$ 18 billion export by Pakistan during 2006

Pakistan hopes to achieve $ 18 bln exports this year: President
Karachi, Pakistan 29 Mar, 2006 President General Pervez Musharraf Wednesday said Pakistan is hoping to achieve dollar 18 billion of exports this year and the target for next year would be dollars 20 billion.Inaugurating the Expo Pakistan, he pointed out that in the first seven months of the current fiscal year- from July to January, we have already hit dollar 9.3 billion in terms of exports."I am very reasonably sure that if we continue like this we will Inshallah cross dollar 18 billion," the President remarked and hoped that next year we ought to be crossing dollar 20 billion.He was of the view that exports amounting to dollar 20 billion were not enough and we need to target much higher.