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But the private sector is skeptical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aims were outlined by Army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in a government-hosted seminar earlier this month, which included public and private sector representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seminar recommended establishment of a task force to develop a roadmap for aiding indigenous defense production, establishing a raw material industry in conjunction with the private sector, utilizing surplus production capacity for export, and establishing \u2018digital parks\u2019 to exploit software industry potential and promote university level research and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Shehzad Ahmed Mir, managing director of Bow Systems Ltd, a private sector defense contracting company, says bureaucratic resistance needs to be overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArmy chiefs come and go, only policies stay. So far there is no government policy to support such repetitive statements made by many an armed forces chief,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mir blames Pakistan\u2019s civilian bureaucracy for resisting change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe problem lies in the acceptance of the bare fact that private industry can do the job far better, and at much lower cost than these bureaucrats. Unless the defense ministry in Pakistan seriously invites the private industry to sit across the table, go through a lengthy and complex process of negotiations to formulate a standard policy for such matters, such statements are worthless in the business world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2019\/03\/25\/pakistan-sends-subtle-messages-to-india-us-in-military-parade\/\" target=_blank>Exports are a key aspect of the drive<\/a>, but the problems Mir highlights have already taken their toll. For example, one of Pakistan\u2019s main defense equipment exporters is state-owned Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), but its main focus is meeting domestic military requirements. Only when these are fulfilled is any spare production capacity given over for commercial orders, which private defense contractors and even POF officials highlight as restricting export potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also noteworthy, Pakistan may already have killed off a golden egg laying goose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of UAV firm Integrated Dynamics (ID), Raja S Khan, says the once thriving private UAV industry essentially collapsed when state bodies took their projects in house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ID has had notable export success, including with U.S. Border Patrol. It is most renowned though for developing the Burraq armed drone (later used as a basis by the government\u2019s Air Weapons Complex to develop the Shahpar UAV). 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