For the last 10 years, we are having bi-annual research conferences regularly. Last year we decided to upscale our conference at the international level by organising SZABIST's 1st International Conference in collaboration with the Department of Management and Administrative Sciences, University of Karachi. The participations in the conference from all over Pakistan and abroad has reinforced our earlier decision for holding this 2nd international academic event. In this two-day conference 110 research papers are being presented in 9 parallel sessions on Management, Social Sciences, Economics and Computing.
The importance of research in a society can be gauged by this fact that that no region has achieved the technological advancements and socio-economic development without the proliferation of research and innovations. Let us be sure, as Asian and a part of the global community that there is no other way by which we can uplift the status and well-being of the people living in our part, but through education, research, and innovation.
However, let's be realistic that the task at hand is huge and we are resource constrained. There is a need to multiply the resources by having greater network of the institutions of higher learning all across the region and beyond. At the individual level Universities' contribution to the higher education is no more than dots; but if such thousands of dots are joined together, a silver line can be drawn which may lead to a new dawn for the prosperity of humanity. Here simply I wish to say let's work together and build together as an international community. Finally, I wish you a very informative and academically enriching experience of this conference.