ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Sep, 2025) Advisor to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad on Monday said that the country’s broad-based industrial growth reflects a reviving economy, rising consumer demand and strengthening confidence in manufacturing sector. “The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) posted a robust 8.99 perecnt year-on-year basis growth in July 2025 - at 37-month high with momentum building at the very start of FY26. LSM also grew 2.6 percent on a month-on-month basis”, he said in a post on social media site X. The high-growth sectors included furniture (87 percent), automobiles (58 percent), other transport equipment (46 percent), apparel (25 percent), cement (17 percent), paper (15 percent), petroleum products (13 percent) and food (7 percent). Textiles, pharmaceuticals and IT equipment also demonstrated resilience.