KARACHI: Karachi traders on Monday told Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari that exports from the city could be doubled, if the Sindh government cooperated.
“Karachi has 50 per cent share in the country’s exports,” said the delegation of traders who called on Bilawal Zardari in Karachi. On this occasion, Bilawal announced to establish a business liaison committee to resolve issues of traders and industrialists.
Bilawal asked the trader community to participate in public private partnership projects of the government.
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The traders apprised him that their community was facing shortage of gas supply. “We are facing discriminatory treatment in gas tariffs as well,” they said.
They thanked the Sindh government for providing compensation money to affected traders of Cooperative and Victoria Market.
On January 31, City Administrator Barrister Murtaza Wahab had said that the Sindh government had decided to compensate the affected shop owners of Cooperative and Victoria Markets whose businesses were severely affected due to the fire incident.
Taking to the Twitter the administrator had informed that the committee had been formed to ascertain the loss caused and provide the traders with compensation accordingly.
Earlier, Murtaza Wahab had assured the citizens that an inquiry would be conducted to determine the cause of the fire that erupted in Victoria Market of Saddar.
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