{"id":4088,"date":"2026-11-09T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:04:17","slug":"pakistan-saudi-arabia-investors-launch-fund-to-boost-trade-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Saudi Arabia investors launch fund to boost trade, investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A joint council of Saudi Arabian and Pakistani investors launched a private equity fund on Monday as part of the countries\u2019 wider push to deepen two-way private sector trade and investment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-Pakistan Joint Business Council, formed by the governments of both countries, said the fund\u2019s initial size is \u201cmulti-hundred million\u201d, which is expected to expand based on opportunities across sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Three-fourths of the fund will be invested in Pakistan, while the rest will be invested in Saudi Arabian projects, the council said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the fund comes at a time when Islamabad and Riyadh are deepening longstanding ties, especially in defence, amid few signs of a breakthrough in the months-long US-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows a series of high-level engagements between the two countries aimed at expanding economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Saudi-Pakistan Joint Business Council Chairman Prince Mansour bin Mohammad Al Saud visited Pakistan with a high-level business delegation. The delegation met political leaders, senior government officials, chambers of commerce and business groups to explore opportunities for expanding bilateral trade and investment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in August, Prince Mansour met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister\u2019s House, where the two sides discussed avenues for expanding economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the Saudi delegation expressed interest in investment opportunities in Pakistan\u2019s agriculture, ports, highways, airport outsourcing, real estate, energy, power distribution and information technology sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Saudi Arabia also agreed in August to increase Pakistani agricultural and food exports to the kingdom to $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, Pakistan invited Saudi investors to participate in the construction of the long-delayed Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6) and two other major highway projects. The M-6 is expected to provide uninterrupted motorway connectivity between Karachi Port and Peshawar, with the network extending towards Gilgit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint council of Saudi Arabian and Pakistani investors launched a private equity fund on Monday as part of the countries\u2019 wider push to deepen two-way private sector trade and investment. The Saudi-Pakistan Joint Business Council, formed by the governments of both countries, said the fund\u2019s initial size is \u201cmulti-hundred million\u201d, which is expected to expand based on opportunities across sectors. Three-fourths of the fund will be invested in Pakistan, while the rest will be invested in Saudi Arabian projects, the council said in a statement. The launch of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}