Textile And Garment Enterprises In Pakistan Worry That The Government Will Reduce Gas Supply.

With the advent of winter, Pakistan's textiles and Ready-made clothes Businesses are under pressure to reduce gas supplies. In the northern part of Pakistan, including Punjab (Punjab), Khyber Pakhtun khawa (KPK) and Azad Kashmir, areas have begun to cool down. Sui North gas pipeline company (SNGPL) has said gas supply will last for 4 days a week. At present, the industry is worried that with the drop of temperature, gas supply will be completely stopped.

The chairman of Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) Rana Arif Tauseef and the chief coordinator and former chairman of Pakistan hosiery manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) Chaudhry Salamat Ali will protest against the government. textile industry The reduction of gas supply. Tauseef also warned that it would affect the value of exports to the EU and the US $4 million. product Exit.

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) of Lahore believes that the total stoppage of gas supply is likely to happen soon, creating a crisis for the work of 15 million people and exports of up to US $14 billion. The Seth Muhammad Akber, the acting chairman of the Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), is the commitment of the government to maintain 4 days of gas supply to the textile industry a week.

Federal petroleum and natural resources minister Asim Hussain earlier assured the textile industry that the government did not plan to halt the gas supply of the textile industry in the winter, but the government had no obligation to provide gas in the month of December ~2. About 75% of the textile factories in northern Pakistan use gas to generate electricity.