322: Pakistan Selling Family Silver: Hard Times Make Privatisation Necessary
Sajjad Ashraf, Consultant, ISAS
5 March 2014
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, under Mian Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's
first three-times Prime Minister, has set in motion a process leading to the time-bound
privatisation of 65 public sector enterprises (PSEs) in two tranches. The privatisation of
these units is also amongst the conditions for the release of International Monetary Fund's
US$ 6.7 billion stabilisation package for the next three years.