Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the businessmen and exporters to invest freely in the country with no worry for any policy shift or bottlenecks as the government was fully focused at reviving industrialization through maximum facilitation.
Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar, Planning Minister Asad Umar, Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar also attended the ceremony, besides a limited number of businessmen, exporters and industrialists owing to anti-COIVD19 precautions.
The prime minister said it was pleasing that the industries and power looms were running at full capacity which even created shortage of textile labour. He asked the Punjab government to promote skill training of the youth to enhance value-added textile workforce.
Industries Minister Hammad Azhar said the textile industry and power looms had made a turnaround within two years of the PTI government to create jobs under PM’s vision of 10 million jobs.
He said unlike its predecessor, the incumbent government was spending nothing to artificially uplift the local currency rather it had opted for free floating.
Moreover, he said 21 of 28 points given by FATF had been implemented and rest would be fulfilled soon.
The government had made Rs 248 billion tax refunds to the businessmen, he added.
FCCI President Engineer Ehtisham Javed said the government’ textile policy was paying dividends in form of increased production and exports.
He hoped that Faisalabad would again regain get its lost identity Pakistan’s Manchester. He also thanked the prime minister for his prudent and pro-poor policies during the COVID-19 which helped both the people as well as the businesses.
