The Sixth Five Year Plan (1983-88) has commenced from July, 1983. An allocation of Rs.82 billion has been made for industrial sector, out of which Rs.62billion are earmarked for private sector and Rs.20 billion for public sector. Private sector will be the main vehicle of implementing the industrial programme. The Sixth Plan aims at consolidation of the policies development and followed during the Fifth Plan. It assigns a pivotal role to the private sector. The growing interest of the private sector in industrial investment is reflected in the rising trend in the Index of share prices on the Karachi Stock Exchange. While the Industrial Policy will aim to achieve the goals mentioned above as a long-term objective, they have to be translated into specific targets for medium term planning. The targets of the Sixth Plan are: (a) to increase industrial investment from 3.2 percent of GNP at the beginning of the plan period to 4.4 percent by its end; (b) to increase the share of private investment in the total industrial investment to 62 percent by the end of the Sixth Plan from 40 percent in the beginning of the Plan; end. (c) to increase private industrial investment as a proportion of GNP over this period from 1.3 percent to 3.0 percent.