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Related Keywords: Central Asian states to enter Pakistan, collecting dust on Pak-Afghan border, facing supply crisis, instructed them to seek clearance, Karachi port, Ministry of National Food Security, over 150 trucks laden with cotton, Pakistan textile industry, refusing to issue permission, trucks containing cotton

With the Ministry of National Food Security refusing to issue permission to the trucks containing cotton from Central Asian states to enter Pakistan, and instead instructed them to seek clearance from the Karachi port. As a result Pakistan textile industry facing supply crisis as over 150 trucks laden with cotton collecting dust on Pak-Afghan border.

According to experts, the local textile industry already facing immense difficulty competing in the region can be hit hard by cotton supply crisis if this issue is not resolved.

Related Keywords: cotton bales, Cotton prices moved higher, fetch better prices, ginners hold back stock, imported in violation, Indian cotton, Karachi port, KCA, Ministry of National Food Security and Research Department of Plant Protection, Pakistan rejecting consignment, Plant Quarantine rules, spotrate unmoved

Cotton prices moved higher on Wednesday on reports of Pakistan rejecting a consignment of around 10,000 bales of Indian cotton worth $3.3 million at the Karachi port by the Ministry of National Food Security and Research Department of Plant Protection as it was imported in violation of the country's Plant Quarantine rules. The consignment has to be returned by importers at their cost.