PAKISTAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY SLAMS GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO IMPLEMENT ITS OWN TEXTILE POLICY

A LEADER of Pakistan’s key textile industry association has accused his country’s government of failing to follow its own major 2014-19 textile industry plan, released with much fanfare last February (2015). Amir Fayyaz Sheikh, Punjab chairman of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association told WTiN.com: “Addressing problems of industry is low on the government’s priority list. The textile policy has not been implemented.” Indeed, it has not even replaced the former ministry textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi, who stepped down in March, after launching ...


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