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- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif assured to provide government patronage and facilities for the development of small businessmen and removed th.
- According to sources, a high-level meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif regarding providing fac.
- Apart from this, Advisor to the Prime Minister Haroon Akhtar, Minister of State Bilal Azhar Kayani, Parliamentary Secretary for Commerce Zul.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif assured to provide government patronage and facilities for the development of small businessmen and removed the 80% export requirement to facilitate long-term financing.
According to sources, a high-level meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif regarding providing facilities to exporting SMEs, in which Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Federal Ministers Rana Tanveer Hussain, Ahsan Iqbal, Jam Kamal Khan, Dr. Mossadegh Malik, Ahad Khan Cheema Muhammad Aurangzeb, Ataullah Tarr, Ali Parvez Malik, Owais Ahmad Khan Leghari participated.
Apart from this, Advisor to the Prime Minister Haroon Akhtar, Minister of State Bilal Azhar Kayani, Parliamentary Secretary for Commerce Zulfikar Ali Bhatti, Chairman Standing Committee on Commerce Javed Hanif Khan, Governor State Bank Jameel Ahmed and relevant senior government officials participated.
The meeting was given a detailed briefing with the representatives of SMEs regarding the recent consultative sessions and their issues while the issues related to taxes, refunds, provincial revenue, accreditation, logistics, payments and financing were discussed in the consultative sessions.
The briefing informed that the number of export-related SMEs in Pakistan is around 17,000, while more than 10,000 applications have been received since the launch of the State Bank of Pakistan portal for easy access to loans for the SME sector from November 1.
