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Pakistan, Afghanistan extend timeline to facilitate trade
July 9, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have given another six months extension to an agreement for facilitating the movement of goods between and through their respective territories.
Both sides signed a six-month extension of Afghanistan-Pakistan-Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) on Thursday. The signing ceremony was held via video link simultaneously in Kabul and Islamabad. It is expected that the new APTTA will be signed next month. The countries last extended the facilitative protocol in April. The APTTA that was signed originally in 2010 had expired in February. According to an official announcement, Adviser to Prime Minister for Commerce and Investment Razak Dawood and Afghan Minister for Industry and Commerce Nisar Ahmad Faizi Ghoryani presided over a virtual ceremony organized for signing of protocol-VI of APTTA 2010 to extend the agreement for six months beyond 11th May, 2021. Secretary Commerce of Pakist
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“There is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan; it should be resolved through negotiated political settlement,” the prime minister said. AP/File
ISLAMABAD: Emphasising the need for bringing about a permanent peace in Afghanistan to attain regional stability, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday called for foiling Indian propaganda by presenting facts and exposing its nefarious designs before the international community.
“There is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan; it should be resolved through negotiated political settlement,” the prime minister said during a meeting with Afghan Minister for Industry and Commerce Nisar Ahmed Faizi Ghoryani, who called on him at the Prime Minister House.
Afghanistan, Pakistan Eye New Railway Link Project
Nisar Ahmed Faizi Ghoryani, the Afghan Minister for Industry and Commerce, on Wednesday met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad and the two discussed issues around bilateral relations including the expansion of a railway line project between the Afghan cities of Mazar-e-Sharif – Kabul and Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“The Prime Minister mentioned the Trans-Afghan railway line project, “Mazar-e-Sharif – Kabul – Peshawar,” and highlighted Pakistan’s support to Uzbekistan’s efforts to secure financing for the project. In this regard, he mentioned that he had signed a Joint Appeal Letter addressed to the Heads of various International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by Heads of State/Government of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the office of Pakistan’s Prime Minister said in a statement on Wednesday.