Pakistan must adopt innovation driven growth to rebuild textile exports and regain global competitiveness Pakistan’s textile sector has long served as the backbone of the national economy, contributing nearly 55 to 60 percent of the country’s exports and providing employment to more than 10 million people. Despite its scale and significance, the sector has been unable to match global competitiveness due to rising energy costs, outdated machinery, increasing price pressures, and limited value addition. While Pakistan remains one of the world’s largest cotton producers, the real challenge lies not in production capacity but in the absence of innovation-driven growth. Without…
