Source from Pakistan without guessing.
Pakistan makes a great deal of what the world buys, and almost none of it is easy to verify from the outside. Al-Ukaz is the national record of who makes what — endorsed by the Ministry of Commerce and checked by our own team.
Where this is up to
Al-Ukaz is in pre-launch. Suppliers are being onboarded and verified now, and the searchable directory opens to buyers at launch. What is already published is the sector research below and a small number of live member profiles — and the fastest route to a specific supplier today is to write to us.
What the Al-Ukaz mark actually means.
Al-Ukaz does. Our own verification team reviews your registration, tax status and evidence of manufacturing capacity, and approves the company before anything goes live. We work alongside chambers of commerce and use their corroboration where it is available, but it is not a condition of membership and no chamber decides your application.
A supplier who has been checked
One national trust mark, issued by Al-Ukaz under a standard the Ministry of Commerce has endorsed. It tells a buyer the company is real, its documents were checked against the bodies that issued them, and someone is accountable for the listing.
Structured detail, not a brochure
Capacity, machinery, certifications and category footprint are structured fields on every profile, so you can qualify a factory against a brief without opening a single email thread.
One standard, applied the same way
Every member is reviewed against the same published charter — not ranked by who paid for placement, and not verified faster because they are well known or in a hurry.
The Ministry of Commerce endorses Al-Ukaz as a platform and recognises the standard we apply. That is not a government guarantee of any individual member's goods, conduct or solvency — the mark means our team reviewed the company and the documents behind it. The terms set this out in full.
The sector briefs, with every figure attributed.
For each sector: what is made, which cities make it, the duty and cost position, and the standards an established exporter already works to. Written for someone deciding whether to source here at all.
- Textiles & GarmentsA cotton-to-garment chain inside one country, shipping $17.9 billion a year, with duty-free access to the EU on most of what it makes.Read the brief
- Leather & Leather GoodsRaw hide to finished glove inside one country, across roughly 675 tanneries — with the environmental infrastructure European brands audit for.Read the brief
- Sports GoodsThe city that makes most of the world's hand-stitched footballs — around 2,400 firms, FIFA-certified capability, and a labour-compliance record that stands up to audit.Read the brief
- PharmaceuticalsA PKR 1 trillion industry with WHO-GMP capacity, exports up 34%, and generic manufacturing at a cost base most regulated markets cannot match.Read the brief
- Agriculture & Food$5 billion of food a year — basmati with a protected identity, mango and citrus in a counter-seasonal window, and seafood from two coastlines.Read the brief
- Handicrafts & Artisan GoodsLiving craft traditions — Multan blue pottery, Sindhi ajrak, hand-knotted carpets — made by named workshops, at volumes a retail buyer can actually place.Read the brief
Tell us what you are sourcing.
Category, volume, destination market and the certifications you need. We will come back with the sector brief that covers it and, where we already have members who fit, an introduction.