‘Dr Gohar Group’ once again clinches control of APTMA

According to Business Recorder, the Dr Gohar Ejaz Group has retained control of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association for the 2026-28 term, stretching its uninterrupted tenure at the top of the trade body to seventeen years. Results were unveiled on Monday at a Lahore press conference, where thirty-four group candidates were returned without contest, fourteen for the Northern Zone and twenty for the Southern Zone.

At the zonal level, Siddique Javed Bhatti won the Northern Zone chairmanship unopposed, while Habib Anwar, Muhammad Ali and Danish Aslam took the senior vice chairman, vice chairman and treasurer posts. Dr Ejaz used the event to describe the outcome as a seventeenth straight victory for his group and to say that APTMA, founded in 1957, remained a source of pride.

On the challenges front, Dr Ejaz blamed stalled export growth on expensive energy tariffs, heavy taxation and mounting business expenses, and said a Regionally Competitive Energy Tariff, which his group had pushed for, was later withdrawn. The textile sector, which employs close to ten million people and contributes beyond sixty percent of overseas sales, deserves more attention, he added, and the industry could lift exports by over 10 billion dollars within a year if the business climate turns favourable.