Who Is Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb?

Pakistan's finance minister ran the country's largest bank HBL for six years. The numbers he left behind tell a different story than the one he tells about himself.

Tariq Hussain runs a hardware stall on Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi. He opened an HBL current account in 2009 because the branch was close and the name felt like a guarantee. He has never changed banks. In 2022, when he went to renew a small trade loan he had been taking for years, the bank told him the process had changed. More forms. More documentation. …