Textile industry official calls on government to bring in US cotton

17/08/2010
The chairman of the Punjab division of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma), Gohar Ejaz, has called on the government in Islamabad to import two million bales of cotton under the aid strategy of the United States Agency for International Development to mitigate the negative impact of floods on the local cotton crop.

Mr Gohar has estimated that recent floods in Pakistan will leave mills short of raw materials to the extent of between two and five million bales.