Here are the top 10 exporters of Pakistan in FY 2022 with exports amounts in million US dollars and million PKR.

Style Textile from Lahore topped the list, with exports worth PKR 109 billion. Another firm from Lahore, Nishat Mills, stood second, with exports worth PKR 72 billion. Faisalabad's Interloop Limited stood at Number 3 with exports worth PKR 72 billion.

The Top 10 list has six firms from Karachi, two each from Lahore and Faisalabad.

You can view the top 50 and top 100 exporters at this link.

Top 50 exporters from Pakistan in FY 2022

You can also view Pakistan exports at a glance from 2013-2020, with graphics from Harvard CID here.

Top 10 exporters of Pakistan in FY 2022

Who are the biggest 100 exporters from Pakistan in FY 2022?

Check this exporters list from Pakistan and their exports worth in million Pakistani rupees and in million US dollars in FY 20202 in a downloadable format.

These are the top names that produce and export items - like textiles and rice - Pakistan is known for, and bring critical foreign exchange Pakistan needs to meet its fuel and other import needs.

Style Textile topped the ranking consecutively for the third year, the only company with a three-digit billion-figure. Nishat Mills Limited rose to second position at 72B. With 71B, Interloop Limited grabbed number 3 position. Artistic Milliners, Yunus Textile Mills and Soorty Enterprises grabbed number 4, 5 and 6 positions respectively,  beating Gul Ahmed Textile Mills to number 7 position.

The ranking is based on NTN GD filing (Goods Declaration) In Weboc from 1 July 2021 to 27 June 2022. 

Top 100 exporters from Pakistan in FY 2022

Artistic Garment Industries (Private) Limited

Meskay & Femtee Trading Company (Private) Limited

Pak Petro-Chemical Industries (Private) Limited

Indus Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Limited

Sarena Textile Industries (Private)Limited

Mustaqim Dyeing Printing Industries (Private) Limited

Akhtar Textile Industries (Private)Limited

Afroze Textiles Industries (Private) Limited

Want to see list of top 50 or top 100 exporters of Pakistan in FY 2022? walizahid.com is the-go-to place.

Top 50 exporters of Pakistan in 2022

Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) is a useful resource in predicting economic growth over the next 10 years. 

Back in 2016 before Panama happened in Pakistan, and we had broken the story for Express Tribune in 2017, Pakistan GDP was predicted to grow by 6 percent over 10 years, according to CID. In 2022, the CID's Growth Projections foresee GDP growth in ⁨Pakistan⁩ of ⁨4.3%⁩ annually over the coming decade.

What most Pakistani readers do not know is that CID’s Atlas of Economic Complexity has some very useful data visualisations on Pakistan’s exports since 1995.

Since many people do not access CID website and they come to this blog for visual information on Pakistan economy, we have taken the liberty of reproducing screen grabs of these past years of Pakistan exports.

Similarly, we can also see which destinations Pakistan export to. In 2020, top three destinations were: US, China and Germany (image below). Source: Harvard CID Atlas.

What is the share of the global market Pakistan exports capture? Below is the snapshot from CID Harvard.

Another useful resource is MIT’s The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) which produces similar data visualisations. An OEC summary of Pakistan as an exporting country is produced below. The annual export dollar amounts reported may differ between Harvard and MIT visualisations. Please check out their methodology.

According to OEC, in 2020, the top exports of Pakistan are House Linens ($3.61B), Rice ($2.14B), Non-Knit Men's Suits ($1.8B), Non-Knit Women's Suits ($1.06B), and Knit Sweaters ($950M), exporting mostly to USA and Europe/UK.

Top 50 exporters of Pakistan in 2022 / Wali Zahid

Check out Pakistan exports at a glance during 2013-20

Pakistan exports at a glance 2013-20

PM Shehbaz Sharif inaugurates Islamabad Green Line Bus service from Bhara Kahu to PIMS and Blue Line from Koral to PIMS. The Green and Blue services will link with the Red Line (Pindi-Islamabad Metro). From Faiz Ahmad Faiz bus stop near Peshawar Morr, the passengers can take Orange Line to Islamabad International Airport.

Peshawar Morr to Islamabad Airport Orange Line Metro bus route has been made operational today. Earlier, this was planned to be operational in 2018. 

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the mass transit bus, PM Shehbaz Sharif said the journey of Pakistan’s progress has resumed after a four-year halt during PTI tenure.

This is also the first mass-transit connection to an airport in Pakistan. Previously, passengers would access all airports with taxis or private cars. The commuters all over the world have multiple ways to reach their city airports. Glad that this anomaly has ended.

