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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani met the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) Secretary-General Jassem Mohamed Albudaiwi on Saturday to discuss free trade agreement negotiations between the two sides, calling for its “early conclusion,” Pakistan’s foreign office said.
Pakistan and the six-member GCC bloc signed a framework agreement to discuss the free trade agreement in August 2004 but only a few rounds of negotiations took place in subsequent years. However, the GCC and Pakistan resumed the…