Waqar Masood Khan is a retired Pakistani

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who served as Advisor to Prime Minister

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and Finance in the capacity of a Minister of State in

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, in office from October 2020. Before his retirement from civil services, Waqar served in BPS-22 grade as Pakistan's longest running

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. Khan has held several positions across the

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including Special Secretary to the Prime Minister, Secretary Finance Division, Secretary Economic Affairs Division, Secretary Petroleum & Natural Resources and Secretary Textile Industry. He taught macroeconomics at the graduate level at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). Khan has also served as a board member of

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National Bank of Pakistan National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) () is a Pakistani government-owned multinational commercial bank which is a subsidiary of State Bank of Pakistan. It is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. As of September 2020, it has 1,511 branches across Pakist ...

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, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Pak-Oman Investment Company. More recently, Khan has been appointed Chairman of the Board of SadaPay, a

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company in the private sector that is operating under the Electronic Money Institution regulatory framework by the State Bank of Pakistan.

Writings

Article * "Towards an Interest-Free Islamic Economic System", ''Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics'', Vol. 1, 1989, pp. 3-38. Book * ''Transition to a

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Free Economy'', International Institute of Islamic Thought and Islamic Research Institute, 2002, 144 p.

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