Pakistan, March 22 -- A legislative body of Pakistan's Upper House, on Thursday, expressed serious reservations over failure to increase the exports of the textile sector in the last several years while regretting that the government had only exported textiles worth $13.57 billion as compared to its target of $26 billion during 2019-20.

Pakistan was said to be far behind the exports of the textile sector from Bangladesh and Vietnam during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Commerce and Textile Industry, held in the parliament house. The senators were greatly shocked to hear that Bangladesh did not even possess the capacity to produce textiles and had to import the raw materials for this sector.

Chaired by Senator Mirza Muhamm...