GYPSUM TRADE THRIVES ON INDO-PAKISTAN BORDER OPENING
October 1st, 2012
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI
GYPSUM producers and users have been key beneficiaries of the slow liberalisation of trade controls between India and Pakistan, Industrial Minerals can report. The Wagah border post linking the Indian state and Pakistani province of Punjab - a region divided in 1947 when Indian and Pakistan became independent, now processes a roaring trade in Pakistani gypsum. It is the sole official opening in the 3,000 km long fenced boundary between the two hostile neighbours, and 2,000 tonnes of gypsum passes through every day.
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