Pakistan needs more entrepreneurs to enhance business activities : Abdul Razak Dawood

Lahore : Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce,
Textile, Industry & Production and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood Saturday said that the government was giving priority to innovation and promotion of entrepreneurship in the country.

He was addressing the ‘Applied Entrepreneurship- Think & Grow International Conference’ organised by the Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Centre (PITAC) here.

Razak Dawood said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was also keen to encourage entrepreneurship and appropriated steps taken in that regard. He said the country needed more entrepreneurs to enhance business activities. Giving an example, he said China and the United States (US) had become great nations due to massive contributions of entrepreneurs.

The advisor emphasised that young entrepreneurs should adopt a long-term strategy to be successful in their respective fields instead of looking for overnight success.He said an entrepreneur should have a proper vision as it was linked with success while failure was also a part of the process. One should not loose hope and be optimistic as failure also gave chances and lessons to rise, he added.

Later, talking to the media persons, he said that the country’s economy was moving towards a right direction, however, more efforts were needed for further improvement. He congratulated the PITAC for organising the successful event.

Director General PITAC Muhammad Irfan Zaheer, Advisor PITAC, Dr Husnain Javed, Senator Waleed Iqbal and others also spoke.