EFP Seeks Govt Support to save stationery industry from disaster.

KARACHI -- President EFP, Ismail Suttar, has strongly recommended the Hon'ble Advisor to Prime Minister on Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood, to look into the near-extinct state of the Stationary Industry of Pakistan, due to the prolonged COVID closure of schools of almost 250 days.

Ahsan Ullah Khan, Director EFP and a senior industrialist who has been manufacturing ball-pens, gel pens, markers, fiber-tip pens, pointers and pencils for use in educational institutes, says the situation is very desperate. The business is at a standstill and there is no revenue being generated to manage wages, any more.

Mr. Khan demanded the Government to release all outstanding sales and income tax refunds. He said that...