Trade diplomacy should lead Pak-Afghan ties: envoy.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan`s newly-appointed special representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq on Monday said bilateral relations between the two countries should be led by trade diplomacy, which would automatically resolve all the other issues between them.

He was speaking at a virtual focus group discussion of Afghan and Pakistani traders convened by Islamabad based Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in collaboration with Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI) and Kabul-based Organisation for Economic Studies and Peace.

To resolve the issues faced by traders on both sides of the border, Ambassador Sadiq affirmed that transit and bilateral trades should be addressed separately with mechanisms put in place for their effective resolution.He said at the moment his priority was to address the issues of the Afghan traders in Pakistan. With the news of the opening of the third border crossing with Afghanistan at Ghulam Khan, Ambassador Sadiq was hopeful that Pakistan was moving towards resolving most of the Afghan traders`concernsin the nearfuture.

Regarding issues faced in the transit trade, PAJCCI Chairman Zubair Motiwala said licensing only one private vendor to install tracking devices to Afghan transit goods` containers had significantly slowed down the movement of...

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