owner of100 buffaloes now…” TZ’s anothermajor profession is that of keeping usamused with his absolutely brilliantcollection of jokes, including the onethat uses 14 different terminologiesto describe a certain point of view.Umer Shami is out of touch withmany in the class, although I supposehe would be busy managing thenewspaper with true zeal and zest ofan upcoming media guru. UsmanRasul has started his own venture D-Foods Int. with a friend. From candyto frozen sea food and frozen potatosnacks, seven years of happily mar-ried life, one daughter, and as Usmanputs it, “it’s been ten years already”

Uzma Qaiser Butt is the head of HRat Nestle Pakistan. So, if Nestles’ nextannual general meeting happens tobe held in Zanzibar, you would knowwhy. Uzma is married to Tariq Zaman,and they live in Lahore. WaseemAhmed is managing his own busi-ness, Fairway Securities, in Lahore. Heis married and has two kids, onedaughter and a son. Yousuf Yaqubhas finally bid farewell to the city ofLahore to relocate to Abu Dhabi(where he is still referred to asJoseph Jackob). He has joined asHead of Sales at Standard CharteredBank, Abu Dhabi. He is married and

has a son.

In the end (and before anyone pointsit out) let me confess that I havemissed some people. I would haveliked to compensate for it by addingsome other people, but apparentlythe world doesn’t work that way.Whoever I have missed, I would liketo offer sincere apologies for notkeeping myself updated with theirwhereabouts. During the last ice age,class notes were the only way ofkeeping everyone informed and up-dated about each other. Luckily wenow have Facebook.

And finally, hope to see you all at the10 year reunion in Lahore, where, ifwe are lucky, we will be inviting“broadband” to play “the melody of100 buffaloes”. Take care everyone.

MBA 1999

CoordinatorTalal MahmudStandard Chartered [email protected]

Abdullah Jawaid just broke therecord of longest serving MBA 99erat Nestle after Ali Butt resigned. He isstill in Dubai as Project Manager incharge of setting up a new businessin the Middle East region, enjoyingDubai with all its pros and cons alongwith his wife Mariyam (also fromLUMS, BSc 2004/MSc 2005). AffanKhan is still stuck with a very dy-namic Telecom Industry (he at timesthinks on his choice of industry) andis in process of defining a long termcareer here (9 years is not reallylong). It would be ideal if he canachieve all his professional goals in Is-lamabad, as life outside this cityseems too cumbersome. There areplans to become an entrepreneur

eventually (related to Telecom ormaybe outside this domain). The onlyforeseeable problem is - a day hasonly 24 hours. Life, otherwise, is verygood. Going back home is one of thehappiest moments of his daily rou-tine. The time spent with the wife anddaughter at home is pure quality. Al-izeh occupies most of his time andshe almost daily amazes him withnew words and phrases.

Ahab Minhas is still living in Saudia,busy raising three kids and workingat Gulf International Bank as VicePresident of Corporate Finance.Looks like Ali Butt is going to loosethe race for ""the longest time in thefirst job"" to heavy weights like Ab-dullah Javaid, Mankani, Sheraz etc. ashe is going to leave Nestle after al-most 9 years. Ali Butt would like toleave before the kids who were inkindergarten at the time of his joiningNestle, sit for their O level exams. AliButt will be joining Givaudan, the fla-vors and fragrances company, asCFO for their Indonesian operations.Raiyan is now almost 5 years old andlooking forward to the arrival of hissibling in August. He is planning tofeed his sibling lots of Nido and puthim under the sun to make him growquickly to his own size so that theycan play together. Amer Khan left Te-lenor Pakistan in Nov 2007 andjoined Wateen Telecom in Lahore. Heis working as Manager Marketing atWateen and launched Wateen tele-com in December 07.

Anwaar Shami is now one of theveterans from LUMS MBA 99 to havestayed this long in the same organi-zation. He is working at Shell in aGlobal Marketing Assignment with re-sponsibilities covering India, Singa-pore, Malaysia, Indonesia andPakistan as one of the leads in Indi-rect Channel Development. Anwaaris looking forward to bumping intosomeone from the class on his fre-quent travel trips in Asia Pacific.Asad Mir is still in Dubai working fora telco and looking after the

Class notesReporting and Analytics function. Les-sons in SAM and QM came in handyfor this assignment. But no lessoncould prepare him for raising a beau-tiful daughter who is twice a bully asher much elder brothers and dad.Seems like another Aliya Lodhi of thefuture. Hehehehehehehe

Basit Amin is working in Telenor Pak-istan Ltd in Islamabad for the Supplyand Contracts Management of ICT (In-formation, Communications and Tech-nology) products and services inaddition to managing various miscel-laneous supply portfolios. When heis not working, he is either at homeplaying with his kids (Orva andBasara) or completing his passion oftravel ing/hik ing/backpacking/trekking anywhere within the countryor outside. His next backpack travelplan is to visit Amazon/Brazil/Peru orAustralia (Inshallah) so if anybody en-joys travelling on buses, sleeping onfloors/airports and eating only bis-cuits/drinking water during travelsplease contact him. Danayal Malikis still in the same old garment manu-facturing and export business...Cot-tonweb (Pvt.) Ltd,. He startedMedialogic (Pvt.) Ltd., a market re-search firm, along with a couple ofother friends from LUMS, last yearwhich by the grace of God is doingfine. This year he formed yet anotherteam of Luminites (from differentclasses) and the project is a textilebuying house by the name of Soft-wood...the idea is to provide onestop facility for the customers look-ing to buy Bed sheets, made ups, gar-ments and towels from Pakistan. Heis the proud father of two daughters,Nairah 6years and Eishaal 1 year....

Dhan Lal Shrestha is in Perth Aus-tralia associated with Promet Engi-neers Ltd. and has a 7 years olddaughter, Premajaa and 2.5 years oldson Sudhan. He and his wife Sumanare well settled in Australia. HaroonPanezai is still based in Ireland and isstill dabbling in the technology busi-ness after nearly 7 years. He is also

happily married to fellow Luminite Ra-biya and has a daughter, Zoha, andson, Yusha. Hasan Razak jumpedships and joined Pepsi Cola Interna-tional as Marketing Manager Bever-ages. Ijaz Ul Haq is working withInter State Gas System Islamabad. Hiscompany is trying to establish gas im-port projects to fill the demand sup-ply gap of natural gas in Pakistan. Onpersonal side his son Ali is 2 yearsold now and keeps him and his wifebusy all the time.

Khurram Butt is still living his""Groundhog Day"" in Saudi Arabia inthe same job, but at 2 years and 4months, tenure is fast approachinghis career-best of 2 yrs 6, and the""curse"" of the Rolling Stone may re-visit him soon. (Naah! no offers yet).Same wife, same kids! Super-stickycurse of the Mashriqui loyal husbandand doting father. Peer group analysisshows that he's still beating the aver-age, but that hasn't stopped himfrom ""peering"" at the peer group.Oh, and there are changes too. Collarsize has gone to 17.5 (he) and suitsbought only last year are beginningto protest (very violently) at their mal-treatment. Cruising speed (whenwifey forces him to join her for awalk) is down to 30 ft/min, anddoesn't look anything like cruising ORspeed, except when a member ofthe peer group whizzes past. BP andcholesterol are (finally) down towithin normal ranges. Both Nausher-wan and Jahanara are consistentlyscoring well in school, establishingconclusively that they haven't inher-ited their father's genes. All in all, lifeis good. M M Murad is still strugglingto convince himself on the futurecourse of action, as he has beenstruggling ever since his teenagetimes. The question still remains atlarge, whether to go after this materi-alistic world or prepare well for thelife hereafter? As you know trying toexcel at both will take you nowhere,which is exactly what’s happeningwith Murad. Anyhow, by the grace ofAllah he is married and blessed with

two beautiful children (he recentlybecame the proud father to a “toughlooking” son and already enjoying histime at home with his lovely daughterKhadijah) and managed to latch onto a decent post at a Telco in SriLanka (he works as a Senior ProductManager in Marketing). As you knowthe day to day life in Sri Lanka is get-ting a little more difficult than it was.This means probably a shift in ad-dress is in the cards.

Majid Jilani is still employed withsame I.T Company En Pointe sincelast 9 years and is living mostly in Is-lamabad and partially in Los Angeleswith wife Hinna and 2 month olddaughter Karima. Moazzam leftEngro after 8 years and is now work-ing with 3M Pakistan as sales managerTraffic Safety System positioned in La-hore. Naveen Khan is still in KobeJapan and after a 2.5 year stint withNestle there, is now the proudmother of a 7month old baby boy.She is a full time mom and housewifeand enjoying every minute of it (forthe time being). Though it soundsconventional, it is a fabulous life! shesays.Osman Majeed just completed3 years at Tetra Pak as Key Accountmanager. He is still responsible forHaleeb. He was blessed with a sec-ond daughter 'Khadija', the elder onebeing 22 months old. He is still strug-gling with loosing weight but on thewhole, having fun working and rais-ing the kids with his wife.

Rabia Ejaz is in Austin, Texas, gear-ing up for a long Texas summer; al-though she cannot complain. She iscurrently employed with Dell Inc inTexas as a Project Manager for theDell.com site. She loves her job andjuggles between housework, work,and her precious four year olddaughter Zara.

Rehan Akhtar is in Islamabad andlikes the city, specially its weatherand the pace which kind of suits him.He works for Telenor as Business andPostpaid Segment Manager. After



Class notesoffice hours are consumed by hecticactivities like chilling/snoozingand/or watching television, playingps3 and taking active interest in theworld's & country's politics. Occa-sional outdoor activities consist ofdesire to eat shop and exercise.... inthe same priority. He recently startedworking on a business plan that maylead to a business startup. SaadullahBashir recently completed thecourse requirements for a Masters inEconomics at University of Nevada,Las Vegas. He planned to finish hisMasters paper by July 2008 and thenoff for a Ph.D. in Economics fromClaremont Graduate University, Cali-fornia. Saima Khalid is playing momto her two lovely kids, 4-year oldShahmeer and 2-year old Rania. Shehad finally grown to appreciate thebeauty and pace of Islamabad andthe joy of raising kids in this city buthusband decided to move to HongKong. She is currently totally ad-dicted to the freedom and satisfac-tion that comes with being a full timemom and a housewife. Sheraz Khanhas recently moved to Hong Kong asthe Regional Brand Manager for PallMall, Gold Leaf and Viceroy for theAsia Pacific Region. He continues tobe fascinated by the joys of raisingShahmeer and Rania with his won-derful wife, Saima.

Shyam Chokhani is involved with hisbusiness of international tradingbased in Nepal. Besides work, his 1year old daughter Sanskriti occupiesmost of his time. About Talal Mah-mud & Sophia Talal, when Talaljoined in 2002 he never thought hewould be with Standard Charteredfor more then a couple of years - itturns out its nearly been 6 years - lastfour of them in UAE. On the profes-sional front things are great – he stillhandles the Business Planning & Strat-egy for the Corporate Banking in UAEand is now also handling the samerole for the GCC countries. Sehr isnow 7 and more talkative then her fa-ther while Omar though a couple ofnotches sober, is a 5 year old brat.

On the spiritual front he got the op-portunity to perform Hajj last year. Hevowed at the start of this year to beout of banking by the time he is 40and pursue his true love - teaching.So it’s a 7 year plan. Sophia is enjoy-ing her permanent sabbatical fromwork and jetting between Lahore andDubai four times a year effectivelybeing in Pakistan 3 months in a year.She keeps reminding Talal that hepromised to move back to Pakistanby 2009, though the reminders havebecome less frequent under the cur-rent political and economic situationback home.

Waqas Khan is living in Denver, Col-orado with his wife Saadia anddaughters; Palvasha, 5 and Zermina,2. He is still working for Qwest com-munications in Corporate Strategyand M&A, just passed the 5 yearmark and was getting ready to hosthis extended family for summer 2008.Zeynab Anwaar has recently startedworking part time at ENI (a headhunter) as their senior consultantafter a loooong four year break. So ifany one is thinking of switching jobsthen you know who to call!! Anwaarand Zeynab have two kids, a boy(Zawaar aged 3.5yrs) and a girl(Mishaal aged 1.1yrs). Now that thekids are both going to school, it’s agreat opportunity for Zeynab to startwork again. Zubair broke his own in-dividual record of serving longesttenure in one company – he will com-plete 4 years of working with Citi-group in Nov 08InshaAllah, basedout of Dubai foralmost a yearnow and lookingafter Product &Portfolio of Cit-bank Cards inUAE. Ummaraand he wereawaiting the ar-rival of theirfirst child in Au-gust this year.

