CM chairs meeting to review IDEAS 2022 preps

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday said that Defence Export Promotion Organization (DEPO) and International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) emerged as an international rendezvous of defence manufacturers, entrepreneurs, R&D specialists and top-level policymakers.

He said this while presiding over the Steering Committee meeting of IDEAS here at CM House. Provincial ministers, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, Sardar Shah, Nasir Shah, Administrator Karachi Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput, IG Police GhulamNabi Memon, Adl IGs and other concerned officers attended the meeting.

From the DEPO side DG Depo Maj Gen Arif Malik, Brigadier Naveed Azam, Commodore Tahir, Col Ahmed Nawaz and others also attended the meeting.

The CM said that the IDEAS was an event that provided enhanced opportunities for commercial exchange between delegates, trade visitors, defence officials and manufacturers from within Pakistan and abroad.

Shah added that the 11th edition of IDEAS 2022, scheduled to be held from 15-18 November 2022 at Karachi Expo Center, was indeed a testimony to our pledge to encourage technological growth.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 22^nd, 2022.