Business community seeks PM Imran help for lowering interest rates.

KARACHI -- Business community on Monday requested Prime Minister Imran Khan to lower down the interest rate aimed at improving the business atmosphere in the country, media reported.

A delegation of traders and industrialists on Monday met with the prime minister at the Governor House, during his one-day visit to Karachi, and discussed issues faced by the industries, tax collection, gas tariff, and fuel adjustment issues.

After the meeting, the traders said that the prime minister had assured them of facilitating the industrialization process in the country. The traders were of the view during the meeting that before tax collection process, relief should be provided to the industries for better outputs.

They said that even the prime minister and the ministers nodded to their demands. During the meeting, Adviser to PM on Finance Hafeez Shaikh said that they were taking more efforts aimed at improving the economy and business in the country.

The industrialists were of the view that they were facing difficulties...