Stafff Reporter
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi
Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel of FPCCI and former provincial
minister, Mian Zahid Hussain has lauded the decision of the Prime Minister Imran Khan to provide jobs
to 1,29,000 people and give the status of industry to the construction sector.He also supported the
move of the PM to simplify the procedure of getting a job and allocating quota for people of FATA and
Gilgit-Baltistan which will benefit the least developed areas.The veteran business leader said that PM
has also directed to resolve pending service matters of the government servants and process pensions
cases of retired government servants within seven days which are laudable moves. The former minister
noted that the government has decided to take action against officials involved in getting undue benefit
from BISP will discourage malpractices in the future.The officials from grade 17 to 21 involved in
cheating should be punished and all the amount should be recovered from them, he demanded.He said
that PM’s decision to promote the construction sector will provide jobs to millions, promote forty
industries and trigger growth while FPCCI under the leadership of Mian Anjum Nisar will cooperate with
the government to achieve the goals.He noted that the government has also detected an unnecessary
increase in the prices of raw material used in construction industry and steps are being taken to reverse
the trend which will reduce cost of doing business.
