Foreign Investors Repatriate $1.7 Billion Profit Out of Pakistan in 9 Months
新闻台署名 来源：新华社、《黎明报》、《阿拉伯新闻》、阿纳多卢通讯社与《分钟镜报》。由 GSRRA 编辑部翻译并节选。
The repatriation of profits and dividends from foreign investments in Pakistan surged by 107 percent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (9MFY25).
According to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), foreign investors repatriated $1.708 billion from July to March of FY25, a substantial increase from $826 million during the same period in FY24, marking a rise of $882.7 million.
During March 2025, the repatriation of profits and dividends in Pakistan increased by 140 percent YoY | -32.3 percent MoM to $157.9 million.
The Power sector experienced the largest outflow of profits and dividends in March, reaching $83.3 million in 9MFY25, a 1,802 percent increase from the previous year, according to SBP data.
The Financial Business sector followed with $21.6 million in repatriations, and the Cement sector came in third with $12.3 million in outflows during the period in review.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/04/20/foreign-investors-repatriate-1-7-billion-profit-out-of-pakistan-in-9-months/
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.…
