Pakistan Energy Sukuk-I listed at stock exchange.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has listed Pakistan Energy Sukuk-I (PES-I) worth of Rs200 billion, which is the largest Shariah compliant financial instrument that ever listed at a stock exchange in the country.

The Sukuk is issued by Power Holding Limited (PHL), a company fully owned by the Government of Pakistan. PES-I is issued under the Pakistan Energy Sukuk Rules, 2019. Purpose of the issue is to provide liquidity to the energy sector and to promote domestic Sukuk market. The SECP has been incessantly pursuing government for listing the public sector Sukuk at PSX's Over Counter Market and provided all sort of facilitation in bringing in this issue.

Listing of PES-I at PSX will help development of the domestic Sukuk market. A developed Sukuk market can bring new class of investors to our...