Mr Gibson said the new information came from a businessman with a military background in South East Asia who the family met through a charity set up in Eddie's name.

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Mervyn Davies, who had been chairman of Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival in Asia, had a similar job under the previous government.

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Zubyr Soomro, former No. 2 at Citibank's emerging markets division in London, now runs Pakistan third-largest bank, UBL. The new governor of the central bank is Ishrat Hussain, 54, who served as the World Bank's director for Central Asia in Washington.

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