government has made plans to establish one-window facilitation service at Torkham border crossing to provide facilities to the traders.“Modern warehouses will also be established to facilitate importers and exporters and enhance trade with Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics (CARs),” he said.
The governor added that work on Peshawar-Torkham Road would positively be completed till the end of June.He said he had written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to award ‘Hilal-e-Istiqlal’ to the people of Peshawar. “Our people and law-enforcing agencies personnel have rendered enormous sacrifices that ought to be recognized,” he opined.
Earlier, Fuad Ishaq said the security was main concern of the business community of the province. “The traders and industrialists are still receiving parchi for batha,” he complained while highlighting the issue of extortion.
Seeking protection and security for the masses and businesses in the province, the KPCCI president said stern action should be taken against the extortion mafia and people involved in collection of toll taxes at illegal checkposts and the weighing scale in Jamrud.
Fuad Ishaq said the business community needed an incentive package to offset the adverse effects of decade-long militancy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He lamented that the relief package announced by the previous government for the business community had been withdrawn. “It should be restored,” he demanded.
The KPCCI chief asked the governor to help withdraw the moratorium of the federal government banning new industrial gas connections in the province.He also raised the issue of low lending by the commercial banks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “It is around one percent, while bank deposits ratio is over 37 percent in the province.Senator Ilyas Bilour and Senator Nauman Wazir highlighted the issues and problems being faced by the people of the province in general and business community in particular.