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CoordinatorSyed Aon RazaSaudi British Bank (HSBC)[email protected]

Maryam Afnan and Zaman Mehdiare in Beijing. Maryam freelanced inLahore the past year and is nowlearning Chinese and varied trainingcourses. Their daughter Hafsah is 5and son Swaleh is 1 year old. Sheplans to stay in China for the next 3years. Arif and Sabrina are in Islam-abad. Arif is with Telenor and Sab-rina is busy looking after theirdaughter Manahil who is almost 2years old. Adnan Nusrat is also in Is-lamabad, still with Ufone while livingat Wah. Lala of the class CaptainUsman Answer is also with Telenorand moved to Faisalabad. Usmanand Irum have 3 children. His eldestson Afnan is 5 years old, daughterEshal 2 and the latest addition is 6months old Zahra.

Sarmad Khan is in Peshawar work-ing with SMEDA. His wife Ayesha isgoing to start her clinic soon. Theyhave two daughters, Malaika is now 5years old and studying in Class 1; theyounger one Rameen Maryam is 3years old andand having a nice timeat home.Wasim Ahmed has recentlyjoined Mobilink and shifted to Islam-abad. Tahir Abbassi is with IGI in La-hore for more than a year now.Rahim Anwar is with Engro Asahi inLahore. Irfan Ahmad & Amara arein Lahore. Irfan can not resist thetaste studies at Mayfair and that’s aperfect reason for adding moreweight on top of extra weight.SoniaKarim & Nauman Khawaja are inLahore and have been blessed with ason Taimoor Khawaja who is 1 yearold. She herself could not believe sheis still at Nishat Chunian. Wedid not get an opportunity to verify

Class notesand hence are reproducing her reply,"…and I am not a dominating wife -ask Nauman".

Tariq Korejo and Pirah Tariq wereblessed with son Muhammad OwaisKorejo last year who is over 1 yearnow. Tariq is Trade Product Managerwith Citibank Pakistan. His biggest ex-citement in life is his son. Syed Omerand Zubair Khan are at PTC Islam-abad having a nice time smoking to-gether. Somer can not keep track ofyou on face book and requests a per-sonal mail each time any one of youtravel for a training course, be it inChicawatni. Somer has a 3 old daugh-ter and 1 year old son. Junaid Par-waz, Mrs. JP and JP Junior (Abbas)are in Sheikhupura. JP is with Shelland continues to change more Simsthan shirts. Shehzad might be theonly person who knows which SIMhe is carrying at which hour of agiven day. Shehzad is also at Shell inLahore. He and Sana Shehzad are en-joying life taking care of son Abdullahand daughter Shanzay.

Couple with our best wishes i.e.Aameir AliHussain and Sabeen arein Bangladesh. They have been re-cently blessed with a son namedAbbas. Their daughter Zenab is 5years old now. Aamier is catching upfast with Mittal steels and they haveour prayers again. Maria Akmal iscompleting her MBA at University ofChicago Graduate School of Businessand will summer with Boston Consult-ing Group in New York. Samia Beg& Kamran Rizvi are in Vancouver forover 4 years now. Samia works forBank of Montreal. They have a sonOmar. Samia remains extremely hos-pitable and looks forward to meetingany one visiting that part of theworld. After spending half a decadewith Citi Pakistan, Afzal Malik hasbeen transferred to Citi UAE and isthe card portfolio manager. He hasone wife and two kids though hewould like to have this in reverseorder. He thinks everything changedsince last pools except the unani-

mous prediction aboutZZ...............last time he was seen inDubai with his parents................Speaking of ZZ (Sikander Zulqar-nain), we managed to get a copy ofZZ's CV floating loosely on the weband for those who were part of theDean's list or CR list, please be in-formed that a new lists also existswhich is called " top 15 % of the classin the MBA program". All Karachietsbe aware that ZZ had a share in pri-vatization of Karachi Electric SupplyCorporation so he is the man you allwere looking for!

Usman Rouf is in Abu Dhabi and hasnothing exciting in his life. Usmanlives quite a usual life; however, he isalways afraid of Ahsan Hammad forunknown reasons. Ahsan Hammad isalso in Abu Dhabi, happily marriedand no longer a perceived Villain (henever was, this was just the fault withJohari Window). Faisal Bukhari isexcited to buy a villa in Abu Dhabi.Since he lost most of the bonus instock market, HSBC is happy to offerpaid incentive vacations for family.On a serious note, he is doing good.Zahid Ul Islam & Shumaya Shireenare in Abu Dhabi too. Their 2 daugh-ters Alana and Aliza are 2 years and2 months old respectively. Zahid isworking with ADCB and at homebusy with the family. Zahid got a 2ndlife ever since Saima Sindu's husbandfound out last year class notes. PoorZahid received death threats andgestures of assault, nevertheless, in-vented the idea of seondlife.comwhich has become a big success. Wewould also like to take this opportu-nity to clarify that Saima Sindu had nohand in bringing her husband toUAE. Mr. Sindu made this move at hisown abilities and is happy now. Asfar Zahid, we support him in launch-ing thirdlife.com!

Ayla Majid wins the most eligiblebachelor of the year award for 2008.She is heading her Stock Brokerageand Financial Advisory business in Is-lamabad by the name CAMCO (Pvt)

Limited. She completed ACCA in year2006 and is now pursuing law (Uni-versity College of London) andICAEW Qualification. Yasser Effendi& Amna Yasser are in Karachi, Yasseris still with Shell and is regional man-ager south for B2B lubricants. Theyhave been blessed with Amaan (son)last year who is almost 1 year oldnow. Arshina Khan & Dr. ZarrarAshraf are in Newcastle, England.Arshina is account manager with Bar-clays Corporate Banking. SadiaAzam and Waqas (Class of 99) are inDenver, Colorado. They have twodaughters named Zermina and Pal-vasha.

Speaking of our classmates in SaudiArabia, Kamran Mansoor is in Jed-dah working with General Motors.Kamran's daughter Zoya is 5 and sonSalaar is 2 years old now. MoeezKhan moved to Arab National Banklast year and is enjoying a work lifebalance. Moeez and Zunaira are alsobusy looking after their son Mustafawho is 3 years old. Omair Ahmedwas also in Riyadh, but has movedfor a short while to Dubai. He is coun-try manager, Henkel Home Care SaudiArabia. He has two lovely daughters.Finally about myself (Aon Raza), I leftCiti and moved to Riyadh, joiningSaudi British Bank (HSBC) mid 2007.Madiha and I are extremely busy andexcited taking care of our daughterAmmal who is 5 and our sons Afnan& Hassaan who are 3 and 2 years oldrespectively.

MBA 2001

CoordinatorFaisal WahabWorld Wide Trade [email protected]

Aamir Sagheer was last heard to beworking at ICI. Aaminah Saeed islooking after Coke in Pakistan. As she

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Class notessays "still at Coke, still single, stillhappy" Salman Amjad is still withNestle, making big inroads. He ismanaging the CSD department, entic-ing customers to buy more. AliAbbas moved to Dubai and is look-ing after Nestle Waters there. JavedIqbal likes the Milk Industry muchbetter than any other. He is handlingmarketing at Engro Foods. ImmadMalik last heard, was at Nestle,working as RSM Lahore. FaisalWahab after taking a flavor of the fi-nancial markets, is still working on hisown business, dealing in pharmaceu-tical raw materials, cosmetics and toi-letries. Faisal Wasey, a banker atheart, is sticking to Dubai Islamic.Naveed Chowdhry is attached withMedipak. Naveed is working hard toimprove the state of the Pakistanipeople with his medicine. Amer Fa-rooq is at MCB looking after the loanadvancements department. RabiaBasri is contributing to the GDP byraising good children. Rabia Fidaafter working for UBL Fund Managersfor sometime, is at home. As forKhalid Abdullah, Canada's very faraway, so we've lost touch with him.

After a long period of devotion,Raza Moin finally moved to Mo-bilink. He is currently looking after theCustomer Retention there. AbdulMalik the Prince of Hunza is rumoredto have fallen in love with New York.He is attempting to get back there.Umair Mohsin, the die-hard telecomguy is at Telenor, working on new ini-tiatives as the Manager for ValueAdded Services. Usman Khalid Butt(MUK Butt) is now in London withStandard Chartered as Associate Di-rector. Way to go, MUK!! Tahir Ejaz iswith HBL as Manager Corporate Serv-ices.

Ali Zayad is in an interesting twist,he left the textile sector, causing itsmajor downfall, and opted for bank-ing. He's looking after agri productsat Standard Chartered. Saad Ali re-ceived his 3rd Lux Style Award. Saadis busy expanding the realm of Karma

- in Pakistan and abroad. Fraz Per-vaiz is working as the Sales Adminis-tration Manager for Nestle. He ismaking sure Pakistanis get their fairsupply of milk and water. Arif Razais in line with the plan to dominatethe Arab Market; Arif moved toEgypt and is working for Barclaysthere. Ali Murtaza last heard, wassticking to Citibank. Samia Shah-nawaz and Hassan just moved toDubai, Hassan still with ReckittBenckiser, and Samia with Citigroup.Asad Saleem finally made his movefrom PICIC, joining Atlas InvestmentBank Asad Aman last heard, movedto England to pursue his education.Yasser Qayum is handling HR forSave the Children in Islamabad

Nadeem Chawhan is doing exactlywhat he used to in class. Only thistime he's getting paid for it and is get-ting to do TV shows of exactly that.Last heard he had grown to being aDirector at Navitus Consulting and isdoing well. Kashif Raza Bukhari(KRB) is sticking to Standard Char-tered and is based in the Head Of-fice at Lahore. Mustansir Saleem isbased in Karachi and is heading mar-keting for IFFCO. Naeem Bajwa isanother entrepreneur; he started offhis Supply Chain consultancy busi-ness and is doing great, shuttling be-tween Karachi and Lahore very often.Ahmed Salman is sticking toUnilever; Ahmed is still looking aftertheir Supply Chain. Salman Altaf,after spending sometime at Nestlelooking after the culinary business,just moved to Telenor. Saira Khan,after a long association with Unilever,finally moved. She's gone to BP look-ing after their HR and trainings.

Waqas Javed half a sheikh now, isstill at Unilever in Dubai. As forFarhan Ahmed Khan, NO, Farhan isNOT at Henkel, he never was.Omayer Arshad moved from Pak-istan to Dubai as Director Sales forDAMAC properties. Ayesha Akmalis still working at Shell in Karachi. Wepray her father gets well soon.

Shehryar Ali (Sherri) is keeping theIslamabad team intact. A true finan-cial sector person, Sherri is doingwell. Asghar Hayat Khan is in Islam-abad working for BHP Billton. JaudatAmin is in his 3rd year at Bayer nowand is working as the Country Headfor Consumer Care in Pakistan. Havingbeen blessed with a son Esmaeel inMarch hasn't reduced his travelling atall. He's also done a teaching stint atSZABIST. There is no news on Ghaz-anfar. Ghaz, if you're reading this,please let us know. If you aren't,please let us know too.

Usman Bajwa is heading the treas-ury for Mobilink, Usman's very happywith work, play and play. Not neces-sarily in that order. Usman Maqboolshifted back to Pakistan and nowworks for Intel. I am sorry I can't putdown the explanation he gave of hisjob, as it went completely over myhead…. I'll try to get him to write itnext year. Earnest & Young in Bahrainis something that Azam Haq seemsto have fallen in love with. He's oftenseen holding the horns of a big metal-lic bull. (Check his facebook pic).Khurram Sarfraz looks after theNorth region for PepsiCo snacks (In-cluding Lays). Arshia Hassan ishappy in Switzerland and living agreat life. Faisal Saif is still sticking toBAT, Faisal's grown closest to UsmanBajwa. Ahmed Umair is expandinghis venture, RL Enterprises, which hasgrown all across Pakistan. Let’s seewhat's next. Good luck, Umair!!

