PAKISTAN LAUNCHES NEW TEXTILE INDUSTRY POLICY – LOOKING TOWARDS 2019
February 8th, 2015
THE PAKISTAN government has released its long awaited 2014-19 textile industrial policy, which includes a target of doubling the country’s overall annual textile and clothing industry exports to USD26 billion by 2019.Pakistan’s federal minister for textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi and his ministry’s top official secretary Amir M Khan Marwat have announced the government will spend Pakistan Rupees PKR64.15 billion (USD632 million) on working towards this this goal until 2019.Amir Marwat said he hoped the support would leverage overall investment so an ...
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