The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) welcomed the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) which approved the delisting of SME Bank from the privatisation list and explored possibilities for merging it with the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) or any other bank. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver expressed appreciation of the decision […more]
Energy saving need of the hour Businessmen propose adoption of daylight saving time to cut energy use, imports Usman Hanif KARACHI: Businessmen of the country, while appreciating the energy conservation policy, have suggested to the government to switch over to daylight saving time (DST) by advancing the clock by one hour, which will help to […more]
The business community must learn to start early. As a matter of habit they sleep late and get up late and reach offices and shops at 12 pm when half the day is gone. This also spoils the habits of the younger generation, who keeps awake till late night and gets up late. Early to […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has invited the attention of the State Bank of Pakista (SBP) to the very low rate of profit given to foreign currency account holders and urged the SBP policy makers to match it with those foreign countries offering more. One senior bank executive and also our Unisame […more]
Usman Hanif December 17, 2022 KARACHI: The non-issuance of letters of credit (LCs) is crippling industrial activities, leading to massive unemployment as companies are unable to import the raw material necessary to keep their manufacturing wheel running. Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Mohammed Tariq Yousuf, while expressing deep concern over the non-issuance […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the prime minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif to instruct both the federal finance ministers senator Ishaq Dar and federal commerce minister Naveed Qamar to take the business community, the multinationals and the commercial banks into confidence and revise the import and export policy to make import […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) urged the government not to neglect and overlook the economic crisis and not live in a fool’s paradise and take serious economic measures immediately. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said they have to declare emergency sooner or later. Austerity is the order of the day. You see the […more]
Pakistan Businesses Forum (PBF) on Sunday expressed deep concern over the current economic and political uncertainty in the country. Pakistan first should be our slogan. In a statement Sunday, PBF President Mian Usman Zulfiqar said politics of confrontation, agitation, violence and protest was not the solution. “Economic matters should be prioritised over political matters, Do […more]
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) expressed serious concern at the hyper inflation and urged the prime minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif and his coalition government to puncture it in good time as enterprises have become unprofitable and the common man’s condition has become miserable in the face of daily increases in prices of […more]
UNISAME DEMANDS FOCUS ON SMEs DUE TO CHALLENGES SECTOR IS FACING…. THE FINANCIAL DAILY 15/11/22 The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has invited the attention of the prime minister (PM) Shahbaz Sharif of the coalition government to focus on the SME sector to overcome challenges. The SME sector is the engine of growth […more]
