{
  "id": 825595,
  "title": "Rising costs, transport strike threaten garment export",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/rising-costs-transport-strike-threaten-garment-export",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-14T00:48:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40434709/rising-costs-transport-strike-threaten-garment-export"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "LAHORE: Pakistan’s readymade garment exporters have called on the government to urgently intervene to ease mounting cost pressures and logistics disruptions, warning that a combination of volatile fuel prices, high utility tariffs and an ongoing nationwide transporters’ strike is threatening the competitiveness of the country’s export-oriented apparel sector. The appeal was made by PRGMEA North…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}