ISLAMABAD:Sajid Hussain Turi, Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, who is on the official visit to Iraq, held a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Ahmad Jassim Al-Asadi, Minister for Labour, Iraq at Baghdad today and discussed matters of bilateral and mutual interests.

Zulfiquar Haider, Secretary OP and HRD and Ahmad Amjad Ali, Pakistani Ambassador to Iraq, were also present during the meeting. Both sides agreed to further enhance cooperation, particularly to facilitate Zaireen from Pakistan and also explore possibilities of cooperation in labour export from Pakistan.

The Federal Minister invited his Iraqi counterpart to visit Pakistan to sign an MoU in the field of transmission of manpower between Pakistan and Iraq which is pending and under process at the Iraq's side.