Mandviwalla for enhanced trade between Sri Lanka, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29 (APP):Deputy Chairman Senate Saleem Mandviwalla Thursday said that Pakistan and Sri Lanka need to make collective efforts to boost mutual trade relationship and search more avenues to increase trade and resolve the tariff issues.

In a meeting with High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Noordeen Mohamed Shaheid at Parliament House, he proposed that the trade agreements should be converted from Preferential Trade Area (PTA) to Free Trade Agreement (PTA to FTA) along with parliamentary relations to be revitalized by exchange of delegations at higher level mutually.

“We feel great attachment to Sri Lanka as we feel it’s our second home”, he said, adding that Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been standing with each other in difficult situations on many occasions and there was a need to multiply the efforts to enhance existing relations between the two nations to take them to the optimal level.