Agreement to import rice from Pakistan

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Agreement to import rice from Pakistan

The government will import Atap rice from Pakistan on a G2G basis. To this end, a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Trading Corporation of Pakistan and the Bangladesh Food Department.

The agreement was signed at the meeting room of the Food Ministry at the Secretariat on Tuesday (January 14).

Trading Corporation of Pakistan Chairman Syed Rafio Bashir Shah and Food Department Director General Md. Abdul Khaliq signed the memorandum of understanding.

This memorandum of understanding is expected to open a new horizon to stabilize the country’s rice market and increase and strengthen economic and trade relations.

Food Secretary Md. Masudul Hasan, Special Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce of Pakistan Shakil Ahmed, High Commissioner Syed Ahmed Maruf and other senior officials of both sides were present at the time.

Incidentally, after a bloody war of 9 months to end long exploitation and deprivation, Bangladesh separated from Pakistan in 1971 and became an independent country on the world map. Since then, relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan have been tense.

During the Awami League rule, that relationship had become fragile in the last decade and a half. After the fall of the Awami League government in the student-public uprising on August 5, signs of a new dimension are being seen in Dhaka-Islamabad relations. Last November, a cargo ship from Karachi, Pakistan, arrived at the Chittagong Port. This was the first ship to dock directly in Chittagong from Karachi after the Great Liberation War. Through this, direct communication began between the two countries by sea for the first time.

According to sources from the Chittagong Port Authority, the Panamanian-flagged container ship named ‘MV Yuan Xian Fa Zhong’ arrived at the Chittagong Port from Dubai via Karachi on November 11. It contained 370 single containers of goods. Of these, 297 single containers were brought from the Karachi Port of Pakistan. 73 single containers were brought from the United Arab Emirates. The next day, the ship unloaded the goods and left the port for Indonesia.

According to shipping and customs sources, the ship brought the most sodium carbonate or soda ash, used as raw material for various industries including textiles, from Pakistan. In addition, minerals such as dolomite, limestone, magnesium carbonate, raw materials for the glass industry such as broken glass, raw materials for the export-oriented garment industry such as fabrics and paints, car parts, onions and potatoes.

The second ship arrived directly from Pakistan on December 22. The most refined sugar arrived on this ship. Its quantity is about 7,500 tons. In addition, dolomite, soda ash, cloth rolls, potatoes and sugarcane molasses were also brought.

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