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Conference will focus on Pakistan

An all-day conference on Pakistan's economic and social development will take place at the Sloan School of Management's Wong Auditorium on Saturday, March 7. Speakers will include Riaz Khokhar, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.

Morning sessions will focus on social development, while the afternoon panels will discuss political stability, institutional structure, economic policy and investment issues. The keynote speaker at dinner will be Shaukat Aziz, executive vice������������������president of Citibank, one of the conference's sponsors.

Admission is $5 for students and $15 for professionals. The fee includes breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 4, 1998.

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