Trade with Russia

Published August 13, 2006

ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: A 50 per cent increase had been registered in trade between Pakistan and Russia, consular at the Pakistan Embassy in Russia Abdul Matin Khan said on Saturday.

In an interview with Radio Moscow, he expressed satisfaction over the progress in relations between the two countries.

He recalled the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Conference held in June in which leaders of the two countries -- President Putin and President Pervez Musharraf -- described the two countries' future relations as `bright’.—APP

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