'Lanka, Pakistan have tremendous scope for better trade'

Pakistan and Sri Lanka have tremendous scope to further strengthen bilateral economic and trade relations,Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told his Sri Lankan counterpart Ravi Karunanayake in Islamabad yesterday.

Ishaq Dar said the Pakistani Government will fully cooperate to expand bilateral economic ties.

Finance Minister Karunanayake congratulated Ishaq Dar on the successful hosting of the SAARC Finance Ministers meeting and said that decisions reached at the meeting will further strengthen the SAARC process.

He appreciated the economic performance of Pakistan over the past three years.

He said the South Asian countries can learn a lot from the reform efforts in Pakistan, which have not only stabilized the economy in a short span of time but also put it on the path of growth.

Meanwhile, Director General Frontier Works Organization, Major General Muhammad Afzal and Finance Minister Dar at a meeting in Islamabad reviewed progress of the ongoing projects of FWO especially in the energy and transport sectors.

- Radio Pakistan