Finance Minister Ishaq Dar yesterday assured a Tajik business delegation that Pakistan government would provide all possible facilities to private sector for exporting wheat and sugar to Tajikistan.
A five-member Tajik delegation, led by Minister and Chairman Agency for State Material Reserves of Tajikistan Nurmahmad Akhmedov, met Dar to discuss bilateral trade relations, particularly immediate import of sugar and wheat from Pakistan.
Dar informed the meeting that private exporters could send sugar or wheat to Tajikistan with prior permission of the government.
He further said the Tajik side could discuss modalities for wheat and sugar import with private sector trading companies/exporters.
Akhmedov said Pakistan’s private sector companies were very active in Tajikistan and there were bright prospects of growth in trade and business linkages between the two countries.