CHINESE INVESTMENT STARTS TO ROLL INTO PAKISTAN’S TEXTILE SECTOR
July 5th, 2014
Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi has told WTiN.com that efforts were being made to attract Chinese investment in a proposed Karachi ‘Textile City’, which would be formally launched in September 2014. In an exclusive interview, he said: “The government has acquired 1,250 acres land for the project at the Port Qasim, in Karachi, land-levelling has been done and we are hoping to make available water and electricity there in the next one-and-a-half months before supplying it natural gas,” he added.Meanwhile, a senior ...
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