Textile magnates: Pledge to supplement relief efforts

Association decided to donate five blood count and two platelet separator machines to Punjab government.

LAHORE: Textile tycoons have said that they will collaborate with the government in flood relief in Sindh and Punjab, besides pledging to take care of 30,000 flood victims for a month.

Chairman of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) Gohar Ijaz said that the association had decided to donate five blood count and two platelet separator machines to the Punjab government.

Briefing journalists, he said that the organisation’s members had decided to join hands with the government in the fight against natural calamities. The body has already dispatched several trucks loaded with food rations worth Rs10 million to flood-hit areas.



Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2011.