ISLAMABAD: Oman’s Ambassador to Pakistan Omar Ahmed Al-Marhoon on Monday met Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and discussed with him the start of a ferry service between the two countries and ways to promote tourism, the Pakistani interior ministry said.
Pakistan has been considering a ferry service that would connect Middle Eastern seaports with Karachi and Gwadar. The country has long cherished the dream of initiating the service to link Pakistani ports with Dubai, Oman and Iran to facilitate people, who want to travel to these destinations by providing them alternate routes.
The South Asian country has also been encouraging the private sector to invest in this mode of transportation.
“Ferry service between Pakistan and Oman will start soon,” the Pakistani interior ministry quoted Ambassador Al-Marhoon as saying. “The service will boost trade and tourism between Pakistan and Oman.”
Pakistan's interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (left) meets Oman’s Ambassador to Pakistan Omar Ahmed Al-Marhoon in Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 22, 2021. (PID)
Pakistan and Oman have deep brotherly relations, with thousands of Pakistanis playing their part in Oman’s economic development.
“We will provide all possible facilities in visa for trade and tourism to the citizens of Oman in Pakistan,” the interior ministry quoted Ahmed as saying in the statement.
In Pakistan-Oman Bilateral Political Consultations (BPC) last year, both sides discussed the entire spectrum of bilateral relations, including political, economic, commercial, defense and people-to-people ties.
According to Pakistani foreign office, the two countries agreed to “qualitatively enhance relations in diverse fields, with particular emphasis on the economic dimensions.”
