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| Kashmiri fruits included in cross-LoC list of exportable items | | | New Delhi | Sept 17
India is ready to export Kashmiri fruits to Pakistan under cross-LoC trade which is expected to resume soon depending on Islamabad agreeing to it.
The decision to include Kashmiri fruits as one of the items to be traded through LoC was taken at a meeting held by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Commerce Secretary G K Pillai on Tuesday night.
Kashmiri fruits could not be trade as it has been on the 'negative list' in the SAARC charter.
Realising this, Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief and union Minister Saifuddin Soz took up the matter with Mukherjee, saying that trade on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route would be meaningless unless the Kashmiri fruits was among the items to be traded.
Soz was thankful to Mukherjee for including the item in the list of goods to be traded through LoC.
Mukherjee assured Soz that the movement of goods on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route will begin soon and other facilities related to the trade would also be streamlined in due course of time, the J and K Congress chief said.
India has been pressing for launching of cross-LoC trade on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route but Pakistan has so far not been cooperating.
Officials of India and Pakistan will meet in Delhi on September 22 to discuss issues related to cross-LoC trade. |
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