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Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (R) presents a memento to Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong (L) to mark the share purchase agreement signing at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on January 20, 2017. A Chinese consortium is set to acquire a 40 percent stake in Pakistan's main bourse, the country's stock exchange. The consortium comprises three Chinese exchanges -- China Financial Futures Exchange Company Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and two local financial institutions -- Pak-China Investment Company Limited and Habib Bank Limited. / AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (R) presents a memento to Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong (L) to mark the share purchase agreement signing at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on January 20, 2017. A Chinese consortium is set to acquire a 40 percent stake in Pakistan's main bourse, the country's stock exchange. The consortium comprises three Chinese exchanges -- China Financial Futures Exchange Company Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and two local financial institutions -- Pak-China Investment Company Limited and Habib Bank Limited. / AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (rear C) watches Chinese and Pakistani officials sign a share purchase agreement at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on January 20, 2017. A Chinese consortium is set to acquire a 40 percent stake in Pakistan's main bourse, the country's stock exchange. The consortium comprises three Chinese exchanges -- China Financial Futures Exchange Company Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and two local financial institutions -- Pak-China Investment Company Limited and Habib Bank Limited. / AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (rear C) watches Chinese and Pakistani officials sign a share purchase agreement at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on January 20, 2017. A Chinese consortium is set to acquire a 40 percent stake in Pakistan's main bourse, the country's stock exchange. The consortium comprises three Chinese exchanges -- China Financial Futures Exchange Company Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and two local financial institutions -- Pak-China Investment Company Limited and Habib Bank Limited. / AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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