Pakistan has been called on to utilise its political and diplomatic ties to boost its trade with the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) nations to support its domestic value-added textile industry.

The ECO is an intergovernmental regional organisation for promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation among its 10 member states – Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

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