INFORMATION ON PAKISTAN

• Country Insights - Cultural Information
• Country Information - CIA World Fact Book
• Pakistan Economic and Demographic Forecasts (PDF Document)

Pakistan Key Facts and Statistics:

• Ontario Trade Fact Sheet
• Pakistan has one of the most liberal foreign investment regimes in South Asia. One hundred per cent foreign equity is permitted in the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors.
• Ongoing reform of Pakistan's trade regime is reducing tariff barriers.
• Ontario's exports to Pakistan have grown by over 132 per cent over the last five years. Ontario's imports have grown about 10 per cent.
• In 2005, about 10 per cent of Ontario's goods exports to Pakistan were ICT related.
• The Government of Pakistan (GOP) has identified Information Technology as one of the four key areas that would contribute to the revival of the country's economy.
• In 2006, Pakistan won the GSM Association's Government Leadership Award, which recognizes the GOP progress in establishing a thriving mobile communications sector over the past three years.
• For 2006, Pakistan's GDP is projected to grow by 6.6 per cent.
• Between 2005 and 2006, Pakistan's imports from the world are projected to increase by 25 per cent, while exports are expected to increase by 26 per cent.