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.