Pakistan Textile Enterprises Shut Down Due To The Shutdown Of Natural Gas Supply

After Pakistan's textile industry received the notice of indefinitely suspending the supply of natural gas, the pressure of natural gas soon dropped to zero.

Rana Arif Tauseef, President of Pakistan Textile Exporters Association and other officials Journalism It was said at the press conference that textile Just three days after the exporters' meeting, they received the notice of indefinitely stopping the supply of natural gas. At the meeting, the oil minister promised to supply natural gas to export enterprises four days a week. Before taking such drastic action, the government did not take any measures to give confidence to stakeholders. This drastic action will not only deprive Pakistan of 14 billion dollars of foreign exchange income, but also expand the unemployment rate Public security situation Deterioration.

They said that industrialists did not believe in this kind of thing, and they intended to focus on expanding their business, but the situation has already been like this. Under this situation, no industry can survive. Textile exporters have invested 17 billion dollars in the textile industry, and the annual export income of the textile industry is 14 billion dollars. If the energy crisis is solved, the interest rate decreases, and the law and order situation improves, the textile industry export may reach 25 billion dollars.

The industrialists in Faisalabad said that they paid salaries for 1 million to 1.5 million workers, but if the energy crisis is not solved and the natural gas supply is suspended indefinitely, they will not be able to pay salaries for workers. These unemployed forces may lead to law and order out of control.

They said that Heimtextil, the largest textile fair, will open next month, but textile exporters are in a dilemma because if they get enough export orders at the fair, they may be difficult to fulfill the export contract. The government has not responded to the current situation. In this case, exporters may stop paying natural gas bills to SNGPL.

They say that doesn't mean we don't pay our bills. We will pay the gas fee to the relevant associations instead of directly paying SNGPL. If the negotiation between the Association and the natural gas authority is successful, they will pay the bill to the natural gas authority. They said that the government had promised to keep the textile factory open five days a week, so they refused to accept the notice from the natural gas company. Later, exporters burned their natural gas bills and expressed their protest against the notice of indefinite suspension of gas supply.