PESHAWAR: Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Fuad Ishaq demanded five-year of tax-holiday for revival of industries and business in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The SCCI chief asked the government to take chambers and relevant stakeholders on board for framing sustainable economic and business-friendly policies. Fuad Ishaq said chambers and bureaucracy are part and parcel for each other and called for establishment of close liaison between them that would help to frame jointly viable policies and ensure its smooth enforcement. Similarly, he demanded the uninterrupted power and gas supply to flourish industries and businesses in K-P. Fuad Ishaq was speaking during an inland tour of the participants of the 39th Mid-Career Management Course, National Institute of Management (NIM) Islamabad here at the chamber house, which was led by NIM Islamabad Directing Staff Semi A Khan, said in a press release here on Saturday. Our Correspondent
\nSenior vice president of the chamber Sanaullah Khan, members of the executive committee Imran Khan Mohmand, Minhajuddin, Ismail Safi. Hamza Ibrahim Butt, former senior vice president of the chamber Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, Rashid Iqbal Siddiqui, Ihsanullah, Ishtiaq Muhammad, Saddar Gul and Secretary Sajjad Aziz, traders and industrialists were present in a large number.
\nResponding to various queries of the senior officers on the occasion, Fuad Ishaq said peace and stability imperative for industrial and business growth in K-P and other parts of the country, adding that economic stability would come by only flourishing businesses and industries and jobs would be available to people in the province.
\nThe chamber president said there was no scarcity of potential as KP is blessed with abundant natural resources, like mine, mineral, precious stones, agriculture, tourism and other important sectors in which prospects of investment are very high.
\nFuad Ishaq told the meeting that SCCI would hold a conference in the first week of May dubbed: Traders and Industrialists \u2013 builders of the nation and treasury-full KP province and he highlighted key-objectives of the moot.
\nThe SCCI chief emphasized the need for provision of soft loans to revive small-scale business and industries in the province.
\nHe was of the view that industrialization would only come with provision of low-cost industrial lands and availability of sufficient loans that could create ample employment opportunities.
\nTo a question about the CPEC, Mr Ishaq replied that there were a lot of expectations that had been attached with this important project that were yet not met because of which the business community didn\u2019t take full benefit from the CPEC projects, particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
\nHe called for bringing down tax-ratio to single digit, equalization tariff of 224 items to duties of Afghanistan, revisiting economic policies, making them business-friendly, and tapping all available natural resources efficiently and steps for promotion investment in the province.
\nEarlier, officials of the SCCI Research and Development (R&D) Cell briefed the participants through a detailed multimedia presentation about the chamber\u2019 origin, historic backgrounds, objectives, welfare and relief initiatives for the business community and future programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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