Cross-border: Pakistan business delegation visits Afghanistan

Meets Afghan vice president to deepen economic ties.

KARACHI: A high-level 20-member trade delegation of the Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI) under the leadership of PAJCCI Co-President Mohammad Zubair Motiwala is visiting Afghanistan with an aim to explore trade and investment opportunities.

The trip comes following an Afghan delegation’s visit to Pakistan in September this year that participated in Expo Pakistan. The Afghan delegation also met the information minister of Sindh and participated in business-to-business match-making and networking events.

A group of business delegates from Pakistan have joined the PAJCCI, which is in Afghanistan for a business and networking trip.



The prime objective of the visit is to provide an opportunity to the business community across the border to interact with Pakistani businessmen for clinching bilateral economic deals. Additionally, it will also provide a forum for high-level officials and dignitaries of Afghanistan to work together with their Pakistani counterparts.

The exchange of delegations will provide feedback for PAJCCI’s progress and what further may be done with the support of these entities for augmenting mutual efforts through resolution of disputes and addressing grievances of the business community across the border.

The PAJCCI delegation met Afghanistan’s Second Vice President Mohammad Karim Khalili and discussed important matters that needed to be resolved immediately for enhancing bilateral ties and strengthening political and economic stability in Kabul.

The delegation also met Afghanistan Investment Support Agency President Wafiullah Iftekhar and Minister of Commerce and Industry Mohammad Shakir Kargar.

Both the president and co-president of PAJCCI emphasised the importance of improving transit and bilateral trade for the benefit of the two countries.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 26^th, 2013.

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