Better Ties: Direct Lahore-Dhaka flight proposed
High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Islamabad Suhrab Hossain has proposed the launching of a direct flight.
SIALKOT:
The High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Islamabad Suhrab Hossain has proposed the launching of a direct flight from Lahore to Dhaka, along with the improved shipping links. He said this while addressing the local industrialists and exporters at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on Wednesday. He also invited the local industrialists to come forward and invest in the textile sector in Bangladesh and get benefits of a more liberal textile policy there. He said that a number of Pakistani businessmen from textile sector had already been shifted to Bangladesh and were enjoying the trade and business friendly environment over there. He said that he was not fully aware about the opposition of Bangladesh in getting Pakistan European Union’s GSP status.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 1st, 2011.
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