MULTAN City News

SC decision welcomed

From Our Correspondent

MULTAN: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has hailed the Supreme Court judgment, upholding orders of the Punjab government to ban setting up new sugar mills in cotton core areas and extension to the existing ones in public and national interest.

Talking to journalists here on Friday, PCGA chairman Shahzad Ali Khan said that the apex court had endorsed our stance that there should be a complete ban on establishment/enlargement of sugar industry in the province. He said that the cotton industry was the backbone of industrialised Pakistan, making value addition to the raw material (cotton) and earning considerable foreign exchange for the country.