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Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) DEMAND

MULTAN, March Ist:Former Chairman Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA), Khawaja Muhammad Abdullah has reiterated his demand to impose a ban on export of livestock instead of curbing export of meat.About a report that the government is considering imposing a ban on meat export for a certain period of time, he commented that before taking this decision government should curb massive smuggling on the pretext of export of animals from the country which is not only causing huge monetary losses to the national exchequer but “we are also losing precious livestock that is extremely important to our leather as well as export oriented meat industry.” He pointed out that exporters have sent over 0.329 million animals abroad during 2009-10 which is a sheer loss to the country – because, if the animals had been exported after being slaughtered, they would have yield 100 times more foreign exchange and the leather industry too would be surviving with getting raw material such as skins and hides.
“In the recent devastating floods, over 550,000 animals including goats, cows, buffaloes and sheep drowned due to which country is facing shortage of livestock.," I fail to understand that to what extent the government is benefiting with the export of livestock,” Khawaja Abdullah questioned. He warned if the government does not curb export and smuggling of livestock, even more animals would be smuggled to the neighboring countries including Iran and Afghanistan. “If this situation persists Pakistan may face scarcity of livestock in the near future,” he warned.He said instead of exporting livestock, government should adopt a policy of “meat export” in order to earn more foreign exchange and provide raw material to the leather industry.He said exports of leather are declining due to shortage of skins and hides and increasing prices of raw material. “This is the high time for the government to decide whether it wants to export and smuggle its livestock,” Khawaja said.

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