Time for Pakistan's pharma industry to come in from the cold

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The US and Europe are missing out on Pakistan’s burgeoning pharmaceutical industry, despite reliable cool supply chains.

Speaking at the Cold Chain Distribution conference in London this week, Muhammad Azmat Khan, manager of logistics and exports at Pakistan’s Getz Pharma, said the Pakistani pharma industry was overlooked and ostracised by the EU and US markets.

As a result, its key trading partners are within South Asia, the Indian Ocean and East Africa.

Last year, he said, his company transported some 16m units of pharmaceuticals, ...