ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Minister for Privatization, Board of Investment and Communication, Abdul Aleem Khan held a meeting on Thursday with prominent business figures from Tajikistan to discuss opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade and investment cooperation between both countries.
The meeting was attended by representatives from over ten major business groups across the textile, pharmaceutical, construction, IT, banking, and airline sectors. Tajik investors expressed strong interest in building a goods terminal for import and export near the Pakistan-Tajikistan border, local media reported.
The minister assured the businessmen full support for business-to-business activities, emphasizing that all economic sectors in Pakistan are open to Central Asian businessmen. He highlighted Pakistan’s potential as a major agricultural and trade market.
Khan informed the businessmen that Pakistan’s private sector is ready to engage in international trade and that the government will provide incentives for foreign investors to invest in free economic zones and other areas to promote industrial development.
He expressed hope that bilateral trade, people-to-people and government-to-government contacts will increase with each passing day. Tajik business groups showed keen interest in investing in various sectors of Pakistan’s economy and in promoting trade and investment cooperation between the two nations.
