'All Pakistan Chambers Presidents Conference' From Jan 23

RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Jan, 2017 ) : Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) is going to hold 'All Pakistan Chambers' Presidents Conference' from Jan 23 to 24 at a local hotel in Bhurban, Murree.

President RCCI Raja Amir Iqbal addressing a press conference here on Tuesday said the conference would discuss and formulate plans on issues being confronted by the business community of the country.

He said the RCCI always played a pivotal role in the national economic uplift and had already organized eight All Pakistan Chambers Conferences. The 9th conference would review overall economic condition of the country and discuss income tax, sales tax issues and specific tax reforms, circular debt, Pakistan Afghanistan Central Asian Trade Summit (PACTS), China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), international trade, energy issues, foreign aid/loans, water scarcity and other issues affecting the economic activities directly or indirectly.

The conference would be attended as many as 51 presidents of the chambers from all over the country. To a question he said the idea of All Pakistan Chambers Presidents Conference was to develop a common platform for all the chambers and trade associations to raise economic issues at national level, providing suggestions/recommendations to the Federal government.

He said, parliamentarians and federal ministers had also been invited to attend the conference.