PIA, Pakistan Still Mills among other SOEs to be privatized within next 6-8 months: PC

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The State Owned Entities (SOEs) including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan Steel Mills and Lahore and Faisalabad Electric Supply Distribution Companies would be privatized within next six to eight months, according to a senior official of Privatization Commission (PC).

Talking to media on Friday, the official told that upto 70 percent of privatization process of SOEs which also includes Kot Addu Power Company (KAPCO), State Life Insurance Corporation and Mari Gas etc has been completed by the Privatization Commission.

“Before inviting the letter of intent, transaction structure of the privatization process would be submitted to the Cabinet Committee on Privatization for approval”, he said.

The road shows for selling off the SOEs would also be organized in different countries including Turkey, China and Russia to attract foreign direct investment.

During the road shows, the foreign investors would be convinced to take benefit of the governments investment and privatization policies and come forward to invest in Pakistan as the law and order situation has been improved considerably.

The official informed that the letter of intent for Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has already been sought from the private sector.

The Privatization Commission has been working on the privatization of these entities for the last 18 months and the process has been speed up on the directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

He said the public sector entities were being privatized to improve the quality of service for the people. He said that the most important task would be to ensure improvement in the services of these entities after privatization.

To a question, he said that so far 150 entities have been privatized since start of the privatization process in 1991. He admitted that the process has been very slow in the past, however the present government is taking keen interest to expedite the process.

Source: DND/APP

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