Karachi, December 12, 2020: President EFP, Ismail Suttar, has strongly recommended the Hon’ble Advisor to Prime Minister on Commerce & Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood, to look into the near-extinct state of the Stationary Industry of Pakistan, due to the prolonged COVID closure of schools of almost 250 days. Ahsan Ullah Khan, Director EFP and a senior…
Karachi, September 11, 2020: Nasim Akhtar, President North Karachi Association of Trade & Industry (NKATI), has requested Prime Minister Imran Khan to reduce taxes & duties to save Pakistan’s garment industry from disaster. He demanded to impose a ban on baby baba garment’s import to protect local industry, so that millions of workers can be…
Karachi, June 10, 2020: The latest update is that the coronavirus is spreading quite rapidly in Pakistan. An important global trend has been easing lockdowns rather than the previous flattening-the-curve theme. Yes, the country cannot afford a complete lockdown, but without strict controls, it could prove to be a twin disaster as both healthcare and…
Karachi, June 02, 2020: Suleman Chawla, President, SITE Association of Industry has said that the value added textile export sector has reached to the verge of disaster due to severest ever liquidity crisis in the history of Pakistan caused due to imposition of 17 percent sales tax in last budget whereby liquidity worth billions of…
Karachi, December 19, 2019: The Social Sciences and Liberal Arts Department at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi hosted a talk by scholar and researcher Dr. Ayesha Siddiqi on her recent book ‘In the Wake of Disaster: Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan’. Dr. Siddiqi who is visiting from Royal Holloway, University…