{"id":132185,"date":"2023-02-14T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132185"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:59:00","slug":"governor-for-expanding-bilateral-trade-with-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/14\/governor-for-expanding-bilateral-trade-with-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor for expanding bilateral trade with Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Nation<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>LAHORE&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; &nbsp;Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has said Pakistan and Sri Lanka have cordial relations and exist\u00ading bilateral coopera-tion be\u00adtween the two countries can be further expanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking to a delegation of Sri Lanka &#8211; Lahore Business Council, led by Honor-ary Consul General of Sri Lanka, Yasin Joya, during a meeting at the Gover-nor\u2019s House here on Monday, he said Sri Lankan students are studying in the universities of Pakistan and there are vast possibilities of cooperation be-tween the two countries in education, health and social sectors. The Gover\u00adnor Punjab appreciated the Sri Lanka Lahore Business Coun\u00adcil and Giving Sight Founda\u00adtion Sri Lanka for helping in providing human eye corneas to the citi-zens of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting discussed ways to enhance bilateral coopera\u00adtion in trade and other fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation proposed to sign a Memorandum of Under\u00adstanding (MoU) with the hospi\u00adtals of South Punjab to provide human eye cornea for human eye transplan-tation. The del\u00adegation said that the purpose of the MoU is to give access to the facilities of eye corneal trans\u00adplant to the local people there. The Gover-nor Punjab appreci\u00adated the proposal of the delega\u00adtion and assured efforts for its implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation included Syed Munir Gillani Convener Media Committee, Ahmad Lone, Convener Foreign Af\u00adfairs Committee, Sadiq Sabir, Convener Tourism Com-mittee, Asim Zafar Convener Sri Lankan Students Welfare Committee, Agha Nair Latif Advocate Supreme Court Con\u00advener Trade Promotion Com\u00admittee and Zulqarnain Yasin Secretary Sri Lanka Lahore Business Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Nation LAHORE&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; &nbsp;Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has said Pakistan and Sri Lanka have cordial relations and exist\u00ading bilateral coopera-tion be\u00adtween the two countries can be further expanded. Talking to a delegation of Sri Lanka &#8211; Lahore Business Council, led by Honor-ary Consul General of Sri Lanka, Yasin Joya, during a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}