After stating in his first speech to the country that long -lasting peace was not possible until the Kashmir problem was resolved, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had indicated that he was a voter of the start of bilateral trade with India.
In an interview with the Turkish news agency, Sharif said: “We are aware of economic dividends that can be obtained from healthy trading activities with India” and call it part of the shift of Islamabad from Geo to Geo-Economic strategy. At the same time, Sharif had spoken in Kashmir and demanded the recovery of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, more than five times since he took over in April.
After giving the most preferred state status (MFN) to Pakistan in 1996, India pulled it the day after the Jaish-E-Mohammed terrorist group based in Pakistan targeted a CRPF vehicle in Pulwama in a suicide attack, killing 40 troops on February 14, 2019. The total bilateral trade between India and Pakistan was USD 329 million in 2020-2021. This has reached USD 514 million in 2021-2022, in accordance with the Ministry of Trade, with Indian exports exceeding the number of imports from Pakistan. Pakistan never gave MFN status to India despite being a member of the WTO regime.
PM Sharif’s desire to continue bilateral trade with India without submitting Jammu and Kashmir’s claims or revoking Indian special terrorist groups in Pakistan is no different from China’s desire to multiply bilateral trade with India without releasing military pressure along the actual control line (LAC) and Dragging his feet while restoring the status of the April 2020 quo at the 15th patrol point in the Kugrang River in the Hot Springs sector in East Ladakh.
India-China bilateral trade reached USD 86.36 billion in 2020-2021 and increased to USD 115.41 billion in 2021-2022 with the Indian trade deficit touched more than USD 71 billion. The leap of trade with China although military tension on LAC is a clear indicator of the influence of the Global Beijing in the manufacturing sector and a strong case for the initiative of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” PM Modi so that India is weaned from the grip of China.
Although Indian and Chinese troops were fully deployed in East Ladakh after PLA violations in May 2020, the Xi Jinping regime wanted India to focus on increasing economic cooperation while virtually rejecting India’s request to restore the 1993 and 1996 bilateral agreements on the basis of peace and calmness. In Lac. This parallel diplomacy has been a hallmark of the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy since the 1980s and has no concessions about the LAC built in the plan.
While India has recorded PM Sharif interviews, he also understood economic and political chaos that Pakistan was located and how to increase bilateral trade could help the recovery of the Islamic economy with the Indian market had a great taste for imports from Pakistan. However, the current political instability in Pakistan, with Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi who was overthrown, the leader who was exiled by Nawaz Sharif put pressure on the Sharif government for the early general elections with the Pakistani Army to remain a neutral observer, will withstand India’s response.
The fact is that India is not in a hurry to continue bilateral relations with Pakistan until such a time, Islamabad against terrorist groups such as Jaish and Lashkar-e-Tayebba (Let) which continues to wage Islamic jihad against the minority in the Kashmir valley to pursue Islamabad’s Political Aimss. Although Islamabad has told the Global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) that they cannot find Jaish Terror Kingpin Masood Azhar, the new court’s action against the Head of Let Hafeez Saeed is part of the effort to remove Pakistan from the Gray List in Pleno Paris In Paris in Parish Plenary in Paris is part of Paris Plenary in Paris in Paris The Parisy this month. For India, trade with Pakistan and terror cannot unite.