Kyrgyzstan offers great opportunities to Pak pharma companies: Envoy.

LAHORE -- Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan Erik Beishembiev on Saturday urged business community to avail good investment opportunities through joint ventures in pharmaceutical, agriculture, education and tourism sectors.

'Kyrgyzstan is not developed in pharmaceutical sector and offers great opportunities to the Pakistani pharma companies', he said during a meeting with President of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mian Tariq Misbah. Vice President Tahir Manzoor Chaudhry, former Senior Vice President Amjad Ali Jawa, former Vice President Zeshan Khalil and Executive Committee members were also present.

The ambassador said that his country greatly valued relations with Pakistan and that was why it sought further diversification and strengthening of the relations. He said that Kyrgyz-Pakistani historical relations could be traced back centuries ago.

'Our peoples have long-time and close cultural and spiritual ties', he said. He said that direct flights between the two countries on regular basis would help improve trade and cooperation in tourism sector. He said that both countries were rich in mineral resources, have high skilled human resources, excellent opportunities for developing industry and agriculture, attracting foreign investments for joint production and supply of goods. He said that Kyrgyzstan is interested in development of short transportation links through its territory between Central Asia and China and Pakistan with access to the Gwadar and Karachi ports, using railway and roads, which are being constructed in the framework of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Today, shortest roads are connecting China to Kyrgyzstan through two border mountain passes in Kyrgyzstan: Torugart in the North and -...