Pak-Turk trade to further enhance: Rana

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that Pakistan-Turkey trade would further enhance in different sectors including agriculture and health. He was addressing the participants of International Conference on Forestry & Environment at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad in which Turkish Consul General Serdar Deniz and other Turkish delegates participated.
He said Pakistan and Turkey were enjoying the good relations on the base of brotherhood. He stressed upon the need to set up language centre of the both countries at the educational institutions to learn from each other experiences. He said recent visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan further boosted up the bilateral ties and the Turkish government's announcement of providing 500 scholarship for the Pakistani students would help benefit from the experiences. He said trade volume of the both countries was standing at one billion dollars that would be rise up to 100 billion dollars.
Turkish CG said they had set up a language centre in Sudan after which students from Sudan were coming in his country for the studies and research purposes. He said they were setting up a language centre in Lahore, adding the language centre could be established in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He said Turkish considered Pakistani as their brothers.
UAF Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar A Khan said UAF was partnered with Turkey in many projects and working on the research and poverty alleviation programmes. He said Pakistan and Turkey were enjoying excellent ties and after the announcement of 500 scholarships, it would be further expedited. He also said the deforestation was bringing the losses to the country that must be ended.
Dr Seyit Aydin rector Kastamonu University Turkey said the scholarship programme would further bring the people further closer. Dr Amjad Aulak Dean Faculty of Agriculture UAF said the tangible steps were needed to end the deforestation. He said the forest in the country was only two percent compared to the international standards of 25 percent. UAF Department of Forestry Chairman said the climate changes were posing a serious threat to the people, adding that forest net needed to be increased and awareness must be created about the importance of tress in our lives.