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title: "Textile body urges PM to retain export facilitation scheme for yarns, fabrics"
description: "Most outlets reported that the Pakistan Textile Council urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to retain the Export Facilitation Scheme for yarns and fabrics. Business Recorder emphasized the PTC's call to reject further exclusions and retain the scheme for all legitimate export inputs, while Profit highlighted concerns about rising production costs and weakened competitiveness due to restrictions on yarn and fabric imports."
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# Textile body urges PM to retain export facilitation scheme for yarns, fabrics

business · updated 14 Oct 2026, 6:14 AM PKT · 13–14 Oct 2026 · 3 articles from 3 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 3 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported that the Pakistan Textile Council urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to retain the Export Facilitation Scheme for yarns and fabrics. Business Recorder emphasized the PTC's call to reject further exclusions and retain the scheme for all legitimate export inputs, while Profit highlighted concerns about rising production costs and weakened competitiveness due to restrictions on yarn and fabric imports.

## Same story from 3 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **The Nation** — [PTC urges govt to preserve EFS for all legitimate export inputs](https://www.nation.com.pk/14-Oct-2026/ptc-urges-govt-preserve-efs-legitimate-export-inputs) · 14 Oct 2026, 6:14 AM PKT
  > ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Textile Council (PTC) has written a letter to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, urging the government to preserve the Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS) for all legitimate export inputs and to reject demands for the exclusion of all yarns and fabrics falling under Chapters 52 and 55 of the Pakistan Customs.
- **Profit** — [Textile council urges PM to reject further exclusions from Export Facilitation Scheme](https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/10/13/textile-council-urges-pm-to-reject-further-exclusions-from-export-facilitation-scheme) · 13 Oct 2026, 10:22 PM PKT · 78% identical wording to the newest filing
  > PTC warns restrictions on yarn and fabric imports could raise production costs, strain exporters’ working capital and weaken competitiveness in global markets
- **Business Recorder** — [Textile body urges PM to retain export facilitation scheme for yarns, fabrics](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40444021/textile-body-urges-pm-to-retain-export-facilitation-scheme-for-yarns-fabrics) · 13 Oct 2026, 8:20 PM PKT · 91% identical wording to the newest filing
  > The Pakistan Textile Council (PTC) has urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to retain the Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS) for all legitimate export inputs and reject further exclusions of yarns and fabrics, warning that such restrictions could undermine Pakistan’s value-added textile exports. In a letter to the prime minister, PTC Chairman Fawad Anwar opposed demands to exclude all yarns and fa...

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3 articles from 3 outlets, 13–14 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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