{"id":20953,"date":"2023-06-14T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=20953"},"modified":"2023-06-14T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:02:51","slug":"pakistan-azerbaijan-finalizing-pta-enhancing-cooperation-in-energy-banking-it-financial-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-azerbaijan-finalizing-pta-enhancing-cooperation-in-energy-banking-it-financial-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Azerbaijan Finalizing PTA , Enhancing Cooperation in Energy, Banking, IT, Financial Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20954\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM-696x484.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.42-PM-604x420.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>BAKU: Monitoring Desk &#8211; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday departed here for a official visit to Azerbaijan, at the invitation of President Ilham Aliyev.Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Baku on 14 June on a two day official visit to Azerbaijan. First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, Yagub Eyyubov, Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov, Azerbaijan\u2019s Ambassador to Pakistan Khazar Farhadov and Pakistan Ambassador to Azerbaijan Bilal Hayee received the Prime Minister at the airport.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar, Information and Broadcasting Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, Minister of State for Petroleum Dr Musadik Malik, and Special Assistant to the PM Tariq Fatemi are part of the prime minister\u2019s entourage.<\/h5>\n<h5><em><strong>During the visit, the prime minister will meet the Azerbaijan president. A ministerial delegation of Azerbaijan will also meet the prime minister to discuss bilateral cooperation in the fields of trade and energy.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.40-PM-e1686779797182.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.40-PM-e1686779797182.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-14-at-10.13.40-PM-e1686779797182-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>Prior to his departure, the prime minister wrote on Twitter that his \u201cvisit is part of our government\u2019s policy to strengthen bilateral cooperation and build win-win partnerships\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5><em><strong>He said other than expediting early finalisation of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), he would hold important talks with the Azerbaijani leadership to open up avenues of cooperation in energy, banking, financial services and IT sectors.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cTranslating excellent bilateral political ties into a solid relationship of trade and investment remains a fundamental goal for us. Central Asia is central to our energy security policy and we are committed to stepping up the cooperation with CARs (Central Asian Republics) to make Pakistan energy-secure,\u201d the prime minister tweeted.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NLRyMDnAUL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/prime-minister-of-pakistan-to-azerbaijan-visit-on-invitation-of-president-ilahm\/\">Prime Minister of Pakistan to Azerbaijan Visit on Invitation of President Ilahm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prime Minister of Pakistan to Azerbaijan Visit on Invitation of President Ilahm&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/prime-minister-of-pakistan-to-azerbaijan-visit-on-invitation-of-president-ilahm\/embed\/#?secret=TDL0CKZ6p1#?secret=NLRyMDnAUL\" data-secret=\"NLRyMDnAUL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKU: Monitoring Desk &#8211; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday departed here for a official visit to Azerbaijan, at the invitation of President Ilham Aliyev.Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Baku on 14 June on a two day official visit to Azerbaijan. First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, Yagub Eyyubov, Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[343,109,2217,319,48,58,2082,2372,2378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}