May 26, 2006Foreign Affairs

How Shaukat Aziz entered Musharraf’s cabinet

An entertaining (and true?) account of a job interview

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

Onlooker returns to blogging with this inside story:

In the heady days after Musharraf’s coup d’etat in October 1999 among the scores of ambitious hopefuls there was an enthusiastic scramble for government positions. The routes they chose to pursue their dreams were several; one of these happened to be through a local entrepreneur who was Musharraf’s first cousin…

According to my reputable source Shaukat Aziz casually left work headed for JFK Airport and quietly slipped on a flight to Pakistan just carrying a briefcase. He wanted no one to know of his movements.

Once he got into his hotel room Aziz quickly stripped to his vest and underpants as he didn’t want to crease his clothes further in preparation for his all-important meetings – the furtive nature of his trip hadn’t allowed him the luxury of bringing a set of spare clothes. [The Glasshouse]



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