Overview
- State media and officials put the deal’s value at $14.5 million and describe deliveries as forthcoming.
- The Special Investment Facilitation Council is credited with brokering market access and coordinating the initiative.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif this month approved a halal meat export policy and ordered a three-year strategy focused on standards, cold-chain capacity and slaughterhouse certification.
- Radio Pakistan did not specify a shipment schedule, and separate social posts claiming exports have already started are not corroborated by an official timeline.
- Authorities say better trade facilitation could lift Pakistan–Tajikistan commerce to $300 million, alongside outreach to markets including Malaysia and Gulf states.