 The Japanese directors took up assignments in Europe with the 43-year-old Humayun Murad appointed as Managing Director and Durrani remained as Vice Chairman.Durrani later took on a number of projects in his home district, Charsadda, aimed at helping Pashtuns and Pakistanis, including job creation and funding humanitarian projects, development and charities.These projects included a fructose factory and Frontier Ceramics, one of the largest in output of Italian style tiles and functional ceramics in Asia (at the time).