PM stresses enhanced Pak-UK trade, investment ties.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday emphasized the importance of enhanced trade and investment ties with the United Kingdom and stressed the need for elevating the relationship to a strategic level.

The prime minister expressed these views while talking to British High Commissioner Dr. Christian Turner, who called him here this morning.

The High Commissioner congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on assuming the office of the prime minister and conveyed the best wishes of the British government.

The prime minister expressed his gratitude to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his congratulatory tweet.

The prime minister added that Pakistan highly valued its relations with the UK, which were based on historical linkages and convergent interests on a broad range of issues.

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