Afghan official arriving today

Published August 4, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Afghan Finance Minister Dr Ashraf Ghani is arriving here on Monday to attend the two-day Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Ministerial Commission meeting.

The Afghan minister would also meet Shaukat Aziz and discuss bilateral relations, two-way trade and utilization of the remaining amount of the $100 million aid offered by Pakistan for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

This would be the second meeting of the Pakistan-Afghanistan JMC. The first meeting was held in Kabul early this year.

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