Pak entrepreneurs visit Saudi Arabia today

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Commerce, Industries, Investment and Interior Dr Gohar Ejaz will depart for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday (today).

The minister would be heading a delegation of 21 leading businessmen for BtB (business-to-business) meetings with their Saudi entrepreneurs to give the required impetus to the bilateral trade.

The first and largest ever business delegation of top business groups of Pakistan will depart for Riyadh for the B2B Conference on 21 February in Riyadh organized by the Federal Commerce Industry and Investment Minister and Commerce and Trade Minister of Saudi Arabia. Pakistan’s businessmen delegation will make inroads into the KSA market and sign BtB trade contracts.

“We are facing a deficit of $20 billion in trade with KSA -- the biggest economy in the Gulf countries and would try to increase exports through BtB trade on a big scale and that’s why I am leading the largest delegation of various business groups hailing from various sectors of economy,” Dr Ejaz told The News.

He said Pakistan’s entrepreneurs will try to make business-to-business contracts in their sectors of economy. The delegation includes eminent businessmen Arif Habib of Arif Habib Group, Shahid Soorty of Soorti Enterprises, Ahsan Bashir of Suraj Cotton Ltd, Bashir Jan Mohammad & Mr. Jahangir Jan Mohammad of Dalda Limited, Fawad Garib of Garibson Pvt Ltd, Anwar Ghani of Ghani Glass, Faisal Afridi of Haier, Chela Ram of KK Group, Sohail Naqvi of Knowledge Stream, Muhammad Ali Tabba of Lucky Group, Shahid Iqbal of Mayfair, Asif Peer/Rao Hamid of System Limited, Saleem Ullah Ghouri of Netsol, Farooq Naseem of DWP Group, Fawad Mukhtar of Fatima Fertilizer, Jai Kumar of Reliance Chemicals, Shabbir Dewan of Gatron (Industries) Ltd, Mian Idrees of Sitara Chemicals, Zubair Tufail of Tufail Chemical, Shahbaz Malik of Hilton Pharma, Shafiq Bhatti of US Group, Kamal Nasir Khan of SKB Engineering & Contraction, Assim Siddiqui of Pakistan Intermodal Limited, and Mian Aamar Mahmood of Punjab Group.