FAISALABAD City News

‘ABITAT-2015 Exhibition to
help Pak businessmen to approach African market’
From Our Correspondent
FAISALABAD: The ABITAT-2015 Exhibition and the Pak-Turkish Businessmen Association will help Pakistan as well as Turkish businessmen to give approach to emerging African market.
It was said by Pak–Turk Businessmen Association secretary general Nida Yalmaiz while addressing the FCCI members here on Friday. He said that Turkey with its modest presence in Tanzania and other African countries was now planning to get a lion’s share. In this connection, the Association of Businessmen and Industrialists from Turkey and Tanzania had arranged an exhibition ‘ABITAT 2015’ to provide an opportunity to the potential importers and exporters to establish and strengthen business links, he added. It would be a three-day event having wide range of products to be held in October, he informed. He said that the PTBA was exclusively working for Pakistani businesses to get major share in exports with the help of Turkish brethren. He said that 65 per cent space in the ABITAT had been booked by the Turkish companies and we want that Pakistani businessmen should also avail this opportunity to enter into this non-traditional market. He said that China and India were already doing business with Tanzania and hence Pakistan could also get its due share from this market. Earlier, FCCI president Engr Rizwan Ashraf in his introductory remarks thanked Nida Yalmaiz for arranging this presentation on the ABITAT 2015 for the businessmen of Faisalabad. He said that Tanzania was a very peaceful country with growth rate of 6.4pc and Pakistan could export agricultural machinery from it. He said that businessmen intending to participate in the ABITAT 2015 also want to visit Turkey, he added. FCCI VP Inam Afzal Khan, Tahir Mahmood, Rana Ahtesham, Sh Khalid Habib, Rana Saleem and Muhammad Abid were also present.