PAKISTAN PHARMA SECTOR OPPOSES PLANNED LIBERALISATION OF INDIA MEDICINE TRADE
May 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (PPMA) wants his government to pull back from allowing Indian medicine exporters to sell India-approved medicines in Pakistan from January 2013. Muhammad Asad told Pakistani journalists he feared his members would suffer from India being given 'most favoured nation' status under world trade law next year - a step agreed by Pakistan's cabinet in December. Asad wanted only Indian medicines made to standards approved by international drug regulators, including the European ...
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