SAARC commerce ministers ■will meet today to devise a strategy to develop South Asia as a strong economic bloc with enhanced trade against the backdrop of a highly region-' alised global market, reports UNB.

Prime Minister ' Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day 3rd SAARC Commerce Ministers meeting at Hotel Sonar-gaon in the morning.

All the Commerce Ministers of SAARC, except from India, arrived in Dhaka yesterday to attend the meeting.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed received the guests at the airport. Those arrived are Bhutanese Minister for Trade & Industry Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk. Nepalese Commerce Minister Puma Bahadur Khadka. Pakistan's Minister for Commerce, Finance and Economic Affairs Mohammad Ishaq Bar, Sri Lankan Minister of Internal, International Commerce and Food Kingsley T Wickramaratne and Maldives Minister of Trade and Industry Abdullah Yameen.