The government of India on Wednesday once again urged Pakistan to fully implement the roadmap for normalising economic cooperation, including granting the country Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status.
According to details, Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said, “The economic roadmap needs to be fully implemented for more trade and investment between the two neighbouring countries.”
He was addressing a farewell luncheon hosted for him by the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The Indian envoy referred to the joint statement issued after the seventh round of talks on commercial and economic cooperation between the commerce secretaries in September 2012 and said it laid out the roadmap for normalising and increasing economic ties.
In the joint statement, it was agreed that Pakistan would grant MFN status to India by December 2012.
In return, India had agreed to bring down its SAFTA Sensitive List to 100 tariff lines at six-digit level by April.
Sabharwal, who served as the Indian envoy for four years, said New Delhi had implemented several decisions, including allowing investments from Pakistan and reducing the SAFTA tariff line.
After the formation of the new government in Islamabad, he said, India was hoping that Pakistan would implement the roadmap for cooperation.
He welcomed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s remarks about trade with India and said that similar sentiments prevailed across the border.
After trade talks between India and Pakistan were initiated in September 2011, there were several positive developments that resulted in the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian commerce minister in February last year, he said.
These developments also resulted in improved bilateral trade.
“Exports from Pakistan to India registered growth,” he said.
Asked about recent tensions between the two countries, Sabharwal said, “Both the sides have trust deficiency…Once relations improve, everything will go better.”
NS tou lyt jai ga India k saamny…We The Pakistan People need answers about air violation and water treaty violations!!
I believe in ‘Love Your Neighbors’.
no way
no way, no way, not at all, if PM did, we ll lead a great protest….
Enemy can’t be good friends,
We hate them d most
Not at all
That is some way of earning goodwill by sending military aircraft over the border? If the agreement says military aircraft will stay within ten miles inside the borders, then they transgressed at least twenty miles if not more, this could not be an error. What message is the Indian military trying to send to its own Government – don’t open trade with Pakistan? Bunch of moronic idiots.
NS tou lyt jai ga India k saamny…We The Pakistan People need answers about air violation and water treaty violations!!
I believe in 'Love Your Neighbors'.
no way
no way, no way, not at all, if PM did, we ll lead a great protest….
Enemy can't be good friends,
We hate them d most
Not at all
That is some way of earning goodwill by sending military aircraft over the border? If the agreement says military aircraft will stay within ten miles inside the borders, then they transgressed at least twenty miles if not more, this could not be an error. What message is the Indian military trying to send to its own Government – don't open trade with Pakistan? Bunch of moronic idiots.
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