KARACHI: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the business community to encourage women to participate in business activities and play their role in labour force as they are an integral part of society.
He also called for taking practical and time-bound steps to increase women’s inclusion in the productive workforce and creating a safe, conducive, and women-friendly environment at the workplaces.
President Alvi expressed these views during his visit to Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), the press wing of president secretariat said in a press release.
During the visit, Dr Alvi said businessmen played an important role in shaping business practices as well the opinion of society, and that they must set goals and directions in order to achieve the financial objectives of enterprises for economic prosperity, in addition to playing their role to make businesses dispense their responsibilities towards society.
He also highlighted the need to encourage employment of persons with disabilities in different sectors of the economy, while keeping in view their particular skill-set and the nature and extent of their disability.
Referring to the economic success of emerging economy of Vietnam with intellectual resources in the IT sector, the president said the intellectual and human resource development of a nation must equally be focused on, in addition to developing its natural resources.
He underlined the need to establish and strengthen the academia-industry linkages to produce graduates that could fulfill the markets requirements, besides coming up with solutions to the problems being faced by the local industry.
The president urged the business community to follow the path of the founder of Pakistan by pursuing the unity, faith and discipline to become successful in every walk of life and hoped that the business community would continue to strengthen economy of the country.
