Richard R Verma, US Ambassador to India said that he would put in efforts for enhancement of trade between India and Pakistan through the land route.
There is indeed immense potential to save huge transportation costs and time, if more and more trade is done through land route via Attari -Wagah border,” said Verma, adding that he would certainly do all he could, to push the governments of both countries to resolve these issues at the earliest and leverage each other’s strengths.
“Though the economic destinies of India and Pakistan are interlinked, our bilateral trade is below $3 billion, which has the potential to touch $10 billion in the next few years,” said Pradeep Sehgal, vice chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries Amritsar zonal council.
The two nation’s bilateral trade is below USD 3 billion which has the potential to touch USD 10 billion in the next few years.