{"id":1321,"date":"2021-10-05T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:52:13","slug":"pakistan-iran-agree-to-enhance-bilateral-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/pakistan-iran-agree-to-enhance-bilateral-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Iran agree to enhance bilateral trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister meets Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss the Afghanistan situation<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 5, (Asia Free Press): Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday agreed for joint efforts to promoting bilateral relations, enhancing trade, economic and political ties between two the two neighbouring countries, state-run media said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This understanding was reached during a meeting of the Iranian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad, Radio Pakistan reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting discussed bilateral relations, cooperation in diverse fields, and the overall evolving situation of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appreciating the continued Iranian support to Pakistan&#8217;s position on the Kashmir issue, Foreign Minister Qureshi termed the cooperation on different issues at international forums as a welcome sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also urged the international community to take bold steps for financial assistance to Afghanistan to prevent human and economic crises in the war-hit country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan required immediate provision of humanitarian assistance and that the international community should fully support the Afghan people at this critical juncture\u201d, Qureshi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of continued economic engagement with Afghanistan to avert economic collapse, which could lead to refugee influx and regional instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visiting Deputy Foreign Minister thanked Foreign Minister Qureshi for receiving him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reaffirmed Iran\u2019s commitment to enhance bilateral cooperation and advance shared objectives in the region and said that Foreign Minister Dr. Amir Abdollahian looked forward to his visit to Pakistan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister meets Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss the Afghanistan situation ISLAMABAD, Oct 5, (Asia Free Press): Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday agreed for joint efforts to promoting bilateral relations, enhancing trade, economic and political ties between two the two neighbouring countries, state-run media said. This understanding was reached [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2,82],"tags":[200,65,305],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-paksitan","tag-iran","tag-pakistan","tag-shah-mahmood-qureshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}