INDO-PAKISTAN TRADE DEAL DELAYED – BUT INDUSTRY PLAYERS PREDICT PROGRESS ONCE NEW GOVERNMENT IS ELECTED
April 11th, 2014
Serious negotiations in a much-vaunted and debated trade deal between India and Pakistan, which could significantly boost the textile trade between the two neighbours, have been shelved due to the impending Indian elections, WTiN.com has been told.“The Pakistanis had second thoughts in going ahead while knowing that there will be a change in government [in India] and they could have to start from the scratch,” said Dr Nisha Taneja, a professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi, “My expectation is that it would ...
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