Mariam Zubair Khan having beenrecently promoted to the MarketingDirector for PepsiCo is fast on herway to the top. Wishing her moreluck! Aqeel Hayat is working forAskari Bank, recently having had HRassigned to him too. Shafiq-ul-Islamis working for Bangla Telecom andwishes to extend everyone an invita-tion to visit him. Shahzad Nazirmoved to Saudi Arabia. You can getin touch with him through Ali Zayad.

Class notesMBA 2002CoordinatorsFuad Saqib [email protected]&Nazish [email protected]

The alumni office had sent an emailsetting July 29th as the deadline tosubmit these class notes but lazy thatwe are, no one had worked on themtill the end of August. So to beginwith, a special thanks to Amna Ar-shad and others at the alumni officefor somehow managing to have thisprinted despite the fact that thisnewsletter had gone into the designphase when we submitted theseclass notes.

Nonetheless, it’s been great getting intouch with the crowd and finding outwhat everyone’s been up to. Al-though we had a little less than 3days to put this together, we’ve man-aged to contact everyone in thebatch and due credit must be givento facebook in this regard. Despite sixyears having elapsed, it feels great toknow that we’re just a click awayfrom each other and all it takes toconnect is a single ‘post on the wall’,sms, or email.

MBA 2002….Six Years on...Read on tofind out where everyone hasreached!!

Beginning with the noble and thewise – those who have gone the aca-demia route: Farhan Iqbal who wasdoing extremely well at Nestle left topursue another MBA from MelbourneUniversity. Hasan Rauf is writing hisPhD at the University of North Car-olina. A recent addition to Hasan andShella's life is their adorable daughterIbadat. Maria is in her second yearof PhD and likes Norman which is a

nice university town. She says Okla-homa is great. Nice people, no roadrage, always smiling at strangers, verycourteous. Earlier this year she wentto Disney Land in Anaheim, some-thing she had longed for. Saim isnow a 2nd year PhD Marketing stu-dent at UT Austin specializing in Mar-keting Strategy, married with adaughter who is 2 and a half. He islooking forward to entering academiaas a researcher and Professor of Mar-keting once he is done with his stud-ies. Faiza is pursuing furthereducation in Sydney. She too wasblessed with a daughter this year andnamed her Anousheh. Maleeha hasrecently relocated to the bay area,California and loves it there!! She ispursuing project management fromUC Berkeley and plans to work fromhome for a couple of years to spendmore time with family

To the Saudi clan - Runaas continuesto work with P&G, currently lookingafter Pantene for the Arabian Penin-sula region. On a personal front, heis super happily married and having ablast in life. He is also perfecting hisharmonium skills and heavily im-mersed in Sufi Music. Vision is to playat a darbar in interior Punjab in a fewyears time. Speaking of vision, he re-mains committed to his plans ofdoing a PhD and coming back toteach at LUMS. Alina, proud mom ofIbrahim (4) and Fatima (1.5) is work-ing as a freelance consultant in Jed-dah and plans to pursue furtherstudies very soon. Asif is working foran investment bank in Riyadh. He re-cently got married to Sana, anotherLUMS alumnus from BSc 2005. Gaug-ing from facebook, it is evident thatthey have returned from a honey-moon in Europe. Numan is in Jeddahsince March 2008 working as theBrand Manager of Rabea Tea which isthe 2nd biggest player in Saudi Ara-bia. He is happily married to Amnawith three lovely Kids Minahil, Tahaand Mahonoor. He extends a warminvitation to all classmates to performUmrah/Hajj and stay with him in Jed-

dah. Adnan is also living in the samecompound as Asif in Riyadh, alsoworking for an investment bank.

Moving on to the bustling city ofDubai - Hina is now the Business Part-ner Human Capital at the MillenniumFinance Corporation. Umer Waheedis working for Safola in a trade mar-keting role which encompasses theMiddle East and North Africa. He andwife Noreen were gifted with a babygirl early this year. M Umer is workingwith a bank happily settled with hiswife and three children. SaaraHafeez is working as a relationshipmanager in Abu Dhabi CommercialBank. She has a son named Ayaan -truly a super mom who manages tobe both a successful banker and aloving mother. Assuming that thingshaven’t changed at his end since lastyear’s class notes, Haris is workingwith Millennium capital while his wifeis with Standard Chartered. Thoughbased in Karachi but working for thecarrier that takes most people toDubai, Samira is heading the HumanResource Department at Emirates air-lines. While she is at work or flyingacross the globe, little Sulaiman en-joys all the attention of his grand-mother.

Our Entrepreneurs – the Business Ty-coons of tomorrow – Usman Khalidis running his own talent managementcompany called 'aspire' ever since heresigned from Standard CharteredBank last November. His aim is to re-build the health and fitness platformin Pakistan to the next level. He is alsoworking with Navitus as one of theirtraining consultants. Usman andSobia are currently expecting theirfirst child in a few weeks. FaisalShafi is the director of Shafi Texceland is living in Lahore with wifeAyesha and two beautiful daughtersZara and Inaya. Sanaullah is lookingafter textile exports and commoditytrading businesses at Siddiqsons In-dustries. Life for him is great withsons Ali, Rayyan and wife Beenish.Imran Shah who has finally come



Class notesout of his hiding is running his schoolin Peshawar. He explains his vanish-ing act by saying that he was shut-tling between the UK and Pakistanwhile his wife was studying to be aBarrister-at-law. Now they are settledin Peshawar and have a son Zarak.Nahid is running his own softwarecompany in Dhaka by the name ofValue PLUS Computer Systems. Re-cently he was blessed with a babygirl. Nazish and Ilyas are in Lahorewith their two children Mahum andSaad. Ilyas spends his day educatingthe children of this great nation at hisfamily school while catering to theadults through his Arabian Delights.Nazish has taken a break from workand is busy with Mahum’s schoolingand running after Saad. HasanShahid is heading his own businessconcern Western Traders.

The Dwellers of Lovely & Green Islam-abad - Shermeen recently left Lahoreand moved to the capital city towork for a regional power companycalled Creative Energy Resources.She claims to have adopted thegreen city, and is looking forward toa lot of hiking this winter. Ali Ikram isthe Head of Value Added Services atUfone. His wife Salima recently quither job to be able to give more atten-tion to their son Alman, who willsoon turn 4. Across the block fromAli Ikram is Taimur who is working atTelenor as product manager for ValueAdded Services. He recently quitbeing an eligible bachelor and tiedthe knot this March. Husan Bano, isknown to be somewhere in this citybut we request her to come out ofhibernation now.

Our Asian Fraternity – Surya leftNepal last year to settle in the US. Heis working for an NGO and travelsthe continents since many of his proj-ects are in Jordan and Malaysia. Hehas an 8 month old son. Rahish isworking with the Japanese Consulatein Katmandu. Binod is also workingin Katmandu for a US based com-pany called Winrock International. He

coordinates the technical supportbeing provided to a developmentbank dedicated to finance clean en-ergy projects. Shuvas is the head ofthe credit department at the Hi-malaya Bank in Katmandu. Gao Danwas last heard to have taken a breakfrom her work in Nestle China to havea baby. If anyone has information onMuzahid, please update us for thepurpose of next year’s class notes.

Further International Links – Amin, theever so popular Piracha is working inColombo as the Planning & InsightsManager at Ceylon Tobacco Com-pany. He married Madeeha earlierthis year, a wedding that will be re-membered by those who attended.Makhmoor's claim to fame is that heis the only bachelor remaining inMBA 2002. He is working as a globalmarkets dealer at the Shell headquar-ters in London. His second claim tofame is that he has stuck to a singlecompany since he graduated. Practic-ing putting people to sleep, ourMBA-turned-anesthetist Almas livesin the UK. She has been in hiding eversince we graduated though she man-ages to visit Lahore once or twiceevery year but stays home most ofthat time. Moazam has taken a pas-sion for culinary and is employed inLondon by Unilever as a global branddevelopment manager for Knorrmealmakers. Saara Salim is keptbusy looking after baby Ibrahim whowas born last year. Mahwash, orMawa, as we commonly know her, isbased in New York. While her hus-band is busy with work, she looksafter her two kids Hareem and Hadin.Sabeen has recently completed herCPA. In addition to taking care of herhubby, she is working in Houstonwith a firm that specializes in tax.Fizza is still based in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, married and unemployed,and looking gorgeous in her face-book photos.

And finally back to where it all began– Lahore -- Attique is working as aSenior Relationship Manager in Royal

Bank of Scotland (formerly ABNAMRO Bank) in the Commercial Bank-ing Department. This is his 4th jobsince beginning his banking career in2002. He has a lovely daughter, ImanAtique, who is 1 year and 4 monthsold. Abbas is into his 3rd year atCoke and hence three years haveelapsed since he moved back to La-hore. He is married with a lovely wife,had a son in April this year who henamed Wasay. Recently he got pro-moted and now is senior brand man-ager for flavored sparklingbeverages. Fawad Ikram, being trueto his Lahori instincts couldn't bearthe Karachi life any longer and hasquit ICI to join Standard Chartered.He is a regional head based at theMain Boulevard branch. For thosewho are facing parking problemswhen driving through that part of thecity - pay him a visit and his valet willsolve your problem. Fuad Saqibseems to like it at Nestle. After havingspent time in a trade marketing role inNestlé’s Dairy business, he has takenon a new assignment as brand man-ager Baby Food. He is making hisevenings more useful by teachingGMAT classes at the Princeton Re-view. Faisal Sabir is Senior ManagerPerformance assessment & Reportingat Waridtel. Asim is in Nestle workingas the National Field Operations Man-ager in the nutrition division. Hespends most of his time with his teamvisiting doctors and hospitals acrossPakistan. Usman Waheed, part ofthe little group that has remainedloyal to Nestle, has further climbedthe corporate ladder taking on therole of Group Brand Manager Chil-dren Nutrition. His wife Satia is study-ing for her advanced medicalexaminations while daughter Reemwill soon be joining school. Nadiahas relocated back to Lahore afterher husband Omer left Shell andmoved to Pepsi. Her daughter, Lyla,who has become a complete replicaof her mother is studying in LGS.Nadia and Omer have recently hadtheir second child Sofiya. After al-most a year of sedentary life she’s

Class noteslooking forward to getting back to anactive corporate lifestyle. Kamran isworking at Standard Chartered Bankin Lahore. He now has 3 children.Major Nabeel is the director andCEO of Descon OxyChem Limited.Haider, believe it or not, has movedinto HR and is heading recruitment atEngro. Family status is still the same,two boys. His wife Amna works forThe Daily News and has been put ona diet by Haider! Khusrau Nadir isbased in Karachi where he recentlybought a house. He is the seniorbrand development advisor in Engro.Khusrau is happily married to Salmaand they have three children, Minahil,Mahnoor and Wassay.

That’s all for this year. Take care andstay in touch!!

MBA 2003

CoordinatorsAtia [email protected]&Safi MalikCiti [email protected]

Amidst much reprimand from NofiChacha and SP Sahib for unnecessarydelay to this extremely important an-nual activity, I finally sit in darkness(‘geo’ load shedding!) at around mid-night in front of my notebook facingall of Safi’s hard work; he painfully fol-lowed my instructions and providedme with all the necessary details tocompile this and so here goes: thecouple, Aby (Aabdara) and Omerwho appear more in love each time Imeet them, welcomed their secondbaby and first son, Mustafa into theirhappy home this year. Aby continuesto be a devoted wife, a dotingmother and a gracious host to allthose that visit her in Islamabad.

The ever committed banker, Saficompleted his five years with CitiBank and got promoted to an AVPand also moved cities; he now re-sides in my once upon a timeadopted city of Islamabad with hisdentist wife Rabia. On the other handhis Colleague, Danial, who has beena part of Citi Bank Corporate Bankingfor a while now, in Islamabad, is mov-ing back to his hometown Lahore;Danial will also be shifting residencefrom his Cavalry home of many yearsto Defence. Happy living Danny.

