Business community want Shahbaz Sharif as energy minister: Naeem Mir

Lahore: Central General Secretary of the All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran Naeem Mir said business community want Shahbaz Sharif as energy minister to resolve energy crisis.

We have full faith in skills and selflessness of the former chief minister Punjab who can resolve the crisis engineered by the former government, he said.

Naeem Mir said that Pakistan braved massive mismanagement and corruption for years which triggered inflation, unemployment and economic meltdown.

The former governments wasted billions of rupees of taxpayers’ money only to further deteriorate ailing power sector and public sector enterprises.

Mir demanded imposition of power emergency and giving control of power distribution companies to provinces. He said that tax amnesty schemes are counterproductive as budget deficit can only be bridged if big evaders are brought to book.

Government should initiate legislation to forfeit assets of tax evaders and to bring stolen funds back from the Swiss banks, he demanded.

Independent judiciary is a blessing without which country will never be able to attract foreign investment, he said adding that target killing of traders has become order of the day in Karachi which is sending very negative signals.