Pakistan defers India trade restarting decision over Kashmir
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‘Consensus’ move came after top economic decision-making body gave go-ahead for imports of cotton and sugar from India.
The Cabinet of Pakistan has put on hold a decision made by the country’s top economic decision-making body to allow imports of cotton and sugar from India until its neighbour reviews a 2019 move to revoke the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir. In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the imports, which was to have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals. On August 5, 2019, the Indian government stripped the special status its part of Kashmir had long held under the Indian Constitution, a move Pakistan said was in contravention of United Nations Security Council resolutions on the decades-long dispute.More Related News