OTTAWA, Feb 9 (APP):High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada Muhammad Saleem underscored significant untapped potential for expanding Pakistan\u2013Canada trade and investment ties in multiple sectors including mining and minerals; IT-enabled services; clean energy; and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
He was delivering keynote address at the historic Albany Club Toronto, engaging a distinguished audience of Canadian legislators, business executives and policy influencers, a press release issued on Monday said.<\/p>\n
The event served as very pertinent platform to share the low lying fruits and immense opportunities for bilateral economic cooperation with Canada’s political and business communities.<\/p>\n
Emphasizing Pakistan\u2019s various economic diplomacy initiatives, he highlighted Pakistan\u2019s strategic location as a bridge to connect Central Asia, South Asia, the Gulf States and the wider world across Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. He drew attention to the growing prospects for engagement of Canadian enterprises across multiple sectors in Pakistan under the Canadian Government\u2019s economic diversification drive.<\/p>\n
The high commissioner also shared geopolitical insights, stressing that sustainable peace in South Asia is essential for long-term regional prosperity. He reiterated Pakistan\u2019s principled position on the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India. Referring to Canada\u2019s first ever UN peacekeeping mission across the disputed Kashmir region in 1949, he emphasized the need for peaceful resolution of Kashmir dispute through implementation of the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions which call for holding free and fair plebiscite to enable the people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir decide whether they would join Pakistan or India.<\/p>\n
Zee Hamid, MPP and Assoc. Solicitor General, Government of Ontario, as well as former MP Bryon Wilfert, Chair of the Canada-Pakistan Business Council, also addressed the event participants.<\/p>\n