PAKISTAN GEARS UP FOR PUNJAB GARMENTS CITY
January 1st, 2014
THE PAKISTAN government has started acquiring 1,562 acres of land near Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s most populous and main cotton producing province, Punjab, for a proposed major garments manufacturing centre.Major General (Retd) Javed Iqbal, chief executive officer of the Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC), which is developing this so-called ‘garments city’ and some other industrial estates in the province, said that a pre-feasibility study has now been completed. Furthermore, the designing and finalisation of its master ...
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