"Pakistan's exports to the UAE during 2007-2008 were valued at $1.8 billion as compared with $1.3 billion the previous year," he said. "Pakistan's imports from the UAE for the same period rose to $5.2 billion from $3.4 billion."

Pakistan's commercial counsellor at its embassy in Abu Dhabi, Bilal Khan Pasha, said the UAE has now become Pakistan's second-largest trading partner after the US.

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