PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said on Tuesday that the provincial government had created an investment-friendly environment in the province both for foreign and domestic investors.
He was talking to a delegation of Enspire Group of Companies of United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the Chief Minister’s House here, said a handout. The chief executive of the company offered investment in the energy, both oil and gas and solar energies, health related projects, natural resource development and Islamic banking in the province. Expressing keenness to invest in the proposed industrial and economic zones of the province, the delegates said that the group had already prepared projects such as 50,000 barrel oil, medical city, power turbine workshop and 49 percent share in solar energy and digital Islamic banking, adding that these were unique projects for enhanced productivity and money generating projects. Pervez Khattak directed the concerned departments to sit with the Enspire group, evaluate the investment proposals of the company and prepare an implementable plan.
“The government welcomes investment especially in energy sector that the country needed more in the given circumstances,” he said, adding that his government had prepared a comprehensive investment policy giving security to the investors and to their investment. He said the investors would get all facilities under one-window-operation. “The inbuilt mechanism evolved by his government would give all facilities to the investors that he added was inevitable for a pro industrial and economic activities in the province,” he added.
Published in Daily Times, December 6th 2017.
