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Pakistan’s cotton crisis demands federal reset as output halves

Without institutional reform and policy realignment, Pakistan risks deepening its dependence on imported cotton and weakening its export engine. Pakistan’s cotton sector, long dubbed “white gold”, is at an inflection...

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