Collaboration with Afghanistan; PBIT holds committee's first meeting

The first meeting of the committee on collaboration with Afghanistan was held at Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) office here on Tuesday. The meeting was chaired by Minister Industries, Chaudhry Muhammad Shafique and attended by Irfan Ilahi Chairman Planning & Development, Arif Anwar Baloch Secretary Industries, Mohammad Ilyas Ghauri, Chief Executive Officer PBIT and representatives of other government departments.
PBIT spokesperson said due to economic complementarities between Afghanistan and Punjab, many possible areas of collaboration were discussed to be part of economic development of Afghanistan. It was stressed that there is strong need to develop business-to-business relations between Afghanistan and Punjab. The Committee shall convene meetings and submit report to Chief Minister on Afghanistan and Punjab collaboration.