The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, hit us out of no where. Leaving the whole world in shock and forcing the world to shut down into lockdowns. The cities that never sleep became dead silent within a month. Business went bankrupt, millions of people lost their lives. Pakistan had a 10% economic loss, just like many other countries Pakistan had to go on lockdown in order to prevent more cases. Therefore, we’re shifting our company online for now. Most of our order will be handled online for everyone’s safety.
However, in now things are started to look up, vaccine are becoming available to people for free. Once everything starts to calm down and cover cases starts to decline, we will transfer back to store and online retail store.
Meanwhile, make sure to wear your mask and maintain social distance. Thank you for your understanding, we appreciate our clients and are always here for you.
Pakistan is a beautiful second largest Muslim country located in the South Asia, sharing its border with Iran from the west, Afghanistan from the Northwest and north, China from the northeast and India from east and south east. Lastly, it shares its southern border with the Arabian Sea.Pakistan is divided into four major provinces, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan, this where all the international embassies are located. Even though Urdu is considered the mother of the country, each of these provinces have their own languages as well such as the Sindh province predominantly speaks Sindhi, Punjabi is spoken in Punjab and such.
The several regions of Pakistan are the western parts of the Himalayan Mountains, the Baluchistan Plateau, the Potohar Plateau, and the Indus Plain. Pakistan is rich with variety of beautiful landscapes including mountain ranges in the northwest, valleys, plateaus, and down to the Indus River plains. The mountains ranges can hit extremely cold temperatures in the winter and warm temperatures during the summer while the Indus Valley plains are dry in the winter and extremely hot in the summer.
Few of the examples for the landscape in Pakistan can be seen below: these landscapes have and will continue to attract numerous amounts of travelers.
Figure #2 (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011)
Figure #3 (Pti, 2020)
Pakistan isn’t only rich in landscape but it is also well known for it’s diverse and cultural historical places such as palaces, mosques and tombs of Kings and their loved ones that have been around since the beginning of time. That shows and tell us the stories of Pakistan before it’s independence. For example, Hiran Minar as seen in the picture below. Is a famous “rumoured tomb of ‘Mansraj‘. a pet deer of the 4th Mughal King Jahangir.” (Sheraz et al., 2019). Therefore, the Place gets its name after that. The Urdu translation of a deer is Hiran and Minar is word used to describe a tower in Southern and Eastern Asia.
Import and Export policies have a crucial role in a nation’s growth, it can heavily impacts a country’s fortune and it’s GDP.
Pakistan have multiple bilateral and multilateral trade agreement with various nations and organizations. One of the top countries that Pakistan export to is The United States. In the year 2018 alone Pakistan exported material worth about $3,802 million to the US. Other countries that Pakistan import and export from are UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kuwait and U.A.E.
Pakistan exports cotton textile and apparel to the subcontinent and imports industrial raw material, Petroleum and many different consumer needs such as technology.
When it comes to import and export, Pakistan has strict tariff rules. Since the country is not a part of free-trade agreement like many other countries, they maintain a high tariff rates. However, new policy guidelines are proposed related to 2020-2021 budget. Tariff on raw materials, intermediate and capital goods will be reduced.
Pakistan’s export partnership with few of the businesses are listed below:
H&M
Porsche
Pepsi
Nike
Apple
Wal-mart
The figure below shows the trade balance and how it is expanding/growing gradually between the the time period of July-august 2018 and 2019. The import and export are still growing even when the country is hit with a world-wide pandemic.
Fabric is a generic term used to define material made by substantial weaving, netting, braiding or knitting. Textile can be classified into different categories according to their fiber components such as cotton, wool, silk which are known as the natural fiber vs the synthetic fabric which are polyester, rayon and nylon. The value and the quality of the fabric highly depends on several factors such as the worth of the raw material, the character of the yarn spun on the fiber. Other factors that also determine the quality of the fabric are the texture whether it’s clean, smooth, fine, and the density of the weave.
When it come to Pakistan, Cotton is know as the premium fabric because of its rich quality, color, texture, substantial designs and its competitive pricing. As of right now, Pakistan is the world’s fourth largest producer and the third largest consumer of Cotton. About 10% of the world’s cotton comes from Pakistan. The cotton industry have contributed over 8.5% in GDP. It also provides up to 67% of Pakistan’s Export, as well as,”employment to about 15 million people, 30% of the country work force.” (Fayyaz, 2010).
After the Pakistan’s Independence on 1947, two textile mills were build as a colonial heritage, which played a crucial role into the country’s economic and industrial development. Since then textile industry have progressed exponentially, from only having few spinning factories, now there are over five hundred factories located through out the country.
The Technique of making cotton into a fabric:
Ginning:
Ginning is the first mechanical step , which is the process of separating lint from seed to cotton.
Spinning:
Spinning converts the fiber into yarn for weaving, knitting and etc.
Weaving:
Loom weaves the yarn accordingly to a fabric. The last but not least step is textile dyeing, printing and fabric bleaching.
Even after the Pandemic, the Cotton and textile industry still continues to grow, “At present, there are 1,221 ginning units, 442 spinning units, 124 large spinning units and 425 small units which produce textile products.” (Fayyaz, 2010). The textile industry itself have kept the Pakistan’s economic from crumbling.
