Naeem Chisthi on Salman Taseer
Salman Taseer is the son of professor Mohammad Din Taseer (M D Taseer) and a nephew of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s wife Alys Faiz. He has variously been called a chartered accountant, a PPP stalwart, a media baron and a businessman who specialised in finding Gulf money for profitable ventures in Pakistan. He is one of those few Pakistani politicians cum businessmen who became multi-millionaires in a fairly short span of time.
In 1994, Salman Taseer established First Capital Securities Corporation Limited (FCSC), a full service brokerage house. Since then he has been actively involved in establishing other companies in the financial services sector as well as the telecommunications, media, insurance and real estate development sectors in Pakistan in collaboration with some offshore companies. He also owns the ‘Daily Times’ and ‘Aaj Kal’ newspapers, Business Plus TV channel, Pace shopping malls and Hyatt hotel range in Pakistan.
People might have heard about Salman Taseer’s wife Aamna Taseer, his father in law M U Haq, who passed away over a month ago on March 31, and his son Shan Taseer. However, very few people know about his ‘son’ Aatish Taseer. According to the Asian News, Salman Taseer is also the father of the young Indian journalist Aatish Taseer. Aatish’s mother Tavleen Singh is an well-known columnist attached with the Indian Express. Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. It is the same year when Salman Taseer’s book “Bhutto: A Political Biography” was published in New Delhi by Vikas Publishers. Unlike Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, Salman Taseer has kept quiet on his reported relationship with either Tavleen Singh or Aatish Taseer. On the contrary, Imran Khan has always vehemently denied his relationship with Sita White or that he was the father of her daughter Tyrian.
Salman Taseer maintains that he qualified as a chartered accountant from the United Kingdom. If that was true his nomination papers would not have been rejected in the 2002 general elections for not having a BA degree or an equivalent qualification. According to article 101 of the Constitution, a person cannot be appointed as Governor unless he is qualified to be a member of the National Assembly. Salman Taseer has been a minister in the caretaker cabinet. Perhaps, President Musharraf had already decided to appoint him as Governor when the graduation condition was challenged in the Supreme Court last month. If that condition had been there, Salman Taseer would not have been eligible to be appointed as Governor. Thus, Salman Taseer became the first beneficiary of the removal of the graduation condition though the whole blame went to Asif Zardari. If the things had been planned that much in advance then Khalid Maqbool must have known the next scene of the Punjab drama which made him resign from the governorship.
In 1994, Salman Taseer established First Capital Securities Corporation Limited (FCSC), a full service brokerage house. Since then he has been actively involved in establishing other companies in the financial services sector as well as the telecommunications, media, insurance and real estate development sectors in Pakistan in collaboration with some offshore companies. He also owns the ‘Daily Times’ and ‘Aaj Kal’ newspapers, Business Plus TV channel, Pace shopping malls and Hyatt hotel range in Pakistan.
People might have heard about Salman Taseer’s wife Aamna Taseer, his father in law M U Haq, who passed away over a month ago on March 31, and his son Shan Taseer. However, very few people know about his ‘son’ Aatish Taseer. According to the Asian News, Salman Taseer is also the father of the young Indian journalist Aatish Taseer. Aatish’s mother Tavleen Singh is an well-known columnist attached with the Indian Express. Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. It is the same year when Salman Taseer’s book “Bhutto: A Political Biography” was published in New Delhi by Vikas Publishers. Unlike Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, Salman Taseer has kept quiet on his reported relationship with either Tavleen Singh or Aatish Taseer. On the contrary, Imran Khan has always vehemently denied his relationship with Sita White or that he was the father of her daughter Tyrian.
Salman Taseer maintains that he qualified as a chartered accountant from the United Kingdom. If that was true his nomination papers would not have been rejected in the 2002 general elections for not having a BA degree or an equivalent qualification. According to article 101 of the Constitution, a person cannot be appointed as Governor unless he is qualified to be a member of the National Assembly. Salman Taseer has been a minister in the caretaker cabinet. Perhaps, President Musharraf had already decided to appoint him as Governor when the graduation condition was challenged in the Supreme Court last month. If that condition had been there, Salman Taseer would not have been eligible to be appointed as Governor. Thus, Salman Taseer became the first beneficiary of the removal of the graduation condition though the whole blame went to Asif Zardari. If the things had been planned that much in advance then Khalid Maqbool must have known the next scene of the Punjab drama which made him resign from the governorship.
posted by temporal at 5/17/2008
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