‘Maximum job opportunities a must’

LAHORE: Pakistan has to create maximum job opportunities to overcome the issues of brain drain and unemployment, officials said in a statement on Tuesday.

LCCI acting president Khawaja Khawar Rashid and Vice President Zeeshan Khalil said that Pakistan can achieve the target through industrial expansion, improvement in ranking of ease in doing business and public-private partnership.

Pakistani merchandise are best of the best in the world, but fast losing their due place in the international market because of high input cost in rthe country, they said.

The ease of doing business, generation of cheap electricity and good governance should be the cornerstone of the new economic methodologies to be implemented, the LCCI officials said.

The government would also have to focus on agriculture, manufacturing sector, education, water, human resources, minerals, public health, tax collection system and end of corruption should be focused to get rid of economic worries, they added.