{"id":47744,"date":"2019-01-21T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=47744"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:51:09","slug":"special-economic-zone-in-capital-demanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/special-economic-zone-in-capital-demanded.html","title":{"rendered":"Special economic zone in capital demanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The business community has urged the government to expedite work on the ground-breaking of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Islamabad\u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) President Ahmed Hassan Moughal said that SEZs will boost industrial and investment activities in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-seeks-plan-on-sezs-development-under-cpec.html\">PM seeks plan on SEZs development under CPEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that three SEZs: Rashakai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dhabeji in Sindh, and M-3, will be ready for ground-breaking by June. However, the ground-breaking in Islamabad may face delays as the government has yet to acquire land for this phase of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The ICCI president demanded the government to follow the set timeline. He said that China had offered to establish over 100 SEZs in Pakistan. These economic zones will be set up under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. So far, nine SEZs have been approved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/china-to-provide-usd-1-bn-grant.html\">China to provide USD 1 bn grant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the chamber called for abolishing duty on imported industrial machinery in the upcoming mini-budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The business community has urged the government to expedite work on the ground-breaking of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Islamabad\u2013 a news source reported. Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) President Ahmed Hassan Moughal said that SEZs will boost industrial and investment activities in the region. Read:\u00a0PM seeks plan on SEZs development under CPEC He said that three SEZs: Rashakai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dhabeji in Sindh, and M-3, will be ready for ground-breaking by June. However, the ground-breaking in Islamabad may face delays as the government has yet to acquire land for this phase of the project. The ICCI president demanded the government to follow the set timeline. He said that China had offered to establish over 100 SEZs in Pakistan. These economic zones will be set up under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. So far, nine SEZs have been approved. Read: China to provide USD 1 bn grant Moreover, the chamber called for abolishing duty on imported industrial machinery in the upcoming mini-budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":47747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[10023],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-special-economic-zone-in-capital-demanded","9":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Special economic zone in capital demanded - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The business community has urged the government to expedite work on the ground-breaking of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Islamabad\u2013 a news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/special-economic-zone-in-capital-demanded.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Special economic zone in capital demanded - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The business community has urged the government to expedite work on the ground-breaking of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Islamabad\u2013 a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/special-economic-zone-in-capital-demanded.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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