{"id":94803,"date":"2020-11-20T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94803"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:04:19","slug":"karachi-to-be-transformed-into-more-connected-port-city-ali-zaidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94803","title":{"rendered":"Karachi to be transformed into more connected port city: Ali Zaidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (TNS): Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi on Friday expressed his resolve to transform Karachi into a more connected port city with developed and well maintained infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will boost not only investors\u2019 confidence but all also facilitate existing industries to establish a supple chain that will ultimately bolster Pakistan\u2019s exports, substantially\u201d, said a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The minister quoted examples of ports transforming the cities with infrastructure development necessary for industries and the adjacent export processing zones that have transformed countries into trade and manufacturing hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the example of New York port authority, Ali Haider Zaidi said the incumbent government introduced business friendly policies that have requisite potential to attract foreign direct investment.<\/p>\n<p>These policies would give rise to a private shipping sector with government having the role of a regulator hence, saving billions of dollars of previous<br \/>\nforeign exchange being spent on annual freight bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (TNS): Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi on Friday expressed his resolve to transform Karachi into a more connected port city with developed and well maintained infrastructure. \u201cThis will boost not only investors\u2019 confidence but all also facilitate existing industries to establish a supple chain that will ultimately bolster Pakistan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94804,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803\/revisions\/94804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}