PAKISTAN APPAREL SECTOR SEEKS GOVERNMENT SUPPORT TO RECOVER LOSSES CAUSED BY COVID19

PAKISTAN’S clothing and textile sector has called on the country’s government to offer vigorous help to help the industry emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, which it says has inflicted punishing harm on manufacturers. The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) and the Pakistan Readymade Garments Exporters & Manufacturers Association (PRGMEA) are united in pressing for government action. “The COVID-19 pandemic has a very wide-ranging negative impact on the country’s economy in general, and the textile sector in particular, with economic ...


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