GROUP CHAIRMAN

Syed Shujaat Ali

Group Chairman, Al Rahim Group of Companies

Founder & Chief Executive, Inter Fret Consolidators (Pvt.) Ltd.

From a 1995 logistics foundation to a diversified operating group, and now QARC.

Syed Shujaat Ali’s documented business journey begins with Inter Fret Consolidators in 1995. Over three decades, that operating base expanded into a broader Al Rahim Group platform spanning logistics, aviation, travel, overseas employment, workforce development, industrial activity, digital systems and international partnerships. In 2026, the next institutional chapter is QARC, the Group’s flagship research and innovation division.

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1995Inter Fret foundation

30+Years of operating history

2026QARC chapter

Syed Shujaat Ali in an Al Rahim Group leadership meeting — LEADERSHIP IN ACTIONLogistics, People, Infrastructure, Technology

THE LEADERSHIP STORY

Build capability. Formalize it. Connect it. Then open the next institution.

The story is not simply one of adding companies. Across the Group’s corporate material, the recurring pattern is to build operating capability first, strengthen it through standards and institutional relationships, extend into adjacent sectors, and then connect those capabilities into larger international platforms. QARC applies the same discipline to research: solve real problems, validate in the field, then scale and commercialize.

Evidence led chronologyDates are used only where the corporate record provides them. Broader phases are intentionally labeled without invented years.

THE STORY IN FOUR ACTS

From an operating company to a platform for international capability.

The business journey becomes clearer when read as four connected phases: establish the base, diversify the platform, integrate people and systems, then formalize research through QARC.

011995 to 2007

ACT I · BUILD THE BASE

From a freight forwarding company to a standards led logistics institution.

Inter Fret Consolidators began in 1995 as the operating foundation of the journey. The following decade was defined by formalization: SECP registration, participation in freight and chamber networks, air cargo and dangerous goods affiliations, integrated quality/environment/health and safety systems, and customs house licensing. This created a compliance and execution backbone capable of supporting more complex work.

1995, Inter Fret established1997, SECP registration1998, trade network memberships2000 to 2002, air cargo & dangerous goods affiliations2007, integrated standards and customs house licensing

022013 to 2016

ACT II · EXPAND THE PLATFORM

The logistics base opens into aviation, travel and connected services.

The Group’s published corporate history records a sequence of adjacent businesses: M&S Aviators in 2013, ALTA World Pakistan in 2014 and Nexus Aviation Services in 2016. The strategic logic remained close to the original operating core, transport, movement, facilitation and international connectivity, but the platform was no longer limited to freight.

2013, M&S Aviators2014, ALTA World Pakistan2016, Nexus Aviation ServicesAirline representation and facilitationTravel and passenger service capability

03CURRENT GROUP PLATFORM

ACT III · INTEGRATE CAPABILITY

From moving cargo to connecting infrastructure, people, skills and systems.

The current Al Rahim Group profile describes an integrated multi sector platform: logistics and supply chain, customs and port operations, terminal development, overseas employment, skill development and education reform, financial risk mitigation, food and industrial processing, government transformation work and technology driven workforce systems. The Group also highlights the One Window employment platform, City & Guilds enabled training pathways and international partnerships in Saudi Arabia.

Infrastructure & logisticsHuman capital mobilityEducation & skillsFinancial risk protectionIndustrial & food operationsDigital systems & government projects

042026 to

ACT IV · BUILD THE NEXT INSTITUTION

QARC turns three decades of operating environments into a research and deployment advantage.

QARC is being established as Al Rahim Group’s flagship research and innovation division. Its institutional profile places it on a direct governance line to the Group Chairman because of its strategic and capital intensive nature. QARC consolidates existing quantum and applied AI capability into six Innovation Labs and uses ARG operating sites as real testbeds for research that must survive field conditions, not only laboratory conditions.

Direct Group Chairman oversightSix Innovation LabsResearch to Deployment frameworkInternships and fellowshipsAI, quantum, robotics and automation

1995 → 2026

The documented journey, milestone by milestone.

This timeline uses the Group and Inter Fret corporate record for dated milestones, then moves into the current Group platform and QARC chapter without forcing unsupported dates.

