Q32. What was the privatization and industrialization process which started during the Musharraf Era?

Ans: Privatization and Industrialization During the Musharraf Era:

Before Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif

started privatization process. Its aim was to end poverty and the payment of

foreign loans. In Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz’s government, the income from

privatization was spent on the payment of foreign loans and social welfare. The

Privatization Commission sold 26% shares of the PTCL to Etisalaat, a Dubai

company, Pak-Arab Fertilizer of Mirpur Mathelo for 8 billion, the Pak-Arab

Fertilizers of Multan for 13 billion, and Pak American Fertilizers, the largest

government factory, was sold for 16 billion rupees. The Musharraf and Shaukat

Aziz’s government earned 2.5 billion dollars in a year through privatization.