APTMA upset over gas outage

LAHORE: Ali Pervaiz Malik, chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association’s (APTMA) Punjab chapter, on Thursday said the discontinuation of 28 percent system gas supply would weigh down on the exports.

“This outage will take a serious toll on the textile sector production, which will subsequently affect the export volume,” the APTMA official said in a statement. Malik said the suspension of the supply of system gas quota of 2-day per week to Punjab industries from 7th of December 2017 was a matter of serious concern. “The government had extended this quota last year in order to reduce the cost of doing business and somewhat address the grave issue of inter-provincial disparity as industries in KPK/Sindh continue to be supplied system gas for 7 days a week,” the APTMA official added.