Pakistan to help free kidnapped Bangladeshis
Pakistan yesterday assured Bangladesh of extending all possible cooperation and support for the release of kidnapped Bangladeshis in Afghanistan and their safe return.
Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani gave the assurance when Bangladesh High Commissioner in Islamabad Suhrab Hossain called on him at the PM House there yesterday.
Afghan miscreants on December 17 attacked a camp of a South Korean construction company in Mazar-I-Sharif town and killed a Bangladesh engineer and abducted seven other workers.
APP from ISLAMABAD adds: Gilani said Pakistan considers Bangladesh more a brother than a friend given the commonalities of religion, history and culture.
Gilani stressed the need for implementation of the existing memoranda of understanding and agreements between the two countries.
He said Pakistan was keen to start direct shipping links between Karachi and Chittagong, opening of banks branches in each others' countries and setting up of warehouses to increase the volume of trade to the level agreed at the Eighth Session of Joint Economic Commission held in September 2005.
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