KARACHI: Continued political and economic unrest in Pakistan has disillusioned entrepreneurs increasingly about the future prospects of their businesses. According to a Gallup Pakistan survey conducted in the last quarter of 2022 for the Gallup Business Confidence Index, 65% of business owners believe their businesses are struggling. Industrial machines businesses are doing the best out […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has invited the attention of senator and federal finance minister (FM) Ishaq Dar to the need to fix the dollar and rupee parity rate as he has endorsed the fact that the value of rupee against the dollar is not more than Rs 200. UNISAME president Zulfikar […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the federal commerce minister Naveed Qamar to set up the SME Bureau for export promotion of SME wares as envisaged in the SME policy. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said the sector needs its own export promotion bureau to promote the export of their wares in […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged all chambers of commerce and industry and trade associations to earnestly facilitate their members for arbitration, complaints, promotion of trade and industry, modernization and advocating their cause at the provincial and federal levels. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said the trade and industry representatives bodies need […more]
ISLAMABAD: Taxpayers including the business community should utilise the Federal Board of Revenue’s unique facility of protected mechanism of filing complaints against corruption of tax officials where identity of the complainants are masked/encoded. Tax experts told Business Recorder that the FBR had issued the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) through the Circular No 10 of 2021. […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has expressed serious concern on the depreciation of rupee defeating all accepted norms and concepts of demand and supply theories making the landed cost of imported raw material and parts very high and making the feasibility of several units non viable. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said “According […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) said at a time when the country is drowned in floods and inflation it would be unwise to impose sales tax on food,clothing and relief goods such as tents, plastic jerry cans, ropes, rugs and blankets. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said it is indeed painful and shameful […more]
Going the Thar route After decades of policy shifts on the energy front, will Pakistan go towards domestic coal to avoid the bloodbaths of the spot markets? August 21, 2022 By Asad Ullah Kamran It is a simple problem. Pakistan relies heavily on imported fuel sources such as reliquified natural gas (RLNG) to produce electricity. […more]
Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik on Thursday said the coalition government was offering ample opportunities to business community through a long term and focused planning. Addressing to the 5th Leaders in Islamabad Business Summit 2022 “ Imagineering the future” here, the minister said that the government was introducing business friendly policies to incentivize […more]
KARACHI: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor to take concrete measures to curb further rupee depreciation. It also called for steps to ensure that the rupee regains its true value based on the price of gold and the rate of the dollar in the international […more]
