A meeting of the Capital Market Development Council was held in Islamabad today, with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in the chair.

The meeting reviewed the current state of Pakistan's capital markets, with a particular focus on accelerating the development of the corporate debt market and broadening access to diversified financing sources.

The Finance Minister emphasized the need to foster a more competitive and efficient capital market ecosystem by encouraging greater institutional capacity and competition among market intermediaries and market infrastructure providers.