PM directs BOI to list issues for review

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan directed the Board of Investment (BoI) chairman to present a comprehensive plan, listing all the issues in various sectors and their sub-sectors and how the processes could be streamlined to simplify procedures related to government approvals. He said this while chairing a high-level meeting to review progress on improving ease of doing business and creating an enabling environment to facilitate conversion of interest of the local as well foreign investors into actual investments in the country. BoI Chairman Haroon Sharif said the board would serve as an agent of change for facilitating business transactions, removing impediments in the way to materialisation of investors’ interest into actual investments. He also briefed the prime minister about various issues being faced by the business community including taxation, access to finance, regulation and policy issues and red tape structure.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2018.

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