12-05-2005

Ex-Banker Plans to Re-Brand Pakistan Inc.

via www.todayonline.com

Banker-turned-Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz plans to transform his nation into Pakistan Inc, rebuilding the South Asian country and its brand by exorcising the problems that have plagued it for decades. “Six years ago, I was sitting in my office at 399 Park Avenue (in New York) looking at the traffic going by and my secretary walked into the room and said ‘Mr Aziz, your country has a new leader’. “I went on probably my shortest trip to Pakistan, about 18 hours from New York and back to New York over a weekend.”