Saudi Arabia lifts ban on Pakistan seafood: The News

KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh CM Sharmila Faruqui said that Saudi Arabia lifted a ban from import of Pakistani seafood.

Talking to a delegation of seafood exporters at her Sindh Secretariat Office on Friday, she maintained that matters related to export of Pakistani seafood had been finalized with Saudi government officials and Pakistan waters fish and other marine products were being exported to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.

The adviser mentioned that several countries had issued health certificates to Pakistan regarding fish, prawn and other marine products. She added that Pakistani seafood were free from cholera microbe or any other epidemic disease while in the past a propaganda was launched that Pakistani seafood were contaminated with cholera microbe but later laboratory tests conducted by Gulf states and other countries had dispelled it and now export of Pakistani seafood was going on to these countries.

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