Staff Reporter Lahore
Pakistan Industrial and Traders Association Front (PIAF) Chairman Mian Nauman Kabir has asked the government to resolve the issues of paper and packaging industry, as high utility prices and increase in paper prices are posing serious challenges.
He said utility and raw material should be provided to the industry on cheaper rates, since the high cost of doing business was one of the major obstacles being faced by the industries.
Mian Nauman Kabir said that PIAF will continue its efforts to resolving the problems being faced by traders dealing in paper and paperboard products.
He said this while talking to the leadership of All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) and All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran (APAT) during separate visits to the Gunpat road, Shah Alam Markets and Urdu bazaar along with PIAF Secretary Abdus Sabur Sheikh and other leadership.
Chairman of the Association Malik Ahad Amin, patron-in-chief Khamis Butt and APAT President Khalid Pervaiz also spoke on the occasion.
They unanimously demanded the government to withdraw all SROs, providing exemptions on paper import duties, as they are being misused widely.
Khalid Pervaiz said that duties and taxes on paper should be reduced to help students get textbooks on cheaper rates.
Elaborating the point, the businessmen belonging to the paper sector said that in the present circumstances, it is very important to ensure availability of textbooks at cheaper rates in post-Covid-19 era.
