Yahya Saleem

After graduating from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Mr. Yahya joined the family business as director of the Nishat Chunian Group with setting up a spinning mill in 1990. The company has since diversified into weaving, home textile, power generation and entertainment sectors. Today with a turnover of PKR 29.8 billion, NCL ranks amongst the top 5 textile companies in Pakistan.

The group ventured into the power business in 2007 with a 200 MW Independent Power Plant (IPP), Nishat Chunian Power Ltd. With a turnover of PKR 16.47 billion in 2015, the IPP provides electricity to the national grid. Both the companies are listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange.

Together with his family, he has set up a Trust which is in memory of Sheikh Mohammad Saleem and has initiated setting up of a 200 bed tertiary care not-for-profit hospital in Lahore. The hospital will be built to state of the art international standards and will provide subsidized health care to the under privileged section of the city.

In 2015 he started a company by the name of NC Trading USA that is a Cotton trading company based in USA and actively sells US cotton in Pakistan. In 2017 NC Trading USA sold cotton worth USD 50 million to the leading textile mills in Pakistan.