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Finance Minister to visit FPCCI, PSX on Jan 20

19 Jan, 2017

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar will visit Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), and Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Friday.

At his first leg, he would grace the signing ceremony of share purchase agreement of PSX with consortium of Chinese exchanges and local financial institutions. The consortium has purchased 40 percent of PSX shares.

Scheduled to start at 10:00 A.M, the ceremony would be attended by large number of brokers, and local and Chinese investors besides PSX officials.

In the afternoon, the Federal Finance Minister would have a meeting with FPCCI members at the Federation House to discuss the issues relating to trade, industries, investment and financing.

For this purpose, FPCCI has also invited proposals from its member trade bodies for taking up in the meeting.

He has been invited by newly elected FPCCI President, Zubair F. Tufail.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2017

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