ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Insurance Association of Pakistan (IAP) has produced “Insurance Year Book 2001” for the first time providing a single volume data about general insurance business.

Besides aggregate information about the overall insurance industry comprising 47 Pakistani insurance companies (including National Insurance Company Limited of the public sector) for the period 1997 to 2001, the Year Book contains vital information about the financial position of the 43-member companies of IAP and their operational results for the years 1997 to 2001.

All these companies are, however, in the private sector and only Pakistan-based.

Until the publication of the Year Book, there was no access in a single volume to reliable information about the entire insurance industry was available in the country, SECP commissioner (insurance) Syed Itrat Rizvi told Dawn here on Monday.