Pakistan, Saudi entities sign MoU to launch Saudi-Pakistan Bridge Initiative to promote B2B investment
Bridge Initiative to promote B2B investment with support from Chinese technologies and joint ventures across priority sectors
The Pakistan Regional Economic Forum and Saudi Bridge have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a structured business-to-business platform aimed at expanding private sector investment and economic partnerships between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, with support from Chinese technologies.
According to an official announcement, the agreement sets up the Saudi-Pakistan Bridge Initiative, designed to facilitate market entry, investment flows, and cross-border collaboration among businesses and investors from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other regional countries.
The MoU was signed in Riyadh in the presence of senior government and institutional representatives. The framework is aligned with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and focuses on execution-oriented cooperation with defined outcomes rather than broad engagement.
Under the initiative, the platform will serve as a standing mechanism to support transaction-led collaboration between enterprises, investors, and funds. It will initially run for three years and cover sectors including energy, mining, sports goods manufacturing, logistics, food and agri-processing, healthcare, technology, industrial manufacturing, construction and strategic services.
Planned activities include sector-specific delegations, market-entry and soft-landing programmes, regulatory engagement, joint investment forums, and the establishment of a one-stop bridge desk to facilitate bilateral coordination.
Economist Haroon Sharif said the forum has already helped identify and finalise business-to-business joint ventures worth around $500 million, working in coordination with Saudi authorities and Pakistan’s Special Investment Facilitation Council.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
