OUR STAFF REPORTER
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan has offered Afghanistan and Iran to sign Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) respectively in a bid to increase the country’s trade volume.
“Pakistan has offered Afghanistan to sign PTA and Iran to FTA. The trade agreements, when signed, would increase the country’s trade volume and put positive impact on the overall economic situation of the country”, said Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan in a statement. The Commerce Ministry is taking every step to increase the regional trade as per directives of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, he added.
“Prime Minister had visited different countries of the region with desire of building relations on long-run basis”, the Commerce Minister remarked. He said, “I had visited recently Afghanistan and Iran to discuss the long-lasting trade issues”.