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]
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]
