Daily Times

Up to Rs13 billion development package for Faisalabad will be announced very soon which will be a part of the Annual Development Program of the current fiscal, said Fiazullah Kamoka, chairman NA Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs.

He was addressing a “Meet the Press” program arranged by Engineer Hafiz Ihtahsam Javed, President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI).

The function was also attended Farrukh Habib, federal parliamentary secretary for Pakistan Railways, MNA Shahzad Khurrum, Shahid Ahmed Sheikh, chairman WASA, Kashif Zia of Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PHMA), Chaudhary Muhammad Nawaz from All Pakistan Cotton Power Looms Association (APCPA), Arif Ihsan Malik and Imran Mahmood of All Pakistan Bed sheets and Upholstery Manufacturers Association APBUMA) in addition to Talat Mahmood Senior Vice President FCCI.

Kamoka said that Chief Minister Usman Buzdar visited Faisalabad on the special directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan and personally discussed the development related projects of this Metropolis. Initially, Rs13 billion have been allocated for the development projects which will be announced very soon. Comparing the current set up with the previous governments, he said that the problems of the business community were intentionally ignored by the previous governments, however now the entire government machinery was resolving their genuine problems within the available resources.

Earlier Engineer Hafiz Ihtasham Javed President FCCI welcomed the journalists and appreciated their role in highlighting the genuine issues of the business community at the appropriate forum. He said that FCCI is a platform of the business community and “we are bound to raise their issues in addition to appreciating the government for their pro industrial steps.”