ISLAMABAD April 10: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Saturday that Pakistan was an investor-friendly country and it offered excellent opportunities of investment to foreign entrepreneurs and investors.

The prime minister was talking to chairman of the Al-Ghurair Investment, UAE, Abdullah Al-Ghurair, who called on him at prime minister's house, an official handout said.

Both exchanged views on the investment opportunities available in the country.

Mr Jamali appreciated the interest of UAE businessmen in exploring possibilities of investment in gas infrastructure in the country. He assured full support of the government in facilitating investors in various sectors of the economy.

The premier said that the interest of UAE investors in Pakistan in various sectors of the economy, including oil and gas sectors, would bring the two countries even closer to each others and already existing brotherly relations between them would further be strengthened.