Karachi: State Banks of Pakistan (SBP) said that direct and portfolio foreign investment in the country dipped by 58.4 percent in the first four months of the 2011/12 fiscal year (July-October) to $238.1 million.
The direct and portfolio investment during the same period last year totalled at $571.8 million.
Analysts contributed the sharp decline in investment to incidents of violence in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi this year, a Taliban insurgency in the country’s north-west and chronic power shortages.
Foreign direct investment fell 27.7 percent in July-October 2011 to $340.2 million from $470.5 million in the same period last year, the State Bank of Pakistan said.
Foreign portfolio investment fell 200.8 percent with outflows of $102.1 million in the first four months of the fiscal year 2011/12, compared with inflows of $101.3 million in the same period last year.
At least 400 people were killed in July and August in violence in Karachi, the country’s main commercial hub, and investors have started shunning the country’s main stock exchange.
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