Oxford University Press (OUP) is organizing the online launch of the second edition of its publication Between Dreams and Realities: Some Milestones in Pakistan’s History by Sartaj Aziz (?Tamgha-e-Pakistan?). This edition features new materials relating to the turning points in Pakistan’s political history. Mosharraf Zaidi, Ahmed Bilal Mehmood, Lt Gen. Abdul Qayyum (Retd), Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Khurram Dastgir Khan, Salman Akram Raja, and Arshad Saeed Husain will be the speakers and Sartaj Aziz will be the moderator at the Live Event being held on OUP Pakistan’s social media channels on 11 July 2020, from 4 to 6 p.m.
About Sartaj Aziz:
Sartaj Aziz was born in 1929 in a Pashtun family in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sartaj Aziz is a Pakistani economist and a strategist, having previously served as the former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan,Former Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and Advisor to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs (2013-2017), a Federal Senator as well as the National Security Advisor. In the 1940s, Aziz was a young activist in the Muslim League led Pakistan movement.
Aziz was educated at Islamia College of Lahore and then obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Punjab University in 1949. Aziz joined the civil service in 1950 and later traveled to the United States and earned a master’s degree in development economics from Harvard University in 1963.
About Oxford University Press:
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