Pakistan Mobilink to issue $300 mln dlr-bond - source

KARACHI, Sep 28 (Reuters) Pakistan Mobile Communications (Pvt) Ltd. (Mobilink) will next month launch a 0 million dollar-denominated bond, a banker with knowledge of the deal said on Thursday.

''The size of the issue would be approximately 0 million,'' said the source, requesting anonymity. ''It would be a Reg. S bond, launched in October,'' he said, which typically means the securities would not be sold in the United States.

The source gave no details on the maturity of the issue, which would be the first dollar bond sale by Pakistan's biggest cellphone operator.

Mobilink, the local unit of Egypt-based telecoms company Orascom , declined to comment on the debt sale, but market sources say it has mandated ABN AMRO and Deutsche Bank to handle the issue.

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