Today in Astana Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev held a meeting with the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain.

During the meeting, issues of strengthening cooperation between the two countries in the field of trade and economic, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian relations, as well as fuel and energy complex, agriculture, healthcare were discussed.

Priority areas of cooperation are the spheres of the mining industry, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine building, energy, light industry, transport and communications.

In the context of the integration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization space into the international transport and logistics system, the topic of implementation of the Nurly Zhol New Economic Program of Kazakhstan and the Chinese initiative "Economic belt of the Silk Road" was touched upon.

For reference:

The volume of commodity turnover between Kazakhstan and Pakistan in 2016 amounted to $25.5 million. Kazakhstan's export to Pakistan amounted to $2.7 million.

In January-April 2017, the trade turnover between Kazakhstan and the IRP amounted to $16.9 million. This includes the export of goods from Kazakhstan to Pakistan in a total amount of $4.9 million.