My Profile

Mansoor Qureshi, born in Nawabshah, is a highly skillful, self motivated professional of strong educational background. He obtained his Intermediate level education from the prestigious institution of Cadet College, Petaro and went on to graduate with an engineering degree from NED University, Karachi in 1999. During his student life, he was an active debater and won various competitions, achieving a number of trophies as well as gold medals in annual debate contests at Petaro and NED University. He has also attended various courses on Public Speaking, Leadership and Stewardship & Community.

He has proved to be an asset for Pakistan People's party as the party needs young professionals who are visionaries, focused on bringing change and believe in action, self motivated, educated, sincere, charismatic, confident, and  result-oriented.

While talking about his enthusiasm and motivation towards politics and in particular PPP, he states “Thinking back about my childhood days brings a flood of memories, the first memory being about the portrait of a distinguished looking gentleman hanging on a wall in my home. When I asked my father, I found out it was of Late Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Another is a video, of Mr. Bhutto giving a speech at UNO. Over the years, he has become an ideal personality for me as well as an inspiration. It has become an ambition of mine to enter into politics and help further the mission that our great leader had begun in the 1970s.”

Career-wise, Mansoor Qureshi has professionally been working in the area of Information Technology coping Recruitment & Human Resources for the last 12 years: it has provided him an insight into what the global IT industry needs in terms of skill sets and competencies. In his current position, he is responsible for not only hiring people from all over the world, but also for training, career counseling, interview preparing, etc.

Active work for PPP since 15 years
Mansoor Qureshi is the Information Secretary and General Secretary for Washington DC & Maryland as well as a Lobbyist for PPP. His responsibilities include contacting senators, other local Pakistani community members and media, to make a clear party stand on current political situation in Pakistan. He has also served as the Vice President of Student Council, Washington and Maryland. In this capacity, he organized a peace rally on Indo Pak Kashmir war issue. He also organized discussions and seminars on release of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.

Mansoor Qureshi spent 5 days with Ms. Benazir Bhutto as Representative PPP, Washington DC on her visit to Washington DC in 2004. He attended all official meetings, press conferences, interviews, social events and gatherings, etc. with Mohtarma throughout her visit.

Achievements:
Developed website: Voice of PPP.com on Human Rights: The website was focused on release of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari from prison. A press conference was conducted for the same reason at Dr. Javed Manzoor’s, President PPP Washington DC’s residence. A multimedia presentation was presented which was highlighted by all major Urdu newspapers in USA. On this basis, this presentation was sent to all prominent senators and congressmen.

Restoration of Democracy: Seminars & workshops were conducted on restoration of democracy and several copies of power point presentations on the same were distributed. A team was established for democracy restoration and condemning false cases against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari. During the workshops, PPP's manifesto and pamphlets containing Mr. Asif Ali Zardari's pictures in jail were distributed. Emails were sent regularly to senators and congressmen and media officials for this purpose outlining the following demands: Restoration of democracy, Release of Asif Ali Zardari, Cancellation of all cases against Ms. Benazir Bhutto, Ms. Benazir Bhutto be allowed to return to Pakistan.

Developed Website: www.benazirbhutto.net:  This was the first time a website was designed on Ms. Benazir Bhutto and PPP as well and Mansoor Qureshi was the one who designed and developed this website as a gift to Ms. Benazir Bhutto. The website contains detailed info on Ms. Benazir Bhutto and PPP's objectives.

Vice President SANA (Sindhi Association of North America), Washington DC during 2003-2005 and actively organized annual get-togethers, social gatherings and events, etc. Generated memberships from SANA for PPP Washington DC by providing information on PPP and answering their queries.

Vice President, Student Association of USA, representing all Pakistani nationals who are pursuing their studies in USA.

Democracy in action. This was a lobbying firm, registered and established by Mansoor Qureshi for restoration of democracy and Ms. Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan. Not only Pakistanis, but a number of Americans were the part of this firm, who had personal relations with all top-ranked senators and congressmen as they were representing their parties as local chapters. 

Website: Sind Vision www.sindvision.com: Aimed at improving literacy level in the country and empowering the youth, the website focuses on educating the youth with more career options, highlighting major scholarships, job fairs, workshops being conducted, etc.

 

The Vision
Mansoor Qureshi has a vision for Pakistan, not only a vision but a detailed plan and strategies along with support from several young people in Pakistan as well as in UK, USA, UAE and Germany. He possesses a good network of contacts in International organizations that are willing to offer their investments in improving his team’s infrastructure support and HR Skills, for catering the need of Outsourcing companies in USA and other European Companies. This provides his team with a leverage and means to attract foreign investment and Financial Aid to Pakistan. He also has got proven ideas and projects in mind which would help create thousands of Jobs in Pakistan and help people in getting employment and growing professionally.

According to Mansoor’s observations and analysis, there is a tremendous amount of employment opportunities with USA-based IT companies, which outsource major parts of their projects to off-shore companies. These companies are outsourcing their projects mainly to India as Indian government has focused more on technology education and developed a feasible infrastructure in the country for off-shore projects. Pakistan has no dearth of talent or intelligence but we lack the infrastructure and resources as well as public awareness about the International market.

Plan
Mansoor Qureshi has several target-oriented plans that could help our people get equipped with the needed skills set to position themselves in the International IT market. Pakistanis are still clueless about the kind of skills and knowledge that are needed to compete in the International market.

Comparison
In India, Bangalore alone has earned revenue of 27 billion dollars in a year. There has also been massive Foreign Investment in India as the International market sees the potential in Indians. Why can't Pakistan leverage itself the same way? That is because Pakistan lacks information on what is in demand and how to penetrate into this market. Pakistan has a lot of potential in terms of its Human Resource, which has not been utilized at all. All that Pakistan needs is information, a nudge in the right direction and supportive infrastructure.

Mansoor has several small projects in mind, that would help Pakistan position itself and enable it to penetrate into the IT Market and attract Foreign Investments into the country. Some of them are:

1. Job Fairs
2. Workshops,
3. Technology Events
4. Campaigns.
5. Counseling
6. Seminars
7. Virtual Classes & training sessions.

8. Website containing specific resources for resume Writing, interview preparation, Institutes / Courses, Professional Training, Careers in Technology:

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