INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan is an emerging market and also a gateway to China and Central Asia; Pakistan's Investment Policy has been formulated to create an investor-friendly environment .The Hosing and   Construction sector been declared as an Industry. It has also been Placed under priority industries of the Investment.

The Shortage of housing in the country has mounted to a staggering six million units. The shortage of 4.5 million house recorded during the housing survey in 1998 has been rising by 270,000 a year. And that is on the basis of each tenement housing 6.6 persons instead of the standard five persons per family. Local and foreign companies involved in real estate projects