KARACHI: Pakistan received $669.8 million in foreign direct investment in the first nine Month of the current 2013/14 fiscal year compared with $631 million received during the same period a year earlier.

Foreign direct investment rose by 6 percent during July-March, according to the State Bank of Pakistan.

In March 2014, foreign direct investment rose to $63.5 million.

Net foreign direct investment in the fiscal year of 2012/13, which ended in June, was $1.456 billion.