KAPCO SHARES DELIVERED TO BANKS/ CDC

Islamabad, April 12, 2005

The Privatisation Commission has announced that the physical share certificates of Kot Addu Power Company (KAPCO) along with transfer deeds have been delivered to the Bankers to the offer. The successful applicants have been asked to collect their shares from the bank/ branch through which they tendered their application. The Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) has also credited the shares of those applicants who opted to receive shares in their respective accounts in Central Depository System. PC has also advised the successful applicants receiving shares in physical form  to contact the share registrar THK Associates Ground Floor, Modern Motor House, Beaumont Road, Karachi (Ph: 021-5689021 and Fax:021-5655595) for signature verification and transfer of shares.

The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 20 % (176 million) shares of Kot Addu  Power Company (KAPCO) has broken all the previous records of participation with a response from 1.4 million people, which is four and half times above the required participants, including 1.39 million resident and 10,000 overseas/ non-resident Pakistanis. A total number of 3,16000 small investors would be benefiting from the offer by the Privatisation Commission.