CHANGES in Pakistan have led to a period of growth in many sectors of commerce and industry. From the plan to treble steel production at the state-run Pakistan Steel plant and double output from the country's oldest fertiliser-maker, to completing a project to lay 2,550 kilometres of optic-fibre telecommunications cables and new incentives to foreign investors, Pakistan has pushed to turn its fortunes around.
The steel plant announced its expansion plans after making a profit for the first time in 10 years.
Company chairman Lieutenant-General Sabih Qamaruzzaman said Pakistan Steel hoped to boost the whole nation's economy.
The industrial complex near Karachi aimed to raise its annual output to three million tonnes from the 1.1 million it now produced.
It would do this by setting up an additional US$1 billion plant through credit raised locally and overseas.
More than 23,000 people are employed by Pakistan Steel, which announced a profit equivalent to HK$21 million in the first half of this fiscal year.