Marble exports raises to 60% in last fiscal year: The News

KARACHI: The sixty percent raise was recorded in marble exports during last fiscal year.

Chairman Marble Exporters Association Sanaullah Khan said this while talking to Geo News. He said in fiscal year 2007-08, marble exports were at the level of $ 19.6 million, which has been raised to $36.1 million in 2008-09.

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ICCI invites Turkish investors to marble, granite sector: Daily Mail

By Asad Cheema

ISLAMABAD—President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Mian Shaukat Masud has invited Turkish investors to invest in Pakistan’s marble and granite sector, which offers great potential for foreign investors.
“Pakistan’s marble is of excellent quality and its products can compete with any other county’s products,” Masud said while exchanging views with a four-member delegation of Turkish businessmen who called on him at ICCI to discuss the possibilities of investment potential in Pakistan’s marble and granite sector here on Monday.
The ICCI president informed the delegation members that Pakistan had rich reserves of marble and granite, which spread from Karachi to Siachen, and the country could earn huge foreign exchange through its export if exploited effectively. He said our marble and granite sector had the potential to play a vital role in national economy through export of raw material and value added products as well.
He informed them that the Government of Pakistan was also determined to provide more facilities to the marble and granite sector businessmen and invited them to take advantage of these incentives by investing in marble and granite sector in Pakistan.
Masud said marble sector export stood at $25.8 million during July-March 2009 as compared to $16.55 million in same period last year, registering an increase of around $9.25 million, which shows its healthy growth potential.

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