Press Releases

Government urged to declare austerity in letter and spirit The Financial Daily 07/12/2022

Dec 7, 2022 |

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]

Economic matters should be prioritized over political matters for stability By News desk -November 21, 2022

Nov 21, 2022 |

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]

UNISAME urges PM to take immediate measures against inflation

Nov 17, 2022 |

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 SME SECTOR DUE TO SECTOR FACING CHALLENGES….The Financial Daily 15/11/2022

Nov 15, 2022 |

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]

SURVEY PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE ….. EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Nov 3, 2022 |

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]

FinMin being sure of Re value must fix the rate….The Financial Daily 01/11/2022

Nov 1, 2022 |

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]

SMEs NEED GLOBAL MARKETING SUPPORT ….Thaver Financial Daily 17/10/22

Oct 17, 2022 |

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]

Trade Bodies Urged To Take Up Issues Seriously With Government

Sep 24, 2022 |

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]

Complaints against corrupt taxmen …FBR issues SOP….BR

Sep 18, 2022 |

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]

DOLLAR DILEMMA IS PROVING INJURIOUS TO ECONOMY

Sep 12, 2022 |

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]