The previous year saw professionalmoves outside of Pakistan mainly toDubai and Saudi Arabia; Ali Sultanaccepted the position of Sales Strat-egy Manager with Standard Char-tered Bank, Dubai and moved therewith his wife and son, Zaighum. Theever energetic and sporty Saqib orrather Captain Sahib also shifted toDubai as Head of Retail Credit for Al-Hilal Bank along with his wife and histwo delightful children, Fariel andHamza. He and Ali Sultan have be-come passionate golfers and golf-partners as is evident from theirrecent facebook pictures. Jaffartoo is thriving in the banking industryof Dubai at a managerial positionwith Mashreq Bank. He has beenthere for close to a year now and en-joys, along side the bliss of marriage:his lovely daughter Natalia. Anotheraddition to the ’03 family in Dubai hasbeen that of Nauman (Nomy formany); he remains an avid bankingperson to date. He left StandardChartered for Barclays and is workingthere as Policy Manager for Business& Personal Loans. He and his wifealso became first time proud parentsof a healthy baby boy, Usman, who isa few weeks old as of now.

Furthermore, Yasser Humayun bidadieu to life in Lahore, Pakistan for alucrative banking position with SaudiFranci in Riyadh. I still remember thesumptuous and tasty dinners heoften organized at his Defence houseduring our two years of MBA. Dr.

Haroon also left for Riyadh; he is cur-rently working as a Senior BusinessDevelopment Manager with SaudiHollandi. Haseeb too migrated to theUS with his family; he is presentlyworking as a Senior Analyst for FixedIncome & Research with EdwardJones in Saint Louis. Hena has beenenjoying a prolific career at Tetra Pakthese last few years and in the samecontext, recently got promoted toGlobal Product Manager and hasmoved to Tetra Pak Sweden. Happyglobetrotting Hena!

Farhan too is doing extremely well atTetra Pak in Lahore. He is every bit hisanimated self and it is always refresh-ing to hear from him. Ammar, oursilent and yet intelligent class fellow,is now in Lahore and working at asenior position in the Lahore Chapterof UNDP.

Faiza moved to Toronto, Canadaafter marriage where she enjoys lifewith her hubby and kids; she recentlygave birth to a beautiful and healthybaby girl, her first, and has namedher Maryam. On becoming a recentmother for the second time, she hastaken leave from her employer, RoyalBank of Canada, where she has beensuccessfully working these few years.Nadia moved from Pakistan too afew months after her marriage and isliving in London nowadays with herhusband and first-born, Zain. MotherHood is proving to be every bit asjoyful as Nadia anticipated and afterhaving been in the corporate sectorthese many years, she is happily tak-ing time off being a full-time parent.God bless Faiza & Nadia!

The most shocking of all news in2007 was the matrimony of my everadored friend, Taimur. Maryamgraced his life in December andTaimur looks every bit a contentedand a fortunate man. He also got pro-moted to Manager, Value AddedServices in the Products & PlatformsDepartment of Telenor which comeswithin a year of his earlier promotion.



Class notesShariq B also continues to thrive inthe Telecommunications Sector; herecently got promoted as the Re-gional Manager, Sales in Warid. At thefamily front, his first-born and now abubbling 2 year old, Shanzay, keepsdaddy dear on his toes but of courseonly when his adorable wife Kinza al-lows it, being an attentive mother asshe is. The rivalry in the Telecom sec-tor is almost brought full circle withHussain rising to Manager, Strategy &Planning in Ufone in his 3 and a halfyears there. He remains a bachelor,an eligible one if I may add. Anothersuitable bachelor to date, Ali Imran,known fondly as Famvic in the batchof ’03, is doing really well as the Ter-ritory Sales Supervisor in TelenorSialkot. And of course, I decided tolet it be ‘a fair ground’ for my coun-terparts in this industry and hence,not only moved sectors but alsocities; I left Telenor and life in Islam-abad for a career in education andwriting in my ‘place of origin,’ Lahorethat is.

However, I cannot take my leave offthe world of Telecommunications,without bringing up our always heldin ‘awe’ Jawad Paul, most com-monly referred to as JP. As an integralpart of the Pakistan Telecommunica-tions Authority (PTA), JP continues inhis regulatory role outside of theMBA class and guarantees that theTelecom sector stays within theboundaries defined by PTA. He toolives in the serene city of Islamabadwith his ever-pretty wife and lovelytwo children: Raina and Muhammad.

Nofel is doing us proud in the Cor-porate Sector and recently got pro-moted to General Manager, WealthManagement in the head office ofStandard Chartered, Karachi. I hadthe pleasure of meeting him a fewmonths back and it was great to seehim still in spirits, enjoying life asmuch as possible. Nofel is the fatherof two, Daud & Eesa who areadorable kids from what I hear. Zul-fiqar Hameed, usually addressed as

SP Sahib, is thriving in the law en-forcement forces; he is working asthe SSP Investigations based out ofLahore.

On the other hand, Shariq M is mak-ing sure that all of his Assistant BrandManagers deliver as per the guide-lines set by him as the Brand Man-ager for Culinary in Nestle. A true‘Islamabadi’ at heart, Shariq M hasadjusted well to life in Lahore with hischarming wife Zarmeen and cutedaughter, Eman. Mustafa too isdoing well at Nestle and has recentlybeen promoted to Category Managerin conjunction with enjoying life as anattentive husband and a dedicatedfather.

Mahmood changed jobs sometimeago; he remains in the banking sectorbut has moved from Standard Char-tered to Saudi Pak Commercial Bankand continues to live in Islamabadwith his wife and son, Faris. Shujahas also shifted jobs fairly soon; heleft Caltex for Shell and is now basedin Sargodha. On the personal front,he also got married this year amidstmuch ‘fun and frolic’ and gave mostof the ’03 men a chance to enjoythemselves at his wedding in Abb-otabad. Of course this was not theonly wedding this year where the ’03‘guys’ ‘let down their hair;’ they hadan equal amount of fun at AdeelButt’swedding in Lahore. Adeel con-tinues to prosper in his family busi-ness. Barry also tied the knot this yearin Karachi. His wedding was an affairto remember and as Safi proclaims:“the food was divine!” Barry is flour-ishing in his family business of retail-ing of branded glasses and watches.Happy matrimony to Shuja, Adeeland Barry! Jahanzeb or JD rather for’03 is the proud father of one Nery-man and is doing very well in his fam-ily business of construction. JDcontinues to live in his home town ofIslamabad. Zain also continues to livein his place of origin, Faisalabad andis busy with his family business.Waqas too chose to stay in his native

city of Multan along with his wife andtwo lovely children, Mahnoor andDanyal, and focus on his family busi-ness. Imran Khurram is very muchinvolved in his business and is pros-pering as we all knew he would,given his sharp and analytical busi-ness mind. Mutahir also went backto his family business after graduatingfrom LUMS and is happily taking it tonew avenues. Ahmed Farooq has,after these years within the Corpo-rate Sector, decided to try his handat a private venture and is now in-volved in the business of Construc-tion. He still lives in Lahore with hiswife and two kids, Maryam and Ifrah!Tariq Hassan is also happily self-em-ployed and is running two concernssimultaneously; one is a firm that pro-vides technological solutions for thecommunication needs of corpora-tions and the other is his long-estab-lished family textile business. Andlastly, Amer Ashfaq, also went intoworking for himself. He currently runsan integrated management servicesfirm based out of Karachi and is alsoenjoying a happy married life with hispretty wife and two adorable kids,Ramlah and Manaal. Salute to you All!

Hassan Nasir is still going strong inthe Pharmaceutical Industry and isdoing well working for a FrenchPharma Distributor by the name ofSurvier. Hassan still lives in Lahorewith his family. Hur is thriving in thebanking sector still and has beenworking at HSBC, Lahore this last oneyear. He remains a bachelor to dateand yes a suitable one for those in-terested.

Imran Haider is enjoying life as aKey Accounts Manager for EngroFoods. Imran is based in Lahore withhis wife and two beautiful children,Shayaan and Shafia. Zulqadarmoved to Multan from Lahore in thelast year. He has been working con-sistently at Citi Bank for three yearsand has now been made the UnitHead. Dr. Salman also moved cities;he relocated to Karachi from Lahore

Class noteswith his doctor wife, Sarah, and ispresently employed by Becton Dick-inson. Fahd has been constant in hiscareer choices and has been content-edly working at Du Pont as the Busi-ness Development Manager theselast four years. He is living in Lahorewith his wife and two kids, Ibrahimand Ishmael.

Aamer Faiz is employed by DesconOxychem as their Marketing Managerand is enjoying his position every bitas he possibly can. He continues tolive in Lahore with his family. ImranSardar moved jobs a few monthsago. He left Philips for a career insales in PTCL and is currently a SeniorManager of direct sales there. Saimahas been going strong at Habib BankLimited (HBL) and is of the very fewwho have been unswerving with theirfirst employment choices. Saima isnow a Senior Relationship Manager,Corporate Banking based in the headoffice of HBL in her home town ofKarachi. Rezwana is flourishingwithin the Government Sector and isnow working as a Project Directorwith Higher Education Commission(HEC) based in Islamabad. HassanZubair is having a great time com-muting back and forth between La-hore, Karachi and Kabul as his job atLevis demands. He is based in Lahorethough, where he lives with his familywhen he is not officially travelling.Bilal Ahmed Khan is also living in La-hore and working as the GroupBrand Manager for HKB. And lastly,Zaheer Sahib who joined our batchfor one quarter in the second year ispresently the Senior Branch Chief ofBank Al Habib in Karachi.

Unfortunately, Safi and myself havenot been able to gather informationon Subasan and Harunur Rashid todate; all I know about Harunurthough is that he is currently workingin Chittagong.

Phew…finally, an aching back and atired head for composing this piecethese last two hours at a stretch but

every bit a treat, for it took me backto my wonderful MBA years at LUMS;I am glad to have been a part of suchan able and genuine group of peo-ple. Live on MBA 2003!!!

MBA 2004

CoordinatorMuneeb Wahad KhanEmirates Integrated Telecom-munications [email protected]

Adnan Zahid is a candidate for Ph.D.in a top notch University in UK andwedding bells for him seem aroundthe corner. Ahmad Saeed Tahir isstill working with HBL in Lahore andenjoying his married life. He has beennick named "Garfield” by his femaleboss and thus is known by the samename to all his clients. Aiza Shafiq isworking day in and day out to in-crease Samsung's market share in Pak-istan. Ali Akbar is still with Nestlewhen almost all other class fellowshave opted for other opportuni-ties. His loyalty coupled withhard work has made him allin all of the supply chainfunction at Nestle. AliAsad has wasted notime in leaving StateBank after the expiry ofhis bond and is now theHead of Compliance at Da-wood Islamic Bank. He isbased in Karachi and enjoy-ing married life with a sonand a daughter.

Ali Siddiqui has decided to stay atTetra Pak for sometime. His earlierstints in the banking and cola / foodindustry didn’t interest him much.Asad Inayat has left Telenor andnow is based in Riyadh. He works forMobily (Etisalat's subsidiary in SaudiArabia) as Manager Value AddedServices & Data. Ayesha Wahid is

working for Oracle as Regional Man-ager Support Services for the SAARCbelt. She is based in Karachi and theproud mother of two beautiful kids,one boy and one girl. Azhar Ikramworks for the Syndicated Loans,Agency & Operations DepartmentStructured Finance Division ofBanque Saudi Fransi and is based inRiyadh. He is expected to leave thebachelor club anytime soon! BeenishAbbas Malik has been blessed witha baby girl and enjoying being ahousewife to the fullest. Fahd Reazis leading a happy married life and isbased in Dubai. He works for NoorIslamic Bank as a Senior Product Man-ager. Fahd Salamworks for EmiratesIslamic Bank, is based in UAE and stillcontinues to be among the most eligi-ble bachelors. Faraz Siddiqui madehis career move and the new Seththat he works for is known to all asMichael Dell. Congrats Faraz and weare looking forward to buying dis-counted Dell hardware!

