KARACHI: "The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) fully supports Gul Ahmed's legitimate demand to allow access to its raw material so that its workers remain at work, export operations continue without any disruption and the shareholders remain confident about the mill's performance," said President KCCI M. Shariq Vohra, adding that even the government was also a shareholder of Gul Ahmed Textile Mills through NIT and NIC.
M. Shariq Vohra has condemned the unjust action taken against Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited whose legally acquired yard was sealed by Pakistan Railways without any court order or legal justification.
President KCCI appealed to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Governor Sindh Imran Ismail to take notice of the wrongdoing by Pakistan Railways which would terribly affect the operations of Gul Ahmed and put thousands of workers' jobs at stake.
He pointed out that the legally acquired yard of Gul Ahmed Textile was situated on Pakistan Railways' land where the textile mill kept all its cotton stocks in bulk quantities but it was sealed probably due to the ongoing anti-encroachment drive.
However, the premises were legally acquired whose lease documents have been vetted by the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan and the High Court of Sindh.
"When the management of Gul Ahmed assured to abide by whatever the honorable court decides in this matter, it was unfair to refrain them from taking away cotton stocks from the yard," he added.
He said that Gul Ahmed was the biggest exporter of textile products and this move refraining the textile mill from accessing its cotton stock would affect its production activities.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2021
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