The PIAF-Founders Alliance has secured support of all the industrial areas in and around the City of Lahore, as a large number of industrialists belonging to Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate, Sunder Industrial Estate, Ferozepur Road Industrial Estate, Katarbund Road Industrial Estate met Alliance leaders and assured their full support for upcoming LCCI elections scheduled to be held on September 20 and 21.
During the meeting the Alliance leaders, including Mian Anjum Nisar, Mian Mohammad Ashraf, Iftikhar Ali Malik, Mohammad Ali Mian, Mian Shafqat Ali, Sheikh Mohammad Asif, Engineer Sohail Lashari and LCCI Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad assured the industrialists that the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) would continue to raise its voice for expeditious solution of their problems. They said that solution of energy crisis and improvement of law & order situation would be top priority of the PIAF-Founders Alliance.
They said there was no second opinion that the country is faced with multiple internal and external challenges and only true business minded leadership could steer the country out of economic mire. They said that high interest rates had not only slowed down the process of industrialisation but is also jacking up the rate of unemployment in the country.