Big news for India-Pakistan relations: Shehbaz Sharif cabinet designates minister for trade with neighbour

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Reeling in financial stress for quite some time, Pakistan has decided to take a big step in reviving trade relations with India. In a meeting of the cabinet of newly appointed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday, it was reported decided that the position of Trade Minister in India would be reinstated.

Appointment of Trade Ministers was approved for 15 countries including the neighbour with which Pakistan shares deep history. The reports come at a time when a “big decision” is expected with PM Shehbaz Sharif set to leave for London to meet his elder brother, PML-N supremo and former PM Nawaz Sharif.

It has been reported that Qamar Zaman has been appointed as the trade minister in its High Commission in New Delhi but there has been no official confirmation in this regard. Pakistan’s People’s Party leader Qamar Zaman Kaira is reportedly an adviser to new PM Sharif on affairs of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The post of Trade Minister at Pakistan’s High Commission in India has been vacant since the tenure of former Trade Minister Irfan Tarad ended. The Imran Khan government had decided not to send another trade minister in retaliation to India’s abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir.

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