By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi Monday said the government was making serious efforts to facilitate and support the business community and industrial sector of the country.
The government had announced the historic stimulus package of Rs 1.2 trillion to provide relief to the business community and under-privileged strata of the society during the COVID-19 pandemic, he added. The president was talking to a delegation of Peshawar Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industry (PCST&SI) led by its President Muhammad Adnan Jalil, which called on him here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
Dr Alvi said the chambers played an important role in the country’s prosperity through their business activities. The government’s business-friendly policies led to remarkable improvement in the country’s Ease of Doing Business Index ranking, he added. The delegation apprised the president about their problems. It appreciated the steps taken by the government for providing relief to the business community during the pandemic.
Earlier in January, President Dr Arif Alvi had urged the business community to take steps for the financial inclusion of differently-abled people by providing them jobs according to their skills and talents.Talking to a delegation of traders led by Haji Tahir Naveed in Islamabad on Monday, the President said that the government is taking steps to provide traders a business-friendly environment.The President said the government has provided a financial stimulus package of over 1.2 trillion rupees to support the business community and the poor. It kept the businesses open during the COVID-19 pandemic to save the economy from adverse impacts of the pandemic.
