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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday pledged immediate resolution of regulatory and operational issues facing British investors and their companies working in the province, assuring the international business community that the government would pursue investor-friendly reforms and policy consistency.
Chairing a high-level Pakistan-UK Roundtable of Multinational Corporations and UK-based firms operating in the province, organised with the British Deputy High Commission, the CM said the government was determined to remove barriers to investment, strengthen public-private engagement and position Sindh as the preferred destination for the foreign investors.
According to a press statement issued by the CM House, the meeting was attended by British Deputy High Commissioner Alison Blackburne, Director Trade Vanessa Montgomery, and representatives of Oxford University Press, Haleon, British International Investment, GSK, Reckitt, Unilever, Standard Chartered Bank, UBL, AstraZeneca and OICCI.
From the Sindh government, Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah, Labour Minister Saeed Ghani, Food Minister Makhdoom Mehboob Zaman, Special Assistant to CM for Investment Syed Qasim Naveed, the chairman of the Sindh Revenue Board and Planning and Development Department, and senior secretaries were present.
