Enticing investors: ‘Policies made Pakistan pro-business’

PM invited the British investors and businessmen to invest in Pakistan.


February 11, 2013

LONDON: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said that liberal economic policies had unleashed greater opportunities and ambience for foreign investment in diverse sectors of the Pakistani economy. Talking to the British investors, business executives and industrialists at a meeting held, the premier said that there was immense potential as well as prospects for foreign investors in the country with a population of 180 million, which has growing needs in different fields. Ashraf, who was on an official visit to the United Kingdom, invited the British investors and businessmen to invest in Pakistan. “Banking sector is efficient and vibrant, inflation and interest rate registered declining propensity while foreign remittances recorded 100% increase and exports hiked considerably.” The prime minister further said he had come across investors in Pakistan who not only appreciated the economic policies of the country but also reposed confidence in this regard. Philip Bourverat, Director Sales, JCB urged Pakistan to improve ties with India, which he added will help pave the way for British companies to provide technology and other facilities in Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2013.

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