Pakistan to hold expo in Kabul

Published June 4, 2003

ISLAMABAD, June 3: Pakistan will hold a single country exhibition in Afghanistan to introduce and seek greater market access for new products.

Chairman, export promotion bureau (EPB), Tariq Ikram told newsmen at the 54th meeting of the advisory council of ministry of commerce, that the exhibition is scheduled for August 14 in Kabul.

Elaborating further, he said that EPB would invite around 175 companies to display their products in the exhibition.

Mr Ikram said that the exhibition would be organized by the EPB in collaboration with all leading chambers and association of the country.

Following the 9/11 incident, Pakistan export to Afghanistan was constantly on rise as exporters were taking active interest in the re-construction there.

Trade with Afghanistan has turned into a huge surplus of $110.876 million in 2000-01, $146.423 million in 2001-02 and in the first nine months of this fiscal it stood at $154.943 million.

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