Re: Industrial units burnt in Sindh
KCCI has given a figure of 80 billion loss to business sector…this does not include loss to government and railway installations…I bet as the news keeps pouring in these loosses will furthur increase…
Eight factories in Jamshoro industrial including Clariant gutted down…
Lakson Tobacco and Colgate-Palmolive in Kotri also set ablaze…
Burning of goods in transit still the news keeps pouring in…lot of cotton set ablaze in transit as we are in the middle of cotton season…many trucks carrying hides and skins looted and set ablaze as we just finished qurbani and these goods were in transit…
http://dawn.com/2008/01/04/top3.htm
Removal of Rangers, police bosses sought: Karachi suffered over Rs80bn losses
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Jan 3: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has demanded removal of top officials of police and Rangers for their failure to maintain law and order during three days after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
KCCI president Shamim Ahmed Shamsi and Executive Committee member Siraj Kassam Teli said at a press conference here on Thursday that the business community had suffered a loss of Rs80 billion on account of damage to property, looting of factories and warehouses, torching of vehicles and other acts of violence that had shaken the city.
They warned that if the law-enforcement hierarchy was not changed within a week, the KCCI could give a call for a strike.
They said the Sindh government had failed completely to maintain law and order. When mobs ruled the streets in several areas of Karachi from Thursday to Saturday (last week), police and Rangers were nowhere to be seen. Troops were on standby in the cantonment but the caretaker government did not bother to seek their help.
They said the loss of life, incidents of looting and lawlessness would have been 50 per cent less if police and Rangers had remained vigilant and performed their duty. They said the government should seriously consider deputing senior local officials of police and Rangers in Karachi instead of bringing officers from other parts of the country. Both the departments whose duty was to curb violence had let down not only the citizens but also the business community by leaving the city at the mercy of mobs and angry protesters, the KCCI leaders said. They said more than 1,500 trailers had been burnt down in interior Sindh and over 1,000 vehicles in Karachi.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=89220
Defaulted export consignments
Textile exporters seek relief
Friday, January 04, 2008
FAISALABAD: The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has demanded of the government compensation and relief regarding their export consignments from upcountry that were delayed due to the communication disruption of the last few days following the Liaquat Bagh incident.
In an appeal to the prime minister here on Thursday, PTEA Chairman Tahir Ishaque Bharara said textile exports from Faisalabad were facing multiple difficulties due to the prevailing uncertain conditions in the country.
He said no export consignment could be dispatched from Faisalabad over the last 12 days, first due to Eid holidays, then disruption of communication system in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s death, ensuing lack of security on the route from Faisalabad to Karachi Port, and looting of cargo vehicles and trains by miscreants.
These factors have resulted in the default of many export orders, with foreign buyers threatening to cancel export orders in hand, he said, adding that extensive electricity and gas load-shedding have disrupted industrial production and manufacture schedule of export orders.
“The industry is already suffering huge losses due to the exorbitant rise in cost of production,” he added.
Seeking immediate intervention of the prime minister to facilitate the textile industry and its exports from disaster, the PTEA chief urged that arrangements be made to secure the dispatch of export consignments to Karachi, and ensure reasonable management of power and gas load-shedding.