LONDON: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said that liberal economic policies had unleashed conducive opportunities and ambiance for foreign investment in diverse sectors of Pakistan's economy.

Talking to British investors, business executives and industrialists at a meeting held here, the prime minister said that there was immense potential as well as prospects for foreign investors in Pakistan, which has growing needs in different fields.

The premier who is on an official visit to the United Kingdom, invited British investors and businessmen to invest in Pakistan.

"Banking sector is efficient and vibrant, the inflation and interest rate registered declining propensity while foreign remittances recorded 100 per cent surge and exports hiked considerably," he added.

The prime minister assured the British investors and business executives, “we will go to our elastic limits” to facilitate them with regard to their investment in Pakistan.

Prime Minister Ashraf further said that he had come across investors in Pakistan who not only appreciated the economic policies of the country but also reposed confidence in this regard.

The prime minister further said that withdrawal of Nato forces from Afghanistan in 2014 will help improve investment ambience in Pakistan and open up more opportunities for foreign businessmen to invest in the country.