Fateh Muhammad is the 2IC (sec-ond-in-command) at National Bank ofFujairah and is based in Dubai. GulBuhar Khan is busy making Habib

Bank the new Standard Char-tered by leveraging his ex-perience and learning athis previous employer.Hasnat Ahmed Haideris no longer either work-ing for or as a businesspartner of Nestle. He isthe proud father of acute baby girl and assistshis wife with her jewellerydesigns. If the grapevine isto be believed, he also runsan event management com-

pany. Huma Khalid has partedways with Faysal Bank and nowworks for the Corporate BankingGroup at HBL. She shares the samefloor with Garfield (Ahmed) butwonders if Garfield and her class fel-low Ahmed is the same person!Kashif Khaleel got married last De-cember and is living in Rawalpindiwith his mother and wife. Join me in



Class notescongratulating him on getting pro-moted first from Area Sales Manager(Islamabad/Rawalpindi) to Key Ac-counts Manager for North Pakistanand then from Key Accounts Man-ager to Chilled Dairy Manager withinNestle. I wonder how Rizwan Azizfeels having Kashif one step abovehim on the corporate ladder of Nes-tle whereas last year it was rumoredthat Rizwan was his boss!!!!! Ouch!

Mariam Qaiser has parted wayswith Nestle and now works for PepsiFoods as Brand Manager, Snacks. Sheis still based in Lahore. MohammadZulifkar Ali Khan had this to share,"When life gives you a hundred rea-sons to cry, we should thank the Lordfor the thousands of reasons wehave to smile. In an era of layoffs,write-offs, and flip-offs, I'm glad tostill be at Standard Chartered inDubai for third consecutive year; infact, at this rate I think I might qualifyfor the long standing employee of2004 award at our 10 year reunion!What odds could anyone have got-ten on that?" Muhammad Adil Ha-neef’s loyalty to Mobilink continuesin the capacity of Head of Interna-tional Roaming. Wedding bells mightbe around the corner for him, whichcan lead to his bidding farewell tothe market leader. MuhammadFahad Yousaf is in Zongistan work-ing as Brand Manager ZONG andbased in Islamabad. Not only is heenjoying his married life but also thetelecom advertising war to the fullest.

Muhammad Hamza Aleemi is withWateen Telecom working as “assistantmanager LDI retail”. He is very happythese days because he has finallyfound someone to spend the rest ofhis life with (he was getting marriedby the end of May 2008). Muham-mad Imran Fazal is still with PTChowever, his patience during his stayat Sargodha has been rewarded witha posting in Lahore. The Lahori &Isloo girls were all heartbroken, afterhe made his engagement public.Muhammad Javaid’s (doctor) jour-

ney from good to great continuesand after spending time with Descon,Askari Bank and Din Group (if thegrapevine is to be believed), he nowhand picks future corporate leadersby rendering his services for a recruit-ment agency. Muhammad KhurramWaraich is happily married andbased in Islamabad working for Mo-bilink as Manager Business Planning.Muhammad Shahid Qureshi is aPhD candidate at a University in Sin-gapore and is expected to take overGIFT as its VC upon his return.Muhammad Shoaib Ata Khan tillthe filing of these class notes waswith Nestle working as Area SalesManager, Lahore. He is married andthe proud father of a cute daughter.He has his eyes on getting laurels atNestle similar to the ones heachieved at Pepsi Foods.

Muhammed Ali Khan is gracing Te-lenor with his services and considersit to be the best company in theworld just like he has always consid-ered his current employer to be thebest. He was very ticked off abouthis name not being in the class notesfor 2007 and said something to theeffect of shaking the foundations ofLUMS. However, till last news the"foundations" of LUMS were asstrong as ever. He is based in Islam-abad and is very thankful for hislovely daughter and happily marriedlife. Muneeb Wahad Khan is work-ing as Manager Strategic Marketingfor du telecom (UAE's 2nd telco op-erator) and is based in Dubai. Allahhas showered him with blessingsboth on personal and professionalfronts during the last year. He is plan-ning to get married in 2009 and look-ing forward to continue benefittingfrom the telecom boom in the MiddleEast region.

Murad Salman Mirza is working asan Organizational Development Con-sultant with the University of Sydney.He is enjoying his stay in Australia bytraveling to new places and learningabout different cultures. Most of his

free time is spent in swimming, horseriding and adventure sports (e.g.canyoning, bushwalking, sailing, etc.).He wanted his favorite quote to beshared with others: “I believe thatevery right implies a responsibility;every opportunity an obligation;every possession, a duty” (John D.Rockefeller). Nadia Wasim is withShell and has relocated with her hus-band and child to Karachi. NadiaWilliams has come back from her as-signment in Thailand with Unilever.Not only has she changed her basecity but also moved up the careerladder with a new employer. She islooking after Business Developmentfor Standard Chartered Pakistan now.Rabia Khan has relocated to Tokyoafter getting married and has beenblessed with an adorable baby girl.

Rizwan Aziz Khan is working forNestle. He thinks that Kashif Khalilshould concentrate on work and notspread rumors about his promotion.Role changes are NOT promotionsand with persistent efforts a promo-tion will come through! Rizwan ishappily single but girls in Islamabadare trying their best to fall into hisvery restrictive requirements of abride. Rizwan Chughtai is centralbank's friend indeed and does notseem to have any intentions of leav-ing State Bank. He is working as aJoint Director in Banking SurveillanceDepartment. On the family front, heis enjoying life with his two naughtytoddlers and is based in Karachi. Saf-dar Hussain is working at Al-RehmatTextiles as Divisional Head Garments.Last year, he paid some sales calls toprospects in USA, a seven days tripto Vegas (sin city) and Washington(Although, Bush made many requeststo see him, but he said NO). And inMarch 07 he went to Europe (Ger-many, France, Austria) and met withsome of the best and biggest brands.He thoroughly enjoyed every bit ofthe experience. Saima Khan worksfor Telenor and is based inIslamabad. She is all set to becomethe youngest manager at Telenor and

Class notesadd another feather to her cap afterthe unofficial title of youngest MBAto have graduated from LUMS.

Salman Ghani Butt is with P&Gworking as a Brand Manager for Safe-guard. He sleeps every night next toCommander Safeguard for protectionfrom germs and recommends thatothers do the same! Salman Hafeezhas devoted all his energies to hisbusiness with his partner Abbas. Heis happily married and based in La-hore. Samar Farzand Najmuddin isno longer in Pakistan. He got a HSMPvisa and if some undisclosed sourcesare to be believed, he stills works forTRG in the UK. Shaheryar Idrees isworking with Telenor as ManagerProducts & Platforms and is based inIslamabad. He is leading a happymarried life and has an adorabledaughter. His commitment to telecomis such that - another year of 2.5GPakistan has passed by and he islooking forward to the 3G evolutionand praying that people end upusing it!!!

Shahid Mahmood (Major Sb.) is stillwith NADRA but wants to join thereal estate sector in Gulf, based onhis successful stint with DHA, Lahore.As for Shakeel AhmedMemon...some things never changein life!!! But Shakeel is trying and hasdecided against gaining experiencewith only one company as in his pre-MBA corporate life (i.e. PIA). Afterbenefitting Reckitt and Engro Foodswith his expertise, he has now givenCDL the honor of his presence. She-haryar Khurshid is happily marriedand is working for Unilever in Karachi.Sheikh Gulraiz Pervaiz continues tobe loyal not only to Warid but hiswife and cute daughter. Being the Re-gional Head of Customer Services, heis based in Lahore. Shezeen HyderAli has gone back to LUMS again andis working with Dr. Arif Butt as his re-search associate. So get ready to seeher names on the OB and ManagerialNegotiations cases and exercises. Sheis the proud mother of two kids.

Shoaib Awan works for the Corpo-rate Banking Division of Emirates Bankand is based in Dubai. His adorableson is getting ready for LUMS thoughit would take him 2 decades beforehistory repeats itself and LUMSechoes with "I disagree"! SohailMumtaz Bajwa is working in NTDC,Lahore and responsible for procure-ment of goods and services for dif-ferent large projects pertaining totransmission lines and grid stations,on International Competitive basis,being financed by Asian Develop-ment Bank, World Bank and other in-ternational donor agencies. He nowhas 2 sons. NTDC (previously part ofWAPDA) is spoiling him with foreigntrips more than many large organiza-tions spoil their top executives. Imean, he has been to all the impor-tant countries in Europe includingSwitzerland, UK, France and Ger-many etc. in addition to Thailand andPhilippines. Sohail is ever more reli-gious now and always striving to staypious. Syed Abbas Ali Shah has leftICI to pursue his own venture in part-nership with none other than SalmanHafeez. Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi is stillawesome, though he isn’t a bacheloranymore! He is the Product Head forAcquisition, Loyalty and Debit Cardsat HBL, based in Karachi. Syed AtifRaza is in Bangladesh working asHead of Pricing for Banglalink, anOrascom Telecom subsidiary. He likesDhaka as it has given him ample timeto bring up his son as a future deanlister!! West Pakistan has finally re-quested former East Pakistan that it’sabout time that they return him!

Syed Hassan Javed works for ABNAMRO as AVP & Unit Head - LargeCorporates. He is based in his home-town Lahore and is busy bringing uphis son to be as cool minded andlively as he was and still is! SyedTaha Magrabi is still with Shell and islooking after the network controls.He is based in Karachi and blissfullymarried. About Syed Yawer Ra-sool…On a clear & beautiful Decem-ber 26th evening, Yawer got married

in Karachi. The next day the city wasablaze and everything was on fire.There never was or will be a more el-igible bachelor! Yawer is still withReckitt and despite Mospel not killinga single mosquito in Pakistan the en-tire year; Yawer continues to market itso well that it is the leading brand forthe company. Tahir Shamim is hap-pily married, blessed with a son andliving in Lahore. He is working asHuman Resource Business Manager inUnilever Pakistan, looking after WallsIce Cream Factory, Unilever FoodsLimited and Khanewal Tea Factory.Usman Mahmood got married re-cently and is working as AssistantManager Sales & Distribution at Mo-bilink. He is based in his hometown,Lahore. Usman Saeed Malik is busytaking his super-market, "Sales Day"based in Rawalpindi to new heightsevery passing day with equal contri-bution coming from his wife and kids!Usman Tariq Qazi (UTQ) got mar-ried last year and was blessed with alovely daughter in April this year. Hehad the chance of visiting Turkey,Poland and Portugal before heswitched from Teradata to Ufone asManager Products and Pricing. In 2and a half months with Ufone he hasdeveloped two major pricing prod-ucts (i.e. new prepaid packagesnamely “paanch ka pandrah” and“Ucircle Life” with up to 5 free num-bers at night) among a few otherminor pricing moves.

Waqar Ahmad Khan has partedways with WAPDA and now worksfor Star Power (an independentpower producer). He is based in La-hore. Yasir Ahmed Malik is workingfor a global supply chain projectteam in Shell as their Business Leadfor the East. He loves the interna-tional travel and "virtual" mode ofworking that comes with the job.Zainab Nawaz is married but stillwith LUMS - this time however in themarketing team and not in the MBAprogram! With her team she is busywri t ing new and big market ing



Class notessuccess stories for LUMS. She surelyis among the lucky few to have a jobin Lahore. Zhang Zejun is still withNestle China and is now the Produc-tion Manager. His family size is thesame as 6 years ago as they can onlyhave one child in China, with the onlydifference that his family age is grow-ing year by year! He still feels as if itwas yesterday that we were all atLUMS. Bilal Ahmed Khan continuesto remain a mystery and the latest up-date on him is that he is awfully busyspearheading either his family or ownbusiness.

MBA 2005

CoordinatorZaineb [email protected]

Zaineb Waheed recently foundedher do-nothing-but-act-VERY-busyclub and has expanded her opera-tions to Canada. She said a tearfulgoodbye to her Telenor buddies andis now enjoying living in Vancouveroff her hubby's fast depleting cashsupplies. Asim Mehr is working veryhard and was awarded Telenor Em-ployee of the Year 2007 - he wouldsoon be moving to Norway andwould be working very closely withTelenor Group CEO. He is also verylonely and thinking about gettingmarried soon. Being underpaid andunder worked at Mobilink has cer-tainly paid off for Tamania Jaffri. Ta-mania recently tied the knot withMBA 2004 Jaffar Naqi, and will besoon joining her husband in Edmon-ton. Fooqi and Zaineb look forwardto expanding their sistership-hood inCanada. Bilal Ahsan Malik a.k.aBAM BAM has little to report -- noth-ing's changed since last year -- stillstudying (and will be for another 3years). He has recently been told thatit usually takes 2 years to write agood dissertation after fieldwork, not

1. So he may be studying for another4 years. Oh well, whatever. In themeantime, he's enjoying being a resi-dent tutor for undergraduates here(sort of the Boston version of M-1's'Major Saab' for those of you whohad the pleasure of knowing the hos-tel's warden). Omar Moeen Malik isstill working for Telenor developingVAS products. When he's not work-ing, he's either on global sair sapata,sleeping or playing Medal of Honorand this is all going to change whenwife Fariel arrives back after complet-ing her Columbia Masters. Omar re-cently got promoted to AssistantManager. So did everyone else.

