'Sialkot Tannery Zone,Export processing Zone in limbo'.

SIALKOT -- Former Senior Vice President Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCC) Mian Muhammad Anwar expressed deep concern over non-functioning of mega Sialkot Tannery Zone (STZ) and Export Processing Zone (EPZ) projects.

Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he said Export Processing Zones Authority and Punjab Small Industries Corporation had failed to translate STZ,EPZ into reality in past 30 years.

He said main purpose to set up STZ was to shift as many as 276 tanneries presently functioning in ten clusters in and around city generate pollution, adding that the management had failed for installing treatment plant in the STZ in past ten years and pollution threats were still hovering over this export hub.

Mian Anwar said the...

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