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Industrial policy SAI chairman seeks meeting with Dawood

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Abdullah Rafi, chairman, Site Association of Industries (SAI), has called upon the federal minister for commerce and industry, Abdul Razak Dawood, to hold a meeting with the business community and industrialists of Karachi before finalising the new industrial policy.

He invited the commerce minister to visit the Site Association and meet the Karachi-based industrialists so that they could brief him about problems, and suggested ways and means to redress them.

In a statement, he said it was high time the minister discarded the list prepared by the Export Promotion Bureau and should directly contact industrialists representing Site, Korangi, Federal B Area and North Karachi who were true representatives of industry.

He said that Karachi provided 72 percent of the total national revenue while Site alone contributed 30 percent of it. It was regrettable that neither the finance minister nor the commerce minister was willing to take feedback and output from the Karachi industrialists.