Pakistan to co-host world’s Investment conference

FRANKFURT: Pakistan will co-host with Germany world’s first-ever International Conference on Investment Treaties in Frankfurt from December 1-3, aimed at examining the policy issues that will shape international investment laws in the years to come. The conference for “taking stock and a look to the future” marks the Golden Jubilee of signing of the first Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between Pakistan and Germany on November 25, 1959 and will focus on significant changes in the pattern of movement of foreign capital, deep financial crisis, turf war over competence in Europe and the threat of protectionism.