LAHORE: Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana has said that participation of private sector needed to achieve targets as no country can make economic progress without it.
He said that government was committed to making all-out efforts to enhance economic growth. “ Government is in touch with trade and business representatives and all due preference will be given to resolve their issues,” he remarked while talking to the delegation of Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF), which met with him in the lead of its chairman Irfan Iqbal Sheikh.
Irfan Iqbal Sheikh shared views on matters of mutual interest and the country’s economic situation. The governor claimed the economic indicators had started showing stability and that in the future focus would be made on increasing growth, adding that his government was trying to strengthen the economy. Other leadership of PIAF and its Executive Committee members including former LCCI presidents Mian Anjum Nisar, Muhammad Ali Mian, Sohail Lashari, Tahir Javed Malik, Mahmood Ghaznavi, Adnan Khalid Butt, Zaheer Bhutta, Raja Adeel and Abdus Saboor secretary PIAF were also present on the occasion.
Governor Rajwana stated that government is making target oriented efforts to attract the much-needed foreign investment in the country. He said that foreign investment in power sector would help government to get rid of the ongoing severe energy crisis.