Islamabad, December 07, 2022 (PPI-OT):President Dr Arif Alvi says Pakistan and Oman need to work closely to substantially enhance the volume of bilateral trade by further deepening the business and investment ties. Talking to outgoing Ambassador of Oman to Pakistan, Al-Sheikh Dr Mohammed Omar Ahmed Al-Marhoon in Islamabad on Wednesday, he called for establishing close linkages and enhancing the interactions among the businessmen and investors of both the brotherly countries.

The President said Pakistan and Oman enjoy a brotherly strategic partnership in many areas and are bound together by common history, cultural heritage, values, faith, traditions and proximity of geography. During the meeting, the President highlighted the increasing trend of persecution of minorities, especially Muslims in India, the increase in violent incidents of Islamophobia, and atrocities committed by Indian forces against the innocent Kashmiris in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He urged the world community to take notice of the persecution of minorities and rising Islamophobia in India and to use its influence for the resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Dispute in accordance with the resolutions of UN Security Council and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

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