{"id":1285,"date":"2026-08-05T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:20:11","slug":"pakistan-to-sign-free-trade-agreement-with-eurasian-economic-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/2026\/08\/05\/pakistan-to-sign-free-trade-agreement-with-eurasian-economic-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to Sign Free Trade Agreement with Eurasian Economic Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moscow (Voice of Russia): Pakistan has launched the process of signing a Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union, a move aimed at strengthening trade and economic cooperation with Russia and other member states.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TASS, Pakistan&#8217;s Ambassador to Russia, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, said the agreement could be finalized within the next few months to two years.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador noted that Pakistan is a natural partner in the North-South Transport Corridor and believes closer economic integration with the Eurasian region will boost trade, investment, tourism, and people-to-people contacts.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that discussions between Pakistan&#8217;s Minister of Commerce and the leadership of the Eurasian Economic Union are already underway, expressing confidence that both sides will successfully conclude the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Tirmizi said Pakistan sees enormous potential for expanding cooperation with Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and other EAEU member states. He added that stronger economic, business, and cultural ties would contribute to regional peace, stability, and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Moscow (Voice of Russia): Pakistan has launched the process of signing a Free Trade Agreement with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-pakistan-news","category-russia-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",1020,651,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",150,96,false],"medium":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",300,191,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",640,408,false],"large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",640,408,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",1020,651,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",1020,651,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",825,527,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1473975-1.jpg",590,377,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/category\/breaking-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Breaking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/category\/pakistan-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Pakistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/category\/russia-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Russia<\/a>","tag_info":"Russia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}