{"id":99652,"date":"2021-04-05T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=99652"},"modified":"2021-04-05T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:26:21","slug":"a-friendly-india-pakistan-relation-is-much-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-friendly-india-pakistan-relation-is-much-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"A friendly India Pakistan Relation is Much Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: The positive signs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-pakistan-relations-pakistan-to-resume-trade-with-india\/\">India-Pakistan relation<\/a> are again turning negative. Pakistan recently took an u-turn after the announcement to open trade with India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, Pakistan reversed a two-year-old decision to suspend all trades with India. Followingly, Pakistan allowed for the import of cotton and sugar from India.<\/li>\n<li>However, the decision to allow the import of cotton and sugar from India has been withdrawn within a fortnight.<\/li>\n<li>It has been stated that restoration of J&amp;K\u2019s special status will be the precondition for opening up trade with India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why Pakistan was ready to resume trade with India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Because of the following reasons, the government of Pakistan was ready to resume trade with India,<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First, the economy of Pakistan is very weak, and it has been sustained by IMF loans.<\/li>\n<li>Second, the action by<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/financial-action-task-force-fatf\/\"> <strong>Financial Action Task Force<\/strong><\/a> over possible blacklisting on terror financing is affecting the ordinary citizens.<\/li>\n<li>Third, the Pandemic has also impacted the financial health of the country.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth, a steep fall in the cotton yield has kept the prices of the commodity high. This has caused a crisis in the country\u2019s main manufacturing and export industry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India needs the cooperation of Pakistan to maintain peace on the western front. Especially after the standoff with China at the LAC in eastern Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>To maintain friendly relation, India needs to be supportive of Pakistan by helping them to overcome the financial crisis by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lifting the 200 percent tariffs on Pakistani imports imposed after the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-security-council-condemns-pulwama-attack\/\">Pulwama attack<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Restoring the hugely popular cross-LoC trade and bus service. This will also help to strengthen the peace across the border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/pakistan-cotton-yarn-imran-khan-general-qamar-javed-bajwa-7256442\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The positive signs in the India-Pakistan relation are again turning negative. Pakistan recently took an u-turn after the announcement to open trade with India. Background: Recently, Pakistan reversed a two-year-old decision to suspend all trades with India. Followingly, Pakistan allowed for the import of cotton and sugar from India. However, the decision to allow&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-friendly-india-pakistan-relation-is-much-needed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A friendly India Pakistan Relation is Much Needed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1457],"class_list":["post-99652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-ir_02","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887500},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}