ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan has decided to enhance bilateral trade. Afghan minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal expressed his views on Pak-Afghan economic cooperation during telephonic conversation with Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar.
Zakhilwal appreciated steps being taken by Pakistan in the backdrop of Afghan President’s visit to Pakistan for facilitation of transit trade of Afghanistan.
He conveyed President Ashraf Ghani’s warm regards to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Finance Minister.
The Finance Minister said that Pakistan attached high priority to realization of peace and economic development in the brotherly country and the economic projects it had undertaken epitomize the present government’s care for the Afghan brethren.
He said senior officials in all concerned ministries had been assigned the task to ensure implementation of decisions taken during the Afghan President’s visit. Considerable progress, as also acknowledged by Zakhilwal, had been made for transit trade facilitation, Dar added.
