Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) under its banner ‘The first port of call for foreign investors’ has rolled out ‘Pakistan’s FDI Pulse’ under its signature ‘OICCI Insight’ publication of March 2025.

The FDI Pulse 2025 is a pointer to the changing demographic pattern of FDI in the country, Pakistan’s FDI standing against its peers in the region and the reasons for Pakistan’s fallback in achieving FDI. Some rather disturbing realities have emerged out of the report worked out by OICCI.

China, since the last few years, has taken the lead as the largest foreign direct investor in Pakistan with a share of 40 percent of the total foreign investment in the country with an average investment of $ 650 million a year in the last four years.

The demographic pattern of investors is quite a reverse of what it used to be just a few years back when the traditional foreign investors from the USA, UK and Europe were in the lead. The figures therein presented lay bare a sad reality that the investment by these traditional foreign partners is drying out.

It brings to surface that while in pursuit of investment from China, driven by CPEC under its global ‘Belt and Road’........

© Business Recorder