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Article: PAKISTAN'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN EYE OF THE STORM.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 18, 2007
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Byline: Mahlia S. Lone
LAHORE, Pakistan - The most detrimental fallout of this year's increased political instability in Pakistan for its textile industry is the reluctance of foreign buyers to visit mills in the country.
There have been an alarming number of suicide attacks and bomb blasts in Pakistan this year as a repercussion of July's Red Mosque incident in which the military government violently came down on Islamic militants that had barricaded themselves in a mosque in the erstwhile peaceful capital city of Islamabad. Earlier in May, a judicial crisis, since resolved, had prompted demonstrations in the country and a three-day strike in Karachi, ...