Archive · 26 Oct 2025
India's FDI Booms While Firms Exit Pakistan
India is attracting a lot of investment from companies, while Pakistan is seeing many companies leave.
India has made it easier for businesses to succeed with good policies, infrastructure, and economic growth.
Companies like Apple and Microsoft are investing billions in India.
Pakistan is facing problems like high costs, unclear rules, and unstable money issues.
Many companies, including P&G and Shell, are shutting down or selling their operations in Pakistan.
This shows that India is becoming a more attractive place for businesses than Pakistan right now.
India continues to attract significant foreign investment.
Pakistan is experiencing a retreat of global firms across multiple sectors.
Procter & Gamble, Shell, Pfizer, TotalEnergies, Telenor, and Microsoft have exited Pakistan.
India's business-friendly environment and government initiatives are key drivers of investment.
Challenges in Pakistan include high costs, regulatory issues, and macroeconomic instability.
- Who
- Global firms like P&G, Microsoft, and Shell, and the governments of India and Pakistan.
- What
- Shift in foreign investment, with India attracting more and Pakistan losing it.
- When
- Recent years, with key events in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- Where
- India and Pakistan.
- Why
- India's business-friendly policies and Pakistan's challenges such as high costs, regulatory issues, and economic instability.
- India's FDI (FY24-25)
- $81 billion
- P&G's Exit
- Shutting down operations in Pakistan
- Microsoft's Exit
- Shut down Pakistan operations (July 2025)
- Shell's Exit
- Sold stake in 2023
- Pfizer's Exit
- Sold Karachi plant (2024)
- Apple's Production in India (April 2025)
- $22 billion
- Amazon's India Investment
- $8.2 billion in cloud infrastructure
- Eli Lilly's Investment in India
- $1 billion
