Pakistan, June 10 -- Pakistan and Qatar this week discussed the "way forward" for a bilateral task force aimed at accelerating trade and investment cooperation, Pakistan's commerce minister said, as Islamabad seeks to deepen economic engagement with Gulf partners and attract foreign investment.

The discussions between Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan and Qatar's Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, Ahmad bin Mohammed Al Sayed, come as Pakistan intensifies efforts to attract investment from Gulf countries to support economic growth and strengthen foreign exchange inflows while pursuing economic reforms under a $7 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) program.

"We also deliberated on the way forward for the Task Force Group to...