Pakistan and Iran have chalked out a five-year trade cooperation plan with a trade target of five billion dollars. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Islamabad, said the five-year plan was envisaged to run from 2023 to 2028. Bilawal said the plan is aimed at removing impediments to bilateral trade, finalisation of the Free Trade Agreement and establishment of institutional linkages between private sectors of both countries. The foreign minister also discussed the grave human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). He added we have agreed to set up a special economic free trade region along the common border points.
