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Pakistan resumes alcoholic beverage exports after five decades
Updated On: 05 May, 2026 02:42 PM IST | Karachi | PTI
Pakistan’s Murree Brewery has started exporting alcoholic beverages to countries like the UK, Japan and Portugal, marking a return to global markets nearly five decades after a domestic ban on alcohol
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Pakistan's only locally-owned brewery has started exporting alcohol - a product that continues to remain banned for the country's majority Muslim population for nearly five decades now.
Murree Brewery has started exporting its beers and other alcoholic spirits to countries which are not part of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of 57 nations with significant Muslim populations.
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