President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Iftikhar Ali Malik has called for increased level of coordination and connectivity among the SAARC member states for a prosperous region.

He was talking to a business delegation which called on him in Islamabad.

He said that Pakistan attaches great importance to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and remained committed to its principles and objectives of its Charter.

He said Pakistan had always strived to make the regional body a vibrant vehicle for mutual cooperation based on the principle of sovereign equality.