Syed Shabbar Zaidi, member Board of Trustees Karachi Education Initiative; the parent body of KSBL, has been appointed Minister of Finance in the Sindh Caretaker Govt. Mr. Zaidi – a Chartered Accountant by profession and partner, A.F. Ferguson and Co. has a distinguished record of achievements to his credit.


He was Past President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and South Asian Federation of Accountants and former Chairman, Professional Standard and Technical Advisory Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.


His current responsibilities include being Chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan; Member, Developing Nations Committee of International Federation of Accountants; Member, Central Audit Committee of Board of State Bank of Pakistan; Senior Member of the Task Force for Reform of Tax Administration (2000); Advisor, Corporate Rehabilitation Committee of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, and Trustee, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT).



A. F. Ferguson & Co. Pakistan

The Firm consists of 43 partners and has staff of over 1,700 and counting. The firm is currently headed by Syed Muhammad Shabbar Zaidi and is the oldest firm in Pakistan. A. F. Ferguson & Co. (a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers network) is among the largest firms of professional accountants in Pakistan, operating in three metropolitan cities viz. Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The firm also has an office in Kabul, Afghanistan. The firm operates under international membership of PricewaterhouseCoopers and is also known internationally as PricewaterhouseCoopers Pakistan (PwC Pakistan).

The head office of the firm is situated at State Life building no. 1-C, I.I. Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan.

Privatization Commission’s chief to chair ICAP’s post budget seminar


KARACHI: Minister of State and Chairman Privatization Commission, Mohammad Zubair will chair a session, being organized as Post Budget Seminar by the Southern Regional Committee (SRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) here on Thursday.

The primary objective is to discuss and deliberate on the possible consequences of the Federal Budget 2015-16 on the economy of Pakistan, said the organizers here on Wednesday.

A panel discussion will follow to highlight various aspects of the budget and the proposed way forward.

Among the panelists will be Syed Shabbar Zaidi, FCA, Partner, A.F. Ferguson & Co. Chartered Accountants, Naeem Akhter Sheikh, FCA, Chairman, ICAP Taxation Committee, Khalid Mansoor, Chief Executive, The Hub Power Company Limited (HUBCO) and Iftikhar Allawala, Director National Bank of Pakistan and Specialty Printers.