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| Pak Govt can't lift trade restrictions without Army's nod | | MFN status to India | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 12: The top brass in Pakistan Army is said to have expressed its dismay over the way it was not taken into confidence when the cabinet at its recent meeting in Islamabad decided to grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India.
Reports reaching here from across the LOC said that if there was any doubt about the level of displeasure in the Army it was removed by none other than the Chief of Awami Mulsim League,Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed.
Ahmed,according to these reports,has said that an important inst itution like the Army had not been taken into confidence when the Pakistan cabinet decided to grant MFN status to India.
These reports said that soon after the cabinet decision the establishment in Islamabad stated that the Commerce Minister and Secretary had been asked to prepare a detailed report on the matter so that the cabinet decision was implemented only on the nature of the report.
When the Pakistan cabinet favoured granting MFN status to India no rider had been placed on the decision.But when Asif Ali Zardari led Government received reports on the level of annoyance among the top functionaris of the Army the Government kept in abeyance implementation of the cabinet decision .
Reports said that during the last 15 years Islamabad had been sleeping over India's demand for granting MFN status to it which would have been in response to the MFN status India had granted to Pakistan in 1996.But Islamabad believed that with trade restrictions Pakistan could cause economic bleed to India.
However,the establishment in Islamabad realised,though belatedly,that delay in granting MFN status to India had caused economic bleed to Pakistan which suffered an annual loss to the tune of two billion dollars.
Hence in order to prevent Pakistan from suffering further losses and in a bid to pomote cordial ties through improved trade practices the Pakistan cabinet okayed the plan of granting MFN status to India.It did it without realising that in Pakistan for each cabinet decision the Army had to be taken into confidence.
This way one is tempted to believe that for every kind of bilateral dialogue on trade,travel,political and economic ties even a civilian Government in Pakistan has to take the Army in confidence.In other democratic countries Army is taken into confidnce only in case of defence matters and military pacts.
Reports said that Islamabad will implement its cabinet decision on graning the MFN status to India only after the Government got a green signal from the Army. |
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