Pakistan, May 27 -- Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held a meeting today with a delegation of the All Pakistan Ceramic Tiles Manufacturers Association (APCTMA), led by Mr. Abdul Rehman Talat, Executive Director of Orient Ceramica, at the Finance Division.

The delegation shared a detailed industry brief, noting that the current installed tile manufacturing capacity in Pakistan stands at approximately 560,000 square meters per day, backed by over Rs. 100 billion in investments - nearly 60% of which is foreign direct investment from China. The industry, they added, has made remarkable strides in localization - reducing its import dependency from 74% to just 4%, and now relying almost entirely on local r...