Pakistan-Qatar JMC decides to explore new areas of cooperation.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and Qatar held a two-day session of Joint Ministerial Commission in Doha, Qatar and decided to explore new areas of cooperation aimed at further strengthening bilateral trade and investment relations.

It was fifth session of the JMC that held from November 4 to 5 and co-chaired by Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Khan and Qatar's Minister for Commerce and Industry Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, a Petroleum Division press release said here Wednesday.

The co-chair also held a bilateral meeting on sidelines of the JMC.

The JMC undertook a comprehensive review of all the facets of bilateral relations between Pakistan and Qatar, besides holding a detailed discussion to strengthen and expand bilateral cooperation, particularly in the fields of trade, investment and industry, transport, energy, manpower export, education, science and technology, finance, tourism and infrastructure development.

The meeting also urged private sectors from both the countries to devise a more effective mechanism for promotion of bilateral trade.

The two sides emphasized on the...