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Hahid Javed Barki influenced a whole generation of economists, thinkers and social scientists in Pakistan. Given the lack of economists in the early years of Pakistan, the living experiences of what we had had during the 60s and 70s are an invaluable source of insights for future scholars who are interested in Pakistan’s economy. Economists’ first crop biographical accounts and experiences of Pakistan’s first crop biography of Pakistan’s early struggle to develop a set of institutions and to mobilize the country’s first economic policies and plans.

Mehboob -ul -Haq, Moen Qureshi, Shahid Hussain, Pervez Hassan and Moin were among a group of thinkers and intellectuals who left by the tradition led by Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a shining accountant in the domain of economic decision -making.

I was first introduced to Burke Sahib’s work in 2015 when I was a master’s student at the University of Geliff in Canada. By that time I was neglected by the wisdom of Burke Sahib and his work. I was writing an article in which it was argued that under the first three -year plans of Pakistan, the golden period of the country’s economic history was in the years to come. I looked at the data for 15 years between 1955 and 1970 to begin to imagine that I would become the first person to see this period and promote the ranking from such lenses. Regarding these possibilities, I began to fully find a part of the Geliff’s library, which had written in South Asia since the 60s. There were many writings that considered Pakistan’s economy in the 60s. These included the works of Harvard Advisory Group expert Economics Staine and Falcon, Gestau Papic and Griffin and Glass Burner. The shelf also included entries of Pakistani planners, bureaucrats and economists, including Planning Board Chairman Zahid Hussain in the sixties, including the deputy chairman of Mohibul Haq and MH Kazelbash, who wrote a pocket size, who wrote a pocket. The size was written. , The kind of written book, which is printed on the cherries paper, is known as Planning and Economic Control (1968) in Pakistan.

Another volume was Burke Sahib. He highlighted the successes and failures of the Ayub era. I was attracted to (and frustrated) to see that not only Burke Sahib had understood this era of Ayub with praise that my reading about this period had saved him for him, he Golden Period I also used the phrase, which I had maintained a lot so far. As a product of my imagination and mental faculty, near my chest. I found out that in the future I can work with someone. My disappointment has come from the fact that I no longer benefited in this field of research about Pakistan.

I remember that it was mentioned many years later. He responded with an interesting story about a long conversation with Ayub Khan. He met Khan at a house built at the foot of Islamabad after his retirement. Ayub Khan told Burke that he was aware of the fact that he had called Ayub’s tenure in his writings a golden era of Pakistan. Referring to what Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had said after separating with him, “Zulfiqi does not think it was so.” Ayub said he did not behave or behave like a dictator. The details of their policies and the details of their plans that his government had financed, the Planning Commission worked on it. In this context, he told Burke that the talk with the team, President Eisenhower met Karachi (the capital of Pakistan) and New Delhi with him and Indian Prime Minister Nehru. Which they were met to ask them. Washington to feel their development ambitions.

“Pakistan did not have an expert economist [desirable] Tall and experience to advise me about policy issues. I sought help from the Americans. Because of this, Harvard University’s Development Advisory Staff (DAS) sent their experts to Pakistan. He arrived and joined the Planning Commission in Karachi and the planning and development departments in Lahore and Dhaka. Nehru told the Americans to set up MIT types of institutions to train people in the use of technology to promote development. I wish I had done so too. We are behind India in keeping technology experts. Burke also reminded that Ayub Khan is happy that people like Gustav Papank have written books that Pakistan was described as a model that can follow another developing nation.

Young Pakistanis should be familiar with Baraki’s tremendous contribution.

Barki Sahib knew very little that when Shahid Najam, a notable leader in the development sector himself, introduced me to Barki Sahib in March 2016, in his office in Garden Town, Lahore, a moment of a fans. Was releasing I planned to enter his office to have a chance to work with him. Someone said Zam Yaqoob Khan, who worked at Beacon House National University, told me a week ago that Burke Sahib had set up an institute in Lahore with the help of people in BNU, which was related to the economy. The annual report was. He was also so kind that to refer to the place established in memory of this magnificent beloved Haq, who paved the way for my work with the BPPP.

