Pakistan defers decision to resume imports from India till abrogation of Article 370 is revoked

The Pakistan government on Thursday deferred the decision to import cotton and sugar from India, a day after the country’s top decision-making body on commerce lifted a ban to facilitate the trade, the Dawn reported.

In a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, the Pakistan government decided that the import will be deferred till India revokes the abrogation of Article 370, which in August 2019 abolished the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari, the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said in the meeting that there can be “no normalisation of relations” with India unless the abrogation of Article 370 was reversed. Earlier on Thursday, Mazari had tweeted that the matter would be discussed in the meeting as decisions of the Economic Coordination Committee, which had given the green signal for the import, are needed to be cleared by the Cabinet.

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