KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the acting government of Afghanistan has announced reaching an agreement with the Pakistani authorities for the immediate release of the stranded consignments of Afghan businessmen at the port of Karachi.
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has stated that the delegation of Afghanistan’s caretaker government headed by Nuruddin Azizi, the caretaker minister of this ministry, discussed this in a meeting with the ministers of foreign affairs and trade of Pakistan.
The ministry said that it was agreed in this meeting that the stranded consignments of the Afghan businessmen should be released immediately from the port of Karachi.
Akhundzada Abdul Salam Javad, the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, previously said that the Acting Minister of the Ministry had a discussion with Jalil Abbas Jilani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, about the transit trade problems of the two countries and the stopping of more than 3000 containers of commercial goods of Afghan businessmen at the port of Karachi. Is.
It should be mentioned that a large part of Afghanistan’s import and export is carried out via Pakistan’s ports. On Monday, a delegation from the caretaker government of Afghanistan headed by Nuruddin Azizi went to Islamabad to hold talks on bilateral and regional trade.
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