{"id":63179,"date":"2025-01-21T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=63179"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:58:47","slug":"229-industrial-units-shut-down-in-kp-amid-political-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/229-industrial-units-shut-down-in-kp-amid-political-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"229 industrial units shut down in KP amid political unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR: According to a recent tally, a total of 229 industrial units<\/a> have been shut down in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to growing unrest and lack of government support in last few months.<\/span><\/p>\n

As<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>many<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>2,563 industrial units<\/span>\u00a0have been established in the province<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>which\u00a0<\/span>177 units in\u00a0<\/span>KPEZMEC<\/a> and 52 units in\u00a0 <\/span>Gadoon Economic Zone\u00a0<\/span>have been\u00a0<\/span>closed. <\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, 2,010 industrial units\u00a0<\/span>are<\/span>\u00a0operational in\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>various industrial zones,\u00a0<\/span>while<\/span>\u00a0324 units\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>under construction,\u00a0 <\/span>showing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>an<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>attempt\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>strengthen<\/span>\u00a0the sector despite\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>challenges<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that <\/span>the closure of industrial units\u00a0<\/span>has<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>been<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>witnessed<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>only<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/span>;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>last year<\/span>\u00a0the Sindh Assembly was informed that 81 industrial units, including 10 textile mills and five sugar mills, shut down\u00a0<\/span>during<\/span>\u00a0the past five years due to the\u00a0<\/span>lingering<\/span>\u00a0electricity crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n

The provincial government\u00a0<\/span>was<\/span>\u00a0extending cooperation to industrialists<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as<\/span>\u00a06,856 industrial units\u00a0<\/span>remained<\/span>\u00a0operational across the province, and 915 new units\u00a0<\/span>were\u00a0<\/span>established. <\/span>However, the closure of units<\/span> including 10 textile mills and a cement factory <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>reflected<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>challenges<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>still<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>need<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>resolved<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>full<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>support<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>the industrial sector.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR: According to a recent tally, a total of 229 industrial units have been shut down in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to growing unrest and lack of government support in last few months. As\u00a0many\u00a0as\u00a02,563 industrial units\u00a0have been established in the province,\u00a0of\u00a0which\u00a0177 units in\u00a0KPEZMEC and 52 units in\u00a0 Gadoon Economic Zone\u00a0have been\u00a0closed. Currently, 2,010 industrial units\u00a0are\u00a0operational in\u00a0the\u00a0various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":63180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[25959,25958],"class_list":["post-63179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-gadoon-economic-zone","tag-industrial-units-in-kp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63181,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions\/63181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}