ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to extend the maximum possible facilities to the Turkiye investors in Pakistan to boost bilateral trade and investment cooperation.
Talking to a high level delegation of leading Turkish businessmen led by Turkiye’s Minister for Customs and Trade Omer Bolat in Islamabad, the Prime Minister said steps are being taken on a priority basis to bring the trade volume to five billion dollars annually as was agreed with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The prime minister said that the people of Pakistan and Turkiye enjoyed fraternal brotherly relations spanned over centuries and called Turkiye and Pakistan “one nation-two states.” He also reiterated his invitation for the Turkish president to visit Pakistan and expressed the hope that the Turkish investors’ visit to Pakistan would prove beneficial to boost investment.
Turkiye’s Minister for Customs and Trade Omer Bolat said that 54 Turkish companies had invested $3.5 billion in Pakistan. The Turkish investors expressed their satisfaction over Pakistan’s political and economic stability.
The Turkish delegation thanked the Prime Minister for Pakistan’s assistance to the affected Turkish people in the 2023 earthquake.
Federal ministers Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Abdul Aleem Khan, Awais Leghari and Pakistan’s Ambassador to Turkiye Yousuf Junaid also attended the meeting. NNI