Amnah Ajmal has taken Citibank tothe brink of bankruptcy and Citibankhas rewarded her determination byre-locating her to London. She striveshard to become a career banker.Salman Ahmed a.k.a. Sally has finallyjoined facebook and still thinks it evil.He is presently a Relationship Man-ager at ABN AMRO's Corporate Bank-ing Department. This has provendifficult for Sally as he has not reallybeen in a real relationship since hewas ten years old. Ali Anwerzada isapparently studying again. Muham-mad Umer Farooq a.k.a Fooqi isgoing on a paid vacation to the US.It’s called the Fulbright scholarship.Hamza Mudassir is in Mobilink look-ing after something known as Market-ing Strategy (whatever that is) forIndigo Post Paid. Moving on to moreimportant things, he got married toAmna last year, and is now living in Is-lamabad, a city which he can't standanymore. He still yearns for his mater-nal homeland - Afghanistan where hespent his childhood frolicking aroundwith sheep and goats, and is con-vincing his boss to relocate him toKandahar.

Zain Tayyebi is running the show inTayyebi Dawakhana, as Director Mar-keting and Sales. He is currently con-sidering diversifying his company'sportfolio to selling small animals inbulk quantity. Adnan Tariq a.k.a

munshi has finally left SKMCH&RC, inthe hands of his trusted friends, andmoved on to Nestle to do some re-search on what makes a corporatecorporate, so that it may be uncor-porated. Atif Saeed sadly, is still atheeta. He also has won a paid vaca-tion to the US (called Fullbright)… butthe question remains can he saygood bye to the exciting world oftelco and move on to 4 years of los-ing hair not to mention his mind!!(PhD)???? Taimur Cheema is nowManager Sahab in Ufone; and tries toact as if he is very busy and has notime; actually he is just a little shy ofIslamabadi girls and avoids them asmuch as possible; he remains singleand his avoidance strategy is goingvery well (mashallah). Taimur Cheemahas also magically acquired 8-10years of experience in the Telecom In-dustry. Ali Nawaz Khan a.k.a. ANKis still selling deodorants for UnileverArabia based out of Dubai. He con-tinues to convince the Arabs that dryarmpits will lead to salvation. HassanMunir a.k.a. EX -maila is working inChina Mobile, looking at their Distri-bution side. Fortunately for him work-ing for China Mobile has proven tobe a revealing insight into Chineseculture, and he is hence these daystrying to get in touch with his innerYun Ma. Kiran Qureshi is still doingresearch at Nestle.

Mohammad Omar Akram finallygot married and has hence goneback on his claim to remain a bache-lor till the end of time. He is in TetraPak where his core job responsibilityis to go on paid vacations. HussainRaza Khan is working for Tetra Pakas Account Manager. Farrukh Azizhas moved to Ufone and is lookingafter market research there. He alsogot married this year, Thank God!Maliha Shahid is still a Career Bankerwith MCB, which is a highly Careeroriented bank for Career Bankers.Sarah Pervez is the Brand Managerfor Kurkure at Pepsi Cola Interna-tional. She also intends to open upa cat farm, which is truly ridiculous

Class notesgiven that every one wants a Dogthese days. Meow! Bilal Ahmad hasmaintained yet another year of statusquo by doing business developmentand corporate finance work at FirstCapital / Worldcall / Pace Muham-mad Abid is found changing destina-tions on his Google chat status.

Khizer Bilal Usmani a.k.a KBU is dis-tracting girls at Nestle with his picturethat kiran and kaalia put at a strategiclocation. Abidoon Nadeem wasblessed with baby Abdullah this year.He is settled in Lahore with his familyand is working on expanding his busi-ness of being busy all the time.Owais Qazi finally got married thisyear. Taimur and BAM are still recov-ering. Sajid Shahzad Sufi has joined“the do a lot and look idle” club,working on Water business with abeautiful addition of a daughter tohis family. Rao Murtaza Hashim mi-grated to London. Aun Hussain isthinking of migrating too! MahamYasmeen is working at SKMH andhas earned a hefty marketing budgetfor her department, the first timeever! Salman Tahir loves Telenor.Waleed Sadiq also loves Telenor.Doing various jobs (many of them"very odd") at Interactive Group ofCompanies, Abdul Moiz Penkar,chose to spend this year in yet an-other city - Islamabad. After a roadtrip to Karachi and back, he's nowconsidering the next trip - this timewith an added passenger: his daugh-ter!

Omer Bin Tariq aka OBT has beenpromoted to AM Segments and isnow the guardian of a 'Loyal' CHOTA;that he is very possessive of! He alsohad the honor of representing Te-lenor Pakistan in India this year andmade it safe back home - to the dis-appointment of his boss. Also his hairis graying at an alarming pace....maybe he's working too hard andneeds a vacation. Aamir Altaf left hisbeloved Nestle to join China Mobile,where he works as Manager Seg-ments. Unlike Hassan Munir, he has

found his inner Yun Ma and is hencevery happy with himself. JavedAhmed is working as Risk Manager inMeezan Bank, which has proven tobe very risky for Meezan Bank. TalhaKhalid has learnt a lot this year andfeels truly value added. He is thinkingof writing a novel on it. Furthermore,he is in Telenor's Segments depart-ment and looking forward to a longvacation in Goa. Usman Muneer stillhates Karachi and still lives there,working for his beloved P&G. Evenmore ironical is the fact that he is stilllosing hair despite working for HairCare.

MBA 2006

CoordinatorMansoor Aziz AhmedAziz [email protected]

Junaid Lodhi, a.k.a JLo, is trying tosell licensed software working for Mi-crosoft in Islamabad – more like sell-ing refrigerators in Antarctica.Microsoft is taking him to his dream-lands like Lebanon and Jordan andhe doesn't plan to switch for a while.Ayesha Arif is currently prepping forher thesis film and generally ponder-ing in her spare time about why shebothered to do an MBA. Saad Mu-nawar Khan a.k.a Jaggu has left P&Gin the hands of Saad Tawwab Khan(ABM Pantene) and Khalid Farid(ABM Ariel) to join PepsiCo Interna-tional as Brand Manager Snacksbased in Lahore. Saroop Gul is alsoat P&G, Karachi, working in a LogisticsCost Savings role for the ArabianPeninsula region. Afzal Shinwari re-ports as being happily married, ex-cept that his honeymoon period wasspent campaigning for his father’selection. On the work front he is nowmanaging the construction businessowned by his family.

Faisal Iqbal a.k.a IQ glumly informsthat he is still doing, and I quote, “thesame boring job at Universal ServiceFund”. In the same stride he alsoreports that he got engaged. But on amore ‘a-ha’ note (flashbacks of JG’sclasses), he has had the squint in hiseyes fixed. Congratulations to IQ. Rtr.Hasan Kabir is working as RM inCBG of HBL and pursuing his CFAcharter (you can figure out theabbreviations yourself). On the per-sonal side of things, he has recentlygotten engaged and will be gettingmarried in December. Omeir Zahidreported in from some random air-port in Europe on his way to Den-mark, promising to send in his entryfor class notes “tonight”. It nevercame.Majnun Mammadov checks infrom Baku, Azerbaijan. After LUMS hewent back to his homeland andjoined the Army for a year. After ayear in the Army and two months ofchilling, he was bombarded with joboffers – 7 in a month! He chose tojoin Deloitte & Touche in their newlyopened Financial Advisory Services.Since then he has had a double pro-motion, many congrats to him, andhe is still single, many more congratsto him.

Mohammad Bilal is also single andis working for Dubai Islamic Bank inKarachi. Babar Cheema, a man offew (loud) words checks in saying “Iam transfer to Karachi.” Sanaa Fa-reed Shah and Arsalan J. Sheikhhave been clocking up more frequentflier miles and increasing their carbonfootprint. She's been flying toBangkok and he's been everywhereelse. In their ordinary lives, she isworking with Mobilink as a productdevelopment specialist, while he isSTILL working with Teradata. Everynow and then they discuss new busi-ness ideas while driving to work.Beenish Abbasi checks in on behalfof the Citibank crowd in Karachi. She,Nasir and Farrukh have successfullycompleted two years at Citi. Beenishhas recently gotten engaged. Far-rukh is still driving the same car and



Class notesNasir is upset about Jaggu leavingKarachi. Muhammad Abubakr isalso in Banking. This year he switchedfrom UBL to Standard Chartered andis working in their Corporate Relation-ship Department. Hammad Kabir isliving the dream of Price Wars work-ing at Mobilink in Islamabad. He is inthe thick of things as Assistant Man-ager Strategy and Pricing.

Ammar Muqeet is living in Kuwaitstill and makes his living by managingfunds for rich Arabs. He has also per-formed Umra (a typical banker'strait). Khurram Mehr left the Bankingworld to join Nestle Pakistan in Mar-keting. Other MBA 2006 graduates atNestle Pakistan are Shamyle Javedin Sales, Raja Ishaq and AhmedBilal Mansoor in Supply Chain. I(Mansoor Aziz) have recently quitNestle Pakistan after two years inBrands to join my family business.Anyone who wants steel bars cancontact me – special discount forthose with lazy subordinates.

MBA 2007

CoordinatorAhmed S. ButtWateen [email protected]

Contributions by Ahsan, Farooq,Rabia, Yasir and “Significant Others”

It’s hard to imagine that one year hasalready passed since our graduation.The year 2007-08 was marked withsuccess and triumph for our batchmates all around. More than one-third of the batch is working abroad,24 of us decided to end their bache-lor lives this year making it 40% of thewhole batch, while 12% of the batchadded new members to MBA 2007family. The highlight of the year wasdefinitely our much awaited convo-cation ceremony; the defining mo-

ment in our lives that we all workedso hard for!

Here is a one-to-one highlight of lastyear’s activities of our batch mates:

Abdul Jawwad rejoined his parentdepartment at FBR working in the TaxPayer facilitation and HR Division. Heis proud to author a case on FBR forthe change management coursewhich is currently being taught toMBA students and at Rausing Execu-tive Center. Adeel Allawallah ispresently working as a Business Plan-ning Analyst at Phillip Morris Interna-tional also known as Lakson TobaccoCompany. He was too lazy to dis-close anything else about him.Adnan Nisar is living a happy bach-elor life in Islamabad and is workingfor Pakistan Tobacco Company. Hehas so far exhibited loyalty with thecompany and has been immensely in-volved in designing strategies for in-creasing sales for Gold Leaf thoughhe himself has not yet developed ataste for it and hopes to maintain thestatus quo! Ahsan Maykan was thelast one to join the “Wateen – the fu-ture is green” bandwagon but soonrealized that the grass is alwaysgreener on the other side. Afternearly bankrupting Wateen, he is nowat Telenor working on TalkShawk.Rumor has it that he is partly to beblamed for the recent campaignslaunched for Talkshawk that havebeen the cause for the “networkbusy” messages you may have beengetting when dialing. Ali Abbas Pu-janis is helping boost the earnings ofHabib Bank A.G. Zurich; Sharjahbranch. On the personal frontthough, in line with his old practices,cost cutting remains the central focusof his life. Putting his sharp financialbrains to use, Pujji has become ashrewd investor in the real estate inDubai. He is getting married in Julythis year to a dentist.