Lahore: 29 October 2016 | Original article starts

In a matter of three years (2013-16), citizens in three of its large cities – Lahore (population: 11 million), Rawalpindi-Islamabad (population: 3.1 million twin cities combined) and recently-inaugurated in Multan (population: 1.9 million) – are able to travel in clean, safe and air-conditioned Metro buses on dedicated road tracks on a 20¢ fare which is a fraction of what commuters pay in the developed world.

But we don’t need to get too self-congratulatory. In our neighbourhood, India is building a bullet train that will start work in September 2017 and will take five years to complete.

While in Pakistan, with the current infrastructure, in a 2017 population of 208 million, fewer than a million a day will be able to ride these BRT buses.

Three small-length Metro bus routes in three cities only means that a large – very very large – population still uses public transport which is unreliable, decayed, unsafe and hurts your self esteem long before you reach your school, university, office or get back home.

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In spite of the small scale, Metro bus is a good beginning.

And Pakistanis look forward to the whole country being wired in a network of mass-transit buses, Metro trains and intercity rail.

25 October 2020: After a delay of nearly three years, the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) starts its commercial service.

16 May 2018: Test run ceremony of OLMT is held today at Islam Park station. CM Shehbaz Sharif is chief guest.

27 Feb 2018: History in the making: The Lahore citizens see a trial run of OLMT.

14 Nov 2017: $687 million Quetta Mass Transit: Chinese Policy Bank will give loan to Pakistan amounting to 85 percent of project at a 3% interest rate. In March, a team of Chinese engineers and experts arrives in Quetta to start work on the project, approved under CPEC.

6 May: PM Sharif performs groundbreaking of Metro Bus connecting New Islamabad Airport with Peshawar Mor, saying modern infrastructure including airports, highways and transport system is hallmark of a dignified nation. Earlier, on 13 April, Metro Bus project extension was approved at a cost of Rs 16.9 billion for construction of 25.6km with 24 bus stations.

29 March: Asian Development Bank (ADB) agrees to provide Rs 50 billion soft loan for Peshawar’s Rs 57B Metro bus rapid transit (BRT). Part of BRT is likely to complete by June of 2018.

20 March: Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif launches 14 feeder routes that will run 200 automatic air-conditioned buses connecting passengers from areas around Metro bus stations spreading 129km.

10 Jan 2017: PM Sharif issues directives to connect the Islamabad Metro Bus with the New Islamabad International Airport. The project may cost Rs 18 billion and will add 14 bus stations along the route – from Peshawar Morr to New Islamabad Airport.

The new Metro Bus service will most likely start in August 2018.

29 Dec 2016: The sixth meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) in Beijing approves inclusion of these mass-transit projects in CPEC framework: Karachi Circular Railways and mass transit railways projects in each of the provincial headquarters to facilitate millions of people.

25 Nov: PM Sharif arrives in Ashgabat on a two-day official visit to Turkmenistan. Sharif is leading a Pakistani delegation to the first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Transport – 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – being held at Ashgabat under the auspices of the United Nations.

Then, these are road and railway transport routes being developed from scratched or upgraded under CPEC. Source: Bloomberg

The next in line of mass-transit projects is Lahore’s 27km Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT, a Mass Rapid Transit, or MRT, project).

Built at the cost of Rs 154 billion, the train service is set to launch in August 2018 (delayed). Over 250,000 people will travel by Orange Line train every day through 26 train stations.

OLMT is currently facing delays because of a court order stopping civil works near 11 heritage sites that need to be protected. A review is under way.

One additional feature will be provision of free public WiFi service through 192 hotspots in three Punjab cities running Metro buses including Metro stations. PTCL is managing this WiFi service.

Then comes Karachi’s 21.7km Green Line Metro bus service (BRT) at a cost of Rs 24.6 billion through a federal grant. The construction work has hit many snags, with much of civil works from Surjani Town to Guru Mandir now complete by May 2018.

Green Line is set to start service by August of 2018, although there are snags on who will operate it. Nearly 350,000 passengers will use the service daily through 25 bus stations.

Green Line in Karachi (population: 15 million) is likely to be followed by 26km Yellow Line Metro bus service (BRT), a Sindh government project, at a cost of Rs 14.4 billion.

The Yellow Line will be financed by a Chinese loan (70 percent) and built by a Chinese firm, CUEC. It has yet to start constructing. About 150,000 passengers will use the service daily through 24 bus stations.

In October 2016, the federal government’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) approved to conduct an engineering design of the Peshawar BRT project at a cost of Rs 1.25 billion.

