PAKISTAN INDUSTRY SUFFERS FROM VACANT MINISTERIAL POSITION IN TEXTILE MINISTRY
May 26th, 2015
THE PAKISTAN government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is actively looking for the right minister to steer the textile sector out of its current distress, after former federal minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi stepped down in March. This followed the February launch of a comprehensive 2014-19 textile industry government policy, yet, despite this – and Pakistan’s GSP+ trade access to the European Union (EU) - textile and clothing exports are falling. They declined 1.2% year-on-year for July-April 2014-5, compared to the same period in ...
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