Important for public sector to own private sector to exploit defence production potential: Experts.

ISLAMABAD -- To exploit its defence production potential to the fullest, Pakistan needs to develop and progress in the fields of education, quality HR, R and D, industrialisation, technology, academia-industry linkages and provide an enabling environment to the private sector.

This was the key message of the eminent speakers at the seminar on 'Defence Production Potential in Pakistan: Increasing through Public-Private Partnership - A Policy Construct' organised by the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS) in Islamabad. The keynote address was delivered by General Zubair Mehmood Hayat, NI (M) (Retd), Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Other distinguished speakers included Vice Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Rao (Retd), Former Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) and Managing Director Karachi Shipyard; Air Vice Marshal Asad Ikram (Retd), Senior Advisor, Project Phoenix, Air Headquarters; and Mr Tanveer Sultan Awan, Chairman, Hajvairy Technologies (Pvt) Limited. The seminar was chaired by President CASS Air Marshal Farhat Hussain Khan (Retd), while Air Vice Marshal Faheem Ullah Malik, Director at CASS moderated the...