Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –

[aziqbal]

Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically, has seen little of the profits.

Pink salt in raw form export value $40

Pink salt in finished form export value $400

now all pink sale export as raw material is banned

Good move by Government

6.7 billion tons are still to be mined with estimated worth over $2 trillion

only 220 million have be mined or around 3% of the total

now we need to use more advanced technology and avoid blasting to minimise wastage

and also produce higher quality items to add more value

How 800 Million Pounds Of Himalayan Salt Are Mined Each Year | Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically,... | By Business Insider Today | F

Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically,...

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[Dalit]

We buy it often here in The Netherlands. Feeling proud and looking at the label made in Pakistan. Pakistan's name is begrudgingly hidden somewhere small in a corner. It is a miracle we even managed to remove India's dirty claws from our salt. Not so long ago India too was exporting our salt with the help of our UAE friends.

 

[aziqbal]

We buy it often here in The Netherlands. Feeling proud and looking at the label for made in Pakistan. Pakistan's name is often begrudgingly hidden somewhere small in a corner. It is a miracle we even managed to remove India's dirty claws from our salt. Not so long ago India too was exporting our salt with the help of our UAE friends.

now we should do same with all Marble, Granite and Onyx

 

[khansaheeb]

now we should do same with all Marble, Granite and Onyx

Lets keep the good stuff for Pakistani people to use.

 

[Black.Mamba]

Here in germany the cheapest I have seen is around 4.5 Euro for a 100gm in brown paper bag with ugly indian sticker "a product of india"
dil kerta tha jooti utar ker pochon kaunsay india sai laye hou.

Despite craving for over past 4 years I have refrained from buying it, it was an in principal stand , seems like the wait is over now

 

[aziqbal]

Here in germany the cheapest I have seen is around 4.5 Euro for a 100gm in brown paper bag with ugly indian sticker "a product of india"
dil kerta tha jooti utar ker pochon kaunsay india sai laye hou.

Despite craving for over past 4 years I have refrained from buying it, it was an in principal stand , seems like the wait is over now

really ? so it must be old stock that India re-exported

this is called day light robbery and I cant believe we allowed for this for so long

 

[Black.Mamba]

really ? so it must be old stock that India re-exported

this is called day light robbery and I cant believe we allowed for this for so long

I saw it almost 3 days ago in the store but I believe significant stock will still be available in the warehouses, but that is not the concern as long as we have finally corrected the course. I have often heard shoppers saying "Ooo Himalayan pink salt from India" and of course did my part educating them and exposing Indian lies and robbery. Stores are now closed for the weekend, on Monday I will get the pictorial proof of Indian robbery

For me the concern is how we will deny Indians profiting from it, because they have already established distribution and other necessary infrastructure and knowing them they won't let go of it this easily. So maybe now they will start repacking the final product and as for the costs they will just pass it onto the consumers. There should be some mechanism where we can stop this robbery for good.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically, has seen little of the profits.

Pink salt in raw form export value $40

Pink salt in finished form export value $400

now all pink sale export as raw material is banned

Good move by Government

6.7 billion tons are still to be mined with estimated worth over $2 trillion

only 220 million have be mined or around 3% of the total

now we need to use more advanced technology and avoid blasting to minimise wastage

and also produce higher quality items to add more value

How 800 Million Pounds Of Himalayan Salt Are Mined Each Year | Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically,... | By Business Insider Today | F

Himalayan salt comes from the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine –– not the Himalayas. Despite its popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically,...

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Can it please be branded -

• Desi Salt
• Muslim Salt
• Asian Salt
• Indian Salt?

We buy it often here in The Netherlands. Feeling proud and looking at the label made in Pakistan. Pakistan's name is begrudgingly hidden somewhere small in a corner. It is a miracle we even managed to remove India's dirty claws from our salt. Not so long ago India too was exporting our salt with the help of our UAE friends.

Well said. This is almost a rule. Everything anything from Pakistan will be branded as everything but never "Pakistan". And even if it is will be placed or be hyphenated with Indian. This habit is even seen on such a nationalist platform as PDF. Urdu/Hindi poetry. Pakistan/Desi food. There is almost a craven admission of Pakistan and then followed with apologetic comment. Notice below OP needs to justify or qualify Pakistani food by bringing India into it. Trying finding a Indian writer who will also quality Indian food as resembling Pakistani food. Examples -

Famous Pakistani Food

Pakistani cuisine is very rich with flavors and spices. Because of the shared history, it resembles quite much to Indian food.

 

[Black.Mamba]

We should have some sort of an anti-counterfeit mechanism in-place. I am not sure about the North America but across EU counterfeit is a very serious crime. A cheap yet practical solution that I could think of is "revenue stamp", to control the illicit tobacco trade it is a widely used method. No vendor will be keeping a counterfeit product because they know the consequences, even Amazon (provided we do the one time documentation) and for the Indian distributors they can always buy a finished packed product from us with necessary stamps already on it or if they want to reprocess it then apply for certification mechanism where among other things their packaging will also be vet making sure there are no false claims of Himalayan or Indian origin and along the salt we will provide them the necessary stamps according to each shipment.

@aziqbal

 

[Ali_Baba]

Pakistan needs to do more to protect its intellectual property and benefit from it. This is a step in the right direction, as is the GI on Basmati Rice.

Pakistan needs to review all export products, to determine if GI have be assigned to it and to stop export of raw materials where possible, and do the value add processing in Pakistan.

Most Pink Salt is labelled as "Himalayan Pink Salt" here in the UK. Even with this export ban - the indians can sell any old crap under the "Himalayan Pink Salt". What Pakistan ALSO needs to do is get an exclusive GI for Pink Salt, so that India cannot use that brand at all ... Pakistan needs to "return" the favour when India tried to get an exclusive GI for Basmati rice ....

Look at this ... "Product of India" : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Himalayan-Naturevibe-Botanicals-Cooking-Seasoning/dp/B08GQF1P4J/ref=sr_1_20?crid=31LL851OZ9FFK&dchild=1&keywords=pakistani+pink+salt&qid=1612033574&sprefix=pink+salt+pakistan,aps,144&sr=8-20

It will take some time for existing exported stocks to be run down/sold.

Pakistan needs to preserve the value of branding of this product and exporters need to come up with sensible names that signifies its originality.

 

[Jackdaws]

How can it be sold as Indian if it is exclusively found in Pak? Pak should get GI indicator and exclusive rights.

 

[Chakar The Great]

India selling it for centuries.

 

[ziaulislam]

Here in germany the cheapest I have seen is around 4.5 Euro for a 100gm in brown paper bag with ugly indian sticker "a product of india"
dil kerta tha jooti utar ker pochon kaunsay india sai laye hou.

Despite craving for over past 4 years I have refrained from buying it, it was an in principal stand , seems like the wait is over now

its now labelled under pakistan name here in USA and is actually very cheap just 2-3X cost of normal salt

How can it be sold as Indian if it is exclusively found in Pak? Pak should get GI indicator and exclusive rights.

just did it recently

 

[Black.Mamba]

its now labelled under pakistan name here in USA and is actually very cheap just 2-3X cost of normal salt

just did it recently

even on amazon?

 

[ziaulislam]

even on amazon?

i saw it in Kroger and Walmart
haven't checked prices on amazon

previoulsy i saw it in walmart and it was 10X expensive and was listed made in india, i thought this was mined from kashmir or something

now that brand has disappeared and i see it only under pakistan name and very cheap

1lb for just 4$ vs around 70cents dollar for normal salt