Pakistan Decides Against Resuming Trade With India
Pakistan Decides Against Resuming Trade With India
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Prime Minister Imran Khan stresses that normal trade cannot resume until Delhi revisits decision to abrogate special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday, after consultations with key members of his cabinet, decided that Pakistan will not proceed with resuming any trade with India until Delhi is willing to revisit its Aug. 5, 2019, decision to declare the disputed Jammu and Kashmir a union territory.
A day earlier, the federal cabinet had deferred a decision on a proposal by the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to allow imports of sugar and cotton. Finance Minister Hammad Azhar had told a press conference that the proposal was intended to reduce prices of the commodities and would “benefit the poor.”