Pakistan has been a goldmine, says Maryam Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz highlighting the country’s natural resources on Thursday said that Pakistan has been a goldmine.

Punjab’s Chief Minister was addressing the two-day Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum began on Thursday in Islamabad in collaboration with the Special Investment Facilitation Council.

“The country has immense natural resources and an extra-ordinary capability,” Maryam Nawaz said while stressing for optimum utilization of the natural resources of the country.

Punjab CM informed the forum presence of gold and copper in sand and gravel in the riverbed in Punjab province. “It is pure gold,” showing samples of gold extracted from the Indus Riverbed in Attock and Mianwali, chief minister said.

“We are conducting survey of the riverbed to explore presence of gold in rivers,” she told the investment forum.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar highlighted the potential of mineral sector as a critical driver of national economic growth and foreign direct investment.