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The Federal Minister for Finance Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar chaired the Committee on Restructuring (CCoR) held on March 27th, 2015 recommending the merger of the textile and commerce ministries.
The letter proposed regarding the same quoted that the Ministry of Textile Industry was established on the ethical demand of the value added textile export sector - the backbone and lifeline of our nation’s economy, which exports 54.63 percent of the total nation’s exports and generates 42 percent of the total employment including male and female workers.
