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Pakistan’s privatization tsar embarks on quest to revive economy

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD Sun Feb 2, 2014 6:55pm EST (Reuters) – Mohammad Zubair was on a cruise dinner with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Thailand when he was offered the hardest job of his life: privatizing a huge chunk of the economy while fighting resistance from the opposition and trade unions. When the prime minister left the table, a colleague of former IBM executive Zubair rushed to his side. “Are you mad? Three […]