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'Businessmen to

be involved in

budget-making'

RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Federal Government, under express instructions of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was evolving a rather comprehensive policy for involving businessmen and industrialists in the formulation of policies and programmes in a big way.

This was stated by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Economic Sector Shahid Hasan Khan in an interview in PTV programme "Pakistan Business Update" telecast on Monday night.

He said that the government was involving the private sector in budget-making also and a committee has already been set up including good number of businessmen and industrialists who will be actively involved in budget making process and attend all deliberations at the preparations level rather than after the finalization and announcement of 1996-97 Federal Budget.

Shahid Hasan Khan said that businessmen and industrialists were also included in delegations accompanying President Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on their foreign tours to Singapore, Brunei, Daraessalam and other places in order to enable Pakistani businessmen and industrialists to establish direct contacts with their foreign counterparts.