MoUs worth USD 20 billion signed between Pak, KSA<\/a><\/p>\nThe two ministers discussed matters of mutual interest during the meeting. Qureshi said that both countries will launch a strategic partnership with each other, and that Gwadar would turn into an economic hub due to CPEC.<\/p>\n
More agreements are expected to be signed after the crown prince\u2019s visit as well.<\/p>\n
Finance Minister Asad Umar also met Saudi Minister for Energy Khalid al-Falih. The finance minister reported that energy projects worth billions of dollars were discussed during the session. He informed that Saudi company ACWA Power had expressed interest to invest in Pakistan\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n
The finance minister expects this move would significantly lower Pakistan\u2019s import bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, a news source reported. Qureshi met with his Saudi counterpart, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, on the side-lines of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman\u2019s visit. Read:\u00a0MoUs worth USD 20 billion signed between Pak, KSA The two ministers discussed matters of mutual interest during the meeting. Qureshi said that both countries will launch a strategic partnership with each other, and that Gwadar would turn into an economic hub due to CPEC. More agreements are expected to be signed after the crown prince\u2019s visit as well. Finance Minister Asad Umar also met Saudi Minister for Energy Khalid al-Falih. The finance minister reported that energy projects worth billions of dollars were discussed during the session. He informed that Saudi company ACWA Power had expressed interest to invest in Pakistan\u2019s energy sector. The finance minister expects this move would significantly lower Pakistan\u2019s import bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":49409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10541],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-saudi-arabia-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-18T08:09:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Muhammad Farhad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Muhammad Farhad\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones - Zameen News","description":"Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones - Zameen News","og_description":"Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2019-02-18T08:09:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Muhammad Farhad","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Muhammad Farhad","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html"},"author":{"name":"Muhammad Farhad","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5cce8ae772fd0b0ee6348e19eb64ff42"},"headline":"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones","datePublished":"2019-02-18T08:09:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html"},"wordCount":175,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg","keywords":["Saudi Arabia invited to invest in CPEC economic zones"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html","name":"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg","datePublished":"2019-02-18T08:09:34+00:00","description":"Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the economic zones formed under the China-Pakistan Economic","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SM-Qureshi.jpg","width":600,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ksa-invited-to-invest-in-cpec-economic-zones.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"KSA invited to invest in CPEC economic zones"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5cce8ae772fd0b0ee6348e19eb64ff42","name":"Muhammad Farhad","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13eadb15a0125b6648e56703aaf7543058fea376b06a73209cde68f09b9b093d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13eadb15a0125b6648e56703aaf7543058fea376b06a73209cde68f09b9b093d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13eadb15a0125b6648e56703aaf7543058fea376b06a73209cde68f09b9b093d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Muhammad Farhad"},"description":"Muhammad Farhad is a Content Developer at Zameen.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/farhad-hassan"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49410,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49408\/revisions\/49410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49408"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=49408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}