{"id":93338,"date":"2026-02-07T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=93338"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:34:01","slug":"pm-shehbaz-invites-uzbek-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pm-shehbaz-invites-uzbek-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz invites Uzbek investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday invited Uzbek business firms to explore investment opportunities in Pakistan\u2019s textile, pharmaceutical and other sectors as private-sector entities from both countries signed memoranda of understanding worth $3.4 billion for business-to-business cooperation as Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev wrapped up a two-day state visit.<br \/>\nWhile addressing the Pakistan\u2013Uzbekistan Business Forum in Islamabad alongside President Mirziyoyev, the prime minister said both sides had also signed a protocol aimed at achieving an \u201cambitious yet easily achievable\u201d target of increasing bilateral trade to $2b within five years.<br \/>\nThe forum was attended by ministers and business leaders from both countries. The two leaders assured investors of a conducive business environment and pledged that systemic hurdles would not be allowed to impede investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday invited Uzbek business firms to explore investment opportunities in Pakistan\u2019s textile, pharmaceutical and other sectors as private-sector entities from both countries signed memoranda of understanding worth $3.4 billion for business-to-business cooperation as Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev wrapped up a two-day state visit. While addressing the Pakistan\u2013Uzbekistan Business Forum in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93357,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93338\/revisions\/93357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}