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Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan prime minister: Institutional Investor, December 2006

Institutional Investor, December2006/January 2007

Shaukat Aziz became Pakistan’s prime minister in 2004. A Karachi-born career banker and a Citibank executive for 30 years, he entered public life when invited to become finance minister by General Musharraf following the General’s assumption of power in 1999. He has found out the hard way about the perils of public service – he survived a suicide bombing that killed his driver – but is credited for bringing about much of the financial reform which has underpinned Pakistan’s economic revival. Smooth and charismatic – and, to private sector eyes, an agreeable counterpart to the military-uniformed President – he spent half an hour with Institutional Investor’s Chris Wright in Islamabad.  Continue…

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