All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has decided to protest strongly against the severe energy crisis, especially in the province of Punjab where 80 percent of textile industry exists and passing through electricity and gas supply shortages. It has been learnt on good authority that the Aptma leadership would hold an important press conference early next week where some crucial announcement is likely to be made in order to warn the government.

It may be noted that the Aptma leadership had brought the textile workers on street against severe gas shortage last year. A large number of textile workers, along with top leadership, had surrounded the SNGPL main building and dispersed only after clear-cut assurance of gas supply. Not only this, the Aptma leadership had also conducted successful protests throughout the province against quota imposition against yarn export by the former minister for textile industry Rana Farooq Saeed. Now again, the textile millers are quite worried about disruption of electricity and gas supplies to textile mills. There are strong reports that the textile mills would be deprived of electricity and gas supplies for at least next three months.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012