{"id":8050,"date":"2024-02-15T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:36:02","slug":"prime-minister-to-prioritize-investment-for-development-of-new-iron-ore-deposits-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8050","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister to prioritize investment for development of new iron ore deposits in country."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"8051\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240215-WA0032-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has asked the companies associated with the steel industry to prioritize investment for development of new iron ore deposits in the country.<br>He was talking to a delegation of Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers led by Senator Nauman Wazir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said the caretaker government within its short tenure, took all possible measures to restore the economy of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government has taken steps to create conducive environment for business by providing facilities to the private and business sector to increase the country&#8217;s exports, tax revenue employment opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said all steps taken under the Special Investment Facilitation Council are yielding positive results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the business community and investors supported Pakistan in difficult times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister directed the relevant departments to resolve all issues related to the steel industry on priority basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The steel producers\u2019 delegation appreciated the efforts of the caretaker government to facilitate investment in the country especially by resolving problems of industrialists and reforming the FBR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They especially lauded the steps to prevent smuggling of steel, due to which the country&#8217;s industry benefited greatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussing problems faced by the industry, the delegation also presented some proposals and suggestions in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was briefed about the large-scale industry of steel and copper in Pakistan which recorded copper exports worth 1.35 billion dollars in the last financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was told that there is a vast potential for development in steel sector of the country as its annual per capita consumption is 40 kilograms and contributes a tax revenue of 400 billion rupees to the national economy. It also provides thousands of employment opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has asked the companies associated with the steel industry to prioritize investment for development of new iron ore deposits in the country.He was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}