Ali Maaz is working for AlghanimElectronics as Product Manager andwas instrumental in turning around a

poor selling category into a successwithin his first six months. He was re-warded by getting assigned to an-other doomed category and nowtalks non-stop about his cookerswhich he loves to hate. He divideshis time equally between his cookersand overseas calls. He has not lost hisappetite for class participation and fi-nance; a constant reminder to who-ever is around him. For Amina Ijaz,the Coke life isn’t turning out to be“very chill” as they claim. Workingwith Coca-Cola since her graduation,she has survived the jitters of her firstmajor campaign launch, juggled be-tween multiple-brands and bosses,managed to visit five different coun-tries but enjoys free Coke everyday!Ammar Butt joined his family busi-ness soon after graduation. At a timewhen many of our friends are eitherlooking for or settling down with lifepartners; Ammar is looking for a ten-nis partner instead. He’s working onintroducing the concept of Online Bi-cycle Selling in Pakistan. We won’t besurprised to hear our children gettingcaught for secretly using our creditcard on his website in a few yearstime. Anwar Kabir works for Lowe& Rauf Lahore as Group Account Di-rector. Anwar prefers to keep a bal-anced lifestyle by keeping himselfinvolved in off-job activities such asfamily house construction, frequentoverseas vacations and taking therole of “Best Man” in all of his friends’weddings. His next overseas vacationstops are US and UK this summer. Ar-shad Moazzam became one of theearly adopters of parenthood as hewas blessed with a daughter lastyear. Currently taking care of Mobilinkmarketing research at Islamabad, Ar-shad’s life revolves around the worldof SPSS figuring out dimensions ofperceptual maps. His family doesn’tcomplain about not going on anylong drives as he spends his week-ends driving up or down the motor-way with them.

Asad Mahmood got engaged toAmna earlier this year and intends to

Class notessettle down in holy matrimony soon.He works for Wateen Telecom’s Prod-ucts and Services division – Data &VPN, as an Assistant Manager! AsadShafiq is the proud father of adaughter and leads a team of 100+people. He is working as AccountManager for Supply Chain, a centralfunction providing services to retailbusinesses at Alghanim Industries. Im-portance and complexity of his jobcan be judged from the fact that he isso far the only MBA to receive aBlackberry. He still gets upset withprevalent corruption in the world, hisincreasing waistline and the lack ofhis control over both. Ashhad Saeedworks at Etisalat as Senior Specialistin the Strategy and Business Develop-ment team. He has been contributingwell to the department’s profits andhas impressed the management. Heis glad about the fact that he is ableto put the entire lingo learnt at LUMSto good use. He resides in Abu Dhabibut like Ali and Fatima, prefers tospend his weekends in Dubai andusually can be found attending For-mula One Grand Prix or dining out atone of the “desi” restaurants in town.Azamat Akbarov got a head start tohis career at Alghanim IndustriesKuwait. Later he moved back to hishometown where he is currently serv-ing Sarbast Plus JV as a Cost Account-ant.

Babus Rais is found working long,exhausting and blood sucking hoursin investment banking at BMA Capital;along with putting in relentless effortsat the gym, with no apparent gain.And more importantly, he is still re-sisting the reiterating family onslaughtfor getting married. Bilal JavedBhatti is doing marketing for the Plat-form division of Alghanim Industries,a new retail business, dealing withbuilding materials. He is a part of theteam which launched the first storeand is now planning further expan-sion across the Gulf. Bilal is seendodging the speed cameras on the

roads of Kuwait in order to spendthe least possible time to, from, andat work. He has finally discoveredhow to download torrents and hasbeen detrimental to the bandwidth inKuwait in the recent past. Bilal Malikis back to his adventurous profes-sional life. Instead of settling down inthe private sector, he has decided toremain unsettled in the public sector;at least for the time being. His funda-mental belief in the System's powerto efface the Individual has strength-ened.

After two rigorous years at LUMS, Di-lafruz took a break for six months be-fore joining Alghanim as AssistantMerchandising Manager. She is gladto be part of a team which is fightingferociously to increase the sales andprofits for Home Furnishing. She ishopeful that she will be able to over-come one last hurdle before she cancompletely settle down in Kuwaitwith her family i.e. her driving license.Soon we may see her cruising downGulf Street in her SUV which heryoung son, Kamran, is very eager tobuy. Fasahat Feroze is working forTelenor in the VAS department.Thanks to Fasahat, the doctor willnow be just a call away through Te-lenor Tele-doctor service; he man-aged to introduce just recently. FizzaIjaz has been out there in rainy Lon-don, working with Deutsche Bankcovering structured liability sales forthe exciting region of Africa. Over theyear, she has learnt how to live innever-ending winters, and avoidinghome sickness by going to Pakistanirestaurants and watching GEO UK.On a brighter note, Fizza has pursuedher passion for traveling and been tosome interesting places includingAmsterdam, Jo'berg and Scotland.But after all that, Fizza still longs forthe dorm life at LUMS. Haleema Mu-niba has taken up the challengingtask of making purchase decisions onbehalf of ICI Pakistan Paints division.Happily married to Adnan, she fre-quently uses her ICI purchasing expe-rience at home to impress her

in-laws.

Hamza Ahmad made the entire busdriver community of Pakistan danceto the rhythm of “Tarang”. Working atEngro Foods Ltd. as Assistant BrandManager for product “Tarang”, he hasbeen instrumental in using the rightpromotional mix to attract the rightaudience. Hassan Ismail is busy set-ting up a Telemarketing and CustomerSupport center at Adamjee Insur-ance. Husnain Alam initially joinedAllenDick but left soon afterwardsdue to apparent profanity found inhis company and boss name. Henow works for Alcaltel - Lucent asSales Manager where he wears a suiteveryday. He is expected to changehis marital status from Single to Hap-pily Married this year. Imran Hafeezis working with PTCL and givingstrategic management lessons at SZ-ABIST alongside. Being a strong pro-ponent of women empowerment, hisstudents include only young girls be-tween the 18-22 age bracket.

Jasim Ahmad earned the reputationof most eligible bachelor for the year2007-08 as he joined the league oftop salary withdrawers from the localindustry. Initially placed in Karachiand later in Lahore, he works forAdamjee Insurance as a Senior Man-ager. Quite recently, he has beenfound working out in Shapes to getin shape. Kamilia Iftikhar is theproud owner of a golden Epica andburgundy hair. She is working for Cor-porate Business Development & Strat-egy at Alghanim Industries which iscurrently contributing to corporatecosts for the rest of the divisions.Apart from adding to costs, she isworking on strategies for launchingnew businesses in different geo-graphical areas. She is the spokesper-son for all 2007 graduate recruits atAlghanim and delivered quite aspeech at the Alghanim MBA conven-tion. No one still believes that shecould write such a speech herself!Kanza Fida is working for Wateen inthe Telephony and Voice department.



She’s currently working on a productnamed “Virtual Telephony” which isexpected for launch this year.Kashan Yaqoob joined Engro Foodsas Customer Service Manager andhas been one of the few who haveto date remained loyal to the “COR-PORATION”. Kashan took extra carein deciding the perfect date for hismarriage (making sure it does not co-incide with our convocation andother batch fellow weddings, as isthe case in the month of December).But as it turned out he had to delayhis wedding function due to Benazir’suntimely death. He and Batool finallytied the knot in January. Wishingthem a happily ever after! KashifMunir is working as a ManagementConsultant, trying to teach folks atWarner Brothers and SONY Pictureshow to conduct their business, andbecome an expert in selling DVDs inUS. He is enjoying his "Happily Un-married" status, especially during hisbrief stays in Hollywood. KhurramMir is flying high these days with thesuccessful spin out of his entrepre-neurial venture Kraysis from LUMS.Working as Chief Marketing Officerfor the 1st Software Quality Assur-ance Company in Pakistan, he is de-termined to provide “Quality throughCreativity”. Khurram Saleem addedanother member in his responsibilitymatrix this year when he was blessedwith a baby boy named Ibrahim. Hehas been working with Xavor Corp.as a Management Consultant. Placedin the land of Uncle Sam, he providesconsultancy services to high profileclients such as Sony Pictures, Fox In-teractive Media and Stradling Sourc-ing.

Khwaja Faisal has switched divi-sions at Alghanim - from Facilities toGTRC (which handles FMCG distribu-tion in Kuwait). He will be responsi-ble for launching private labels for hisnew division. Due to lack of other op-portunities, he has shifted his focusto sports and has discovered that heis fairly good at football and squash;albeit his golden touch is hindered

by recurring injuries. He spends therest of his time planning vaca-tions and dreaming of pre-MBA Siemens job.“Happily married” Luq-man Awan is our offi-cial wedding crasherof the year. He hasbeen kind enough tobestow his presence andblessings to every singlebatch mate’s marriage last year. Hisstrong interpersonal and relationshipskills work as a perfect match forShell Pakistan Lubricants business forthe B2B segment. Mehdi Raza spentthe last year working for Uch Poweras financial analyst earning loads ofbonuses. Though serving the energysector, his focus of attention is on ju-diciary rather than power crisis.Muhammad Anis Sajid is single andready to mingle. He started off withReckitt Benckiser and just over half ayear (7 months) switched to Shell.Currently stationed at Hyderabad, heis working for their lubricants busi-ness. Anis insists that nothing muchchanged about himself except forthat he has grown a year older andhis skin has tanned a bit more (cour-tesy the scorching sunlight of Sindh).

Our batch topper MuhammadFarhan Tayyub is working as Assis-tant Brand Manager Gillette at P&G.Settled down with his wife and kid inKarachi; he is often seen on local TVchannels giving interviews in his typi-cal CP mode. And how can we forgethis famous speech at the convoca-tion? Our congratulations to Farhan!He truly deserved to be at the topspot. Mian Murad Ahmed hasmoved from Home Furnishing divi-sion to Kimmco, a manufacturing con-cern of Alghanim Industries. He hasbecome a SAP guru and is set to flyto Hyderabad, India, for SAP imple-mentation. He is the founder of As-tronomy Club in Kuwait, which is stillawaiting the several hundred dollartelescope ordered by him for the stargazing experience in the desert. Be-sides that he has successfully

launched a group on Facebook inhonor of MohammedUsman Ahmed. He haslost quite some weightby devotedly workingout and following a strictdiet plan. MuhammadAli Jawed is a good devi-ation from most of hisbanker batch mates in UAE.

AJ, who is presently working asa Business Analyst at Petrofac, an

Oil Servicing company, lives andworks in Sharjah. He is moving intothe Information Management Unit atthe organization soon. His wife isworking at Pepsi DRC. On weekends,the couple is mostly in Dubai for ex-cursion or shopping. Ali’s love forphotography continues and has influ-enced his wife as well. MuhammadAyaz Karim works as a RelationshipManager at Habib bank A.G. Zurichand was the first one from the batchworking in UAE to get a driving li-cense. Despite his busy work life,Ayaz has become the official host foranyone from the batch visiting Dubai.On other days, he is usually foundfighting the traffic between Sharjahand Dubai.

Muhammad Faisal Amin is workingas Planning Manager for Project Engi-neering and is responsible for estab-lishing the Planning department. Hegot married last October and spentblissful weeks of vacation in Italy. Hehas not lost his appetite for financeand envies his wife who has success-fully passed two levels of CFA. RisingOil prices have ensured MuhammadFarooq Soomro’s stay at Alghanim.Apart from work, he is busy withsports, reading, network gaming,movies, music, arts etc. Farooq madean attempt to uncover his roots withthe earliest civilization found at Petrain Jordan. Though unsuccessful, hestill managed to take some qualitypictures of historical monuments;convincing rest of the Kuwaiti Gangto try their luck next time. Muham-mad Hamid Khan, who unfortu-nately had to leave us in the

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Class notesend, has realized that “the show mustgo on…” After completing his MBAfrom University of Bradford, he nowworks for an Advertising Agency inLahore. Muhammed Usman Ahmedhas switched to the more technoSupply Chain department of Al-ghanim Industries after a brief stint atthe Home Furnishings division. Hekeeps himself intellectually busy, inthe otherwise non-stimulating envi-ronment of Kuwait, by trying to learnArabic online as well as attendingclasses at two different learning cen-ters. He actively participates in foot-ball and squash matches and keepseverybody amused with his cheekycomments, the evidence of whichcan be found by his fan following onhis Facebook group. MuhammadUsman Khan works in the key ac-counts division for Nestle, develop-ing business opportunities with themakros, metros and alfatahs of Pak-istan. In return, he gets a hefty dis-count on essential items whichinclude flour, rice, cooking oil andLUX beauty soap.Muhammad UmarTanwir a.k.a. “UT” became the proudclaimer of a six-digit salary figure ashe joined China Mobile earlier thisyear, pricing their product ZONG. Hissix-digit mark is also responsible forthe extra pounds that he has gainedin weight and the domino effect inturn. With tariff rates cheaper than atoffee, we now see parents buyZONG for their children to meet theirnutrition demands. Natalya Nick-laevna is another lucky one at Petro-fac Sharjah, working as a GraduateTrainee there. Nizam Ahmed andSaira will now have something tocheer about all their lives as they be-came proud parents of a baby girl.He now makes CP in a real capitalmarket and intends to bring in somechanges even though he did not takechange management. Saira still makesmore money than Nizam!

