Pakistan’s Large-Scale Manufacturing Up By 6% in First 5 Months of FY26
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Pakistan’s Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) Index increased by 10.4 percent year-over-year (YoY) and 0.2 percent month-over-month (MoM) in November 2025.
In 5MFY26, the LSM index increased by 6 percent YoY.
LSM growth was led by 61 percent YoY growth in Automobiles, 44 percent YoY growth in Petroleum products, 33 percent YoY growth in Beverages, 18 percent YoY growth in Wearing apparels, and pharmaceutical products slightly up by 0.3 percent.
However, machinery & equipment declined by 16 percent YoY, and Leather products were down by 2.3 percent YoY in November 2025.
In Topline Securities’ last report of GDP growth released on December 31, 2025, the brokerage house increased its LSM target from the earlier 2.5 percent to the revised 4.0 percent for FY26.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2026/01/16/pakistans-large-scale-manufacturing-up-by-6-in-first-5-months-of-fy26/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
