At the time of partition,there were 15 mills in the subcontinent producing a 100,000 tons of paper per year,but as it happened ,none of them was in the area that became Pakistan.and the new country had literally to start from scratch.every single sheet of paper had to imported for printing newspaper,producing schoolbooks,writing letters or carrying private or government business.
In the early years of our independence,we were spending annually three crores of rupees for imported paper apart from similarity heavy expenditure on imports of other business and basic necessities.
We have identified 41 mills in Pakistan,31operating,8 planned and 2 idle.they have the capicaty for producing about 465,000 TPA paper and 292,000 TPA pulp.these range from under 2000TPA toabout 30,000 TPA.they are all very small by modern standards.the primary fiber sources are wheat straw,khai with some baggase,cotton waste and other materials.There is no wood used with the expection of experiments in few miles.
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