PC CLARIFIES PAYMENT SCHEDULE FOR TCCL

Islamabad, November 06, 2003

Referring to a news report regarding the bidding result for the sale of 90% shares of Thatta Cement Company Limited (TCCL) appearing in a section of the press, a spokesman of Privatisation Commission has clarified that the payment schedule stated in the report i.e. '..the buyer will have to pay 5% of the total bid value within a week of the issuance of Letter of Acceptance (LOA)..' is not correct due to some typo mistake. He clarified that the successful bidder would be required to deposit 50 % (fifty percent) of the
bid value within seven days of the issuance of LOA.

The payment schedule was not only given in the bidding documents but it was amply explained to all the bidders before the commencement of the bidding for TCCL, the spokesman stated.