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| Trade through Sgr-Muzaffarabad likely to start soon | | Pak furnishes list of 100 traders against 70 from this side | |
Jammu, August 09 : Pakistan government has furnished a list of one hundred traders in response to seventy send by India for starting cross border trade through Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route.
According to official sources the list send by Pakistan would be handed over to authorities here after a thorough screening by central government. However Pakistan took long time in furnishing the list which resulted in inadvertent delay in opening of the route sources told News Agency of Kashmir adding that earlier July 19 was fixed for the throwing the route open for the traders of both the countries.
It was reliably learnt that both the countries have mutually agreed that only the traders permitted by both the countries would be able to participate in the cross border trade at the initial stage. “Only traders nominated from other side would be allowed to sent their mercantile initially”, they said.
Sources further said that the chances of opening of the trade route has once again brightened as the two countries decided to continue dialogue even after a brief contention over Mumbai serial bomb blasts. First group among the 100 nominated traders would visit Jammu and Kashmir with their mercantile as has been requested by the government of Pakistan. The traders from this side would follow the suits likewise.
There is however no information about the as what type of artic Pakistan is going to trade with Jammu and Kashmir.
About the objects to be traded from this side, unconfirmed sources said that apple and other fruits grown in the valley has not been enlisted which is indeed a matter of great surprise, sources said.It was learnt from reliable sources that the reason for delayed response from Pakistan was that fruit including apple is altogether missing from the list of products which India want to trade from this route.
Instead only handicraft and Indus fruit products produced in the nominal industrial sector of the state has been kept in the list of items to be traded from this side.
The list of seventy traders sent by India includes fourty from Kashmir and 30 from Jammu region, sources added. |
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