Related Keywords: APTMA, fifty percent at standstill, flooding of imported cloth, Pakistan textile policy, pakistan weaving industry, regional countries, smuggled cloth, textile specific subsidies by India
The weaving industry of Pakistan has come to standstill by fifty percent due to the flooding of imported as well as smuggled cloth from regional countries. Moreover, the Pakistan textile policy 2014-19 has not seen daylight despite eight months of current fiscal, reflecting lack of interest of the federal government in promoting and protecting textile industry.
