New Delhi, Sep 5 (Inditop.com) Trade between India and Pakistan can go up to $10 billion a year in 5-6 years if the countries resume their dialogue and the overall political environment improves, Pakistan’s Commerce Secretary Suleman Ghani said here Saturday.
“If everything goes right then once we resume dialogue, it should not take more than 5-6 years for the trade between two countries to reach $10 billion from the current $2 billion,” Ghani told reporters on the sidelines of PHD Chamber conference.
“It is about time we set up strong targets for trade between India and Pakistan,” he said.
“We have to be realistic and understand the ground realities. Commerce and trade can improve once the overall environment improves. We want to take a quantum leap forward. Once volumes go up things will fall in place.”
He said Pakistan was “committed to promoting better relationships” between trade bodies, and is confident that the problems will begin to resolve quickly once the composite dialogue between the two countries is back on track.
Ghani also met India’s Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar early Saturday and discussed both trade and commerce issues with him.
The foreign secretaries of the two countries are scheduled to meet later this month.
