A two-day Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum 2025 (PMIF25) held at Islamabad on April 8 and 9 concluded on a vision of turning the hidden minerals of Pakistan into a trillion-dollar economy, a commitment of watertight security to be provided to the investors, and the signing of some MoUs of cooperation.

The plan therein unveiled presented a basic framework to promote mining and mineral investment opportunities across the four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The PMIF25 has been earmarked to serve as a premier platform for global stakeholders to explore investment opportunities in Pakistan’s emerging minerals sector and unlock the country’s vast mineral potential.

PM Shehbaz Sharif highlighted the mining potential across the country and laid out a policy frame-work and is reported to have stated: “We have to make sure that whatever permissions to potential investors in future … we will not allow raw materials to be shipped out of Pakistan.”

He added, “From today onwards, there has to be an integrated policy where investors mine raw material, have downstream industry, convert them into finished goods and then export it out.”

“Such agreements will entail that investors will bring in technology and transfer it to Pakistan over a period of time,” he said.

Unlike the mines and minerals conferences held in the immediate past, which could not deliver any tangible results, the PMIF25 has gained a significant importance on account of US government’s strategic interest in........

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