Business community decry hurdles to trade.

Businessmen have said that Pakistan-Turkey cargo train has kick-started operations in a smooth manner, however, commercial banks are creating bottlenecks in the way of issuing export forms on the pretext that the trade route involves journey through a sanctioned country, ie Iran.

In a statement on Thursday, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) President Mian Nasser Hyatt Maggo said that hurdles were being created in the way of smooth land-based trade with Turkey under the TIR Convention.

He pointed out that banks were not issuing export forms, citing that trade with a sanctioned...