GUJRAT: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China will help local manufacturers to boost export sector of the country.
Talking to media persons during her short stopover at Gujrat en-route to Sialkot on Sunday, Firdous Ashiq Awan said that due to the bad economic policies of the former governments, the industries of Gujrat, Gujranwala and Sialkot were facing difficulties and showing declining trend.
She said the new agreement with China would promote textile, food processing and manufacturing units which would eventually help local traders to export their products to China and other countries of the world.
This would also help reduce the gap between the country’s import and export, the Special Assistant to PM on Information added. Firdous said that Special Economic Zones (SEZs) would be set up in the country with the recent accords with China, adding that Gwadar would emerge as economic hub at international level.
She said Prime Minister Imran Khan was the first leader who was talking about the national interest in such an effective manner, while in the past, previous rulers only paid foreign visits for their vested interests.
Firdous said the government was working out various strategies to resolve socio-economic problems of the country. The poverty alleviation was the government’s top priority, she added.
