‘Karachi Port can become transshipment hub’
Goal can be achieved via port charges rationalisation, infrastructure development
KARACHI:
By rationalising port charges and developing infrastructure, Karachi Port can become a transshipment hub - a port that connects two destinations that otherwise could not be connected directly - for Central Asian countries.
“During Covid-19, activity at our ports slowed down that has given us a chance to reconsider the long-held programme about making Karachi Port a transshipment hub,” said United Business Group (UBG) Standing Committee on Maritime Affairs, Communications and Gwadar Development Chairman Tariq Haleem while talking to The Express Tribune.
“There are 12 Central Asian Republicans (CARs) that in total have imports and exports worth $450 billion and they do not have a port - a huge opportunity for Pakistan,” he stressed.
ISLAMABAD: Senator Ali Zafar has been elected as the new chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Wednesday. Zafar was elected to the post of the committee s chairperson.
By Our correspondentISLAMABAD: Senator Ali Zafar has been elected as the new chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Wednesday. Zafar was elected to the post of the.
ISLAMABAD: Senator Ali Zafar has been elected as the new chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Wednesday.Zafar was elected to the post of the committee s chairperson.
Elections of Senate standing committees held
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June 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The elections of the chairmen and chairpersons of various standing committees of the Senate were held on Tuesday at the Parliament House, as the difference of opinion between the treasury and the opposition benches has delayed the process.
The Senate elections were held in early March this year but the House standing committees are facing delays, mainly due to differences with regard to who should be the chairperson or chairman and from which party. Differences between the government and the opposition are quite natural but among the opposition parties is not a common phenomenon, which prompted two leading opposition parties i.e. PPP and PML-N to field their own candidates for the slot of leader of opposition. Ultimately, PPPâs Yousaf Raza Gilani was notified as opposition leader. But PML-N declined to accept him as such and sought a separate status for the opposition parties group-led by it in t