ZAKI'S INTRICATE WEAVE.
| Date | 01 September 2023 |
| Author | Mildenberg, David |
I hope everyone had a great summer. A highlight of mine was spending an hour in early August with High Points Zaki Uddin Khalifa, owner of a prominent Oriental rug distributorship closing soon.
Zaki is proof that North Carolina meets CNBC's criteria as the nation's best state for business. He arrived in the United States on July 4, 1976, a historic day. While he hails from a prominent Pakistani family, his homeland permitted emigrants to take out no more than $500.
He hoped to set up shop in New York but concluded that everything cost too much there. He changed his focus to North Carolina, lured by High Point University Professor Carl Wheeless, who as a missionary taught at Zakis Methodist-sponsored school in Lahore, Pakistan.
Moving from a city of 12 million people to High Point was a...
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