Pakistan on Thursday postponed a decision to allow imports of cotton and sugar from neighboring India, until New Delhi reviews its 2019 move suspending Kashmir’s autonomy. The two rivals have been locked in a frosty standoff, but in recent weeks there have been signs of a thaw in relations. India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire, after nearly twenty years of tensions and violence along their shared border. And for the first time in three years, the two sides met to discuss water-sharing in the Indus river.
Joining the discussion:
- Sumit Ganguly is political science professor at Indiana University, Bloomington
- Mosharraf Zaidi is senior fellow of Tabadlab and former principal adviser to Pakistan’s Foreign Minister
- Ather Zia is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley
- Michael Kugelman is deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center
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Pakistan’s cabinet, the final authority on resuming trade with India, reversed a decision by a government committee to import cotton and sugar from the neighboring country https://t.co/ImHvjC2zp8
— Bloomberg Asia (@BloombergAsia) April 1, 2021
India-Pakistan detente continues with water-sharing talks https://t.co/mPetOTHV2h pic.twitter.com/eRFfYHpesa
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 22, 2021