Gas crisis blocking new investments in the country: Mian Zahid Hussain.

Chairman of National Business Group of FPCCI, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Wednesday said the gas crisis is not only hitting economy and employment but it has also blocked new investments.

Industrialist community is protesting all over the country which will also discourage foreign investors, he said.

Mian Zahid Hussian said that CNG sector is paying the highest tariff for gas and paying highest taxes but it is facing the ire of authorities while the influential sectors getting subsidised gas are being promoted which is astonishing.

Talking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that the environmentally friendly sector of CNG is being targeted since 2012 and now the number of CNG stations in Punjab has dropped from 2,800 to almost one thousand wasting investments worth billions.

This sector is consuming only four percent of the gas but it is always first to get closure notice in case of scarcity as some officials have close ties...

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