Pakistan has made considerable progress during the last 55 years since its independence. A country with about 30 million people in 1947 was heavily dependent on imported food, imported cloth and imported energy to sustain itself. There were serious doubts raised at that time about the country’s economic survival.
Today, in 2003 Pakistan one of the largest countries in the world with a population 145 million is not only self sufficient in food grains, meat, milk and poultry but also exports wheat and rice. Pakistan does not only clothe its population but is one of the leading exporters of textiles in the world.