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ISLAMABAD: Deputy Chief of the Mission of United States Embassy Richard E. Hoagland Wednesday said US is ready to extend full help and assistance to Pakistan to improve Pak-US trade relations.
Addressing the inaugural session of day long conference on Pakistan Information and Communications Technology (ICT) here at Islamabad Club, the Deputy Chief of the Mission of US Embassy said, “We respect and honour to the statement of Pakistan government regarding trade instead of aid with US and fully agreed to this concept.”
Richard Hoagland said, the US is committed to ensure full contribution to strengthen Pak-US trade relations and presence of a number of leading American companies in Pakistan is the example of this seriousness.
He said the future of Pak-US trade relations is growing and these are vibrant ties and hoped that these would be further strengthened in future.
Referring to Pak-US relations, Richard said, “Pak-US relations are developing on mutual interest, mutual respect and mutual trade benefits.”
He said development of Information Technology is very important to promote trade and investment in Pakistan and appreciated the progress made in IT sector in Pakistan.
Richard said there is more room for improvement in IT sector and assured full help and assistance from US to Pakistan in this regard.
Appreciating the development in IT sector in Pakistan, he said, presence of 1500 companies and more than 100,000 experts indicated that there has been tremendous progress made by Pakistan in this sector. He said development of IT is must to promote trade and economic activities and to enhance foreign investment in any country.
The conference organized jointly by American Embassy and Ministry of Information Technology and leading IT experts from different public and private companies working in Pakistan participated in it and shared their experiences to further improve the IT sector in Pakistan.
Brian McClery from Economic Section of the US embassy and other experts from leading IT companies also spoke on this occasion.
