Tag: MFN

Opportunity beckons

Positive signals emerging from both Islamabad and New Delhi raise hopes of improvement of relations between the two countries. Pakistan recently released an Indian...

Pakistan being cornered?

Keeping in mind the history of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan, the decision of granting India the MFN status was taken in pure...

Khurrum Sayeed hails the grant of MFN status to India

Executive Committee Member India-Pakistan Chamber of Commerce, Mr Khurram Sayeed, Senior Vice-Chairman Petroleum Standing Committee of FPCCI and Chief Executive Planet Petrochemicals welcomed the...

Pakistan and India will have to address many issues even after...

Even though Pakistan seems inclined to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to arch rival India, which gave the status to Islamabad in...

While PM says no MFN to India yet, FO says no...

As Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said Pakistan had not yet granted India the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status, the Foreign Office...

The MFN coin and its three sides

The MFN status granted to India and the assortment of ‘hue and cry’ and ‘buoyant sanguinity’ that engulfs it, is one of those classic...

MFN status to have repercussions, says Ijazul Haq

Speaking about the decision to grant India Most Favored Nation (MFN) status, Pakistan Muslim League-Zia (PML-Z) Central President Ijaz ul Haq said it would...

Indian PM welcomes MFN status

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has welcomed Pakistan for giving the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Singh was talking to media after G20...

Pakistan not backtracking on Indian MFN status

Pakistan on Friday denied that it had backtracked on giving India Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trade status. "Pakistan is not backtracking," said foreign office spokeswoman...

Business community speaks out on the MFN issue

Pakistan will continue its trade with India under the existing positives list of trade as the process of evaluation of the impact of trade...

SAFMA hails decision of granting India MFN status

South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) Secretary General Imtiaz Alam has welcomed the government’s decision to grant India the status of the Most Favoured...

Finally

A most significant development, the granting of the Most Favoured Nation status to India. What this means, to the uninitiated, is that India’s exports...

JI condemns MFN status to India

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan expressed concern over the government’s plan to privatise the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) in a statement released...

MFN status to India key strategic shift in army policy

Pakistan’s decision to grant the status of Most Favored Nation (MFN) to India reflects the change of the army top brass’s mindset, which believes...

Pakistan approves India as ‘Most Favoured’ nation

In a major confidence-building measure to normalise relations with India, Pakistan’s federal cabinet on Wednesday unanimously endorsed granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to...

MFN concerns

Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has raised valid objections over the MFN debate, even if its voice all but drowned in the recent “win-win” euphoria....