1995FOUNDATION
Inter Fret Consolidators becomes the operating foundation.
Corporate material identifies 1995 as the beginning of the journey through Inter Fret Consolidators (Pvt.) Ltd. Older Inter Fret profiles identify Syed Shujaat Ali as Founder & Chief Executive, leading strategy, business development and the company’s Pakistan and international growth.
Freight forwardingFounder led strategyKarachi base
1997FORMALIZATION
The company formalizes its corporate standing.
Inter Fret’s historical profile records registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan in 1997, an early step in turning a young operating business into a more formal corporate platform.
SECP registrationCorporate structureInstitution building
1998NETWORK BUILDING
Trade relationships expand across freight and commerce institutions.
The company history records 1998 memberships in the International Freight Forwarders Federation, Pakistan Freight Forwarders Association and Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, widening institutional connectivity around the logistics business.
International freight networkPFFAKCCI
2000 to 2002SPECIALIZATION
Air cargo and dangerous goods capability deepen the operating base.
The historical record notes Air Transport Association membership in 2000 and Dangerous Goods Advisory Council membership in 2002. These steps align with the company’s move into increasingly specialized cargo and compliance sensitive services.
Air cargoDangerous goodsSpecialized logistics
2007STANDARDS
Quality, environmental and safety systems become part of the platform.
Inter Fret’s concluded history records integrated management standards covering quality, environment, health and safety in 2007, alongside licensing as a customs house agent. This strengthened the compliance backbone required for larger logistics and industrial engagements.
ISO 9001ISO 14001OHSAS 18001Customs house licensing
2013 to 2016DIVERSIFICATION
Aviation and travel businesses extend the original logistics platform.
The Group’s published history records M&S Aviators in 2013, ALTA World Pakistan in 2014 and Nexus Aviation Services in 2016, broadening the operating footprint into airline representation, aviation facilitation and travel services.
M&S AviatorsALTA World PakistanNexus Aviation Services
EXPANSIONMULTI SECTOR GROUP
The business evolves into a diversified operating group.
The current Group profile places logistics, customs and ports, terminal development, overseas employment, skills and education, financial protection, food and industrial processing, government transformation and technology driven workforce systems within one broader operating platform.
Logistics & infrastructureWorkforce mobilityEducationIndustrial systemsDigital platforms
CURRENTHUMAN CAPITAL
Education, training and workforce mobility become strategic infrastructure.
ARG material highlights the One Window Overseas Employment Facilitation initiative, skill development and education reform, City & Guilds enabled training pathways, AI based soft skills and workplace readiness training, and technology supported workforce systems. The Group’s operating model increasingly connects physical movement with preparation, verification and human capital development.
One WindowCity & Guilds pathwaysSkills reformWorkplace readiness
2026QARC
The Group enters a formal research and engineering chapter.
QARC is being established as the flagship research and innovation division of Al Rahim Group. It formalizes existing capability from ARG Technologies’ Quantum Intelligence Lab and applied AI deployments into a research institution built around field validation, six Innovation Labs, talent development, publication and commercialization.
Applied AIQuantum researchEmbedded systemsRoboticsIndustrial automationTalent pipeline

WHAT THE JOURNEY BUILT

One platform, four connected capabilities.

The current Group profile is best understood as an integrated system rather than a list of unrelated companies. Movement, people, industry and intelligence increasingly reinforce one another.

LOGISTICS & AVIATION

Movement

International freight, customs, port operations, aviation services and connected mobility businesses form the original operating backbone.

WORKFORCE & EDUCATION

People

Overseas employment, training, education reform and workplace readiness programs turn human capital development into a core operating capability.

INFRASTRUCTURE & PROCESSING

Industry

Terminal development, industrial systems, food processing, energy and government facing projects extend the Group into physical infrastructure and production.

DIGITAL SYSTEMS & QARC

Intelligence

Technology driven workforce systems, AI deployments and QARC connect the Group’s operational footprint to research, automation and deployable intelligence.

Logistics & Supply ChainInternational Freight ForwardingCustoms Brokerage & Port OperationsAviation ServicesTravel & TourismOverseas Employment & Human CapitalSkill Development & Education ReformInsurance & Financial Risk MitigationFood & Industrial ProcessingSaudi Arabia Logistics & Food CorridorsGovernment Transformation ProjectsTechnology Driven Workforce Systems

BUILDING PEOPLE ALONGSIDE BUSINESSES

The journey increasingly connects mobility with skills, readiness and opportunity.

The current Group profile positions overseas employment and human capital mobilization beside skill development and education reform. It references City & Guilds enabled training pathways, AI based soft skills and workplace readiness training, and the One Window facilitation model. QARC adds a research talent layer through structured undergraduate internships, postgraduate fellowships, university partnerships and pathways into research and engineering roles.

01Overseas employment facilitation

02Skill development & education reform

03Workplace readiness training

04QARC internships & fellowships

LEADERSHIP PATTERN

Four principles visible across the corporate record.

These are not presented as personal quotations. They are a concise reading of the operating pattern reflected in the supplied Group profiles.

Build before branding

The documented journey begins with operating capability, freight, aviation, workforce and infrastructure, before those capabilities are expanded into larger institutional platforms.

Formalize through standards

Memberships, licensing, compliance systems and governance repeatedly appear as the mechanism used to make growth more credible and scalable.

Connect sectors, not silos

The Group’s current profile links logistics, people, education, financial protection, industrial activity and digital systems instead of treating them as isolated businesses.

Move research into the field

QARC extends the same operating discipline into AI and quantum technologies: research, prototype, validate, pilot, deploy and commercialize.

2026 · THE CURRENT CHAPTER

QARC is the current institutional chapter, not a side project.

The Quantum Agentic Research Center is designed as Al Rahim Group’s applied technology engine: a research and engineering institution where AI, quantum computing, embedded systems, robotics and industrial automation are governed by a field first operating discipline.

Governance: QARC is positioned within the Group’s technology structure with a direct governance line to the Group Chairman. The Chairman retains Group level oversight and capital allocation; the QARC Executive Director reports to the Group Chairman.

QARC’s five year plan targets university partnerships, internships and fellowships, peer reviewed publication, patent development, external industry projects and commercialization, building toward a regional applied AI and quantum research institution.

QARC OPERATING MODELResearch → Deployment

01Research

02Prototype

03Validation

04Pilot

05Deployment

06Commercialization

SIX INNOVATION LABSAgentic AIComputer VisionEmbedded SystemsQuantum ResearchRoboticsIndustrial Automation

GROUP MISSION

Strengthening Pakistan through integrated capability.

Provide exceptional solutions to strengthen Pakistan’s economy through efficient logistics, modern infrastructure, skilled workforce development, advanced training and international collaborations.

GROUP VISION

Connecting competitiveness, trade and innovation.

Become Pakistan’s leading diversified enterprise transforming international logistics, workforce competitiveness and global trade integration through innovation and international partnerships.

FROM GROUP EXPERIENCE TO QARC

The next chapter applies operating discipline to research, engineering and the next generation of technical talent.

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