By Asad Cheema
ISLAMABAD: President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Iftikhar Ali Malik on Wednesday urged the need for maintaining political stability which was prerequisite for sustained economic growth to cope with the multiple challenges faced by the country.
Addressing members of core committee of United Business Group in connection with forthcoming annual election of the federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Iftikhar Ali Malik, President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that politics of confrontation, agitation, violence and protest was not solution.
He said the time has changed as now the influential nations were paying more attention to financial warfare to continue their dominance.
These countries were successfully using their weapons of economic destruction to weaken economics of poor nations to achieve their unholy designs while Pakistan’s economy is not strong enough to withstand economic terrorism. Iftikhar Ali Malik said it was indeed important to increase our exports and for that purpose we need to reduce our cost of doing business so that our products can remain competitive in the world markets.
He further said trade facilitation was the key to promote industries and we need to remove all the obstacles and create the culture of trade facilitation. “Our Country has tremendous potential as we have enormous talent.
What we need is the consistency in the government policies and a clear roadmap to move forward,†he added.
He was of the view that all the sectors including the industrial sector should discharge their national obligations and play their key role in strengthening the economy while the government should introduce reforms and control the smuggling of raw material and finished goods.
Iftikhar Ali Malik who is also chairman UBG also urged the government to conduct market research to find out new foreign destinations for the Pakistani products which are best in the world as far as quality and price is concerned.
He said that Pakistani missions abroad should be duty bound to introduce Pakistani products to the foreign buyers and also ensure dissemination of trade related information so that Pakistan entrepreneurs could avail trade opportunities to the maximum.
