{"id":3887,"date":"2022-02-21T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:11:04","slug":"need-of-the-hour-pm-imran-khans-advisor-bats-for-trade-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/paksitan\/need-of-the-hour-pm-imran-khans-advisor-bats-for-trade-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Need of The Hour\u2019: PM Imran Khan\u2019s Advisor Bats For Trade With India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br><strong><em>\u201cThe trade with India is very beneficial to all, especially Pakistan. And I support it.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Lahore, Feb 21 (AsiaFreePress) <\/strong>Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production, and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood has said trade with India is the need of the hour and beneficial to both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs far as the ministry of commerce is concerned, its position is to do trade with India. And my stance is that we should do trade with India and it should be opened now,\u201d Dawood said in an interaction with media at an exhibition on engineering and healthcare organised by the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe trade with India is very beneficial to all, especially Pakistan. And I support it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the exports to Afghanistan, the advisor said his ministry had increased the number of exporting items to Afghanistan (in Pakistan rupee) to 17. \u201cStill various businessmen are contacting me to include their articles \/ items in this list as they also want to export their goods to Afghanistan in Pak rupee,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about the trade relations with Russia, Mr Dawood said Pakistan\u2019s exports to Russia and the countries bordering it (central Asia) and others required immediate attention and growth. \u201cSo we need to open this trade. And that is why we are going there,\u201d he said, adding that Russia wanted to work in Pakistan in the fields of laying pipelines, constructions etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for exports, he said the textile exports would reach Rs21 billion target in FY 2021-22 ending on June 30. The next year\u2019s textile exports target is Rs27 billion. But the country should diversify its exports since its products range is squeezed. \u201cOur major export destinations are Europe, North America (especially the USA) and China. But our range of products needs to be increased. And I think, our engineering and healthcare-related goods can be added in the list of exports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He admitted skyrocketing prices and their adverse impact on the common people. \u201cI agree with you on this issue. But this issue will persist due to imports of oil, raw material, machinery and other goods,\u201d Mr Dawood said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe trade with India is very beneficial to all, especially Pakistan. And I support it.&#8221; Lahore, Feb 21 (AsiaFreePress) Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production, and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood has said trade with India is the need of the hour and beneficial to both countries. \u201cAs far as the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,82,342],"tags":[1034,134,64,345,2301,65,729],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-paksitan","category-politics","tag-business","tag-imran-khan","tag-india","tag-islamabad","tag-lahore","tag-pakistan","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}