Overall security situation substantially improved in Pakistan: German Ambassador.

KARACHI -- German Ambassador to Pakistan Bernhard Schlagheck on Tuesday said overall security situation in Pakistan has substantially improved during the last couple of years. He speaking at Meet the Press program at Karachi Press Club (KPC). The German Ambassador was accompanied by German Consul General in Karachi Eugen Wollfarth. He expressed gratitude to the Governing Body of KPC for inviting him to the Press Club. Bernhard Schlagheck said that free press played pivotal role in a true democratic country. He said that people who wanted to exercise their democratic right to peaceful protest, felt secure and free at the Press Club. He told a questioner that Pakistan was moving in the right direction under the present regime, especially in terms of economic policies. Speaking on the occasion, German Consul General in Karachi, Eugen Wollfarth said that many German companies were working in Pakistan and the platform like Pakistan German Chamber and Industry (GPCCI) were also working to further foster economic relation between two countries.

"It is a business-to-business matter and we can only give advice," he added. To a query, he said that Goethe Institute Karachi was...