The provincial KPK government had to seek CDWP’s approval due to the Rs 32 billion project’s foreign funding.

In its sixth meeting at the end of December 2016 in Beijing, the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) approved inclusion of these projects in CPEC framework: Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) and Mass Transit Railways (MTR) projects in each provincial headquarters to facilitate millions of people.

In Lahore, the Metro bus service – the first in the country – was inaugurated on 10 February 2013.

The 27km Lahore Metro cost Rs 30 billion. Through 27 stations, nearly 200,000 passengers travel on Lahore Metro BRT buses every day.

In Islamabad, the 23km Metro bus service started on 4 June 2015. The inauguration went five months behind schedule because of political protests, organised by opposition PTI.

The Islamabad Metro cost Rs 44.7 billion. Through 24 stations, nearly 135,000 passengers travel on Islamabad Metro BRT buses every day.

While this BRT road and MRT train infrastructure is being built, the Pakistan Railways have tried to fix some of the intercity rail services.

E-ticketing has started on all railcar trains between Lahore and Rawalpindi and on Green Line Train from Islamabad to Karachi.

The Green Line train which covers 1,521km in just over 23 hours is creating an on-time reliable service. A reliable on-time train was unthinkable only a couple of years ago.

To upgrade the main railway line (ML-1) from Karachi to Peshawar including dualisation, the Chinese government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed to to lend Pakistan $8 billion. This is massive.

Government subsidies on mass-transit services

Maintenance of infrastructure, buses and trains

Upgrading, extension of infrastructure, buses and trains

Security of infrastructure during political protests and terror attacks

So, which cities need to be next in waiting for mass-transit transport?

If population is any criterion, Hyderabad (pop: 1.7 million) and Sukkur in Sindh; Faisalabad (pop: 3.2 million), Gujranwala (pop: 2 million), Sargodha and Sialkot in Punjab; Peshawar (pop: 2 million) in KPK; and Quetta (pop: 1 million) in Balochistan make the cut.

The UN estimates Pakistan as the sixth most populous country now (208 million) and in 2050 (310 million).

With a GDP of $300 billion, Pakistan is world’s 40th largest economy by GDP and 24th by GDP PPP. It is forecasted to grow to become 18th largest economy by GDP in 2050 and 16th largest by GDP PPP.

As part of China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, the north-south $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) connecting Chinese city of Kashgar bordering Pakistan’s north to Gwadar port in the south perhaps could set this city and intercity transport network in motion as a byproduct.

If this happens, the Pakistani landscape may look very different and semi-developed when the CPEC comes to full fruition in 2030.

A snapshot of completed and ongoing mass transit transport projects in Pakistan

Mass-transit transport in urban Pakistan taking shape

Who are the top 20 exporters from Pakistan in 2020-21?

First six-monthly results of fiscal 2020-21 are in. Check this exporters list from Pakistan and their exports worth in USD in first half of FY 2020-21.

Artistic Fabric & Garment Industries (Private) Limited

List of top 20 exporters from Pakistan in first half of 2020-21

Top 20 exporters of Pakistan in 2020-21

30 years ago on 11 February, this newspaper - The News International - was launched, with me being an obscure, quiet, shy senior sub editor as a launch employee in the Lahore office.

Little did I know that Mir Shakilur Rahman, owner of this paper and the Jang/Geo Group, one day that year would call me into his office and appoint me as an Editor, then the youngest in Pakistan’s journalism history.

The News soon became Pakistan’s largest-selling English-language newspaper. 30 years later, it still holds that position.

Who were my counterparts then? Dr Maliha Lodhi in Islamabad and Ghazi Salahuddin and Imran Aslam in Karachi, all towering figures and all three now Pakistani giants in their own spheres – Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan’s Ambassadors to the three coveted stations - US, UN, UK - and Imran Aslam now President of Geo TV.

This too early, too premature rise shattered everything I had ever planned for my work life: to be an Editor one day when I grow to be in my late 50’s with grey hair.

The rise came too early and I became totally disillusioned and stressed.

The good thing is what you see in me today took the birth that day.

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Wali Zahid makes history in Pakistani journalism, by becoming the youngest editor of an English-language daily.

On this day, two stars are born

Institute of Media & Communications (IMC) is a Pakistani think-tank devoted to media issues that concern media in Pakistan and Asian region.

The IMC (then Institute of Mass Communication) was set up as a sole-proprietor firm in 1993 in Islamabad, with office in F-7 Jinnah Super Market. Wali Zahid was its founding Executive Director.

