Business community  vows India for defusing agitation with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Feb 25 (APP):Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) President Ahmed Hassan Moughal Monday called upon the Indian leadership to take measures for defusing rising tension between India and Pakistan in the wake of Pulwama incident.

The South Asian region needed durable peace for economic development and progress and fight growing poverty, he said this while addressing a meeting of ICCI Executive Committee at Chamber House, a press press said.

He said the rising tension between Pakistan and India would be harmful for business and economic activities and discouraged new investment in the region.

Ahmed Hassan Moughal said that South Asia has great potential for intra-regional trade and India should lead the efforts for regional integration instead of creating conditions that would promote disintegration, discourage investment and create unemployment in the region.

ICCI Senior Vice President Rafat Farid and Vice President Iftikhar Anwar Sethi said the countries around the world were creating regional economic blocks for promoting trade and economic development.

However, South Asia was the least integrated region due to tense relations between some regional countries.

They said India should show maturity and play role for creating a strong economic block in South Asia for reducing poverty and uplifting living standards of the people.