The PPP government in Sindh was slammed by the value-added textile manufacturers-cum-exporters recently, for letting industries suffer with decaying infrastructure, dwindling water and power supplies.

Abdul Rasheed, Chairman, Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA), while speaking at a meeting with Sindh Industries Minister Muhammad Ali Malkani at PHMA House, said that Karachi was being ignored by the PPP government and not included in its development plans. This was despite the city providing more than 63 per cent revenue to the national economy.

Rasheed said that political governments are busy catering to their vote banks and meanwhile the industries were suffering from the broken infrastructure despite being vital to the national exchequer. He added that Karachi was treated as an orphan; however, the situation had improved quite a lot since the last few months.

Rasheed said that the provincial taxes needed a consolidation to help facilitate the industrial taxpayers and were uncounted. He also blamed the government for numerous taxes and stated that the manifold taxation system had been kept intact just to protect the bureaucracy. Besides, he mentioned that the social security audit was just harassment to the exporters by the government.

Javed Bilwani, Chief Coordinator, PHMA, feels that the government should allow 10 other power distributing companies in the city to end the K-Electric monopoly. He even urged the government to introduce an incentive package for the industrial growth and that it should build a circular railway network for people to end the transportation woes.

Moreover, Bilwani termed the federal government's imposition of 10 per cent, regularity duty on cotton yarn import and said that it was an illegal imposition in line with international laws.

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