1. Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin is a former Pakistani Senator and banker who served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2010 in the Gillani cabinet and worked with the help of the Pakistan People's Party's cabinet members.
14 Facts About Shaukat Tarin
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Shaukat Tarin is the Member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018.
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Shaukat Tarin served as federal minister for finance and revenue till 17 October 2021 because he was unable to be elected as senator.
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Shaukat Tarin came from a Pashtun family that belongs to the Tareen tribe of Pashtuns born to an army doctor in Multan.
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Shaukat Tarin got his initial education from Army Cantonment schools all over Pakistan and later got his MBA from University of the Punjab.
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Shaukat Tarin joined Citibank in 1975 and remained with it for 22 years rising to become its country manager in Thailand.
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In 1997, then-PM Nawaz Sharif asked Shaukat Tarin to turn around state-owned Habib Bank, for which he left the $1 million plus job in the United States.
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Shaukat Tarin left HBL in 2000 to join Union Bank as its president.
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Shaukat Tarin has been elected twice as chairman of Karachi Stock Exchange, the last one being in the year 2008.
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Shaukat Tarin was appointed adviser to the finance ministry of Pakistan with a status of federal minister, on 7 October 2008.
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Shaukat Tarin was appointed Federal Minister for finance and revenue affairs on 16 April 2021.
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On 20 December 2021, Shaukat Tarin was elected as a senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and onn 27 December 2021, took oath as Federal Minister of Finance and Revenue.
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Shaukat Tarin served as a member on the economic and finance committee from 18 April 2019 under then Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Shaukat Tarin was the convener of the committee to the Prime Minister.