Burke sir interviewed me. It was a brief interview in which he was interested in knowing whether I could analyze data for a report on Pak-Afghan trade relations and run the number he was writing for the Asia Foundation. He approved my services. As a result, it was a pleasure to work with him and know that he was happy with his life and his contribution to Pakistan.

In the early days of his career, Barki Sahib showed signs of many promises. Born in 1938, he tested the Competitive Civil Service in 1960 and in the same year, to be part of Pakistan’s civil service. During civil service training, Burki Sahib listened to Oxford University where he applied at the same time when he was in the process of joining the civil service. Oxford University invited him to join as a road scholar. He came close to rejecting the offer to please his mother, who wanted his son to be involved in the prestigious service. However, knowing that he is about to reject Rhodes Scholarship to join a probationar service, the Civil Service Academy Director General Burke Sahib’s Civil Service training is allowed to participate in Oxford. Barki Sahib studied physics at Government College, Lahore and PU University but started economics in Oxford, which he thought had to learn for them – a skill from which he was civilized. He had been practicing for years to come to service.

He returned to Pakistan to join the civil service and served in district management from 1963 to 1967 before going to Lahore to become in charge of the Rural Works program. It was a United States financing activity aimed at developing Pakistani rural areas. After that, the United States was providing support to Pakistan. His reputation in the civil service made him a key position as the chief economist of West Pakistan.

Subsequently, Barki took over as a doctorate in Harvard, where he did some interesting work on Chinese communities (which also a book that was studied by Chinese communities). He was then demanded by his longtime friend and contemporary Mohibul Haq to join his team at the World Bank. Half of the economy, he was hesitant to go after Harvard PhD, Burke Sahib insisted that he only insisted on ending the beloved in the bank. While the beloved continued to take office in international development to join the governments in Pakistan, Burki Sahib maintained with the bank, eventually became the director of China operations and vice president of Latin America. Unlike beloved, Burki Sahib did not accept positions in the government of Pakistan on a regular basis. However, he accepted the role of the Interim Finance Minister in 1997. While there was a short period of time, which spanned in just a few months, it came to an honor for Pakistan, which suffered another liquidity crisis.

As Burke Sahib said, and during the support of the time, Salman Shah, a junior minister, Burke Sahib, succeeded in using the goodwill created by the Chinese to guarantee Pakistan. As a result, Nawaz Sharif offered to continue by the government. However, he did not see it as a permanent position from the beginning.

Burki retired from the bank a few years later to fully focus on writing. He divided his effort between voluntary/ supporter Bono writing and commissioned work, usually for global think tanks.

In the early days of his retirement, he spent some time with Wilson Center where he created some of the most readable texts in Pakistan’s economy and in its place in the world, and then the Institute of Singapore’s National University of Singapore. With the South Asian Studies. Between these two positions, Barki Sahib, with the help of Sartaj Aziz, he used to establish his think tanks in Lahore. Initially located as a Institute of Public Policy at Beacon House National University, the Institute became more freed from BNU and adopted Burke’s name to be called the Barki Institute of Public Policy. BPP is one of the many gifts to Burke Sahib’s Pakistan.

Another gift I remember was a book I jointly edited with Burke Sahib in 2019. On the occasion of Pakistan’s 70th anniversary in 2017, Burke had decided to present a permanent volume to the country’s politics, economics and society’s history. It took two years to prepare for the volume, after which the World Bank started Pakistan in Islamabad for 70 years in February 2020. The book performed well, probably not even some other books written by Burke Sahib, but it has a special position. In my heart

The author, a Pakistani economist, currently lives in Boston, the United States. He @asadaijaz tweets