10-25-2009, 04:31 PM
<b>Textile exports slump as ministry sleeps</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD : A cotton shortage and price hike crisis looms over the textile sector, the countryâs highest foreign exchange earner, <b>but the government has been caught napping.</b>
July-September export figures for textiles, released by the Federal Bureau of Statistics, <b>show an 11.43 per cent decline in dollar terms.</b>
Federal Minister for Textile Industry Rana Farooq Saeed Khan, talking to The News, said that <b>he is completely unaware of any such figures depicting such a fall in textile exports.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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