ISLAMABAD, May 7: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would inaugurate on Saturday the first international conference on "Investment Opportunities in Balochistan", at Quetta.

More than 250 local and foreign delegates and the top business representatives from China, Singapore, Malaysia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Oman, United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Germany will participate in the various working sessions of the conference, said a BoI statement.

Federal Minister for Privatization & Investment Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh will deliver his keynote speech at the inaugural session while Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Mohammad Yousuf will give welcome address to the delegates.

The conference will offer investment opportunities to potential investors both domestic and foreign in industrial zones of Balochistan, SME sector opportunities and incentives, logistics and mass transit: seaport, shipping, railway, coastal and land development, fuel and energy.

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