Tehran, Feb 5, IRNA- Islamabad will issue short and long-termmultiple-entry visas to Iranian businessmen and women, Pakistani envoy says.
‘We have resolved the problem of visas for Iranian business people,’Pakistani Ambassador to Iran, Riffat Masood told a joint business sessionbetween Tehran Chamber of Commerce and the Pakistan Embassy on Tuesday.
‘According to one of joint border committee approvals, each Iranianbusinessman or woman who holds a business card, issued by chambers ofcommerce, can receive a visa for six months,’ Masood added.
The Pakistani minister also said that first Iranian lorry has entered theneighboring country under the TIR Convention-the Convention onInternational Transport of Goods Under Cover of TIR Carnets.
TIR Convention is a multilateral treaty concluded in Geneva on November 14,1975, to simplify and harmonize the administrative formalities ofinternational road transport.
Masood, who has recently been appointed as Pakistan’s new envoy to Iran,expressed her amazement that ‘Iran has been able to maintain its positivetrade surplus with Pakistan although it’s been under sanctions.’
Pakistan’s high representative in Iran also proposed that two countriesestablish a barter trade system in which Tehran sells electricity toIslamabad in return for Pakistani rice.’Given Pakistan’s serious need for power, the two countries can implement asystem to sell power and buy rice,’ Masood noted.