The IMC was featured in Dawn and The News, and had The Muslim as the strategic partner. Islamabad-based advertising agency, Orient McCann Erickson supported IMC.

Wali Zahid’s recent media accomplishments

Received the 2016 Journalist of the Year Award by Agahi, an affiliate of World Economic Forum (WEF), Switzerland and supported by Australian High Commission in Islamabad

Featured by BBC Urdu Service in ‘Who to follow on Social Media’

Independence-Day lead articles in The News, Pakistan’s largest-circulation English-language daily on Pakistan of future & Pakistan in 2050

2017 economic and political forecasts published by Express Tribune, the Pakistan affiliate paper of The New York Times

Op-Ed pieces in The News and The Nation on Pakistan, SCO, BRI, CPEC and China matters

Appeared on Dunya News, 92 News HD, Waqt News, BOL TV, PTV News and Business Plus channels on Pakistan, CPEC and BRI

China media: During 2017-21, was interviewed or wrote for People’s Daily, China, Global Times, China Radio International (CRI), CRI English, CRI Online, CRI Urdu, China Pictorial, China-India Dialogue, Beijing

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During the 1993-1998, IMC offered short-term certificate courses (8 to 14 weeks duration) in Islamabad in these areas:

The students and faculty published a six-monthly journal called The Communicator, which carried student writings.

Many of the alumni are now in senior positions in various media outlets. Some of them are:

Saman Ansari (then PTV hostess and FM RJ; now appears in TV plays)

Naveed Ahmad (Jefferson Fellow, The News/Geo, now international correspondent)

Ahmed Mukhtar (Bureau Chief, Abb Takk News)

Fariha Tahir Shah (formerly with Nokia, NCR, Microsoft, CAA)

Javed Malik (Brandeis alum, formerly with DfID)

A high-powered faculty was arranged to teach these courses. They included big-names like:

Syed Talat Hussain (The News then, formerly Geo TV)

Ziauddin Ahmad (Editor Dawn, Express Tribune, then)

Shujaat Ali (The News cartoonist then; formerly with Al-Jazeera TV)

Muhammad Malick (Interflow & Dawn then, formerly MD PTV, TV anchor)

Tasneem Ahmer (then university faculty at QAU)

Absar Alam (The Nation then, former Pemra Chairman)

Navid Zafar (Late, Director Current Affairs PTV then)

Salman Wasay (then Paktel, later Ufone, now Chaaye Khana)

Ali Kamal Khan (Late, professor, advertising professional)

Mahmood Hashmi (owner, Orient McCann Erickson)

Allauddin Masood (DG Public Relations Pakistan Senate then)

Prof Zakariyya Sajid (President Press Institute of Pakistan then, formerly Chairman, Mass Communication Department at Karachi University)

Wali Zahid (Executive Director IMC then; President IMC now)

IMC participation in notable events | 1993-2003 

Along with public-run courses, IMC also organised these high-profile customised invitation-only events:

Led on training of civil-service officers of Information Group and GHQ at Information Service Academy | 1994-95

Assisted Press Institute of Pakistan’s Legislative Reporting workshop in Islamabad and Lahore, with chief guest Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani, National Assembly Speaker then, Pakistan Prime Minister later | 1994

Participated in Pakistan Foreign Office course on Media Diplomacy | 1994

In-house training for the editorial staff of The Muslim, Islamabad with Robert S Mellis, ICFJ Knight Fellow, and an editor with The Miami Herald, Florida, USA | 1995

Participated in Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) course in Defence Reporting and field visits to the Line of Control and Siachen Glacier | 1997

Represented IMC in International Institute for Journalism’s two-month Training of Trainers workshop in Berlin, Germany (1996)

Represented IMC in Pearson Peacekeeping Centre’s two-week workshop in Nova Scotia, Canada | 1997

Represented IMC in month-long Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution summer school in Schlaining, Austria | 1998

Represented IMC in week-long International Security Seminar at GIIS, Geneva, Switzerland | 1998

Worked with the Knight Fellow of International Centre for Foreign Journalists (ICFJ) Washington DC | 1995

Worked with the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) Singapore | 1995

Visited the International Centre for Foreign Journalists Washington DC | 2001

Arranged talks and presentations by Deans of British University media programmes in Pakistan, like UWE Bristol | 1995

Made a presentation at the University of California at Berkeley’s annual South Asia Conference on government and press relations | 2001

Arranged a week-long Train the Trainer for Journalists workshop for PPI and Pakistan Press Foundation’s editors in Karachi | 2001

Attended a South Asian Editors Conference on Media Self Regulation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the invitation of Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) London | 2002

