Sadar ud din hashwani biography book pdf

Pakistani businessman

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 KhojaIsma'ili family.^[1] Hashwanis had migrated with the third Ismaili ImamAgha 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.

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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 Hot