PM Shehbaz Sharif, while talking to President Vladimir Putin here on Wednesday (3rd July, 2024) on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, recalled Pak-USSR barter trade during 1950s and 1960s suggested renewing the system in order to overcome financial and banking matters.

Shehbaz Sharif said: “I think today is the time we can overcome financial and other banking issues by renewing our trade and expanding our trade under barter…

“That will be very beneficial to Pakistan and we will able to overcome many problems…

“Neither are our relations driven by any geopolitical contingency nor are these impacted by relations with other countries.”

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