Tag: MFN

MFN status to India by Dec 2012: Hina

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday that Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status would be granted to India by December 2012. Speaking to journalists,...

MFN regime to test rice exporters

As the cabinet has approved the negative list of trade of over 1,200 items with India, along with the phase out deadline of December...

India inches closer to MFN status

The government on Wednesday decided to liberalise trade with India, as the federal cabinet approved elimination of negative list containing 1,209 items with the...

Steel manufacturers show serious concern over MFN status to India

Local steel manufacturers showed concern over giving status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) to India, saying it would pose threats to the steel industry...

Steel Manufacturers show concern over MFN Status to India

Local Steel manufacturers showed concern over giving status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) to India, saying it would pose threats to the steel industry...

Pakistan imports rice from India for the first time

In the post MFN regime, Pakistan for the first time has started importing rice from India. In an interesting development, Pakistan, which is already...

Textile ministry questions transparency of MFN to India

Ministry of Textile Industry (MoTI) has proved the government claim false which was about the rigorous consultations with different stakeholders on liberalising trade with...

Fahim under fire in cabinet for ‘haste’ on MFN lists

The federal cabinet decided to defer the matter after the commerce ministry’s move to seek approval of items of trade to India from the...

A new foreign policy?

Our old one doesn’t seem to be working… Despite multiple problems in the domestic context, the federal government is endeavouring to expand its foreign policy...

A real protest

Three women, identified as Inna Shevchenko, Aleksandra Shevchenko and Oksana Shachko, travelled all the way from Kiev, Ukraine to Davos, Switzerland to protest on...

‘Remove Kashmiri reservations before granting MFN status to India’

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief and chairman of the special parliamentary committee on Kashmir, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, on Saturday said the government should remove the reservations...

‘Pak trade to get boost even if it captures 1% of...

The trade with India can multiply five times if Pakistan captures even one percent of India’s market of 300 million middle class. In contrast,...

MFNisation!

Most recently, our government granted Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to our neighbouring country India. But to visit our “most favoured” neighbour, Indian government...

India to be granted MFN with limited negative trade list

India would be granted Most Favored Nation (MFN) status with a very limited negative list of trade. The list is being prepared in order...

Before giving MFN status, Pakistan seeks 3 agreements with India

As Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma will be arriving along with a large business delegation on February 13, Pakistan plans to sign three confidence-building...

Speakers at LCCI apprehensive about MFN to India

Government must not make any agreement with India at the cost of local industry which is currently making all out efforts to survive in...

Benefits of MFN status

This is with regards to the feature, ‘MFN, a promising dream’, published yesterday. The title itself is a misnomer today, keeping in mind the...