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Kit
no. 973 was inducted into Latif House. I can still
recall the skinny boy who had the greatest urge in
life to acquire a sound education. Ibrahim had
come from an Urdu medium school, and was not well
equipped to cope with the fast pace of studies in
an English medium Cadet College. However, the
remarkable aspect is that Ibrahim was the one to
obtain the second highest marks in the
Intermediate Board examinations from the Petaro
contingent. This is indeed the height of
achievement through hard work.
Ibrahim was not very far behind in sports
activities either. He was a member of the Latif
House football team.
After graduation from Petaro, Ibrahim decided to
become an Electrical Engineer. This education he
acquired from the University of Engineering and
Technology, Lahore with flying colors. Fortunately
for him, his parents decided to get him married
while he was still a first year student at
university - to protect him from the vices of
society. Thus, today he is the senior most father
among all of his colleagues, with
almost all of his children
married.
As
an engineer, Ibrahim joined Pakistan Telecom, and
became an authority on telephony. He rose to be a
Divisional Engineer by the early 1980s. That was
when he chose to quit and seek his fortunes in
Iraq (with a Pakistani company called Nazir &
Co.), while that country waged a war against Iran.
With a small fortune, he returned and joined
Australian Telecom as their resident manager in
Pakistan.
The
late 1980s brought about a boom in the
telecommunications business in Pakistan, with a
massive expansion program. Over 500,000 new
telephone lines were laid in the country, and the
work was done by private contracting companies.
One of the larger projects in this area was
awarded to Sachal Engineering Works (Pvt.) Ltd.,
which Ibrahim had joined in the
mid-1990's as a partner for the
telecommunications projects. He had taken a risk
by quitting a lucrative job and going into
business himself. The time was right and so were
his calculations. With the blessings of Allah, the
Most Gracious, Ibrahim is a successful businessman
today in Pakistan. He is one of the most respected
names in the telecommunications field in the
country. Since then, he has
established Sachal Telecom (Pvt) Ltd and Sachal
Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.
Since 2007, he has
also established a branch of his company in Saudi
Arabia and spends most of his time in Riyadh.
We
Petarians are proud to have Muhammad Ibrahim as a
colleague of ours. We pray for his further
success.
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