Pakistani professional honoured

KARACHI: Fahad Qadir, director public affairs and communications of Coca-Cola Pakistan, has been selected as one of the 40 young professionals under the age of 40 from across Asia-Pacific, for this year’s “40 under 40” list of Asia Pacific’s next generation of leadership, a statement said on Friday.

The list is being prepared by the Campaign Asia-Pacific, a premium online publishing unit of Haymarket Publishing, the UK’s largest independently-owned publishing group, it added. It is for the first time that a Pakistani has made it to this prestigious annual listing. This accolade is even more significant in the light of the fact that this year, there was double the number of entries as compared to last year, including all types of marketing and communication professionals.