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No change in Pakistan s position on Kashmir issue: FO
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The Foreign office has said there is no change in Pakistan s position on the Kashmir issue.
Briefing the Kashmir Committee in a meeting in Islamabad, with its Chairman Shehryar Khan Afridi in the chair, Foreign Office Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said Pakistan s position is anchored on the United Nations resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
Addressing the meeting the Chairman Kashmir Committee urged private TV channels to develop tele-films, dramas and special awareness programmes to project Kashmir dispute.
The resolution passed by the committee on the occasion called for release of detained Kashmiri leaders who have been subjected to inhuman treatment in prisons and demanded to shift all the women prisoners of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir back to Kashmiri prisons.
Trade ties with India resume
ECC allows import of sugar, cotton via land, sea routes
Federal Finance Minister Hammad Azhar addressing a presser at the Press Information Department (PID) in Islamabad on March 31, 2021. SCREENGRAB
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on Wednesday resumed trade with India as part of an understanding to gradually normalise bilateral relations and ensure food security of the country that is bracing for shortages of wheat, sugar and cotton.
The country had suspended bilateral trade with India on August 9, 2019 after “the Indian government’s unilateral action to change the status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.
In the first place, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet, immediately allowed the import of 500,000 metric tons of sugar and unspecified quantity of cotton and yarn from India to bridge the nearly three million shortfalls.
Pakistan Navy prepared to deal with any challenge: Naval Chief
April 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi presided over the Command and Staff Conference of the Pakistan Navy at the Naval Headquarters in Islamabad on Thursday in which he expressed confidence over the operational preparedness of the Pakistan Navy to meet all challenges.
In the meeting, matters related to the geostrategic milieu, national security, operational preparedness, training, and welfare of troops were reviewed.
Briefings on various ongoing and future development projects of the Pakistan Navy were also given to the Chief of the Naval Staff.
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