Shahzada Alam Monnoo
Shahzada Alam Monnoo was a Pakistani industrialist and politician. He served in the cabinet of Pakistan as Minister of Commerce and Textile Industry, Privatization and Investment between 15 November 2007 and 25 March 2008. He died on 18 November 2014.
Early life and career
Monnoo was born in 1936 into the Chinioti business clan. He studied in Welham Boys School, Dehradun in British India and moved to Pakistan in 1947 when it and India became independent. He attended Aitchison College in Lahore and later the College of Textiles at North Carolina State College, North Carolina, United States.In 1965 he introduced the first Toyota Motors assembly plant in Karachi, then known as Monnoo Toyota Motors. The industry was nationalized by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1972, along with many others. Monnoo had become highly influential in the textile sector in Pakistan, becoming the president of Monnoo Group, which owns nearly 20 mills in Faisalabad and other locations in Pakistan and had served as chairman of the APTMA and was the founding member of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry.