Ranking: 1
Worth: £1.25b
($2.5billion) Industry: Businessman

Mansha has around 40 companies on board.
Mansha, who owns the Muslim Commercial Bank is also setting up a $ 17m paper
mill. He is one of the richest Pakistanis around. Nishat Group was country's
15th richest family in 1970, 6th in 1990 and Number 1 in 1997. Mansha is on
the board of nearly 50 companies. He is deemed to have made investments in
many bourses, currency and metal exchanges both within and outside Pakistan.
He could have bought the United Bank too, but then who doesn't have
adversaries. Nishat Group comprises of textiles, cement, leasing, insurance
and management companies. If Mansha was bitten by Bhutto's nationalization
stint of 1970, his friends think he was compensated by Nawaz Sharif's
denationalization programme to a very good effect. There is no stopping
Mansha and he is still on the move.

Nishat group assets are $4.4Billion. He is
sometimes even regarded as the richest Pakistani around by his friends
claiming he does not 'show it off'.

2 - Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan

Ranking: 2
Worth: £900m ($1.8billion)
Industry: Politics

Asif Zardari dubbed 'Mr 10%' an unknown
happy-go-lucky son of a small-time businessman who struck gold by marrying
one of the worlds most glamorous women Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benzair Bhutto. Taking advantage of his wife's authority he is known to have
taken kickbacks from many deals inside and outside of Pakistan. The most
famous was a $4 billion deal to buy 32 Mirage jets from the French company
Dassault. Documents, which include letters from Dassault executives,
indicate an agreement was reached to pay a 5% 'remuneration' - about $200m -
to Marleton Business, a BVI company controlled by Zardari. Besides these
many more kickback deals were taken with companies such as ARY Gold, Société
Général de Surveillance (SGS), Cotecna, and ZPC Ursus, a Polish tractor
company.

Zardari assets holding amount into hundreds
of millions of dollars easily, Having 8 prime properties in the UK, of which
once is the famous Rockwood Estate 365 acres in Surrey, worth £4.35m has now
been sold and money sent back to the Govt. of Pakistan. Also 14
multi-million dollar mansions in the USA, including owning Holiday Inn hotel
Houston, Texas Owned by 'Mr 10%' and Iqbal Memon and Sadar-ud-Din Hashwani.

They (Zardari and B.Bhutto) also have huge
business ventures in the Middle East running into hundreds of millions if
not billion mark. Mr Zardari also has huge stakes in sugar mills all over
Pakistan,which include: Sakrand Sugar Mills, Nawabshah, Ansari Sugar Mills,
Hyderabad, Mirza Sugar Mills, Badin, Pangrio Sugar Mills, Thatta and Bachani
Sugar Mills, Sanghar.

3 - Sir Anwar Pervaiz

Ranking: 3
Worth: £750m ($1.5billion)
Industry: Businessman

Chairman of Bestway Group. The Bestway Group
started in 1976 with its first Bestway cash and carry warehouse opened in
London. Today the have in total around 50 Cash and Carry's. Including their
recent takeover of rival group Batleys for around £100m. Bestway Group
ventured into Pakistan's huge the cement business in 1995 and set up cement
manufacturing plant in Pakistan at a cost of $120 million.

Taking Advantage of Pakistan growing economy
they also acquired a 25.5% stake in United Bank Limited in 2002. Today, the
Bestway Group has interests in cash & carry wholesale, property investments,
retail outlets, milling of rice, lentils and pulses, cement production and
more recently into banking. The group's total sales amounted to in excess of
£ 2 billion. The group provides direct employment to thousands in the UK and
Pakistan. The have many interests in Pakistan too. Sir Anwar Pervaiz and his
his partners sheer hard work has bought them to outstanding international
levels, which definitely makes him an ideal role model for many young
Pakistanis today. He still on the move!

4 - Nawaz Sharif & Shahbaz Sharif family
Saudi Arabia/Pakistan

Ranking: 4
Worth: £700m ($1.4billion)
Industry: Politics/Businessma n

Mr Sharif Businessman turned politician the
former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was ousted in a military coup in 1999
and was forced to forfeit $9million dollars and some of his assets including
his $5m Mansion is Raiwind near Lahore. Before becoming PM he was a major
share holder along with his brother and cousins of Ittefaq Group, having
assets well in excess of £50m in the 90's.
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms, the first from November 1, 1990 to July 18, 1993 and the second from February 17, 1997 to October 12, 1999. His party is the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (Nawaz group). He is best known internationally for ordering Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests in response to India's nuclear tests, and the abrupt end of his final term in a dramatic coup by General Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz Sharif is currently an opposition leader and a strong supporter of the free judiciary movement in Pakistan. On Sunday, March 15, 2009, he defied house arrest to lead anti-government protests that briefly turned violent. Sharif called the mass rally a "prelude to a revolution."

5 - Saddaruddin Hashwani Pakistan

Ranking: 5
Worth: £550m ($1.1billion)
Industry: Businessman, Hotel Tycoon

Saddaruddin Hashwani is Chairman Hashoo
Group is known for his dominance in Pakistan's hotel industry, though
Hashwanis are have huge strength in real estate business too. Hashwanis are
involved in trading of cotton, grain and steel and till the nationalization
of cotton export in 1974, they were widely being dubbed as the Cotton Kings
of Pakistan. Today, this group has excelled in export of rice, wheat, cotton
and barley. It owns textile units, besides having invested billions in
mines, minerals. hotels, insurance, batteries, tobacco, residential
properties, construction, engineering and information technology. In 1984,
Hashwani defeated the Lakhanis in the bid for Premier Tobacco but was
arrested along with his brother Akbar in 1986 for allegedly evading customs
duty on cigarettes. Sadarduddin' s brother Akbar and the children of another
late brother Hassan Ali Hashwani together manage around 45 companies. Akbar
runs the second Hashwani Group. He is one of the most well-known magnates in
Pakistan who is a regular invitee at the Diplomatic Enclave. The list of
local and international bigwigs known personally to Hashwani is unending.