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  INDEPENDENCE DAY – Blog Post #368 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #368. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   FELICITATIONS TO ALL PAKISTANIS ON  INDEPENDENCE DAY Counting 14 August 1947 as the First Independence Day, Today is 74 th Independence Day. It will correspond to 73 rd Anniversary of Independence. All good things can only be appreciated if these are seen in comparison with their opposites. Similarly, Independence shall only be understood and recognized when seen in relation to living under an alien regime, most likely as a minority. Muslims in India are a case in point. Their number was 182 million in 2017 and may be close to 200 million now; almost same as the Mus...

  Post COVID Strategies – Part VI – Sum Up  – Blog Post #367 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #367. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   Continued from Previous…… We have looked at various strategies in this series. In this last part, we sum it up and conclude this discussion. COVID is a complex event which has affected all segments and facets of life. An untouched area would be hard to find. At individual level, it affected us emotionally, mentally, psychologically, physically, spiritually and financially. Some people took it very seriously, isolated themselves completely, suspended all social activities and literally went into imprisonment. Others took it more lightly. All th...

Post COVID Strategies – Part V – Technology – Blog Post #366 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #366. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   Continued from Previous…… Technology is another important area to work on as part of Post COVID strategies. Technology is a less talked about topic in Pakistan. We still consider technology alien at best and luxury at worst. One major reason is availability of cheap human labor. The additional benefit of human labor is its flexibility. One person can do multiple jobs which a machine would not. Cheap labor is our asset and our bane. We have unskilled labor by the millions which is of limited use actually. If we can make skills training less complex and l...

Post COVID Strategies – Part IV – Innovation – Blog Post #365 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #365. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 . Continued from Previous…… Innovation is another important area to work on as part of Post COVID strategies. Innovation is multidimensional and should be regarded as such, rather than taking it in the narrow sense of the product innovation. Innovation may be considered in multiple areas. First of all, innovation is needed in workflow and work procedures. I understand we are dying to return to the old, pre-COVID routine. This should be corrected. A hundred percent return may never happen actually, and we should stop looking for it. Instead, we should bring inno...

Post COVID Strategies – Part III – Blog Post #364 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #364. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   Continued from Previous…… Strategy as a common driving force is the next topic in sequence. Pharma business is certainly not one unit; it is a lot of individual units each having their own business strategies. We therefore cannot talk about a single one or a set of strategies. I still believe that the Local Pharma Industry under PPMA should show some form of unified strategy, like their multinational counterparts do under Pharma Bureau and the OICC (Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce). The MNCs do business separately but watch their interests together. Local P...

Post COVID Strategies – Part II – Blog Post #363 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #363. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   Continued from Previous…… In continuation with the economic impact, we talk next about stimulus packages. What was mentioned in Part I was about providing relief. Providing relief is not the same as stimulating or triggering the commercial activity. STIMULUS PACKAGES Our focus shall remain Pharma and we see what kind of stimulus packages may be considered. There is a general perception that Pharma Industry suffered less as compared to most other businesses, but this statement does not hold true when we look deeper. Pharmaceutical products may be broadly divided int...

Eid ul Azha 2020 – Blog Post #362 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #362. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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 .   Eid ul Azha Mubarak !!! I pray that Allah Grants relief to all of us from difficulties. Aameen I pray that Allah Makes it easy for us to overcome losses. Aameen Eid ul Azha is here. Like Eid ul Fitr, this Eid is also shadowed by COVID19. I pass by two goat/cattle markets on the way to and from office. The number of visitors has been rising every day. The notice says ‘No Entry Without Mask – Fine for Violation Rs. 500’. The buyers are wearing masks diligently. I wish to raise few questions here. It is interesting to note that on every Eid ul Azha, lot of people spend a lot of time...