Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari on Sunday said there was no need for mediations by a third-party over issues between India and Pakistan.
“We can talk to Pakistan in five different languages. So, there is no need for anyone in the world to play a role,” he said. The long-strained relations between the two countries started to improve recently as talks halted after the 2008 Mumbai attacks resumed this year.
On Friday, both countries finalised the draft of a new Bilateral Visa Agreement to ease travel for nationals of either country desiring to visit the other. Pakistan, in principle, also decided to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India which provides trade equality by ensuring that an importing country will not discriminate against another country’s goods in favour of those from a third.
The trade ministers of both countries also announced that annual trade between the two countries would soon reach $6 billion, more than double the current amount. India also dropped its objections to the European Union importing goods from Pakistan duty-free.
