Comprehensive industrial policy ready to create enabling environment: BOI Chairman

LAHORE : The Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Haroon Sharif has said the government is striving to attract local as well as foreign investment with consistent policies and long-term measures for boosting exports and industrial production in the country.
He was addressing the board members of the All Pakistan Business Forum who gathered on a breakfast hosted in honour of him by the APBF here at Hospitality Inn hotel today.
The meeting was also addressed by the APBF President Syed Maaz Mahmood, general secretary Khurram Niyaz, besides the managing committee members, belonging to various industrial sectors of the country. The APBF Board members actively participated in the meeting and discussed a host of issues faced by the business community with the BOI Chairman.
The BOI Chairman apprised the business leaders that Pakistan has been ensuring equal opportunities and incentives for local and foreign investors. He said that the government is formulating an industrial policy to reduce the cost of doing business and increase exports. He said the new policy, which the government would present within few months, would be industry-centric, and invited the input of industrialists in this regard.