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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    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.