{"id":34934,"date":"2023-09-23T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/look-africa-policy-stressed"},"modified":"2023-09-23T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T11:26:44","slug":"look-africa-policy-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/look-africa-policy-stressed","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Look Africa\u2019 policy stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Zubair Imam Malik, Pakistan\u2019s Honorary Investment Counsellor (HIC) in Angola, has said that Pakistan should look towards Africa to explore new export markets, broaden its export basket and curtail trade deficit through out-of-the-box solutions.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"div-gpt-ad-1523347863262-14\"><\/a>He was speaking with a delegation of leading businessmen from African countries, a statement said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Malik added that he fully supports Ministry of Commerce\u2019s \u201cLook Africa\u201d policy initiative as Africa\u2019s 54 countries have a population of 1.32 billion; and that, by any standard, is a huge geographically-contiguous market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, Africa can open the doors of enormous export potential to Pakistan\u2019s products and services in its major industries and sectors; namely, value-added textiles; foods and beverages; IT and ITeS services; cement and other building raw materials and rice, fruits and vegetables,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Malik apprised that the Board of Investment (BoI) will be pushing ahead with and facilitating \u201cLook Africa\u201d initiatives for the swift exploration of new export markets for the country, and practically this was only possible through tapping African and Central Asian states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. 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