Outages affect Sialkot industry

Published April 3, 2007

SIALKOT, April 2: Local industrial units are being adversely affected by the ongoing unannounced power outages which should be checked. Surgical Instrument Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (SIMAP) chairman Aamir Riaz Bhinder said this in a press statement issued on Monday.

1He said the outages were also hitting exporters who were already doing business under hostile conditions. They were finding it hard to meet export targets under these conditions, he added.

Bhinder said the industry was facing five to six-hour long unannounced outages daily which had brought it on the verge of collapse.

He demanded the prime minister and federal minister for water and power should immediately take notice of the situation and order steps to improve it.

He demanded that the federal government declare Sialkot district loadshedding-free as it was an industrial centre of sports and surgical goods.

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