The Central Depository Company (CDC) Pakistan Limited in partnership with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and the Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) organised a 'Road Show on Investment' at Multan for creating awareness among prospective investors. Speaking on the occasion, MCCI president Fareed Mughis Sheikh said that the SECP should establish an investment centre and an assistance desk at Multan Chamber for facilitating investors.
He also urged the government to formulate effective policies to help resolve the crisis being faced by agriculture and industrial sectors. He said that MCCI will extend full cooperation to all those local investors who will be willing to finance in the capital market.
The CDC's deputy managing director, Haroon Askari, said that the ` 'Road Show on Investment' was in continuation of a series of road shows initiated by CDC to keep investors abreast with the prospects and opportunities for investment in the growing Pakistani capital market. Elaborating, he said that CDC has successfully staged similar events in Peshawar, Hyderabad, Quetta, Sialkot and Sukkur. He said that Pakistan Stock Exchange being established at Islamabad would become operational from January 2016. "This initiative will help investors in selling and buying their shares at reasonable price," he opined.