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A COLLABORATION between a major Pakistan food company and local non-governmental organisation (NGO) aimed at improving the country’s slaughterhouse standards is set to expand sales abroad.
Pakistan’s Al-Khidmat Foundation, a conservative social welfare organisation, has so far contributed USD2.9 million to maintaining a Karachi slaughterhouse facility run by Tata Best Foods Ltd that complies with international food safety standards.…

BANGLADESH’S textiles and knitwear exporters are confident they will see off the challenge posed by the country’s key regional rival Pakistan, which is benefiting from the European Union’s (EU) Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP Plus) status.

With these low tariff benefits, the Bangladeshi industry – whose country also has privileged access to the EU market though its ‘everything but arms’ duty free status – has concern about their exports of home textiles to the EU.…

THE PAKISTAN Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) says they intend to file a lawsuit in the European courts against a German firm, in relation to the death of over 250 people in a fire at the Ali Enterprises garment factory in Baldia, Karachi, on September 11, 2012.…

PAKISTAN’S ministry of textile industry has claimed that textile and clothing exports to the European Union (EU) has increased by 18% from January-June 2014 increased by 18% compared to last year following its membership of the revised EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) for low tariffs.…

Pakistan’s minister for textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi has said his government’s proposed textile policy for 2014-2019 is designed to generate additional textile and clothing exports worth USD3 billion during the next two years.

In an interview with WTiN.com, he said a revised five-year textile policy would be presented to the cabinet for approval in August.…

There are fewer than 1,000 certified accountants in Afghanistan, of which less than 200 are Afghanistan in a country of 29.82 million says the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), and there are no national accounting regulations. More than 30 years of conflict has left the country’s economy in shambles, and with foreign troops being withdrawn by 2016, developing the accountancy sector and its domestic regulations is a priority to underpin sustainable growth.…

PAKISTAN’S textile sector will grow only gradually following its membership of the European Union (EU) GSP+ scheme, according to Dr Safdar Sohail, economic minister at the Pakistan mission to the EU. Speaking to WTiN.com in an exclusive interview from his office in Brussels, Dr Sohail said: “There will be no surge of demand where one would imagine people would start stitching garments in garages and nothing of the sort.”…

Despite being a traditional livestock country, Afghanistan is no longer self-sufficient due to more than three decades of conflict and is now dependent on meat imports. Afghanistan imports of chicken and cattle have exploded between 2002 and 2011, according to the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation.…

Serious negotiations in a much-vaunted and debated trade deal between India and Pakistan, which could significantly boost the textile trade between the two neighbours, have been shelved due to the impending Indian elections, WTiN.com has been told.

“The Pakistanis had second thoughts in going ahead while knowing that there will be a change in government [in India] and they could have to start from the scratch,” said Dr Nisha Taneja, a professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi, “My expectation is that it would be done four months after [the new government takes over in] May.”…

AIRPORTS in Pakistan are adding security measures as they face the constant threat of terrorist attacks. The terminal facing the largest threat is Bacha Khan International Airport, in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which has been a centre of a series of terrorist and insurgent attacks.…