Pakistan, Feb. 7 -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that ties between Pakistan and Uzbekistan from now onwards would be measured by trade flows, investment projects, industrial partnerships and people-to-people exchanges, Radio Pakistan reported.

According to the report, he made the remarks while addressing the Pakistan-Uzbekistan Business Forum in Islamabad alongside Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who is in Islamabad on an official visit.

In his remarks, the premier said that it was in this spirit that both countries had set an "ambitious yet easily achievable target of increasing our bilateral trade to $2 billion", the report said.

He said the two countries had also signed a protocol, which would lead to the constit...