Looking ahead, Jabbar said NAPA would also need to adapt to rapid technological changes shaping the media and entertainment industries. NAPA was established in 2005 as an institution to conserve and teach performing arts and music. At NAPA, the students of music derive benefit from being taught by a faculty consisting of practicing musicians, musicologists and visiting maestros. He was asked by Pervez Musharraf, then the President of Pakistan, to establish and lead a national institution for arts and music. In 2008, he wrote and produced Ramchand Pakistani, an Urdu drama film directed by his daughter.