Pak to fill trade minister’s post in Delhi vacant for 5 years – Times of India

New Delhi: In a sign that Pakistan The new government may consider resuming trade ties with India, with the new government deciding to appoint a trade minister at the Pakistan High Commission here. The post had been lying vacant for nearly five years, or about five years before Pakistan severed all trade ties due to India’s decision to revoke the special status of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state in August 2019.
According to the news received from Islamabad, the decision of appointment Qamar Zaman In a cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan as the Minister of Trade in India was taken Shahbaz Sharif, Known as the Minister (Trade) in the High Commission, the officer handles issues related to trade and investment. In response to a congratulatory message from your counterpart Narendra ModiAfter Sharif became prime minister, he had said that peaceful and cooperative relations between the two countries are essential for progress and “socio-economic upliftment of our people and region”.
Terming the developments positive here, official sources said it was Pakistan’s decision to stop all trade with India. While Modi called for a violence-free environment and terrorSharif had also raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in his letter to Modi.
Foreign Minister of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Writing to the UNSC president on Tuesday, accusing India of using the Delimitation Commission in Jammu and Kashmir to do “demographic engineering to convert Muslim-majority constituencies into Hindu-majority ones”.