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Sartaj Aziz (Urdu: سرتاج عزيز‎; b. 7 February 1929)TPk, is a Pakistani economist, statesman, strategist, and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) as well as key adviser on the foreign policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He is a veteran Pakistan Movement activist, and a former professor of macroeconomics at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU). Prior to that, he also served as Foreign Minister in a previous term of the Sharif government from 1990–1993 and as well as Finance Minister in 1997 until being reassigned as Foreign Minister in 1999.Aziz is noted for driving the Pakistan's national economy on free-market economics principle and initiated the economic liberalization and privatization programmes. In addition, he served as an adviser to the Foreign ministry while he helped implementing the economic policy through Economic Coordination Committee (ECC). He is renowned for his peace activism and was the only senior minister opposing the decision of conducting nuclear tests in response to India, but later retraced his position in 2002. As of current, Aziz is serving as the vice-chancellor of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU) as well as the visiting professor of economics and management sciences.