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Shaukat Aziz is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and settled in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 November 2007.
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Born 6 March 1949 · Q223555
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Published “Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology” in Genetics in Medicine — cited 29,264 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,007 times.
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
In polls managed by various news surveys, Aziz's popularity approval ratings ranged at 20
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Aziz maintained that his government had tried at every level of extreme to resolve the Lal Masjid issue through talks to save lives
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Published “The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology” in BMC Genomics — cited 10,770 times.
Aziz participated in the Global Creative Leadership Summit, organised by the Louise Blouin Foundation
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Russian prime minister Mikhail Fradkov paid a three-day-long visit to Pakistan, becoming the first Russian prime minister and leader to visit the country in 38 years
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Aziz stressed that "Pakistan is not an offensive country and our defence doctrine is based on having minimum credible deterrence to maintain peace and stability in the region
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Aziz made his final state visit as prime minister to China to sign a Free Trade Agreement with China, and regarded the country as a "strategic partner" and a "time-tested friend", whilst China regarded the FTA agreement
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Aziz approved the constructional development of KANUPP-II and the nuclear reprocessing site, the Nuclear Power Fuel Complex in Islamabad
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Aziz further diversified his nuclear energy policy, terming it as "criteria based nuclear technology" while continued financing the nuclear power projects
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“the second fastest growing economy in the world.”
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And privately told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he must change course regarding its nuclear program, as the current direction was neither in Iran's nor the region's interest
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Aziz quoted: "Pakistan-American relations are based on mutual trust and respect and are long-standing
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Aziz invited state-run and private-media of Russia where he repeatedly stressed for the need to enhance cooperation between Pakistan and Russia in the fields of education, science and technology, energy, defence and trad
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Aziz's government installed 6,000 water supply and sanitation filter plants through the Khushal Pakistan (lit
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Non-partisan local government elections were decided to be held in entire country, starting first to hold the elections in Karachi, Sindh Province
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And tightened the economic and defence relations with British counterpart Gordon Brown in 2007
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004–2007).
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“s nuclear policy to the world and India in an interview given to the Times of India: Pakistan”
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Aziz was nominated by Musharraf as his prime minister after taking resignation from Zafarullah Khan Jamali on 6 June 2004
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Aziz directed the Ministry of Water and Power and Planning Commission to prepare an integrated energy plan for the country
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Aziz stated and clarified Pakistan's nuclear policy to the world and India in an interview given to the Times of India:
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Aziz implemented and activated the Privatisation Programme (first founded by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1991) and opened all state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to private sector
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Finance (1999–2007).
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Aziz entered politics on the personal request of Pervez Musharraf and moved to Pakistan from the United States to assume charge of the Finance Ministry as the finance minister
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Picked up from a jog to a sprint under watchful eyes of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
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The BBC noted that the privatisation programme, initiated by Nawaz Sharif in 1990, picked up from a jog to a sprint under watchful eyes of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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From Gordan College and moved back to Karachi the same year to enroll in a master's programme
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Born 1949-03-06.
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