JALANDHAR:
Representatives of Pakistan Australia Business Council (PABC), a body of Pakistani businessmen down under, would join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reception in Sydney on November 17.
PACB will be among 200 reception partners of the event, which includes Hindu Council Australia, Hindu Swamsewak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad Australia.
"We are going to attend Modi's community reception. Australian Pakistanis and Australian Indians have been living here as friends and there are no hostilities at all. We want better relations should develop among India, Pakistan and Australia," PACB president Iftikhar Rana told TOI from Australia.
"People to people contact and confidence building measures are crucial for the people of the neighboring countries and we consider our participation in the function as a CBM."
PACB senior vice president Kashif Amjad said he would be attending the reception. "We don't know if we will get an opportunity to interact with the Indian Prime Minister. But we will try to meet a senior Indian official and urge that business among the three countries should increase," he said.
Rana, whose family had migrated from Hoshiarpur to Lahore, said: "Those two countries have our roots and Australia is the country to which we belong now. We want relations among the three countries to improve and business can be a major route for improving ties."
Pak businessmen to join Modi's reception in Australia - The Times of India
