The measures taken by the government to rein in rising inflation may have an adverse impact on cement imports from Pakistan with exporters not taking new orders from India citing infrastructure problems at the Wagah border in Punjab. More than three-fourths of Pakistan's cement manufacturing capacity is in its northern areas and Wagah provides the most economical way of exporting the commodity to India. Bestway Cement, part of the UK-based Bestway Group, is probably the first company from Pakistan not to take fresh orders. In a letter to the commerce secretary, Zameer Choudrey, group chief executive, Bestway, said, "Because of logistical problems, we are unable to deliver the cement to them (Indian importers) and hence we stopped taking new orders over a month ago".
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