Contributed to Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) London’s book on Imperfect Freedom: The case for self-regulation in the Commonwealth press | 2003

Arranged a two-day Media Management workshop for GrameenPhone Bangladesh’s general managers in Dhaka | 2006

Arranged a 10-day Media outreach workshop for Pakistani and Bangladeshi TV anchors and media people and civil society organisations with Search for Common Ground USA (SCG) in Nepal | 2008

Arranged a Train the Trainer workshop in Investigative Journalism for Afghan Master Trainers and journalists in Kabul | 2009

Produced A Guide in Investigative Journalism for Afghan journalists in Kabul | 2008-09

Produced a Trainers’ Manual in Investigative Journalism for Afghan Master Trainers and journalists in Kabul | 2008-09

Created fact sheets on CPEC and BRI and confronted false propaganda on social media | 2015-onwards

Made a multimedia presentation on Leveraging social media for the success of CPEC-BRI at Chinese Embassy Islamabad & China Study Centre’s International CPEC/BRI conference at Islamabad Marriott | 2016

Project Ignorance: How fake news are spread in Pakistan using photoshops and Whatsapp | 2016-onwards

Conducted an online survey on Who are top 10 Pakistani TV news anchors? | 2016

Represented Pakistan in Think-Tanks Exchanges meeting at global Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing | 14-15 May 2017

Was interviewed by China’s Sina Global Media which owns Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, on China-India Doklam border standoff. Nine Questions | August 2017

Analysis: Pakistan after BRICS declaration | September 2017

Was invited by China Radio International (CRI) to visit China’s achievements in technology and culture | May 2018

Produced an analysis on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation What is in for Pakistan and India in SCO Qingdao Summit? for China-India Dialogue, Beijing | June 2018

Analysis and case study for China Pictorial: How 40-year reform has paid off China in economic development | December 2018

Analysis and forecast on US-China trade war: If beating US economy by trillion $ every year is an indicator, China to emerge victor from trade war with US | May 2019

Covid-19 forecast for China Pictorial: Trust China to overcome Coronavirus epidemic | March 2020

Covid-19 analysis for China Daily: How China contained coronavirus breakout | April 2020

Book Review for China Today and Beijing Review: President Xi Jinping’s,The Governance of China, Volume III | January 2021

Future projects media and social media | 2021-25

Planned ranking of top 10 male and female news and current affairs anchors on Pakistan TV

Planned ranking of top 10 columnists in Pakistan print media in English and Urdu language newspapers

Planned ranking of top 10 Twitter and Facebook social influencers

Wali Zahid is an award-winning journalist, futurist, disruptor, blogger, social media strategist, reformer, LinkedIn writer and author of iBook, Great Training in 10 Steps.

He runs a #Pakistan2050 hashtag on Twitter and appears on national TV on issues of significance to Pakistan. His claim to fame is this recent piece: Back to the future: Pakistan in 2050. In 2016, he won Journalist of the Year Award by Agahi. 

On walizahid.com, he’s writing a series called How We Messed Up Pakistan.

As CEO of SkillCity, he coaches several Fortune-500 CEOs on leadership.

He’s founder of a global movement for humanizing medical education and practice. Since 1993, he is founder President of Institute of Media & Communications where top journalists taught print and TV media courses.

He can be reached on Twitter @walizahid and on Facebook where he has over 150,000 fans.

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Institute of Media & Communications (IMC) Pakistan: A brief profile

Contrary to media blitz and government claims, corruption in Pakistan soared last year, as Pakistan ranks 124 out of 180 countries in this year's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International (TI). Pakistan loses four spots in ranking, and scores 31 out of 100. Last year, Pakistan score was 32/100.

Pakistan shares this 124/180 ranking with Bolivia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Mexico.

Lower rank = Less corrupt | Higher score = Cleaner from corruption

Denmark and New Zealand topped the CPI this year, with 88 points each. Syria, Somalia and South Sudan are at the bottom ranking with 14, 12 and 12 points, respectively.

You can download the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index report here.

Pakistan is better off than these comparison countries (see below):

Pakistan is worse than these comparison countries (see below):

Pakistan CPI rank and score over the years 2009-2021

Pakistan in 2020 | CPI rank: 124 | CPI score: 31

Pakistan in 2019 | CPI rank: 120 | CPI score: 32

Pakistan in 2018 | CPI rank: 117 | CPI score: 32

Pakistan in 2017 | CPI rank: 117 | CPI score: 32

Pakistan in 2016 | CPI rank: 116 | CPI score: 32

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Top 50 exporters of Pakistan in 2020

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