Arshad Khan's impressive career record shows, among other things, that having worked with both, media & telecom organisations, he had provided a unique opportunity to understand the issues & challenges that lie ahead relating to service delivery and regulatory framework in the wake of convergence of media, telecom & information technologies.
He has over 30 years of experience working with National, Multinational and Public Sector Organizations holding Board level and key Management positions. Responsibilities included strategic planning & management, policy & strategy formulation, organizational restructuring, commercial & technical operations, telecom & electronic media operations and handling telecom & media policy & regulatory matters.
His key achievements include establishing a new cellular venture Ufone literally from scratch and successfully running its operations as its Chief Executive. Ufone not only deployed state of the art cellular network & allied systems but also achieved unprecedented marketing & financial results. It truly played the role of a catalyst in the growth of cellular industry of Pakistan. Ufone introduced technologies like WAP & GPRS (2.5G) for the first time in Pakistan in 2001/02, which laid the foundation for mobile internet/data services and prompted the potential for wireless broadband technologies like Wimax/3G/4G/ LTE in the country. He also turned around/ transformed large public sector organizations like Pakistan Television as its Managing Director twice and Pakistan Post as its Chairman & Director General. He is a recipient of Sitara-e-Imtiaz conferred on him by President of Pakistan in 2005.