Ishrat Husain: Harmonization of the banking sector in SAARC region Keynote address by Mr Ishrat Husain, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, at the South Asian Federation of Accountants Conference held in New Delhi, India on 28 August 2004.
*  *  *  Harmonization of the banking sector should not be seen as an objective in itself for the member countries of SAARC region but it should be considered as a tool for achieving a large objective. South Asia has the largest number of poor people in the world.