Trade with India not at the cost of local industry: Shujaat.

Pakistan Muslim League-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday said enhanced trade with India was the preference of the government but it would not be at the cost of local industry. "Safeguarding the local industry is more important," he added while speaking to a delegation of business community headed by Tariq Mehmood, President Attock Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He said that traders as well as industrialists would not be burdened in the upcoming budget, rather the government was considering a bailout package for the business community.

Shujaat asked the business leaders to furnish specific proposals so that the possible bailout package could be fine-tuned. …