PM adviser to meet businessmen, address grievances

Plans to frame joint strategy for removing budget anomalies

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has invited the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) to jointly work out a strategy for removing budget anomalies besides addressing genuine grievances of the business community in a bid to accelerate economic activities in the country.

Pak-US Business Council Founder President Iftikhar Ali Malik said Shaikh had assured him that all-out efforts would be made to address genuine grievances of taxpayers, especially the business community, on top priority.

“This will provide an opportunity to our members to discuss matters of mutual interest, particularly related to facilitating trade and industry, with a view to enhancing investment, increasing production, boosting exports and curtailing imports,” he said.

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Malik said it would help the country tackle a host of challenges such as balance of payments, fiscal and debt sustainability, better management of public-sector entities, reforms and transparency, eliminating corruption and ease of doing business.

Malik said the FPCCI team would convince Shaikh to remove certain anomalies in the FY20 budget. Calling the business community the backbone of national economy, he emphasised that it was the government’s moral obligation to facilitate traders in order to promote ease of doing business in the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 20^th, 2019.

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