SIALKOT: Secretary Board of Investment (BOI) Pakistan Iftikhar Babar has said that after the commencing of the grand project of Pak-China Economic Corridor, now Pakistan has become an ideal country for foreign investment, as world’s big foreign investors were now looking on Pakistan.
He stated this, while addressing an important meeting of the Sialkot exporters held at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). SCCI President Fazal Jillani, SVP Mir Alamgir Meyer and Chairman Sialkot Dry Port Trust(SDPT) Khawar Anwar Khawaja were also present on this occasion.
Secretary BOI Pakistan added, that the effective and positive investment and business-friendly policies of Pakistan were paving the ways of direct foreign investment in Pakistan , saying that the present government was successfully providing the secure , safe and investment friendly atmosphere to the national and foreign investors in Pakistan and this direly needed step was helping a lot in restoring the confidence of the foreign investors as well.
Iftikhar Babar added that the government has planned out to establish special economic zones in the major industrial cities of the country, where all the trade and investment related facilities to the national and foreign investors, besides, announcing a ten-year long exemption of taxes for them there.
Secretary BOI Pakistan Iftikhar Babar announced to soon arrange an important joint meeting of the senior authorities of federal government, ANF and FBR to discuss in details the prolonged perturbing problems being faced by the Sialkot industries
