KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Industries and Commerce Manzoor Hussain Wassan, while underscoring the need to make collective and coordinated efforts to resolve issues, said that secretaries of all relevant ministries will be summoned along with representatives of Karachi Chamber soon to discuss and resolve numerous problems pertaining to taxation, labor, excise, environment, law & order, water, electricity and gas shortages etc. which were being suffered by the business and industrial community of Karachi.
“Furthermore, I will also request Chief Minister Sindh to visit Karachi Chamber as soon as possible so that he could personally look into the problems and accordingly issue directives with a view to provide relief to business community”, Manzoor Wassan added while exchanging views at a meeting during his visit to Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday.
Chairman Businessmen Group & Former President KCCI Siraj Kassam Teli, Vice Chairmen BMG & Former Presidents KCCI Haroon Farooki & Anjum Nisar, President KCCI Younus Muhammad Bashir, Senior Vice President KCCI Zia Ahmed Khan, Former President KCCI AQ Khalil, Former SVP KCCI Shamim Ahmed Firpo and KCCI Managing Committee members were also present at the meeting.
Industries Minister further said that Karachi City, being the capital of the province and the largest city of Pakistan in terms of population and revenue contribution, was on top priority of Sindh government. “Karachi cannot be left alone. We own this city and we will struggle for its due rights at the federal level”, he added while referring to the injustices being suffered by Karachi and Sindh province in terms resources distribution.