Ahead of the five-day visit from tomorrow of Pakistan's commerce minister, Makhdoom M Amin Fahim, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Sunday recommended that bilateral economic cooperation be promoted through a focus on healthcare, information technology and entertainment sectors.According to a recent CII study on the subject, increased exchanges in these sectors would also help strengthen people-to-people links and contribute to confidence-building.
"Political will on both sides to move forward on removing bottlenecks to trade and legalise cooperation in services shall deepen economic integration and foster prosperity in the region," a CII statement said.
The South Asian region underperforms compared with other regional economic groupings and intra-regional trade and investments are low.
Pakistan is India's third-largest export destination and the fourth-largest source of goods among South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc)