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Every year, the textile industry pumps billions of dollars into Pakistan’s economy and provides employment to tens of millions of people.
However, the floods have destroyed hectares of cotton and caused the country to lose billions of dollars worth of potential textile exports.
Imtiaz Tyab reports from Faisalabad in the Punjab Province.