By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam
ISLAMABAD, April 1 (Reuters) - Pakistan s cabinet on Thursday put off allowing imports of cotton and sugar from neighbouring India until Delhi reviews its 2019 move to revoke the Kashmir region s special status, the foreign minister said.
In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), the country s top economic decision-making body, gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the imports, which would have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals. It was a consensus opinion, including the prime minister, that as long as India doesn t review the Aug. 5, 2019, unilateral steps it took, it wouldn t be possible to normalise relations with India, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said of the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, which had to endorse the ECC s decision for trade to start.
Pakistan puts on hold its decision to import Indian cotton, sugar
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Pakistan s cabinet on Thursday put on hold a decision made by the country s top economic decision-making body to allow imports of cotton and sugar from neighbouring India until Delhi reviews its 2019 move to revoke the Kashmir region s special status, the foreign minister said.
To cool local demand and prices, Pakistan s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the imports, which was to have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals.
More It was a consensus opinion, including the prime minister,that as long as India doesn t review the Aug. 5, 2019,unilateral steps it took, it wouldn t be possible to normalise relations with India, Pakistan s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said of the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, which had to endorse the ECC s decision for trade to start.
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The Cabinet of Pakistan has put on hold a decision made by the country’s top economic decision-making body to allow imports of cotton and sugar from India until its neighbour reviews a 2019 move to revoke the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir.
In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the imports, which was to have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals.
On August 5, 2019, the Indian government stripped the special status its part of Kashmir had long held under the Indian Constitution, a move Pakistan said was in contravention of United Nations Security Council resolutions on the decades-long dispute.
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