Pakistan-based leading trade body Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textile Mills Association (KPTMA) has rejected the value-added textile sector’s demand to allow the import of cotton yarn from India.
Salim Saifullah Khan, Chairman of the association, has said that allowing the import from India would be disastrous to Pakistan’s spinning sector.
As reported by news.com, the association issued a statement, saying that allowing import of cotton yarn from India would create a crisis for the spinning industry of Pakistan and lead to mills’ closure.
“The plea of the value-added textile sector that the quality yarn is not available in Pakistan is not correct, as more than 90 per cent of the yarn produced in Pakistan is available for the value-added sector,” Salim said.
He demanded the Government to not allow the import of cotton yarn and save the spinning industry of Pakistan.
On the other hand, experts of Indian textile industry are of the view that this decision of KPTMA is not going to impact India’s yarn export as Pakistan does not have much share in the same.
