Sadruddin Hashwani
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Sadruddin Hashwani is a Pakistani hotelier and businessperson who is the chairman of Hashoo Group.
Biography
Sadruddin Hashwani was born in 1940 in Karachi, Sind, British India into a Khoja Isma'ili family.[1][2] Hashwanis had migrated with the third Ismaili Imam Agha Khan from Persia in the early 1900s and settled in Lasbela, Balochistan. Hashwani studied at the University of Karachi and in 1960 founded the Hassan Ali Company along with his brother. By 1970s, it had become one of the leading cotton trading company of Pakistan. However, the company was nationalised in 1973. In 1978, he launched the Holiday Inn hotel in Karachi in 1981 and later in Islamabad. Both of the hotels were converted into Marriott brand in 1990s. In 1985, Hashwani made a successful bid for the majority shares of Pakistan Services Limited, which then owned four Inter-Continental Hotels across Pakistan, the hotels were re-branded as Pearl-Continental Hotels.[3]
In 2014, Hashwani published his best-selling memoir Truth Always Prevails.[4][5]
In April 2016, he and his son, Murtaza Hashwani, were named in the Panama Papers.[6]
Bibliography
- Hashwani, Sadruddin (2014). Truth Always Prevails
Awards and recognition
- 2019: Nishan-e-Imtiaz[7]
References
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- Living people
- 1940 births
- Pakistani industrialists
- Pakistani Ismailis
- Pakistani hoteliers
- Muhajir people
- Pakistani people of Gujarati descent
- Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
- Businesspeople from Karachi
- University of Karachi alumni
- People named in the Paradise Papers
- People named in the Panama Papers
- Khoja Ismailis