Fawad Anwar

MD, Alkaram Textile Mills Chrmn-Pak Textile Council BoD-SBP Dir-Dhabeji Aqua Foods, TPL Properties, Pak Oxygen Ltd, Lakeside Energy Ltd & Chrmn F.A Foundation

[Fawad Anwar @fawadanwar]

🚨 The Strait of Hormuz is closed. I as Chairman Pakistan Textile Council (PTC) have written to the Government of Pakistan — this is not a drill.
Pakistan's textile sector — 60%+ of our national exports — is directly in the line of fire. As Chairman of Pakistan Textile Council, I have formally proposed an urgent response framework.
Our asks are clear:
⚡ Remove the CPP levy — now
🛢️ Secure Red Sea crude via Saudi Aramco
🔒 Ring-fence LNG for export industries
💰 Activate a USD 25–50M War Risk Guarantee Fund from EDF (Rs 52B available ✅)
📦 Double ERF working capital for affected exporters ✈️ Notify GSP+, US & DCTS partners of force majeure

We have a 60–90 day window to protect our exporters' order books and market positions.

Pakistan's competitors are already acting. We cannot afford to wait.
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[Fawad Anwar @fawadanwar]

Pakistan’s textile sector—the backbone of exports & jobs—has reached a breaking point. Exports are in freefall, costs are uncompetitive, and margins are being crushed. This is a crisis of policy & pricing, not demand. An Export Emergency is no longer optional—it is essential. Exports are Pakistan’s only sustainable exit from recurring crises.

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[Fawad Anwar @fawadanwar]

#Pakistan is at a turning point. We can no longer pretend that incremental tweaks will rescue an economy weighed down by high costs, rising unemployment, and an exodus of investment. Countries that were once behind us moved ahead because they chose clarity, consistency, and competitiveness, not by confusion and half-measures.

Our path should be clear: a modern, private-sector-driven economy with a government that regulates fairly, not one that creates hurdles for its businesses to grow. When the state steps back from commercial space, investment steps forward. When policies are predictable, businesses expand. When costs are rationalized, economies grow.

If we want capital to return, we must fix the fundamentals: a market-based exchange rate, regionally competitive energy prices, rational taxation, and interest rates that allow industry to breathe. None of this is ideology — it is simple economics. Investment follows returns, and right now those returns are being eroded by the very policy distortions we refuse to confront.

Pakistan’s young population can be our greatest advantage, but only if we equip them with real skills and genuine opportunities. Growth built on human capital and productive enterprise is the only sustainable route to stability.

We don’t need handouts or protectionism. We need a level playing field, long-term rules, and the confidence that decisions today won’t be reversed tomorrow. The countries that embraced this model prospered; those that delayed paid a heavy price.

Pakistan must choose decisively today, not five years from now, not after another crisis. The world will not wait, and neither will investors. It’s time to align our policies with global competitiveness, empower our private sector, and build an economy that rewards initiative instead of punishing it.

The moment is now. If we act with clarity and courage, Pakistan can still reclaim its economic future. If we hesitate, the cost will be borne by the next generation — and they will rightfully ask why we didn’t act when we had the chance.
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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

Pakistan’s textile exports are facing many challenges:

Successive trade and textile policies have been setting ambitious goals on export enhancement, sustainability, value-addition, and diversification. However, almost all of them lacked legally backed-time-bound measures and their implementation plan to succeed.

Emerging global scenarios, US reciprocal tariff and strengthening of BRICS, present both opportunities and threats for Pakistan.

At PTC, we believe policy must be aligned with ground realities. Therefore, Govt of Pakistan is requested to:
·      Provide regionally competitive energy pricing (RCEP)
·      Reduction in the exorbitantly high tax rates in Pakistan
·      Liquidity support through targeted financing schemes for exporters
·      Support in cost of compliance/certifications
·      Getting favourable market access

🔗 Read more about PTC’s policy proposal: https://t.co/xoeJ8gGU6G
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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

🚨 Pakistan's Export showing a declining trend
The Pakistan Textile Council (PTC) launches its first Quarterly Export Report (Q1 FY26), uncovering worrying declines across the board:

📉 Total exports: $7.62B (↓3.4% YoY)
📉 September 2025: ↓11% YoY — one of the steepest monthly drops in recent quarters
📉 Textile exports: ↓2% YoY despite making up 63% of total exports

🔻 Key declines:
* Cotton ↓7.8%
* Man-made filaments ↓21%
* Wadding & nonwovens ↓12.9%
* Carpets ↓11.4%
* Knitted fabrics ↓29.5%
* Other vegetable fibers ↓47.3%

📊 Top product-level drops:
* Cotton bed linen ↓12.6% to $97M
* T-shirts & vests ↓9.5% to $85M
* Knitted gloves ↓7.9% to $58M
* Suits & jackets ↓17.8% to $429M
* Men’s bathrobes ↓16.7% to $10M

Though value-added categories (Ch. 61–63) rose +0.9% YoY, the gain was too small to offset deep losses in traditional and intermediate exports.

⚠️ PTC cautions that without immediate energy, wage, and policy reforms, Pakistan risks losing further ground to regional competitors.

📍 Full report at: https://t.co/DbLHZJXD3U

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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

Pakistan’s exports continue to face pressure, with total exports falling 3.4% and textile exports down 2% year-on-year in Q1 FY26.

PTC Chairman Fawad Anwar cautioned that Pakistan risks irreversible damage to its export base without immediate corrective action including consistent energy pricing, market access improvement, and revival of the textile value chain.

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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

Pakistan’s value-added textile exports (Ch. 61–63) continue to drive overall growth. However, PTC cautions that this growth cannot cover the losses.

Chairman PTC @Fawadanwar stressed, “Factories are struggling to retain workers, energy costs remain crippling, and export orders are shifting to regional competitors like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and India.”

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/u3tDyAjlLa

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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

PTC Chairman, @fawadanwar, highlighted stress across intermediary textile goods as rising energy costs and import restrictions disrupt supply chains.

“These figures are deeply worrying,” said PTC Chairman Fawad Anwar. “The decline across nearly every traditional category indicates that Pakistan is losing ground not just in high-end apparel, but even in the raw and intermediate textile segments that once formed the backbone of our export chain.”

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/Ar0I1ns3Mf

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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

PTC Chairman, @fawadanwar, raised concerns over Pakistan’s textile exports losing their edge against global competitors, noting that export orders are increasingly shifting to more cost-competitive countries.

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[Pakistan Textile Council @PakTexCouncil]

PTC Chairman, @fawadanwar, raises concern over falling exports.

“The ground reality is brutal,” he said. “Factories are struggling to pay bills. Energy costs are unpredictable and uncompetitive. Exporters are losing orders not because of quality or commitment, but because doing business in Pakistan has become too risky and too expensive."

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