Some 1000 stitching units to be made functional

The Senate Standing Committee on Commerce and Textile at the meeting held at the parliament house under the chairmanship of Senator Shibili Faraz, directed the Ministry of Commerce and Textile to take appropriate measures to make some 1000 industrial stitching units functional in the country as early as possible through providing them required support.

The Committee also directed the Ministry of Commerce and Textile to provide detailed expenditures on different ongoing projects in the textile industry for the betterment of the textile industry.

The Committee observed that due to lack of proper mechanism and planning public money is being wasted and it is not being utilized properly. The Committee directed to the Ministry of Commerce and Textile to take care in spending the expenditures allocated for the improvement and development of the textile industry. The Committee also asked the Ministry to take special care in planning and execution of projects.

Chairman of the Committee Senator Shibli Faraz, commenting on the importance of Free Trade Agreements with other countries, said that these should be signed considering Pakistan’s interest. He also said that experts in the field of trade and commerce should be deputed as commercial attaches in Pakistani’s embassies abroad.