Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes in June 2011: Islamic finance defies the global banking industry's contraction

Of all the country indexes in the DJIM series, the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) Pakistan Index posted the highest first-half 2011 advance with a profit of 18.24%.
Pakistan has partly recovered from the tragic flood catastrophe in mid-2010 and the country is looked at as a breakwater in Islamic finance -- bridging the Middle East with East Asia.