{"id":1139,"date":"2026-01-14T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:27:52","slug":"pakistans-prominent-bank-keen-to-strengthen-cooperation-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/pakistans-prominent-bank-keen-to-strengthen-cooperation-with-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Prominent Bank Keen to Strengthen Cooperation with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><\/a>AMN Plus -January 14\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of senior officials from the Habib Bank Limited (HBL) visited the Ethiopian Embassy Islamabad, and held a productive meeting with Oumer Hussein Oba(PhD), Ambassador of Ethiopia to Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the discussion, the Ambassador briefed the delegation on the opening of Ethiopia&#8217;s banking sector to foreign investors under the second phase of the government&#8217;s Homegrown Economic Reforms (HGER), inviting the bank to tap into this emerging market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted the comparative advantages for the Pakistani investors, including access to clean energy, &#8220;plug-and-play&#8221; facilities in special economic zones, robust infrastructure, and strategic connectivity within the region and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HBL delegation shared their extensive experience in development finance, particularly regarding local initiatives supporting the Agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegates briefed the Ambassador on comprehensive support being provided to small-scale farmers, ranging from specialized lending services to the provision of essential machinery and pesticides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sides agreed on the vital importance of knowledge sharing and discussed concrete avenues for cooperation, including the organization of Business-to-Business (B2B) forums, the establishment of institutional linkages, and the exchange of professional delegations in future as to Ethiopia Embassy Islamabad reported it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMN Plus -January 14\/2026 A team of senior officials from the Habib Bank Limited (HBL) visited the Ethiopian Embassy Islamabad, and held a productive meeting with Oumer Hussein Oba(PhD), Ambassador of Ethiopia to Pakistan. During the discussion, the Ambassador briefed the delegation on the opening of Ethiopia&#8217;s banking sector to foreign investors under the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}