Cotton yarn and textile manufacture is Pakistan's most important
industry, followed by light engineering (electrical goods,
metal working, precision equipment), food processing (vegetable
oils, sugar, drinks), cement, pharmaceuticals, leather and
rubber. Pakistan has a substantial fertilizer industry, and
Russia helped to build an iron and steel works near Karachi.
Industry is concentrated around Karachi, Hyderabad and Lahore,
and employs 13 percent of the workforce.
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