ISLAMABAD: Monitoring Desk – Pakistani Energy Minister has announced exclusively to RT that as of March 2025 there will be a train trial run for logistics and goods from Russia to Pakistan via Azerbaijan and Iran.
In an interview, he said it will be a trial train in the project of south north connectivity. Pakistani goods can be exported to Moscow through this train.
The minister is in Moscow in connection with 09th Inter government Commission meeting.
He said Pakistan needs food from Russia. Also Pakistan is looking into setting up of a new steel mills with Russian cooperation.
Here it is worth noting that the present only steel mills in Pakistan was also built with Russian support in late 70s when Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. This steel mills is almost closed and causing hundreds of billions of loss to Pakistan every year.
Minister said that Chinese companies are coming to Pakistan. We are looking forward to promotion of cooperation with Russia. Thus we need help in human development.
Pakistan in the World – December 2024