KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan and President of Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), Mian Zahid Hussain said the government should provide interest-free loans to the people, shopkeepers and industrialists for solar energy, wind power plants should be set up, corporate farming should be introduced and self-sufficiency in agricultural commodities should be achieved. Sick units should be privatised as ignoring these reforms would be economic suicide.
He said the whole world has been pushed into an economic crisis by the developed countries in an attempt to punish Russia. Mian Zahid Hussain said that millions of people are falling below the poverty line and the number of insecure people is steadily rising.
He said that rising inflation has eroded the purchasing power of the people, hitting the demand for all commodities except food all over the…