Fibre2fashion, News, Staff
The All Pakistan Textiles Mills Association (APTMA) recently demanded that Sindh should immediately allow the entire textile value chain to restart production or else the provincial industry would collapse, leading to total closure, bankruptcy and mass unemployment. So far, units with export orders or in-house residential colonies have been given permission.
APTMA Sindh-Balochistan region chairman Zahid Mazhar said the textile industry in the province has already adopted all precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
However, there would be no positive impact on the provincial economy unless downstream textile industry, including sub-sectors of weaving, knitting, stitching, processing and garmenting that provide intermediary materials, do not restart to complete the business cycle of the export industry, he was quoted as saying by Pakistani media reports.
The textile industry in the province is not even running at 50 per cent capacity at present and is not in a position to pay even the utility bills and wages, he added.
