ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chamber of Commerce and Industries has called on Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and urged him to give a special tax relief package to the province.
The finance minister asked the delegation to submit a written proposal outlining all their tax-related issues and suggestions for the relief package which would be accorded due consideration. He also directed the FBR chairman to have a detailed review of the suggestions from the KP Chamber of Commerce after receiving suggestions.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting to review issues impeding work on the Additional Carriageway (73.6 KMs) from Torkham to Jalalabad.
Secretary, Planning and Development and DG Frontier Works Organisation briefed the Minister about the current status of the project and the revised cost, also giving him an update on pending payments to FWO. The NHA had entrusted the project of carriageway to FWO back in January 2007 and 58pc physical progress was achieved but at that stage, FWO demobilised from the site in September 2008 owing to the payments issue.
