Muhammad Zubair likely to be made Sindh Governor

[ghazi52]

Muhammad Zubair likely to be made Sindh Governor:

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Privatization Commission, Muhammad Zubair is likely to be appointed Sindh Governor, sources said Friday.

The sources privy to the development said, Muhamamd Zubair has been tipped as Governor Sindh by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Zubair is expected to take oath as the governor in next few days, the sources added.

Currently, Muhammad Zubair is serving as chairman Privatization Commission.

The slot of Sindh Governor is vacant following the death of Justice (retd) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui.

Siddiqui was sworn in on November 11 after removal of Ishtratul Ibad Khan, longest-serving governor in Pakistan's history.

 

[Jinn Baba]

Didn't "sources" recently say it will be Ansar Burney now he would have been an excellent choice.

 

[ghazi52]

Muhammad Zubair is likely to be appointed Sindh Governor,

 

[mingle]

Mubarak hoo Hadii Per gai as per khwaja Saad Zaqat khor .

 

[ghazi52]

 

[pak-marine]

Why not bring in moen jo daro jo mummy sssain hazrat qaim ali shah

 

[HAIDER]

Muhammad Zubair likely to be made Sindh Governor:

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Privatization Commission, Muhammad Zubair is likely to be appointed Sindh Governor, sources said Friday.

The sources privy to the development said, Muhamamd Zubair has been tipped as Governor Sindh by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Zubair is expected to take oath as the governor in next few days, the sources added.

Currently, Muhammad Zubair is serving as chairman Privatization Commission.

The slot of Sindh Governor is vacant following the death of Justice (retd) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui.

Siddiqui was sworn in on November 11 after removal of Ishtratul Ibad Khan, longest-serving governor in Pakistan's history.

Do the medical first and make sure he is capable of climbing " Mazar e Quaid " steps..

 

[ghazi52]

• PML-N's Muhammad Zubair to take charge as governor of Sindh
  
  Privatisation Commission Chairman Muhammad Zubair on Monday confirmed his appointment as the new governor of Sindh.
  
  The PML-N leader confirmed to a private TV channel that he would take charge of the post which was left vacant after former Sindh governor Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui passed away in Karachi earlier this month.
  
  Siddiqui, the 31st governor of Sindh, suffered poor health and had been hospitalised soon after his appointment in Nov 2016 due to a chest infection and breathing problems.
  
  Zubair is the brother of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Asad Umar.
  
  He completed a Master's in Business Administration from Karachi's Institute of Business Administration, where he was elected to the Board of Directors in 1980 as a student representative and also taught Financial Management from 1981-1986.
  
  Prior to serving as chairman of the Privatisation Commission, Zubair was chairman of the Board of Investment from July to December 2013.
  
  From 2012-13, he was a part of the PML-N's Economic, Tax Reforms and Media Committees.
  
  Before working in government, Zubair was employed by IBM, where he held various positions for the duration of his 26-year career until 2007, according to information available on the Privatisation Commission website.
  
  

 

[ghazi52]

• Two talented brothers wrestle political issues for opposing sides
  
  
  These are interesting times for the Pakistani people. How else to view two gifted brothers, raised in the safe and secure ambience of military cantonments, competing for political careers in opposite camps?
  
  They are not playing the script of any old Bollywood film where one brother would rise in the police force and the other in the underworld and their confrontation predictably ending in the good triumphing over the bad.
  
  Our two brothers too are in a confrontation but to save the national economy, one for the collective good and the other … Well for the same but by putting the levers of economy in private hands. There could have been two brother more separated ideologically than Asad Umar of PTI and Muhammad Zubair of the PML-N.
  
  And they are different from the two brothers who competed for popular support in the united Pakistan of the 1960s – Field Marshal Ayub Khan as President of the Islamic Republic and Sardar Bahadur Khan as the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly.
  
  Times have changed. Today politics demands intellect, and economic management more so.
  
  Our present day competing brothers, sons of an army general, received the best education and peaked in their careers in the corporate world – Umar in the national industrial giant Engro and Zubair in the American multinational IBM before they plunged into politics.
  
  For their political careers, Umar chose the rough and tumble of PTI and sits in the National Assembly. Zubair went for the secure and resilient PML-N and sits in the Privatisation Commission as its chairman. They have little common in their jobs, except, perhaps, the swivel chairs they sit in.
  
  They are often found arguing their divergent views on privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the print and electronic media.
  
  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his economic team are intent upon privatising some 30 SOEs, which they say have become an unbearable burden on the national exchequer because of gross mismanagement.
  
  Recently Mr Zubair said the government did not have the money to keep the giants like PIA and the Pakistan Steel Mills floating. “Yes, the government has the capacity and can turn them around who will guarantee that next government repeats the mistake of our predecessors (the PPP) and rip them apart again?” he asked. In his opinion privatisation is “the permanent solution”, as the PML-N did in the 1990s “with good results”.
  
  That view his brother Umar has challenged in the National Assembly and most recently in a newspaper article, which dismissed the results of “the 1990s privatisation under the IMF stabilization programme” as dismal.
  
  To support his dismissal, he quoted from an evaluation report of the Asian Development Bank issued in 1998 that only 22 percent of the privatised SOEs were found performing better under private-sector management and 34 percent of the units’ performance had worsened.
  
  Umar fears the PML-N’s latest privatisation plan “may be the grand sale of the century”. He debunks the claim that the 31 SOEs put on the line were a drain on government finances.
  
  He wrote, “The budget documents that government paid Rs367 billion in FY13 (financial year 2012-13) to SOEs for subsidies/losses out of which Rs350 billion, or 95 percent, was accounted by only two entities – Wapda and KESC. As we know, KESC (new name Karachi Electric) is now a privatised entity. If we take out Wapda and KESC, the losses of the SOEs paid by the government in the FY13 budget were only 18 billion.”
  
  
  

 

[Naheed Janjua]

great to have a qualified and educated person in charge.

 

[ghazi52]

Muhammad Zubair takes oath as new Sindh governor

KARACHI: During an oath-taking ceremony on Thursday which was held at Governor House, Muhammad Zubair was appointed the new governor of Sindh. Zubair is the 32nd governor of Sindh.

He has been appointed to this post because the 79-year-old former governor passed away after suffering from a prolonged illness.

Muhammad Zubair has been appointed to this post as he was picked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on January 30 to perform the duties as the new governor of Sindh. He has been performing his duties on various capacities and the recent one was being the chairman of Privatisation Commission.

While talking to media, he said that he would like to play a role in the development and improvement of Sindh, especially Karachi.

Zubair is an Institute of Business Administration (IBA) graduate and has been working with IBM for the last 26 years from 1981 to 2007. He has worked in various capacities in Rome, Milan, Paris and Dubai. In 1998, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for IBM Pakistan and was later elevated to CFO IBM Middle East/Africa region in 2004.

After joining PML-N, he was part of the party's Tax Reforms Media Committee between 2012-2013, and in July 2013, he was appointed Chairman of Board of Investment, where he served until December that year. He was then appointed as Chairman of the Privatisation Commission.