Mineral wealth

THE participation of 300 delegates, including guests from overseas, in the two-day mineral summit in Islamabad has renewed hopes of growing foreign interest in Pakistan’s mineral sector, which remains mostly unexplored due to lack of financing and access to technology.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has highlighted mineral resources as the lynchpin of the nation’s economic revival. Addressing the Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum, he went on to state that the country’s mineral wealth ‘worth...