KARACHI:

The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and all seven industrial town associations and textile exporter bodies, while expressing deep concern over the exorbitant and retrospective gas bills, have urged the prime minister and petroleum and power division ministers to take urgent notice of the "anti-industry move" that threatens to shut down factories, cripple exports and make Pakistan an import-dependent economy.

Speaking at a joint press conference at the KCCI on Thursday, the business leaders appealed to the government to immediately freeze the controversial levy retrospectively charged for four months, which has raised gas bills from millions to tens of millions of rupees, an unbearable burden on industrial concerns.

Businessmen Group (BMG) Chairman Zubair Motiwal

See Full Page