PESHAWAR: President, Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Sherbaz Bilour has termed the Pakistan and Afghanistan bilateral and transit trade forum 2020 a milestone initiative for bolstering mutual trade relations along with bringing business community on both sides of borders further near each other.

He urged Islamabad and Kabul to devise a joint mechanism for the business community and should make consultation with the SCCI that would help to give further boost to bilateral and transit trade relations between the two neighbouring countries, besides it will produce positive results.

Sherbaz Bilour was talking to different delegation of industrialists and traders community following his and other SCCI members’ attendance in two-day international Pakistan and Afghanistan bilateral and transit trade forum 2020 here at the chamber house on Thursday.

A fifteen-member delegation of the SCCI consisting on former president FPCCI Ghazanfar Bilour, SCCI President Sherbaz Bilour, Senior Vice President Engr Manzoor Elahi, Vice President Junaid Altaf, former Presidents Zahidullah Shinwari, Faud Ishaq, former SVP Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, Shahid Hussain, Muhammad Ishaq, executive members Malik Mohsin Sajjad, Khalid Shehzad, Husnain Khurshid along with Malik Imran Ishaq, Sohail Javed and Sanan Sethi.

The international trade forum was attended by more than 100 members of the business community from Afghanistan and members of SCCI, Chaman Chamber and traders from Quetta. The mutual trade volume between Pakistan and Afghanistan can be enhanced up to US$5billion if the serious efforts were made by the governments of both countries, he stressed. He noted that the trade forum had played a pivotal role in removal of trade barriers as well as bringing further near the business community of the both countries.

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