ISLAMABAD
Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar said Tuesday that comprehensive measures were being taken to improve and upgrade customs procedures in Pakistan, to make them in line with international standards.
The minister was talking to World Customs Organisation (WCO), Visiting Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya who called on him here Tuesday. Dar said that the government has also taken steps for the facilitation of cross-border and regional trade.
It was agreed during the meeting that greater cooperation and linkages would be developed between Pakistan and World Customs Organisation.
Kunio Mikuriya said that the improvement in system of Customs under present government was very visible and impressive.
Mikuriya said that WCO would be happy to cooperate with Pakistan for further improvement in system of customs.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Revenue, Haroon Akhtar Khan, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Chairman Tariq Mahmood Pasha, senior officials of ministry of finance were also present in the meeting.
