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Pakistan at 78: Rising Together Towards a Brighter Future – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1146 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1146 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit. Muneeb Malhotra   Credit: Dr Photographer Credit: Hamayoon Riaz Preamble 14 August is not just another date in our calendar; it is the heartbeat of our national identity. It is the day when, in 1947, a dream was realized, a homeland where people could live with dignity, freedom, and self-determination. Today, as Pakistan celebrates its 78th Independence Day, we find ourselves reflecting on our journey, a journey filled with struggles, triumphs, and persistent challenges. We cannot deny that our nation has endured many hurdles: political instability, economic struggles, corruption, weak governance, and social inequality...

Pakistan Budget 2025-26 – First Impressions – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1119 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1119 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Federal Minister for Finance Presenting Budget 2025-26 Preamble Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2025-26 has just been announced and experts are working to understand, critique it, and offer opinions and suggestion. Federal cabinet, however, has already approved it as their job is to side with the government in all situations. Their approval is political, not technical.  As Pakistan heads into fiscal year 2025–26, the federal government has rolled out an ambitious and tightly managed budget. Aiming to power up growth while maintaining fiscal discipline amid geopolitical tremors, the plan reflects both optimism and restraint. But as anal...

Women’s Health – The Untapped Opportunity – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1062 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1062 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cnordic Nordic credit: MART Production Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Credit: Yan Krukau This post is based on a McKinsey Report. Link at the end. Preamble Most top pharma companies derive more than 60 percent of their revenue from therapies for diseases that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately. Despite significant strides in medicine, women's health remains an underexplored and underfunded sector. Many health concerns that disproportionately affect women are not sufficiently researched or addressed. Conditions such as endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and various reproductive cancers receive a fraction o...

Fear of Letting Go and What to Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Preamble In one of the organizations, I had a colleague who had been working on the documentation of export shipments, and he was good at it. During that time, he also somehow got the opportunity to do business communication with couple of customers abroad and did it well. My assessment was that he had good talent for business, and he should shift to that area of work. It would be good for his future growth because documentation was almost a dead-end job. We talked in detail, and he agreed, but he said he would do both for some time. Understanding his fear of letting go, I agreed. Meanwhile, we hired someone for documentation. However, he kept sticking to the ...

Generative AI – Lovers, Haters, and Their Arguments – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #968 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 968 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ron Lach Credit: Cedric Fauntleroy Credit: iam hogir Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Nabath Otieno Credit: ROMAN ODINTSOV Help for this two-part blogpost has been taken from ChatGPT4o, HubSpot, Mckinsey, and MIT. Prologue Generative AI has sparked significant debate, drawing strong opinions from both advocates and critics. The technology's potential to transform industries and society at large is undeniable, but so are the concerns it raises.  CSER – Center for the Study of Existential Risk – is an interdisciplinary research center within the University of Cambridge, UK. Their website says, ‘We are dedicated to the study and mitigatio...

New Year –Ideas For A Life Worth Living – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #894 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #894 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Sami Anas Welcome New Year – 2024. Let Us Pray that the New Year Brings Peace, Comfort, Calm, Opportunities, Justice, Fair play, Fulfilment, and Makes Life Worth Living for Us. Aameen.  I have been a longtime admirer of Maria Popova who fled from Hungary (I guess) and came to the US at a very young age. She is deep into many literary pursuits and has been publishing a Newsletter which was previously named ‘Brainpickings’ and now renamed as ‘The Marginalian’. She does enormous amount of work to keep this newsletter and other...

Girls in Education in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anastasiya Gepp Credit: George Dolgikh Credit: Julia M Cameron Credit: Nicole Berro Let us talk about the great achievements girls are making in education. Pass by any road and we see large billboards displaying extraordinary results obtained by girls, their names, and pictures (mostly) are shown. I wish to raise a point here that it is inappropriate that the names and pictures of young, innocent girls are displayed publicly. Given the pathetic mentality our males have, it could pose risk for anyone of them. There is no doubt that girls are beating the boys in ...

Job Opportunities and Other Aspects of AI and ChatGPT – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #812 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #812 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Kindel Media Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Photo Credit: Ron Lach In the last post, we took up the impact of AI and ChatGPT on the job market generally, which jobs are more likely to be replaced and which may be transformed. In this post, we shall take up job opportunities which would possibly be created by these technologies. Upskilling and Reskilling Opportunities in the Age of AI As AI and ChatGPT continue to disrupt industries, upskilling and reskilling become crucial for individuals seeking to adapt to the changing job landscape. U...