ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan and Uzbekistan have accelerated efforts to expand their Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and push bilateral trade to $2 billion within two years, following talks in Tashkent between Ihsaan Afzal, Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Commerce and Industry, and Shohrukh Gulamov, Uzbekistan's Deputy Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade.

According to an official statement issued on Friday, both sides reaffirmed their commitment to scale up economic engagement in line with the vision of the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the President of Uzbekistan.

Talks centred on the swift expansion of the existing PTA. Gulamov confirmed that the two countries were finalising a significantly broadened product list and that a formal understanding on the upgraded agreement was ex

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