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ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said the government was “confident” that trade between Pakistan and the US could double to $20 billion over the next five years.
Mr Dar made the remarks while addressing a delegation of US congressmen and businessmen. The gathering included US congressmen Ryan Zinke and Michael James Baumgartner, who are on a visit to Pakistan. Addressing the event, Mr Dar called strong and mutually beneficial economic ties “the true measure of a mature strategic partnership and friendship”.
Noting that the US is Pakistan’s largest single-country export destination, he said that goods trade between the two countries in the last fiscal year reached $9.4bn.
“While encouraging this figure… we are confident that we can double bilateral trade to $20bn over the next five years by fully harnessing the complementarity of our economies,” the deputy premier said.
