NAROWAL: The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has sought withdrawal of Gujrat district elevation as a division and demanded the status for Sialkot.

SCCI president Mian Muhammad Imran Akbar said Sialkot was the largest export district in Punjab and the second largest in Pakistan after Karachi.

It was strengthening the country’s economy by bringing $13 billion foreign exchange to Pakistan annually but it was ignored at the time of elevation as division, he said.

He said Gujrat’s elevation was not a wise decision. The trade unions of SCCI and Daska Engineering Association demanded that Sialkot should be given the status of a division and Daska should not be included in Wazirabad to make it a district.

Published in Dawn, August 29th, 2022