The Securities and Trade Fee of Pakistan (SECP) registered 3,881 new corporations in January 2026, reflecting continued progress in company registrations throughout the nation.
Throughout the identical interval, 82 newly registered corporations acquired international funding from international locations together with China, the US, Afghanistan, Australia, Turkey, the UK, Palau, South Africa, Albania, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, and Ukraine.
In line with SECP, nearly all registrations, about 99.9 %, had been accomplished on-line via its eZfile system. The newly integrated corporations had a mixed paid-up capital of Rs8.4 billion, growing the entire variety of registered corporations in Pakistan to 283,540.
When it comes to firm construction, personal restricted corporations made up 59 % of recent registrations, whereas single-member corporations accounted for 38 %.
The remaining three % included public unlisted corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and restricted legal responsibility partnerships. Punjab recorded the best variety of new corporations with 1,998 registrations, representing 52 % of the entire. Islamabad Capital Territory adopted with 747 corporations, Sindh with 601, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 343, Gilgit-Baltistan with 127, and Balochistan with 65.
Sector-wise information confirmed that the Data Know-how and e-commerce sectors led with 729 new corporations, adopted by buying and selling with 613 corporations, companies with 494, and actual property improvement and development with 347.
Different sectors contributing to new registrations included tourism and transport, meals and drinks, schooling, mining and quarrying, advertising and marketing and promoting, communications, textiles, company agricultural farming, prescribed drugs, healthcare, engineering, gas and vitality, and auto-related industries. A further 419 corporations had been registered in varied different sectors resembling chemical compounds, cosmetics and toiletries, cables and electrical items, and paper and board.
