Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) President Riaz Ahmed Tata has urged Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to remove enormous bureaucratic hurdles impeding local and foreign investment in the country, which is a prerequisite for industrial development and poverty alleviation.
In a communication to the prime minister, he congratulated him on successfully formulating a politically and economically effective cabinet to implement his socio-economic mission for rapid socio-economic development of the country.
Tata proposed to the prime minister to appoint competent, honest and dynamic federal secretaries and functional bureaucrats to effectively and efficiently implement the policies formulated by the ministers.
Tata thanked creation of textile minister and appointment of Mushtaq Ali Cheema as minister for the textile industry. As Cheema himself is a textile industrialist and exporter so he knows the problems of the industry, he said.
The FPCCI president appreciated the segregation of the function of ports and shipping from communications, as these are two different specialised fields.
He hoped that Ports and Shipping Ministry, which directly affects the country's international trade, under Babar Khan Ghouri, would now receive due importance and its operation would improve.