I extend warm welcome to all the visiting guests from D-8 countries to Pakistan and hope the business and investors community will be attracted by project proposals and benefit from the presence of Pakistani counterpart companies for joint collaboration. I sincerely hope that the opportunity will provide a successful match-making between the D-8 countries' businessmen and investor community.
I am grateful for the support of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry who have joined BOI to make this venture success. The presence of Chambers, trade bodies, Pakistan Business Council, Overseas Investors Chambers of Commerce & Industry and other business forums will help in achieving desired goal of greater interaction.
I invite the visiting CEOs to look at Pakistan as attractive destination for this investment and the projects offered on public-private partnerships in the sectors of energy, agriculture, agro-based industries, mineral development, transport and engineering goods. There is also massive potential in Pakistan's untapped coal reserves that are estimated at over 185 billion tones, including 175 billion tones identified at Thar, in the Sindh province. The difficulties like power shortage, housing requirement, infrastructure development, railways improvement all offer opportunity for investment in Pakistan.
Offering the above mentioned potentials and requirements of Pakistan, I assure the visiting guests that BOI will continue to extend its facilitative role to all investors and stride for improvement in ease of doing business in Pakistan. As per World Bank Report of 2013, Pakistan ranks ahead of Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, India and Philippines.
I hope that the event on the sidelines of D-8 Summit will provide good opportunity and will bring success in the initiation of business and investment ventures between the D-8 countries.
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