Imran Khanâs U-turn on trade with India puts Delhi in a spot â who to talk to in Pakistan
Will the Modi government be taken in by the sob stories that are going to be told on the back-channel and bite the bait, or will it stick to its guns?
Sushant Sareen 6 April, 2021 12:31 pm IST Text Size:
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The latest U-turn by Pakistanâs âselectedâ Prime Minister Imran Khan on his countryâs dealing with India is quite absurd even by the absurdities and U-turns that are emblematic of the feckless governance of the âhybridâ regime. A day after the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet announced that Pakistan would buy sugar and cotton from India, the cabinet made a U-turn and deferred the decision of the ECC. Subsequently, a meeting of a special cabinet subcommittee to discuss relations with India declared that there will be no trade with India until India reversed the constitutional re
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The flip flop strategy
While the PM called on India to make the first move, General Qamar said it was time to bury the past and move forward
This writer is a senior foreign affairs correspondent at The Express Tribune
It was the first press conference of Hammad Azhar as finance minister after he presided over the meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC). The first decision he announced as head of the ECC was to import sugar and cotton from India. The announcement made headlines not just in Pakistan but across the border too. The move was seen as part of efforts to normalise ties between the two countries.
Building on the detente
April 5, 2021
The revival of the ceasefire agreement last February has set into motion a series of events on the Pakistan-India front that have created cautious optimism as well as reservations on the possible way forward.
To begin with, it is interesting to note how an event apparently as insignificant as the restoration of a ceasefire pact in the presence of more complicated bilateral issues has turned things around by shining a fresh light on the importance of peace between Islamabad and New Delhi.
The fact that the need for peace and good neighborly relations is back in the mainstream across the borders, misgivings and apprehensions notwithstanding, is no mean achievement. Even going by the optics, this marks a departure from an environment of jingoism and recrimination that witnessed its lowest ebb post the Balakot misadventure by India.
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On 1 April, a friend frantically called from Delhi asking me to confirm if the rumour about Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan suffering a heart attack was true, or just an April Fool’s prank. I replied saying that not only was the cricketer-turned-politician doing well but that he seems to have pulled an April Fool’s prank of his own. Imran Khan rejected a proposal made by his cabinet’s Economic Coordination Committee to import cotton and sugar from India, which the PM had himself signed as minister-in-charge of commerce and textile. This was followed by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi insisting that dialogue with India cannot be revived until India withdraws its decision to abrogate Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
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