High Commission’s Efforts: Investment conference to be held in UK

LONDON: Pakistan High Commission London, in collaboration with the Department of International Trade (DIT), United Kingdom (UK) would organise a high profile trade and investment conference in May this year, a senior official of the mission said on Saturday. For promoting trade and investment between Pakistan and the UK, the conference will focus on sectors including financial services, retail, information technology (IT) and energy. He added that the minister for commerce, members of the Board of Investment (BOI) and representatives from the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) and Pakistan’s local chambers and business community would attend the conference and interact with the British business community and other investors. He said that Pakistan’s exports to the UK witnessed an eight percent increase during the calendar year of 2017. Sajid Mehmood said that Pakistan High Commission London (PHC) is making efforts to further boost up Pak-UK trade and investment relations for the benefit of the people of the two friendly countries.  

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st, 2018.

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