{"id":17771,"date":"2024-08-27T06:18:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2024-08-27T06:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:18:51","slug":"govt-committed-to-improve-investment-climate-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=17771","title":{"rendered":"Govt committed to improve investment climate, Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-1536x1205.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240827-WA0023-2048x1607.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Meets with Mr. Antti Partanen, FinnFund Representative to Discuss Investment Opportunities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held a meeting with Mr. Antti Partanen, a representative from FinnFund, a Finnish development financier. The meeting focused on exploring potential investment opportunities in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Minister underscored the significant improvements in Pakistan&#8217;s macroeconomic indicators and highlighted the government&#8217;s structural reform agenda, including the digitalization of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), energy sector reforms, State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) reforms, and privatization measures. He stressed the government&#8217;s focus on transforming Pakistan into an export-led economy and attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to enhance the country&#8217;s export base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Partanen presented an overview of FinnFund&#8217;s profile and investment initiatives in Pakistan, emphasizing their interest in digital infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, and forestry. He noted that Pakistan&#8217;s growing young population makes it an attractive destination for financing and expressed FinnFund&#8217;s willingness to explore investments in various sectors of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister reiterated the commitment of the government for making Pakistan&#8217;s investment climate favourable and conducive for foreign investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Meets with Mr. Antti Partanen, FinnFund Representative to Discuss Investment Opportunities Islamabad: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held a meeting with Mr. Antti Partanen,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-federal-minister-for-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17773,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}