Nanak regained consciousness at a hospital in time to see Sartaj die of his wounds.

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That done, Sharif and his Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz have focused on turning around the economy.

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Nanak Singh and his friend Sartaj Singh were wounded and left for dead.

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"We are pulling out of the crisis we inherited, " Sartaj told Asiaweek.

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However, Sartaj Aziz, a senior party official and former finance minister, said Pakistan wouldn't go back to the IMF under the old terms.

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Sartaj Aziz, who served as finance minister and foreign minister under Nawaz Sharif, once worked as an economist at the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization.

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"In the business community, there is optimism, there is big buoyancy, " said Sartaj Aziz, PML-N's senior vice president who served as finance minister in Mr. Sharif's two previous governments.

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"Afghanistan will feel the change that Pakistan now has a strong and popular government, " Sartaj Aziz, a member of the PML (N)'s powerful central executive committee and a former foreign minister during Mr Sharif's second term, told the BBC.

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Partly because of perceptions that the International Monetary Fund has become too powerful, governments are now considering a wider role for the BIS. Pakistan Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz says that the BIS could provide daily reports on the trading levels of each currency to give monetary authorities a better grasp of currency market movements.

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