Foreigners business security confidence survey revealed in Pakistan

[shah1398]

Foreigners business security confidence survey revealed in Pakistan
Posted By: News Deskon: July 25, 2016
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KARACHI: (APP) OICCI members have appreciated the improving law and order situation especially in Karachi and maintained a positive perception in the annual OICCI Members Security Survey conducted by the Chamber in June 2016.

This was a follow up of the survey conducted in Q2 2015 to gauge foreign investor perception on the security environment in the country since 2013, after the launch of the Karachi operations and `Zarb-e-Azb’ initiative, says a statement here Monday.

It said that while the overall survey results were considerably positive for Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad especially on major security risk and threats to business, the foreign investors have concern on the growing number of street crime especially in Karachi.

Nearly 90% of the respondents were of the view that the general threats to business had reduced as compared to the situation prior to August 2013, with 97% stating that security concerns have reduced for own business, customer business, suppliers business and employees. Compared to the last survey in 2015, 74% of the respondents experienced a reduction in security incidents including in serious crimes like abductions/hostage taking and `Bhatta’ demands.

Most importantly, 87% of the survey respondents reported that their staff now feels more comfortable in their everyday commute to/from the workplace. Another significant feedback from the 2016 OICCI Security Survey is that more overseas/expat visitors are travelling to Pakistan and hardly any meeting is being held outside Pakistan because of security concerns, a common cause prior to August 2013. Furthermore, confidence level of overseas/expat visitors has gone up according to 73% of respondents.

Commenting on the security survey results, Shahab Rizvi, OICCI President, complimented the relevant authorities throughout Pakistan, especially Sindh Rangers and Karachi Police, for improving security environment which is an appreciation by the foreign investors of the various initiatives of the government in tackling the serious security, law and order situation which had escalated to serious level by mid-2013.

However, despite the improvement, Shahab Rizvi added, the foreign investors still consider security, law and order as their top concern in doing business in Pakistan.

OICCI is confident that with continuing focused attention and commitment of the government and law enforcement agencies, Pakistan will soon be able to attract even large number of overseas visitors and Foreign investment (FDI) in addition to those coming under the CPEC projects, the statement added.

https://timesofislamabad.com/foreig...dence-survey-revealed-in-pakistan/2016/07/25/

 

[Muhammad Omar]

still a long way to go.. we are getting there slowly..

 

[LA se Karachi]

Violence has greatly decreased from 2013. Glad to hear that everyone, including ex-pats living in Pakistan, are taking notice.

 

[shah1398]

still a long way to go.. we are getting there slowly..

Slow and steady wins the race and we shud not expect the decades old mayhem to vanish off just with a click.

 

[airmarshal]

There is a problem however. Rangers are not allowed to work in rest of Sindh or in Punjab. The politicians in Punjab and in Sind patronize crime. Once Rangers are gone from Karachi, Karachi will return to its normal killing.

The long term solution is to make police effective by depoliticizing it and separating crime from politics. This latter task is almost impossible to achieve hence the stop gap solution of Rangers deployment is working. So far, Sind government is reluctant to extend Rangers powers without assurance that Rangers will not act against crime in Sind. This will not work in long term and Karachi will be back to where it was before 2014.

 

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[Menace2Society]

There is a problem however. Rangers are not allowed to work in rest of Sindh or in Punjab. The politicians in Punjab and in Sind patronize crime. Once Rangers are gone from Karachi, Karachi will return to its normal killing.

The long term solution is to make police effective by depoliticizing it and separating crime from politics. This latter task is almost impossible to achieve hence the stop gap solution of Rangers deployment is working. So far, Sind government is reluctant to extend Rangers powers without assurance that Rangers will not act against crime in Sind. This will not work in long term and Karachi will be back to where it was before 2014.

Then Karachiites are idiots and Sindh is doomed.

Karachi is a port city, it should be rich but its poor and squalid and pathetic.

 

[TOPGUN]

Way long to go a lot of work needs to be done and I mean a lot .. if the average Pakistani doesn't feel safe in their own country how can one expect foreigners and foreigners business to feel . Not being negative here just spilling out the truth may ALLAH help this country once and for all.

 

[Yeezy]

Then Karachiites are idiots and Sindh is doomed.

Karachi is a port city, it should be rich but its poor and squalid and pathetic.

How? No local from Karachi has a say in the politics of Sindh. Sindh government is elected by Sindhis from interior Sindh because Karachi does not have sufficient seats to reflect its population. Essentially, PPP runs Karachi and has full control of it even though majority of Karachiites did not vote for PPP. Despite this Karachi contributes much more to Pakistan than any other city. If Karachi is poor than the rest of Pakistan is worse than South Sudan.