Pakistan, May 22 -- All Pakistan Textile Mills Association has warned that Pakistan could lose another cotton season as delays continue in implementing the cotton revival reforms approved by a high-powered committee led by Ishaq Dar in October 2025. The textile industry fears that continued inaction may further increase the country's dependence on costly cotton imports and place additional pressure on Pakistan's external financing requirements.

In a letter dated May 20, 2026, Aptma Chairperson Kamran Arshad informed Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar that key reforms approved during the sixth meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Essential and Cash Crops had still not been implemented. Moreover, the association stated that repeated r...