{"id":18130,"date":"2024-09-04T06:44:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2024-09-04T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:44:26","slug":"sifc-explores-establishing-pharma-economic-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=18130","title":{"rendered":"SIFC Explores Establishing Pharma Economic Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240904_111645-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240904_111645-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240904_111645-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240904_111645-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_20240904_111645.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) is considering setting up a Pharma Economic Zone to promote medical tourism and attract investment in the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan is already working on establishing Special Economic Zones under CPEC. One of these will be reserved for the pharma industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health has been asked to prepare an immediate action plan to finalize the project after the pre-feasibility study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative is aimed at attracting foreign investment including from China in the pharma industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is also working on a proposal to deregulate the prices of medical products to attract investment in the pharma industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) is considering setting up a Pharma Economic Zone to promote medical tourism and attract investment in the pharmaceutical industry. Pakistan is already working&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-special-investment-facilitation-council-sifc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18132,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions\/18132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}