{
  "id": 922737,
  "title": "Increasing pharma exports to USD10bn: Minister calls for industry-wide consultation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/increasing-pharma-exports-to-usd10bn-minister-calls-for-industry-wide",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-15T00:03:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40434873/increasing-pharma-exports-to-usd10bn-minister-calls-for-industry-wide-consultation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal has called for an industry-wide consultation to develop Pakistan's pharmaceutical sector into a competitive, innovation-driven, and globally export-oriented industry. The sector's exports reached USD 457 million in FY2025, the highest in 20 years, and the minister aims to increase this to USD 10 billion within eight years. The consultation will involve industry, academia, and research institutions to identify regulatory, administrative, financing, production, and market-access barriers, and the support required from the government. The minister stressed the need for international regulatory compliance, quality standards, research, innovation, technology, and higher-value manufacturing to strengthen the domestic value chain.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}