Faisalabad Women Chamber Of Commerce & Industry For Evolving Strategy To Enhance Share In Halal Market

Pakistan should evolve a comprehensive strategy to enhance its share in three trillion dollar international Halal market, said Robina Amjad,President Faisalabad Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FWCCI).

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Dec, 2018 ) :Pakistan should evolve a comprehensive strategy to enhance its share in three trillion Dollar international Halal market, said Robina Amjad,President Faisalabad Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FWCCI).

Addressing a 'Road Show' organized by the Halal Research Council (HRC) here on Tuesday, she said that Pakistan was an Islamic country and no one could even think of 'Haram' items but various eatables and other imported items may contain Haram ingredients as on its labels they only print its ingredients without mentioning the quality of Halal or Haram.

She said that a large number of women used imported cosmetics but they could not confirm that these were Halal or Haram. She urged the government to impose a complete ban on the import of all products without proper certification of Halal.

Continuing, she termed the SME (Small & Medium Enterprises) sector as the growth engine of economy, adding that women, particularly the FWCCI members were linked with the SME sector. Many of these have inherent expertise in preparing Halal food but they could not export the same to Europe and other developed countries as their hygienic conditions were very complicated and costly.

She hoped that the government would look into their issues and provide these facilities to the exporters in general and women in particular to enhance export of Halal items to the international markets.

Khalid Hameed of Halal Research Council said that there were few countries who were producing and exporting Halal items.

He said that fat of Haram animals was generally used in soap manufacturing few years ago in Pakistan but now it was being manufactured with palm oil. Similarly, only 38 percent Gelatin is prepared from Halal animals, he added.

He clarified that in non-Muslim countries they have different products and their government had declared mandatory to mention its ingredients only without mentioning their acceptability as Halal or Haram. Hence, it is duty of Muslim consumers to confirm that these items have no traces of any Haram ingredient.

He said that Halal certification could enhance the marketability of Pak products to over 1.6 billion Halal consumers across the world.

Responding to a question raised by Rana Inam Afzal former, Vice President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), Mufti Raees Ahmad Sharia advisor to Halal Research Council said that daily 100,000 bottles of cough syrup were produced in Pakistan.

He said that in Pakistan, it was preparing it from palm oil for domestic consumption.

Mufti Raees Ahmad said that there were two separate standards of meat; one is that the meat is hygienically fit for human consumption and other is that it is slaughtered in accordance to well-defined Islamic principles.

Regarding an international biscuit manufacturer, he said he had confirmed that their company was manufacturing biscuits purely from hundred percent Halal ingredients.

A documentary was also screened.

Later, a shield of Halal Research Council was alsopresented to Madam Robina Amjad of FWCCI.