Omar Ahmad is based in KualaLumpur as an economic hit-man forthe global tobacco industry. As Man-ager Finance Standardization for

British American Shared Services, hisjob takes him to 16 countries every 7months, where he makes sure every-one gets that great taste expectedfrom a BAT product. Meanwhile, hishobbies include chasing cute Viet-namese girls, having brawls with Thaiwaiters, disappearing at any indica-tion of a conference-call and settingfire to the office while visiting hisboss in Hong Kong. He himself how-ever prefers not to smoke. OmairYunus is a Product Manager at Al-ghanim Electronics. His claim to fameis a robot that he sourced for his di-vision and which is set to becomethe brand ambassador for AlghanimElectronics. The last product helaunched for Electronics was theworld renowned Elmo which was animmediate hit in the Kuwaiti market.During the past nine months he hasrefined his Arabic and now speaks itfluently. He has also impressed every-one in football as he has finally learnthow to kick the ball while running.Omair is not an advocate of freedomof speech and constantly remindedthis to the writer of these lines. RabiaTirmezey is in the Structured Prod-ucts team at Treasury and Capital mar-kets, Mashreq Bank. Finding itsomewhat tough initially, Rabia hasbecome accustomed to an all-maleenvironment on the trading floor atwork and the idea of living alone athome. And in turn, few of her closerfriends from the batch in Dubai arenow used to her frequent emergencycalls after having lost her mobile/wal-let or having landed in some problemor the other. Rafeal Ali had a mem-orable trip to Pakistan earlier this yearwhen he came to work for DesconEngineering. He will be moving onthis summer as a Marketing Engineerfor Descon’s Eastern Europe and Cen-tral Asia Division at UAE. Rai Usmanis with Barclays Dubai, UAE in theirConsumer Banking Division. Raza-ul-Haque is still with Chevron. A reliablesource has been able to quote thatsomebody heard his boss saying thatLabor Day (May 1st) is basicallyRaza's day. Consequently, he has not

been able to remove the stigma of"cheap labor" from him. His companyhas recently given him a brand newCorolla which he profusely uses toroam around in the city of Karachiduring the late night hours.

Sajjad Ali Khan after spending halfthe year working as Research Associ-ate under Nasir Afghan is now work-ing as Assistant Manager Data andVPN for Wateen. Salman AhmedKhan got married to Umama thisyear. The highlight of the event wasthe 16-hour long road trip from La-hore to Abbotabad and back to La-hore (details of which cannot bedisclosed to our respected readers).Thanks to Umama, his smoking activ-ity has gone underground; at least fornow! Working as Relationship Man-ager in ABN AMRO; he still goesthrough all of the readings beforecoming to the bank. Sarmad Baluchis employed at the Corporate BankingGroup of First Gulf Bank, located inAbu Dhabi. In spite of living in one ofthe quieter Emirates, he is hardlyseen in Dubai. One of his recentachievements has been endorsing re-cruitment of LUMS graduates at hisorganization, an effort that the juniorbatch has benefited from.

Saud Mukhtar is currently working inREITs and New initiatives Wing atSECP. Prior to working at SECP heworked for an assignment for theWorld Bank. He got married last yearbut his friends insist that he is still sin-gle at heart. Saqib Mubarak is work-ing in Projects Engineering atAlghanim Industries, the same de-partment as Faisal Amin and this hasconvinced everyone of the diversityof LUMS MBAs. He has been pivotalin increasing the social circle for theLUMS community in Kuwait and dueto his efforts everyone is now invitedfor dinners at the Pakistani Consulate.He works extra passionately at the of-fice and the management rewardedhim by making him work on Satur-days as well while everyone else is



Class notesasleep. Shafiq Sobhan works in theTransaction Banking unit at StandardChartered Bank. He was the first oneto organize a batch gathering for allin UAE, the only event so far whichhad the maximum attendance fromthe batch. Shafiq has to divide histime between Dubai, Australia(where his wife is working) and hishometown Bangladesh.

Shahrukh and Maryam spent mostof last year planning and enjoyingtheir wedding celebrations. Nowback to real life, they're busy workingaway in Lahore; him in a boomingbank and her in an underpaidmarketing division. And now finallytaking a break from work, they'reanxiously waiting for their (now-a-bit-stale honeymoon) trip to the beauti-ful white beaches Far East very soon!Shahzad Ahmed lost his Bachelor’sDegree to Maryam on 15th March,2008. Currently, he is managing Cor-porate Banking relations for FaysalBank after hopping away from a localengineering firm. ShehreyarMehmood (Shere) is working on Mo-bilink VAS and can also be seen inseveral music videos that he has up-loaded on Facebook. He’s is surelybecoming a treat to watch for allmusic lovers. Shelina Khoja has keptup with the MBA tradition of switch-ing jobs. She has recently joinedKirby, a manufacturing concern of Al-ghanim Industries. Prior to joiningKirby, she was working for NationalIndustrial Park in Karachi. She spendsmost of the time commuting betweenhome and office as her office is lo-cated in a corner of Kuwait. She isthinking of enrolling in Malyalamclasses instead of Arabic becauseshe works in a division dominated bySouth Indians.

Siddique Ahmad works for the pric-ing and business intelligence depart-ment at Mobilink. He got married tohis FASTian counterpart namedAmina earlier this year. SohaibHashmi is another one of the Rela-tionship Managers at Habib bank

A.G. Zurich and the only one fromthe batch to live in one of the poshareas of Dubai, Jumeirah Beach resi-dence. Sohaib is mostly found atJumeirah Beach and has a very activesocial life. The most recent updateabout him is that he has started work-ing out in an effort to show off at thebeach. Syed Aamir Asif is presentlyworking as an Associate in the Treas-ury & Capital markets unit at MashreqBank. Referred to as “Touchme Tal-cum” by his office colleagues, he islooking after Alternate Investments.Between going for his recurring driv-ing tests (he finally has a license) andstudying for his upcoming CAIAexam, Aamer manages to take outtime to woo girls, whether in officeor outside. Syed Ali Haider is work-ing at the Corporate Banking Groupof Habib Bank A.G. Zurich. Moreover,he joined the parenthood clan thisyear when he was blessed with ababy girl recently and since then hasbeen devoting most of his free timeto family. Syed Ammar Yasin a.k.a.“doctor” works for Telenor in the pric-ing department. When Tahir Bhai’s de-cision to ditch doctor and settledown for good became public,Ammar managed to get even by get-ting married 3 days earlier to TahirBhai’s marriage.

Tahir Masood went on to join thetextile industry but later on called it aday. He is now working for NestlePakistan as Area Sales Manager look-ing after the Old Lahore City. On apersonal update, he parted waysfrom “doctor” for good and gothitched. Umair Mukhtar is living hislife with his wife and two kids in na-tion’s capital Isloo. Last time weheard, he was in PTCL working on ahighly strategic (not to be disclosedpublicly) product. Umair ShabbirButt works for Wateen Telecom in theProduct and Services division, wherehe’s using his excel skills to the limitas he tries to run the entire Wateenoperations on it. Knowing that Pak-istan is facing the worst electricity cri-sis to date; Umair has found out a

way to save electricity by deployingfiber optics (which require only pas-sive elements and no amplifierswhich consume electricity) to everyhousehold in the country. Eyeing formarriage before start of 2009, hespends his free time doing qualitativeanalysis of marriage proposals. Ourself-proclaimed banker dude WasifSikander Butt gave a shock to every-one when he decided to quitCitibank and join Nestle instead. Heis responsible for channel develop-ment of MAGGI.

Yashrah Masood after listening tothe hue and cry of her friends, forbeing fashion blind, finally took up ajob as Manager Supply Chain atSOUL Collections, a sister concern ofService Sales Corporation, dealing en-tirely in ladies fashion footwear. Toher extreme disappointment, there isno discount even for the employees.So, she is stuck with her old friendsand old shoe stock! Yasir SulemanMemon is on his quest of saving theworld from “khuli chai ki patti” byworking at Unilever Pakistan. Market-ing is fun but he still can't resist dis-mantling every computer relatedobject that ceases to work. Thesedays he is busy reading articles on"101 ways to be a good husband";something he needs to finish beforethe end of this year.

The following people are being clas-sified as “Missing in Action”. Due totheir overly self-exclaimed busyschedule, we could not get theirclass note update. Consequently, theclass notes editor had to use his sixthsense to determine their recent activ-ities and whereabouts. We hope tohear from them directly in the yearsto come.

Far from the outskirts of Lahore in thedistrict of Gujranwala, we findMuhammad Bin Shahbaz trying toconvince the masses to drink andbath with Nestle water rather thantap water. While Raza Rehman isalso doing the same for Lahore city,

Class notesBobby a.k.a. Abubakar Siddiqueis working on some top secret retailcensus project. Working together,Bin and Raza have also changedtheir bachelor status while Bobbyintends to stay single for the timebeing. Aly Abdul Rehman andMuhammad Niazi Malik are work-ing for SAMBA (It’s a bank and nota dance number). “Bro” is placed inKarachi and takes time out tovisit his family in Canada,while Niazi works from theLahore office.

The Unilever Group suc-cessfully went throughtheir year long manage-ment trainee programand has started to settledown in different areas.Aly Yusufworks on justify-ing the financial decisions oftop management for the ice-cream category. Saima Ansariis working for the “Surf” brand andspends her Sundays doing theweekend laundry chores with herhusband Arman. Umer Farrukha.k.a. KC’s energetic personalitylanded him into the “Energile”brand. After much deliberationfrom others, he finally got a hair cutearlier this year. Also, he has re-cently shifted to a new apartmentwith Spikey. Also Known as UmerMehmood by some, Spikey is in teacategory working for brand BrookeBond A1 Karak Chai. Cisco GirlMehtab Lasharie spent most ofher last year at Amsterdam. Shewas last seen dining out with herold friends in Arizona Grill Lahore.She plans to come back to Lahorepermanently this summer.

Some of our foreign friends havealso been found missing in action

since graduation. Our volleyballwonder boy Badri Nath got mar-ried earlier this year. He’s workingfor some power production houseproviding them financial consul-tancy. Shuhrat was last seen in hishometown working for some finan-cial concern. Suresh Shresthaspends his time seeing his two kids

growing up. He is lookingforward to takingup a key positionin office later thisyear.

Mu h ammadAli Imam is ap-plying his OB,OPD and ChangeM a n a g e m e n tmodels at Engro’sHR. He was blessedwith a second child

this year; a baby girlnamed Zainab.

M u h a m m a dAhmed Rajis alsoworkingf o rE n g r oand hasbeen un-dergroundsince hishead quarteroffice inKarachi gotburnt. We hopeto hear from him soon. Anotherone of our young entrepreneurMuhammad Shahid Bashir is hav-ing success selling Ethanol (madefrom Sugarcane) to prospectivelocal as well as foreign clients. Hap-pily married Muhammad Usmansells Safeguard soap for P&G. OurDon of Karachi Taimur Karim a.k.a.

Timi works for HSBC Corporate.Zeeshan Saleem Bhutta tries tosell the “real news” through theDaily Times. Zenubia Qureshi leftICI and is now working for Inbox.

And lastly, your class note coordi-nator Ahmed Shiraz Butt is at Wa-teen serving the Telecom sector;where he has managed to impresshis superiors through his exquisitePowerPoint skills that he polishedduring his LUMS days. He’s workingon bringing in the digital TV revolu-tion in Pakistan. At Wateen, he hasfound two new passions in his lifewhich are; making a DVD librarycollection (currently stand at count132) and playing MOHA. Known as“Merchant of Death” by his MOHAComrades, his ever increasing bellyis fast becoming a source of ob-struction to his daily life routine.

In short, many of us have alreadystarted to live through the hopesand dreams that we had when wewere about to leave LUMS. As wemove on to continue with our lives,

all of us still have high hopesand dreams. And while someoriginal ambitions may nothave survived, our determi-nation still remains…


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