That statement I made that Pakistan has no industry was tad harsh.A more nuanced statement would be only Sialkot in Pakistan has real industry. You want to take Pakistan forward? Replicate Sialkot everywhere.
Sialkot is not raping remittances - meaning living off the demand created by remittances. You know CKD kit car Toyotas, CKD TV's, CKD etc etc which are just local packing operations of global multinationals like Toyota, Suzuki, Hiear etc.
Sialkot actually makes products that are sold abroad and at prices that compete with rest of the world. It is genuine industry and in the best tradition of entrepreneurship. It depends on no subsidy, import substitution, a packing racket etc. Siakot actually generates real wealth.
So people need to study this city. What does it have? why are the people so 'industrious'?
THIS,THIS,THIS GODDAMN IT THIS!!
People look at other countries to replicate but I think Pakistan should look at Sialkot (as far as manufacturing is concerned)
Sialkot is king of SME sector in Pakistan, they make literally a whole lot of things that you'll be surprised we make in Pakistan (if you are from a family of factory people you'll know how much we rely on Sialkot) and income inequality is some of the lowest in the country cause almost everyone in the city is involved in some kind of export industry (yes even the small houses contribute through their SME), Gujrat is a small city but is somewhat similar to Sialkot in its approach to industry
In comparison Faisalabad is where big industries are located at but SME is still work in progress
Kashmir relies on remittances for everything
For the future country should focus on Islamabad, Peshawar , Lahore for IT and other service/education related stuff
Punjab triangle of Sialkot, Gujrat, Faisalabad for industrial output
and Karachi can do both and plus some
city focused approach where you give them all the facilities to do business, have SMEs that feed into bigger industry, cheap loans for SME, great infrastructure in the cities, technical institutes in industrial cities
research university , good quality universities in Peshawar, Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi to help us with some of the higher quality stuff
Actually make clusters of specific things in cities as its easier to help them from governmental prespective