Lankan envoy visits fair

Published March 22, 2003

GUJRANWALA, March 21: Sri Lankan high commissioner in Pakistan Gen C. S. Soria on Friday appreciating industrial exhibition of ‘made in Gujranwala’, expressed the hope that trade relation between Pakistan and Sri Lanka would strengthen after free trade agreement.

He was visiting industrial exhibition at Gulshan-i- Iqbal Park. He reviewed the made in Gujranwala products on a number of stalls. He said that industrialists and manufacturers should adopt strategy to introduce products in Sri Lanka as sanitary fittings, aluminium pots, electric fan, light engineering products, textile items and women clothes, etc., were very popular there.

He said Pakistan should import tea and coco-nut, etc., from Sri Lanka.

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