KARACHI: Pakistan received $615.5 million in foreign direct investment in the first eight months (July-February) of the 2014/15 fiscal year, compared with $640.1 million received during the same period a year earlier.

Foreign direct investment fell 3.8 percent during July-February, according to the State Bank of Pakistan.

In February 2015, foreign direct investment was $74.9 million. Net foreign direct investment in the fiscal year of 2013/14, which ended in June, was $1.667.6 billion.

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