SCCI demands pragmatic steps to boost up Auto industry in KP

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry demanded of the government to take pragmatic steps to promote the Auto industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

This demand was made by acting president of the SCCI Ejaz Khan Afridi while talking to a delegation led by CEO MG Khyber Motors Peshawar Naeem Afridi and General Manager Sheikh Abdul Karim here at the chamber house on Wednesday.

The SCCI acting chief said vast investment opportunities were available in various sectors in K-P.

He was of the view that setting up new industries would not only stabilize the national economy but it would also create new employment opportunities for locals. He emphasized that promotion of the Auto industry is the dire need of the hour.

He, however, said that initiatives should be made to provide facilities and special incentives to investors attached with the Auto industry to boost it to an optimal level. Ejaz went on to say that allied industries would also be promoted with Auto that could create employment opportunities in the province.

The SCCI acting president said the business community has confronted difficulties owing to present depressing economic conditions. He asked to resolve issues of the business community on priority grounds to stabilize the ailing national economy and put it on a path of sustainable growth.

Earlier, Ejaz Khan Afridi talking to a social worker belonging from Waziristan district, Jalat Khan Wazir called for launching of new schemes to generate economic activities and bring economic prosperity and development in the newly merged tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He noted abundant natural resources were available in merged tribal districts in which local and foreign investments can be attracted.

On the occasion, the SCCI acting president assured the visiting delegations that he will take every possible step to provide relief to the business community and raise their issues at every forum for amical resolution.

Members of the delegations expressed hope that the acting president would raise the business community effectively at every forum and resolve them on priority basis.