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IoP roundtable on 16th

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LAHORE: The Institute of Overseas Pakistanis (IOP) and the monthly Pakistan Calling are jointly organising a roundtable on "World's Perception About Pakistan - Concerns and Remedies" on January 16.

Former adviser on finance to the government of Pakistan, Shahid Javed Burki, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers include S. M. Zafar, Irshad Haqqani, Najam Sethi, Asma Jehangir, Dr. Khalid Ranjha, Saeed Chaudhry and Sheldon J. Rapoport, principal officer at the US Consulate, Lahore.

The IOP is a not-for-profit organisation of overseas Pakistanis, which is working to mobilise the intellectual and material resources of the expatriates for the development and progress of Pakistan.