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India and Pakistan are trying to remove barriers that are hindering the trade of cotton and textile between these two neighbouring countries, however deep-rooted historic and political resentments continue to hinder progress.
These have helped put out of reach a major trade deal that would sweep away import-export barriers, despite the governments of both countries having relatively new electoral mandates.…

The Egyptian textile sector is a mixed bag, succeeding in certain sub-sectors and struggling in others, while failing to add value to its core strength in cotton production. It has managed to weather the ongoing political instability, but exports are weak due to lower demand from Europe, and the overall sector is straining to keep up with global competition.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned airlines to “exercise extreme caution if planning to fly into, out of, within or above Pakistan airspace,” because of increased risks of ground-based terrorist attacks on planes.

A EASA safety information bulletin cites a AIC France circular issued by DGAC-France requiring French operators not to fly in Pakistan airspace (OPLR – Lahore and FIR OPKR – Karachi) below flight level 240 (around 7,400 metres in altitude).…

Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi has said the country’s delayed, but still upcoming, five-year textile policy will cater to the needs of the nonwoven textile sector, as it has the potential to grow.

Talking to WTiN.com,…

THE CREATION of a consultative textile and clothing ‘buyers’ forum’ in Pakistan, linking brands with manufacturers, government and unions, has moved a step closer following an international meeting staged in Islamabad.
This first ‘buyers’ meeting’, was held on December 15 and 16, organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Dutch and Pakistan governments.…

Pakistan has launched disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) signalling it wants to challenge countervailing duties imposed by the European Union (EU) on Pakistani exports of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET). In an unusual case brought by Pakistan against the EU, Islamabad is arguing that the European Commission mishandled an investigation prompting EU ministers to impose protective measures, compensating European PET-makers for Pakistan government tax breaks and subsidies.…

A sustained campaign by an influential textile lobby has persuaded the Pakistan government to revive a federal Textile Board advisory panel after it has lain dormant for eight years. The board has been charged with focusing on the key challenges now facing the industry.…

A FORMER secretary general of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has roundly condemned environmental health controls at the main slaughterhouse for Karachi, the country’s largest metropolitan area, home to more than 20 million people. Dr Shershah Syed told globalmeatnews.com that the Landhi slaughterhouse “is the worst you can imagine”.…

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to work with the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to help south Asian nations slow the spread of livestock diseases.

In India, livestock sector losses from foot-and-mouth disease alone are estimated at around USD4.5 billion a year, according to the ADB.…