{"id":44756,"date":"2018-01-16T19:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44756"},"modified":"2018-01-16T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:55:56","slug":"pakistan-saudi-arabia-agree-to-boost-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44756","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Saudi Arabia agree to boost trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday agreed to simplify the procedure of business visa issuance besides rationalizing the visa fee on reciprocal basis.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was reached at the two-day 11th session of Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Joint Ministerial Commission in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>They also agreed to activate Saudi-Pak Business Council to promote trade and investment on fast-track basis.<\/p>\n<p>Both the countries will also introduce products through exhibitions in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the outset of the JMC session, Special Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aitzaz Ahmad expressed the hope that the session will draw a roadmap for future cooperation between the two countries and provide a way-forward agenda to promote trade and investment.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Foreign Trade Saudi Arabia Abdul Rehman bin Ahmad Al-Harbi said that Riyadh provided great investment opportunities, particularly in infrastructure field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 16 (TNS): Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday agreed to simplify the procedure of business visa issuance besides rationalizing the visa fee on reciprocal basis. The agreement was reached at the two-day 11th session of Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Joint Ministerial Commission in Islamabad. They also agreed to activate Saudi-Pak Business Council to promote trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,2228],"class_list":["post-44756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-pak-saudia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44758,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions\/44758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}