All Pakistan Textile Mills Association has decided to observe a black day for industry on Wednesday (Today) by closing down the textile industry all over the country- from Karachi to Peshawar.
The protest call is against what it calls the non-serious attitude of the government regarding industry.
APTMA Punjab Chairman Amir Fayyaz, addressing a press conference said that the owners of mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Karachi had unanimously decided to close down operations and lay off millions of workers because they had nothing to offer to their international buyers against the regional competitors.
“Prime Minister’s priorities are foreign tours and he is least concerned over declining export and collapse of the industry. We are told by the authorities that PM is going to the US again and exporters will have to wait for another 15-20 days for announcement of relief package by the PM.”
He said that more than 50 textile mills out of 350 have been closed during the last three months, as the mills could not mange to pay high electricity bills.
