LAHORE : The federal government will finance the cost of
provision of gas and electricity besides ensuring uninterrupted supply to
all projects of Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management
Company (FIEDMC) including Allama Iqbal Industrial City to boost economic
activities in the country.
FIEDMC Chairman Mian Kashif Ashfaq while talking to a group of
industrialists and investors here at FIEDMC camp office Saturday said Prime
Minister Imran Khan during a meeting directed the concerned authorities to
ensure effective collaboration between federal and provincial governments
on early operationalization of special economic zones.
He further said the government is committed to offer maximum facilities to
overseas investors and similarly, local manufacturers, industrialists and
investors would be provided equal opportunities and a level playing field.
He said that the government was well aware of concerns of the business
community and he stressed that there was a dire need to increase
interaction at all levels.
Mian Kashif said that the situation on the economic front was not as bad as
being portrayed by some quarters, adding that the government was taking
appropriate measures to stabilize the economy as it believed that economic
revolution in the country could only be possible through trade promotion
and all possible support to export sector was being extended to achieve
optimum growth.
