Who Owns Pakistan - Yimg
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<strong>Pakistan</strong>'s Robber Barons<br />
Nishat Saigol Crescent Dewan Ittefaq<br />
Chakwal<br />
Saphire/Gulistan Habib<br />
Atlas Hashwani Dawood<br />
GulAhmed/Al-<br />
Karam<br />
Bibojees /<br />
Saifullah<br />
Packages<br />
Monnoo<br />
Fecto Lakson Fateh Bawany Sargodha<br />
Al-Noor Ghulam Farooq Ibrahim Schon United<br />
Rupali Dadabhoy Colony Shahnawaz Premier<br />
Umer Fazal / Fatima Calico Jehangir Elahi Adamjee<br />
Tawakkal Kassim Dada<br />
Kohistan<br />
Nishat<br />
Nishat is <strong>Pakistan</strong>'s biggest industrial and financial conglomerate controlling<br />
assets worth Rs 192 billion and its Chairman, Mian Mohammad Mansha Yahya<br />
represented on the board of 45 companies is undisputedly <strong>Pakistan</strong>'s richest<br />
individual.<br />
Mian Mansha has catapulated to the top of <strong>Pakistan</strong>'s richest families from the<br />
15th position in 1970 and 6th in 1990 because of combination of factors like his<br />
marriage to Naz, daughter of Yusuf Saigol, a lot of luck and bit of politics under<br />
Nawaz Sharif.<br />
" Investing in the shares of Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) has been one of my<br />
biggest business slip ups. In hind sight, I should have never invested in this<br />
bank", Mansha told Ayesha Haroon of daily, The Nation, Islamabad when asked<br />
to comment on the general perception that MCB was privatized to him and his<br />
associates because of his friendship with Nawaz Sharif.<br />
Windmills of God work in strange ways. In 1948 when Mansha's father Mian<br />
Mohammad Yahya and his three brothers incorporated a partnership concern, it<br />
was called Nishat Corporation after Nishat Haroon, the three year old grandson<br />
of Mian Mohammad Yaqub, eldest of the four brothers. The child who gave his<br />
name to the group has disappered in thin air and Mian Mohammad Mansha,<br />
Chairman Nishat Group is today on top of <strong>Pakistan</strong>'s corporate world, boastfully<br />
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